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)

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #7086
WESTERN UKRAINE
1918-19 collection of 22 covers or cards, neatly arranged and written-up on album pages, from various small towns and villages in Western Ukraine, franked with Austrian adhesives, origins include Drohobycz, Sniatyn, Horodenka, Rosilna, Nove Selo, Polove (Polove to Radekhiv), Podkamien, Brody, Kolomyia, Radekhiv, Stanyslaviv, Ternopil, Terebovla, Zolotnyki, with some additional pages with Austrian stamps canceled in Western Ukraine, good showing of censor handstamps, including Military and double (Ukrainian and Austrian), generally fine-v.f., scarce group from the Dr.Kulczycki collection
Envelope
Price Realized
$7,000.00

Lot #7087
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (3 May) cover from Brody to Vienna, franked with Austrian 40h green, tied by departure cds, with Ukrainian "Opened by Military Censor in Brody" boxed two-line cachet in Cyrillic letters, fine cover, signed Mikulski
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7088
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 small cover (inlaid advertising "Wyrob Galicyjski S.W.Niemojowski Sp. Lwow") to Vienna, franked with Austrian 10h magenta and 2x15h red brown, canceled by two-line "Pochtowyj Uezd Chernelytsya" handstamp, showing return address of "Czernelisa bei Herodenka", small cover tear at right, censor seal removed from left, fine cover from Chernelytsya, ex-Dr.Kulczycki ("the only known cover with this seal" as of 1973)
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7089
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (15 May) registered cover from Kuty to Vienna, franked on reverse with single and block of four of Austrian 10h magenta (small faults), tied by departure cds ("KYTN"), boxed "Censored Kuty" in violet, censor tape removed at left, rare usage
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7090
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (23 Apr) registered cover from "Przemyslany" to Vienna, franked on reverse with Austrian 10h Postage Due and 30h violet, tied by Polish cds, with straight-line "Cenzurowano" in Cyrillic, additional censor tape removed at left, rare usage from present-day Peremyshlyany
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7091
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (14 Apr) cover from "Khorostkiv" to Hungary, franked with eight Austrian stamps (few minor faults) paying the required 40h rate, all canceled by Ukrainian Cyrillic, with "Ukrainian Post Office in Chortkiv" round handstamp alongside, fine and attractive usage from Khorostkiv (a city in Ternopil Oblast. In the Second Polish Republic, Khorostkiv, then known as Chorostkow, belonged to the County of Kopczynce)
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Price Realized
$550.00

Lot #7092
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (22 Feb) large cover with trilingual Provincial Court corner address, franked with two Austrian Postage Dues used as postage, paying 40h and tied by Ternopil in Ukrainian Cyrillic, addressed locally, with corresponding court seal at left, re-addressed and returned to sender, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #7093
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (29 Apr) cover from Drohobycz to Vienna, franked with Austrian 10h and pair of 15h, tied by departure cds, paying 40h rate, also 5h "P.O.S.D. Galicui I Slaska" label at left, with red violet Ukrainian "Provireno Drohobycz" censor handstamp, plus Polish Censor Krakow label ("Kontrola Listwo Zagranicznych w Krakowie") on back, additional censor label removed at left, rare usage, signed Mikulski
Envelope
Price Realized
$700.00

Lot #7094
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (30 Apr) cover from Kosiv (return address reads "Kossow bei Kolomea") to the International Red Cross in Geneva, franked with pair of Austrian 20h green (faults) tied by indistinct but complete "Kosiv 30.IV.1919" cds in Ukrainian Cyrillic, boxed Kolomyia Censor (Ukrainian) and "K2" (Austrian censor), with additional Ukrainian State Censor two line handstamp on back, some cover wear, rare usage from Kosiv, signed Mikulski
Envelope
Price Realized
$700.00

Lot #7095
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (1 Apr) cover from Boryslaw to Karszag, Hungary, franked with Austrian 4x10h Postage Due, tied by "Wolanka 1.IV.19" departure cds, with red violet Ukrainian "Provireno Drohobycz" censor handstamp, additional "Borislaw" in blue crayon at bottom, censor label removed at left, some staining, rare usage from Wolanka, signed Mikulski
Envelope
Price Realized
$700.00

Lot #7096
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 cover to Vienna, franked with Austria pair of 15h red brown and 10h Postage Due, tied round "Ukrainsky Uryad Pochtowyj w Chortkowy", supported by two-line Ukrainian State Censor handstamp (seal removed at left), filing fold away from the stamps, fine usage from Chortkiv (Czortkow in Polish)
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7097
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (23 Apr) small cover to Vienna, franked on back with Austrian 6h, 12h and 2h Special Delivery, paying only 20h, tied by "Grimaliv" in Ukrainian Cyrillic, repeated on front and supported by Ukrainian Military Censor in Ternopil handstamp in violet, fine and rare usage from the small village of Hrymailiv (Grzymalow in Polish)
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #7098
WESTERN UKRAINE
1919 (4 Mar) cover from Zhovkva to New York, franked on back with Austrian 10h magenta and 40h olive green, each tied by Zhovkva in Ukrainian Cyrillic, with manuscript "Censurovano" in red crayon on front, handstamped "kein verkehr" (non deliverable) on front, two different types of "Misdirected, address not correct" on both sides, probably sent back to sender, rare usage
Envelope
Price Realized
$700.00

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