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 #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 |
