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.
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 | Lot #5452 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1840-1965 single property offered intact, large old-time collection formed by a European collector, mostly in old Borek and Behrens albums (10) and smaller supplements (7), with Albania, Austria, mostly used to 1920, unused thereafter, with 10sh Dollfuss (380), Hitler overprints to 5M and Semi-Postals, Belgium, 19th Century used, mostly complete to 5fr, souvenir sheets, Parcel Post, Semi-Postals from 1935 on, extensive Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Denmark with Greenland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, with Karelia, Fiume (many signed Behrens), France, Ceres, Napoleon to 5fr, Bordeaux, Type Sage, Merson, Semi-Postals and Air Post, Postage Dues, French Colonies General Issue, Andorra mostly complete to 20fr, French Post Offices Abroad, Greece, Large and Small Hermes Heads, 1896 Olympics to 5dr, 1906 complete (used), various overprints, commemoratives and Air Post mostly unused (Scott 378-80,C8-21), also Epirus, Crete, Ionian Islands Great Britain, mostly used with Queen Victoria and George V to £1, also Morocco Agencies, Gibraltar, British Levant, Malta, Ireland, Iceland (Hopflug-Itala 1kr, 5kr), Italy early issues used, later commemoratives and Air Post unused (CO2), Post WWII Issues, Parcel Post (including Q76), AMG-VG, Trieste Zone A, Aegean Islands, Rhodes, Italian Colonies (sparse), Vatican City (mostly complete, with 35-40), Roman States, Modena, Romagna (complete), Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, with some Local Issues, Port Gdansk, Central Lithuania, Ukraine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, some better unused (Metro set, C68), others c.t.o., also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (all souvenir sheets, Pax issue, Officials), plus Turkey and Yugoslavia, mixed condition, generally clean and fine-v.f. *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #5453 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1840-1960 large holding of 1,190+ different lot cards prepared for online sale, each card with Scott or Stanley Gibbons catalogue number and value, excellent representation of European countries, heavy concentration of British Commonwealth, also United States, good showing of back of the book items, especially U.S. Offices in China, Duck Hunting stamps, etc., Great Britain and British Colonies, singles and sets, varieties ranging in value from $25-2,500, we note India and Indian States, Cape of Good Hope, Jamaica, Gibraltar, Mauritius, Newfoundland, South Africa, Nigeria, Nova Scotia, Rhodesia, Sierra Leone, Canada, Falkland Islands, Cyprus and many others, both 19th and 20th Century (total and reasonable retail asking price $110,000+), mixed condition, some reference material (not counted), occasional faults noted, overall clean, attractively estimated and ready for resale, with extensive Excel inventory available *O | Unsold |
 | Lot #5454 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1940-70 balance of a consignment in carton, hundreds of singles and sets on stock cards and stock books, used and unused, with United States Plate Blocks, souvenir sheets (including Scott 630), Transportation Coils, Postage Dues in sheets, Canada, with better sets (149-77), Albania, Belgium, Germany, Israel (2x25 with tabs), British Commonwealth, etc., some reference material, autographed photo of the "Honeymooners" (Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph), plus miscellaneous, interesting lot *O | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #5455 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1863-1973 Independent Nations of Africa, large collection in four well-filled Scott Specialty albums, early issues include Ethiopia and Liberia, used and unused, with some better items and sets, later issues are mostly former French Colonies, with hundreds of complete sets and souvenir sheets, overprints and surcharges, Air Post, Postage Dues, occasional imperf. varieties, etc., mostly l.h., fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #5456 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1940s-80s collection in 19 large Scott International Stamp albums (blue binders), thousands of used and unused singles and sets, European countries, British Commonwealth, with KGVI and QEII definitives, Asia and Africa, occasional better items, generally fine-v.f. *O | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
