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 #4597 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA 1919 (28 Dec) registered cover franked with 3x25k violet & green, sent from Yevpatoriya (Tavricheskaya oblast) to "His Excellence, the Admiral of the Allied Forces, Sebastopol", with arrival pmk, cover creases and tears, roughly opened, fine appearance, rare  | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #4598 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA 1919 (30 July) cover addressed to Athens (c/o Russian Legation), sent by Aspirant Michel Popoff, British Mission Ekaterinodar South Russia C/o Constantinople G.H.Q., with Army Post Office and "Passed by Censor No.370" markings, backstamped on arrival, minor cover flaws, fine (before the postal service was started in August 1919, mail was censored locally and canceled in Constantinople by the Army Post Office) | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #4599 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA 1920 (28 May) "On His Britannic Majesty's Service", legal size envelope, registered to England franked with 4x1/2p green, tied by "Army Post Office B.M.S.R" (British Mission South Russia) cds, repeated on back, censors' signature and London arrival pmks, filing fold away from the stamps, some backflap tears, fine and rare usage (the British military mission arrived in South Russia in late 1918, and started to provide General Denikin's White army with ample supplies. Denikin would have not been able to build his army of more than 200,000 men or to make his operation against Moscow without the British material. The British mission also trained and equipped Russian troops. Many of the British instructors also took part in fighting the Bolsheviks despite the orders of their government) | Price Realized $675.00 |
