U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
November 10-11, 2020
Welcome to our November 10-11, 2020 Auction which will be held simultaneously via CherrystoneLIVE and Stamp Auction Network (SAN). This sale contains 1,091 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, with United States and European countries, including Austria, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy, with specialized selection of Fezzan, Poland, Russia, with Postal History and Russia used in Asia, Vatican City errors & varieties, plus many others. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, covering all Reigns with many high values and sets from Aden to Zanzibar. This auction concludes with a strong selection of 167 large lots and collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, including United States Plate Blocks, British Commonwealth George VI and multi-carton worldwide properties and cover lots.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2797 POLAND 1823 two entires showing different dispatch handstamps from "Slonim", one on home-made cover to Warszawa, framed departure postmark in Cyrillic caps, the other on front of 10k stationery entire envelope (backflap defective), oval "from Sloninm" in Cyrillic, showing only "18" of yeardate, fine usage from Slonim (in present day Belarus)  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2798 POLAND 1855 FL from Ostrov to Krakow, sent via Radzilow, Brody and Lemberg to Krakow, with departure, transit and arrival markings on back, handstamped "Russie" to indicate origin, also another FL with "Krakau 19 Oct" departure datestamp, addressed to Grunsbach in Moravia | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2799 POLAND 1858 Russia 10k brown & blue (No.2), canceled on piece by "1" in concentric rings, with corresponding Warszawa in red Cyrillic letters below, v.f. O | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #2800 POLAND 1865 (22 Sep) cover (opened for display, backflap slightly trimmed), franked with Russian 10k brown & blue perf. 12 1/2 (Scott No.8), sent from Chita to Tobolsk, with 21 October 1865 arrival. The addressee, Jan Akko, took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863-64. As a result, he was deprived of rights, exiled to Siberia, and his estate in Kovno province was confiscated by the Russian government. The sender, Andrey Bukovsky (return address in Polish), was a major in the Transbaikal Cossack army (By April 1864, the leaders of the uprising were arrested and executed, marking the official end of the January Uprising. According to Russian statistics, after the end of the insurrection 396 people were executed and 18,672 were exiled to Siberia. Vast numbers of Poles were also sent to the interior of Russia and to the Caucasus, Urals and other remote areas. Around 70,000 people were imprisoned and subsequently exiled from Poland and consigned to distant regions of Russia) | Unsold |
 | Lot #2801 POLAND 1871 (28 Feb) cover franked with Russia 1k, 3k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by all-Cyrillic departure cds, sent from Bialystok to Berlin, with red "Aus Russland" on front and boxed Berlin "Cabinets-Expedition" arrival datestamp on back, cover faults and ageing, stamps and markings intact | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #2802 POLAND 1911 (10 Dec) registered cover sent from Warszawa to Serge Diaghilev, director of Ballet Russe, Theatre Grand Opera, then forwarded to the Hotel de Hollande and the Hotel de Crillon in Paris. Diaghilev (1872-1929) was the founder and director of the Ballets Russes, which had a one-week engagement in Paris at this time (The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company based in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia) | Unsold |
| Lot #2803 POLAND 1915 (26 Oct) military card with "from active army" imprint, sent from Kowniatin and addressed to Red Cross in Denmark, with "Croix Rouge" endorsement, Reserve Army Post Office departure cancel, with corresponding Postage Due markings, Petrograd censor, fine and unusual civilian usage from a military post office | Price Realized $450.00 | |
 | Lot #2804 POLAND 1916 (6 Jan) Prisoner of War card sent from Kiev to Lemberg (Lwow), with triangular Austrian censor cachet and bilingual Polish Sanitary Committee cachet, fine and interesting usage | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #2805 POLAND 1917 Krolewstwo Polskie Design Competition Essays, special booklet "Polskie Marki Pocztowe" (exploded for display), with 44 pages (mostly in green) containing various designs prepared for the competition, also four pages of the winning designs by E.Bartlomiejczyk, J.Tom, W.Husarski and E.Trojanowski, slight cover (green inscriptions) toning, pages v.f.  P | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #2806 POLAND 1917 "Krolewstwo Polskie" Edward Trojanowski 40gr Hussar Essay in black, on thick card paper, miscut at top, with 2018 Korszen certificate E | Unsold |
 | Lot #2807 POLAND 1917 "Krolewstwo Polskie" Edmund Bartlomiejczyk 40gr Granary essay in brown orange, on stamp paper, v.f., signed Saliker, with 2018 Korszen certificate, rare E | Unsold |
 | Lot #2808 POLAND 1918 (2 Mar) registered cover franked with unoverprinted German 50pf Germania, tied by Suwalki cds and sent to Lubeck, with arrival pmk (4.3.18) on back, filing fold away from the stamps, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #2809 POLAND 1918 (1 Dec) registered cover from Warszawa to Swiatniki Gorne, franked with the set of four surcharges, tied by Warshau cds, with Registry label alongside, 8 December arrival pmk on back, scarce cover, signed Dr.Kronenberg (Fi.2-5, 3,000zl) Catalog #11-14 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2810 POLAND 1918 Poczta Polska on Gen-Gouv. Warschau overprints, 5pf green (3) and 25 on 7 1/2pf orange, paying 40pf on locally used registered cover in Czestochowa, with 17.1.19 arrival Catalog #18,23 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #2811 POLAND 1918 20pf ultramarine, tied by Sosnowice 20.2.19 cds on piece, v.f., signed and described by Schmutz, also Jungjohann. A rarity from Poland, O Catalog #21a Catalog Value $2,250 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2812 POLAND 1918 Lublin Issue, 3h on 3h olive gray, complete pane of 50, n.h., showing varieties (Fischer B1, B2), left stamps with missing stars and parts of the overprint, v.f., signed Korszen, with his 2020 certificate (Fi.20a 19,819zl = $5,218) **Catalog #30 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2813 POLAND 1918 Lublin Issue, 10h brown surcharge (error) on 30h slate green, complete pane of 50, n.h., showing varieties (Fischer B4, B13), left stamps with missing or partially defective stars and parts of the overprint, v.f., signed Korszen, with his 2020 certificate. A rare complete sheet (Fi.22b 45,840zl = $12,000) **Catalog #32b | Unsold |
 | Lot #2814 POLAND 1918 Lublin Issue, five different varieties, mostly inverted, including 10h brown surcharge inverted, also 45h on 60h overprinted on both sides, n.h., v.f. group, signed by Korszen, Miszczak, Walisch, etc. (Fi.4,710zl = $1,230) ** Catalog #32b/36a | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #2815 POLAND 1918 Lublin Issue, 25h on 40h and 45h on 80h inverted surcharges, blocks of four, the latter with additional variety showing black vertical smudge line and "ZTA" omitted in "POCZTA" from stamps at left, n.h., fine-v.f., signed Mikulski, Korszen, etc. (Fi.3,870zl = $1,000) **Catalog #34a,36a | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2816 POLAND 1918 Lublin Issue, 50h deep green, complete pane of 50, n.h., showing varieties (Fischer B3,B9,B10,B11,B12), right stamps with partially defective overprint, v.f., signed Korszen, with his 2020 certificate. A rare complete sheet (Fi.28, 25,380zl = $6,680) **Catalog #39 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2817 POLAND 1919 (5 Feb) registered cover from Warszawa to Czestochowa, franked with a combination of Poczta Polska 5/2 1/2pf, 20pf and 30pf overprints on Generalgouvernement and 10f/6gr Warszawa, paying correct 65pf rate (40pf postage and 25pf registry fee), all tied by cds, with German language Registry label alongside, minor cover flaws, otherwise fine | Price Realized $200.00 |
 | Lot #2818 POLAND 1919 Poczta Polska 10pf on 40pf Germania, block of four, used on registered cover in Inowroclaw (16.6.19), with German "Hohensalza" registry label, fine cover, with proper franking (Hohensalza was a county in the northern administrative region of Bromberg, in the Prussian province of Posen, from 1815-1919 and reverted to Inowroclaw, Poland) Catalog #75 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2819 POLAND 1919 5pf and 10pf surcharges, used in combination with unoverprinted German 2pf and 3pf Deutsches Reich, tied by Wolsztyn 25.10.19 cds on cover to Berlin, v.f., signed Landre Catalog #77-78 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2820 POLAND 1919 1.50m green, 5m red violet and 2k dark blue, imperforate singles, each double impression, n.h., 5m with adhesions and thin, others v.f. (Fi.82,93,96Dp) ** Catalog #89,92,118var | Price Realized $85.00 |
 | Lot #2821 POLAND 1921 (12 Apr) telegram from Slonim to Skarzysko (train station), franked with 4x10m and single 100f Official, canceled by crayon, folded away from the stamps, scarce usage | Unsold |
 | Lot #2822 POLAND 1922 Issue for the Upper Silesia, large Postal Manifest (folded once) headed "Obwieszczenie U.P. Katowice 1", announcing Polish stamps in the former territory of Upper Silesia, with 14 different stamps, including 5f-75 Eagle and 1m-20m Miner, each handstamped "U.P. Katowice" (Urzad Pocztowy Katowice) and dated 19 June, 1922, further stating that all previous stamps will no longer be valid for postage, fine and rare document S | Unsold |
 | Lot #2823 POLAND 1924 Polish Eagle, 1gr-50gr, six different imperforate vertical gutter se-tenant pairs, proofs in issued colors, unused without gum on thin paper, folded between stamps, all but one with printer's red invalidating or crayon markings, v.f., each signed Schmutz, with his 2007 certificate (*) Catalog #215-25var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2824 POLAND 1927 General Bem, 25gr die proof in dark carmine, with engraver's "E.Gaspe" (E.Gasparini) imprint at bottom, v.f. (Fi.237P1, 4,500zl) P Catalog #256P | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #2825 POLAND 1935 Pilsudski, three different cross gutter blocks of four, l.h., fine-v.f. *Catalog #287-89 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2826 POLAND 1937 two different 2.20zl unexploded booklets, one issued locally "Poczta Peronowa", v.f., the other with minor back cover soiling  | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #2827 POLAND 1944 25gr red, imperforate single, unused without gum as issued, n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski, also Petriuk, with his 2015 certificate (Fi.339nz, 8,000zl) (*) Catalog #341var | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #2828 POLAND 1944 1zl K.R.N. surcharge and overprint inverted, used on piece, Lublin 31.12.44 cds, v.f., signed Korszen (Fi.3,500zl) O Catalog #345Avar | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #2829 POLAND 1945 Goznak Issue, 1zl on 50gr, also 1.50zl on 25gr form II and form III, all inverted surcharges, n.h., v.f., signed Schmutz, Korszen, Walocha, etc. ** Catalog #346,364var | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2830 POLAND 1945 Goznak Issue, 1zl on 50gr red surcharge inverted, block of four with sheet margin, n.h., v.f., signed Walocha **Catalog #364var | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #2831 POLAND 1960 Olympics, imperforate se-tenant block of four, embossing missing, unused without gum, v.f., signed Laszkiewicz (Fi.1022A-1025A MK) PCatalog #917aP | Price Realized $240.00 |
