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 #6174 AUSTRIA Rocket Mail 1931 (2 Feb) white card franked with 10gr brown, handstamped "Raketen Flugpostkarte Raketenpost Schmiedl", numbered "073" and dated, carried by Rocket V7, addressed to Hern F. Rosner in Graz, signed Schmiedl, v.f. (On 2nd February 1931, Schmiedl launched the first Rocket Mail. On this flight (V7), 102 covers and cards were flown from the top of Mount Schockel to the village of Radegund in the valley below. Only 57 items received the 10g stamp (No.32) which had been numbered and inscribed by Schmiedl) (a similar item realized $2,100 in our September 2017 sale)  Catalog #8C1c | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
