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 #5163 POLAND 1797 large folio headed "Legion Polonaise / Ausiliare de la Republique Cisalpine", addressed to Citizen Vignole, Minister of War, Vignole, asked for approval of a promotion of Lieutenant Regulski, signed by General Wielhorski (Jozef Wielhorski fought in the Polish-Russian War of 1792 and later, as a colonel, in the Kosciuszko Uprising. Tadeusz Kosciuszko sent him to revolutionary France, where under Napoleon, he would become (in 1797) a general in the Polish Legions, later a general in the Duchy of Warsaw, where he also became a deputy minister of war) | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #5164 POLAND 1806 (10 Dec) partly printed folio "Empire Francaise / Le Colonel du 96e Regimen d'Infanterie de Ligne", with red "No.23 GRANDE ARMEE" handstamp, sent from Golancz to Paris, charged "8" (Decimes), with mostly intact regimental seal and arrival pmk on back  | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #5165 POLAND 1807 (4 Oct) FL dateline "Varsovie", sent from Warszawa to France, with well struck "No.43 Grande Armee" in black, charged "6" (decimes) in manuscript, interesting text ("arrived in this town after a 20-day march, with General Morand"), fine Napoleonic letter from the Duchy of Warsaw (established in 1807), signed Pothion | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5166 POLAND 1808 (8 Feb) FL from Psarkie (near Poznan), with well struck "No.17 GRANDE ARMEE" in black, addressed to the mayor of Alexandria (Italy), charged "9" (decimes), showing "Department de Marengo" and "Militaire" endorsements, fine Napoleonic letter | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #5167 POLAND 1812 (29 Nov) FL datelined "Varsovie", sent from Warszawa to Turin, with well struck "No.4 Grande Armee" in red, charged "10" (decimes) in manuscript, written by Sgt. Morelli in the Guard of Honor of his Highness the Prince Camille of Tuscany to his brother in Torino, fine Napoleonic letter, written at the time of retreat from Russia | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #5168 POLAND 1858 Russia 10k brown & blue (Scott 2), tied on piece by "1" in concentric circles, with red Warszawa cds alongside, v.f. O | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #5169 POLAND 1914 registered cover from Lwow to Tarnopol, with Austrian 10h and 35h franking, tied by "Lemberg" cds and corresponding Lemberg registry label, v.f. | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #5170 POLAND 1914 registered cover from Lwow to Tarnopol, with Austrian 35h tied by bilingual "Lwow/Lemberg" cds, with corresponding Lemberg registry label alongside, fine | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #5171 POLAND 1915 Carnegie Hall Solo Recital program for the benefit of American Polish Relief Fund, performed by the famous soprano Marcella Sembrich (1858-1935, she was Polish, born Prakseda Marcelina Kochanska, with an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London). Also included is a picture postcard (J.Paderewski) and a small portion of a check, signed "I.J. Paderewski - Pay to order of Polish Victims Relief Fund", plus a 1916 four-page program "Mr. Paderewski will give a second recital at Symphony Hall, Boston, November 12, 1917" (Ignacy Paderewski 1860-1941) was a Polish pianist, composer and Prime Minister) | Unsold |
 | Lot #5172 POLAND 1919 (29 Apr) card, written in Polish from Harbin, franked with Russian 20k, tied by departure cds, addressed to "Glos Polski" in Novo-Nikolayevsk (today Novosibirsk), v.f., with arrival pmk | Unsold |
 | Lot #5173 POLAND 1919 Polish Red Cross, specialized collection written-up exhibition style on 16 pages, with 1919 proofs of unaccepted surcharges on Austrian stamps (four stamps and two proof impressions in black or red), 20+ covers and cards, various Red Cross societies, numerous labels, fine-v.f. and interesting collection | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
 | Lot #5174 POLAND 1924 two covers to France, one from Lomza, with 4x100,000m (3xEagle and one surcharge), the other from Strzybnica (Upper Silesia) with 100,000m on 5m, 2x25,000m on 20m and 2x200,000m Eagle, all tied by cds, one stamp with staple holes, filing folds away from the stamps, fine inflation usage Catalog #209,210 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #5175 POLAND 1935 Landscapes ("Widoki"), Pieniny, 20gr lilac, perforated and gummed proof sheetlet, v.f., signed Rachmanow P Catalog #297P | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5176 POLAND 1935 Landscapes ("Widoki"), Belvedere Palace, 25gr green, perforated proof sheetlet, unused without gum, v.f. P Catalog #298P | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5177 POLAND 1935 Landscapes ("Widoki"), Sukiennice, Krakow, 50gr black, perforated proof sheetlet, unused without gum, v.f. P Catalog #301P | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #5178 POLAND 1935 Landscapes ("Widoki"), Cathedral, Wilno, 1zl brown, perforated and gummed proof sheetlet, v.f. P Catalog #303P | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #5179 POLAND 1937 Landscapes ("Widoki"), University, Lwow, 15gr red brown, imperforate proof sheetlet, unused without gum, v.f. (Fi. 2,500zl) P Catalog #310P | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5180 POLAND 1939 (28 Oct) Russian 20k stationery card, canceled "Starobielsk, P.K. Voroshilovgrad", written by Anton Korytkowski, a Polish officer held in NKVD camp in Starobielsk, addressed to Naruszczki near Warsaw, some faults (text "Dear Mother and my dears, I am well on the territory of U.S.S.R") (Anton Korytkowski, a teacher from Bialystok, officer in the army reserve, was murdered by the NKVD at the Katyn forest) | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #5181 POLAND 1944 Leaders (Wodzowie), set of three horizontal gutter tete-beche pairs, one set printed in reverse, unused without gum as issued, n.h., fine-v.f., signed Jungjohann (*) Catalog #341-43 | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #5182 POLAND 1944 Goznak Issue, 25gr and 50gr imperforate singles, n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski (Fi.324nz, 343nz, 7,000zl) ** Catalog #344-45var | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
 | Lot #5183 POLAND 1945 Krakow Monuments, unissued 50gr carmine, n.h., v.f., with 2020 Marcin Wysocki certificate (Fi.XXI) ** Catalog #357var | Price Realized $95.00 |
 | Lot #5184 POLAND 1945 (12 Apr) postal card with 5zl on 50gr franking, registered locally, with the original postal receipt, message "Sending you a new Postage Stamp", with violet Military censor cachet on back, little toning, otherwise v.f., signed Petriuk Catalog #363 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #5185 POLAND 1948 Bierut 10zl violet and 15zl carmine, imperforate singles, large margins, n.h., v.f., signed Petriuk (Fi.474nz, 475nz, 1,200zl) ** Catalog #440,441var | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #5186 POLAND 1964 Birds, 40gr variety missing blue color, n.h., v.f., signed Petriuk (Mi.1491F, Fi.1343Mk, 800zl) ** Catalog #1232var | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #5187 POLAND 1966 Dinosaurs, 20gr variety showing dramatic color shift, canceled to order, vertical pair, v.f., signed Jungjohann (Fi.1506 MK, 500zl) O Catalog #1395var | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #5188 POLAND 1978 Sculpture "Peace", 1zl sheet margin block of eight, right block imperf., n.h., v.f., signed Petriuk (Fi.2430Mk2+nz, 2,400zl)  **Catalog #2284var | Unsold |
 | Lot #5189 POLAND 1993 "Polska 93" souvenir sheet (amber), two souvenir sheets with serial numbers "01786" and "02847" (only 4000 issues, most withdrawn from sale), used, each canceled First Day of Issue, one on unaddressed FDC, v.f., the latter with 2020 Marcin Wysocki certificate (Fi. Bl. 151 I (107), 1,700zl) OCatalog #3140var | Price Realized $150.00 |
