U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 2-3, 2020
Welcome to our June 2-3, 2020, to be held via CherrystoneLIVE. This sale contains 1,215 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, with United States and Europe, including Austria, with a fine showing of Rocket Mail and Austrian Levant, France and Colonies, German Area, Italy and Colonies, Poland, Russia, specialized Vatican City and other areas. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented with many high values and sets covering all reigns from Aden to Zanzibar. This sale concludes with a good selection of large lots and collections, which range from single country albums to a specialized collections and multi-carton worldwide stocks and cover lots.
This is a public auction, with live Internet bidding (via CherrystoneLIVE at cherrystoneauctions.com). Our usual catalogues have not been printed for this sale, due to completely unreliable postal service (we hope to resume printing catalogues for the future auctions)
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #6573 GREECE 1861-88 Large Hermes Heads, collection of 170+ used and unused on pages, all printings represented, values to 80 Lepta, neatly mounted and arranged on 10 display pages, all four-margin examples, many signed Holcombe, etc. (this group alone Scott's $14,640). In addition, there is a collection of 18 covers or FLs, really a study of rates, neatly written-up, exhibition style on 17 pages; highlights include 1862 FL from French Levant to Spetzes, four color franking of 5L, 10L, 20L and 80L paying 115L on arrival (signed Calves, with his 1993 certificate), other four-color franking from Italy to Athens, Trieste to Kalamata, Paris to Athens (two), Great Britain to Patras (three), 1866 Greece to Austria Prepaid with 75L (two); Papal States letter paying 21 Bajocchi and charged 20L on arrival in Athens; 1867 letter from Marseilles to Athens, charged 188L, paid with a five-color combination franking; 1872 letter from Argostolion to Taganrog, pre-paid with 120L; Austrian Post Office in Rettimo, letter charged 40L on arrival in Syros, etc., virtually all stamps with margins all around, good markings and mainly fine-v.f., with few certificates (Holcombe, Raybaudi, etc.). An excellent group, certainly a fine nucleus for further study and expansion  *O | Price Realized $11,000.00 |
 | Lot #6574 GREECE 1870 (28 Aug) small cover (with contents) from Athens to Trieste, franked with 5L, 10L and 40L, each with margins all around, red "PD" and arrival pmks, cover tears, otherwise fine Catalog #18,19,21a | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #6575 GREECE 1906 30L purple, double impression, left sheet margin single, some offsets on back, v.f. (Karamitsos 196c, €1,400) * Catalog #191a Catalog Value $1,100 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #6576 GREECE 1933 Youth of Marathon, 100d brown & dull green, n.h., post office fresh, v.f. ** Catalog #380 | Price Realized $475.00 |
