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 #6774 POLAND 1860 10k carmine & blue, tied by "1" in concentric circles on outer FL used in 1863 from Warszawa to Bialystok, red departure 19.1. pmk at right, arrival postmark on back, fine and attractive cover, with 2019 Jendroszek certificate  Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #6775 POLAND 1870 Russia 10k brown & blue (horizontally laid paper), tied by "234" in concentric rings on small cover to Warszawa, framed straight line "Gombin" departure at upper right, date (28/8) entered by hand, with red all Cyrillic arrival postmark on back, fine and relatively scarce usage from Gombin | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6776 POLAND 1870 Russia 1k, 3k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), all tied by "1" in concentric squares on small cover from Warszawa to Berlin, red departure and "Franco", also "Aus Russland Franco" in blue (scarce), arrival pmk on back, mild filing folds and creases through the stamps, fine 14k rate from Poland to Prussia | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6777 POLAND 1918 17th November surcharges on Warsaw Locals, 25fen on 2gr brown (error), surcharge shifted to left, l.h., v.f., signed Dr.Kronenberg. Only two sheets of these errors are known; first sheet with surcharge shifted, second with surcharge centered (Fi.4P1, 6,500zl) * | Unsold |
 | Lot #6778 POLAND 1918 inverted surcharges, 10pf, 15pf, 20pf, three different, l.h., v.f., signed Mikstein, Mikulski, etc. (Fi.10,11,12np) * | Unsold |
 | Lot #6779 POLAND 1918 20pf ultramarine, l.h., v.f., signed Mikstein, Jungjohann, * Catalog #21b Catalog Value $775 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #6780 POLAND 1918 60pf magenta, surcharge inverted, l.h., v.f., signed Mikstein (Fi.16No, 5,000zl) * Catalog #26var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6781 POLAND 1918 3h on 3h olive gray, complete pane of 50, showing various plate flaws, n.h., fine-v.f., signed Z.Korszen, with his 2020 certificate (Fi.20A,B1,B2 - 19,819zl = $5,218)  **Catalog #30,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6782 POLAND 1918 10h on 30h slate green, brown violet (error) surcharge, complete pane of 50, showing varieties (deformed eagle, missing left star), "HA" instead of "L", defective printing at left, n.h., well centered, fine-v.f., with detailed 2020 Z.Korszen certificate (Fi.22b,B4,B13 - 45,800zl = $12,000) **Catalog #32b,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6783 POLAND 1918 25/40h, 45/60h, 45/80h inverted surcharges, 45 on 60h overprinted on both sides, n.h., fine-v.f., signed Korszen, Miszczak, S.Walisch, Z.E.Wiatrowski (Fi. 2,910zl = $760) ** Catalog #34a,35a,36a,35var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6784 POLAND 1918 50h deep green, complete pane of 50, showing numerous varieties of the overprint, including missing and defective letters affecting the right vertical row of five, etc., extensively described on the accompanying 2020 Z.Korszen certificate, n.h., some perf. separations, fine-v.f., scarce complete pane (Fi.28,B9,10,11,12 - 25,380zl = $6,680) **Catalog #39,39var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6785 POLAND 1919 5h light green, n.h., with a tiny natural gum skip, v.f., signed Bojanowicz, etc., * Catalog #42 Catalog Value $550 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #6786 POLAND 1918 50h green, horizontal block of 10, four stamps n.h., others l.h., v.f., signed Taipale, etc. */**Catalog #47 | Unsold |
 | Lot #6787 POLAND 1924 unissued designs, 40gr and 45gr imperforate die essays on gummed paper, n.h., v.f., ex-Grabowski E | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #6788 POLAND 1925 unissued designs, 5gr, 10gr and 20gr Polish Eagle, imperforate essays on card, v.f., ex-Grabowski E | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #6789 POLAND 1925 3gr blue, imperforate vertical pair used on piece, v.f. O Catalog #229var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6790 POLAND 1927 Pilsudski, 20gr red brown, imperforate horizontal pair, l.h., also proof on thin paper, horizontal pair, plus two singles, one canceled on piece, fine-v.f. * Catalog #242var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #6791 POLAND 1928 25gr brown, imperforate die proof, v.f., rare P Catalog #261P | Price Realized $1,050.00 |
 | Lot #6792 POLAND 1939 (9 Sep) registered cover (opened for display and somewhat restored) from Benares, India to Lida, Poland (today Belarus), with Indian franking partly covered by Censor seals, endorsed "Via Greece, Romania", with transit markings of Athens, Banasea (Romania), Haifa (Palestine), boxed "Palestine Censor" on both sides, finally arriving in "CCCP, Lida, BCCP" (Soviet Union, Lida Belarus Soviet Republic) on 22 November 1939 (Germany invaded Poland on 1 September and Soviet Union on 17 September, 1939. In two short months, Lida was incorporated into the Soviet Belarus) | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6793 POLAND 1940 (21 Sep) registered cover from the International Red Cross in Geneva to Stanislaw Juzwiak in Ostaszkow prisoner of war camp in the Soviet Union, various arrival pmks, handstamped "Retour/Parti' (indicating that the prisoner departed, but in this case, died) sent back to Geneva (14 Oct), fine (Capt. Stanislaw Juzwiak was murdered in Katyn April - May 1940) | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6794 POLAND 1941 (20 Jan) Russian 20k stationery card written by a Polish POW in a Griazovetz Camp and addressed to the Polish Red Cross in Krakow, showing two different German censor markings, "Moscow Etranger" departure cds and "Pochtowyj Yaschkik 11" handstamp, plus boxed Polish Red Cross datestamp struck on arrival, small card tears, fine usage from a Polish POW in the Soviet Union to German Occupied Poland | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #6795 POLAND 1941 (21 June) Russian stationery 20k postal card from Zelwa, written entirely in Yiddish, addressed to "Pochtowy Yashchik No.20", probably a POW in a Soviet Camp, with crayon "Zuruck" and violet Wehrmacht Zahlmeister censor cachet, also 22.VI.41 arrival docketing applied to a German receipt slip, with Feldpost 23.6.41 pmk. A fine card sent one day before Germany invaded Russia | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #6796 POLAND 1941 (6 Apr) 20k stationery card from Sergeyevka (bilingual cds) addressed to Soviet Occupied Lwow, filing fold, scarce usage from the Sergeyevka prison (in North Kazakhstan) | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #6797 POLAND 1945 1zl on 50gr, 1.50zl on 25gr, three different inverted surcharges, two of the former (one shifted), n.h., v.f., signed Korszen, Schmutz ** Catalog #346,364var | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #6798 POLAND 1945-46 Provisional period, collection of 36 covers (some Generalgouvernment stationery) or cards, with provisional straight-line cancels from Chropaczow, Cieszyn, Dabrowka Mala, Elblag, Goleszow, Kamieniogora, Kobylanka, Krzyzanka, Lodz, Mysliborz, Niedobczyce, Nowa Wies k.Chorzowa, Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski, Pilica, Poswietne nad Pilica, Pszczyna, Radom, Radoszyce, Raszkow, Rybnik, Skoczow, Swietochlowice, Walbrzych, Warszawa, Welnowiec, Wodzislaw Slaski, usually with Goznak issue franking, different types of handstamps, Registered and and Military Censor markings, one with Walocha certificate, fine and interesting group | Price Realized $900.00 |
