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 #4574 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1918 (27 Nov) picture postcard ("New Year's Greeting Siberia 1919"), endorsed "On Active Service", with "Field Post Office/Canadian Siberian Exp. Force" cds, boxed "Base Headquarters C.E.F. Siberia" handstamp alongside, addressed to Kingston, Ontario, minor card scuffs, fine card from the Canadian Advance Party (which arrived on October 26, 1918 to set up Base Headquarters and to find barracks for 3,100 soldiers who started arriving on December 5, 1918)  | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #4575 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1918-19 four covers to Canada, three with "Field Post Office Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Forces" and censor markings, another sent from Sub-Office X Victoria (Camp Willows) before the 259th Canadian Infantry Battalion left for Vladivostok, mixed condition, interesting group | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #4576 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1919 (15 Mar) Canadian Siberian Expedition cover, with "C.A.H." (Church Army Hut Protestant) cachet, endorsed "On Active Service", with "Field Post Office/Canadian Siberian Exp. Force" cds, addressed to Montreal, fine (World War I saw Church Army working both at home and overseas providing much-needed recreation huts for the armed forces. At their peak these huts welcomed more than 200,000 men each day. Alongside this Church Army also operated ambulances, mobile canteens and kitchen cars) | Unsold |
 | Lot #4577 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1919 (25 Feb) Canadian YMCA cover endorsed "On Active Service", with "Field Post Office/Canadian Siberian Exp. Force" cds, addressed to Ottawa, with "Orderly Room 259th Bn. Can. Rifles (Siberia)" cancel below, fine. Only a few "Orderly Room" cachets have been recorded | Unsold |
 | Lot #4578 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1919 (6 June) Canadian Siberian Expedition cover, with "C.A.H. K.of C" (Church Army Hut Protestant) cachet, franked with 3c Admiral and sent from Edmonton to Calgary, with "All Soldiers Welcome K. of C. Catholic Army Huts Canadian Siberian Expedition" letterhead from a Quarantine Camp, the writer confirms "we were evacuated on May 19, 1919 on the Empress of Russia. We pulled in here on the 26th of May. I hope to be here for only fourteen days because of two men with small pox, Quarantine Camp Williams Head Victoria BC" | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #4579 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA Canadian forces in Siberia 1919 (12 Apr) part of Japanese lettersheet written from Verkhneudinsk with Russian franking, three each 7k and 10k/7k, used from Krasnoyarsk to Canada, boxed Vladivostok censor cachet, some toning, otherwise fine early usage of Japanese stationery | Price Realized $400.00 |
