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 #6869 RUSSIA Air Post 1922 45r green with red Airplane overprint, bottom stamp showing basic stamp missing part of the print, the red plane with " broken tail" variety (positions 45,50), h.r. at top, bottom stamp n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski. An unusual, possibly unique double variety */** Catalog #C1,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #6870 RUSSIA Air Post 1922 (10 Nov) registered cover (opened for display), franked on both sides with 12 different stamps, including 45r with red overprint, sent from Moscow to England, with 21 November Oppeln (Germany) transit and 22 November Crayford arrival pmk, cover reduced at backflap and at top, otherwise fine  Catalog #C1 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6871 RUSSIA Air Post 1924 10k on 5r green, basic stamp wide "5", used, v.f., with Raybaudi certificate, O Catalog #C7a Catalog Value $750 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #6872 RUSSIA Air Post 1930 Graf Zeppelin and Call to Complete 5-year Plan in 4 years, 40k dark blue, 80k carmine, imperforate singles, each with ample margins, n.h., v.f., signed Goznak, ** Catalog #C12b-13b Catalog Value $5,700 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #6873 RUSSIA Air Post 1930 Graf Zeppelin and Call to Complete 5-year Plan in 4 years, 40k dark blue, 80k carmine, imperforate singles, each with ample margins, canceled Moscow, v.f., signed Irvin Heiman and Kessler, very rare used (only a handful were applied on covers) O Catalog #C12b-13b | Unsold |
 | Lot #6874 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error of color), bottom sheet margin single, stamp n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $900 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6875 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error of color), well centered, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $900 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6876 RUSSIA Air Post 1932 15k gray black, perf. 10 1/2, left sheet margin single, used, well centered for issue, v.f. O Catalog #C25a | Price Realized $90.00 |
 | Lot #6877 RUSSIA Air Post 1934 5k violet brown, perf. 13 1/2, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #C50a | Price Realized $90.00 |
 | Lot #6878 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #6879 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #6880 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #6881 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, position 1 ("P" of "Perelot" defective), h.r., v.f., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $725 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #6882 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k dark brown, h.r., v.f., signed Goznak, etc., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $725 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #6883 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, n.h., v.f., signed Diena, Goznak, etc., ** Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $1,275 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #6884 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, lower case "f" in "San Francisco", trace of a light hinge mark at top, very fresh and well centered, v.f., signed Goznak, * Catalog #C68b Catalog Value $1,500 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #6885 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, lower case "f" in "San Francisco", n.h., v.f., signed Diena, Goznak, ** Catalog #C68b Catalog Value $2,250 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #6886 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, surcharged 1r on 10k, small "f" (in San Francisco), used on registered and flown cover from Moscow (August 2), with letter ("I send you with this letter our rarest stamp - with flight of Levanevsky through the North Pole to S.Francisco. Now every man here could buy only one stamp, but I get for you one on the envelope") addressed to Mr. W.C.Steiger in New York, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachet, v.f., signed Mikulski and Diena. Three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. This cover was actually carried by Levanevsky on this ill-fated flight and returned to Moscow. A certificate from Mr. Mikulski (1985) states that this cover is a great Air Post and Russian rarity Catalog #C68b | Unsold |
