U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
December 15-16, 2020
Welcome to our December 15-16, 2020 Auction which will be held live via CherrystoneLIVE. The sale has over 1,000 lots and features United States and European countries, including Austria, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, and others. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, covering all Reigns with many high values and sets from Aden to Zululand. Also featured is a section of 100 lots containing the Joe Taylor Postal History collection of Allied Intervention in Russia. The auction concludes with a strong selection of 120+ large lots and collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide properties and large cover lots.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #4573 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA British forces in Siberia Prisoner of War Mail 1918 (15 Aug) Prisoner of War stationery card from a German POW in Pervaya Retchka to New York, censored first by "Eastern Czech Detachment/Control Office" (in Cyrillic), Russian "For Prisoners of War, through the Royal Danish Vice-Consulate in Vladivostok" and finally on back with "Passed British Military Control Vladivostok E W" struck in oval. A remarkable combination of markings on POW correspondence (before the arrival of Allied forces, the Czech Legion administered the POW camps. British Troops arrived in Vladivostok on August 3, 1918)  | Price Realized $475.00 |
