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 #4549 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA United States forces in Siberia 1919 (8 Oct) cover with printed "Office of the Chief Inspector, Chinese Eastern District, Trans-Baikal, Tomsk and Omsk Railways" return address, franked with pair of imperf. 35/2k green, tied by Vladivostok cds and addressed to USA (St. Paul, Minn), sent though the "A.E.F. Siberia", boxed "Censored" handstamp and signed by the commanding officer (Colonel Emmerson, who is also the sender), with Russian "Opened by Censor / Vladivostok War Control No.25", resealed at left, some backflap faults, fine and rare usage from the commander of Russian Railway Service Corps (actually a "railway mission" which consisted of 316 American Army railway engineers out of St. Paul and Philadelphia, under the command of Colonel George Emmerson, the general manager of the Great Northern Railway. It was a military unit with civilian status hired by Kerensky's Provisional Government for duty along the Trans-Siberian Railroad. By the time the Russian Railway Service Corps (R.R.S.C.) arrived in Vladivostok, Lenin and the Bolsheviks had come to power and its services were no longer desired. The engineers initially pulled back to Nagasaki and returned to Vladivostok in 1919. The American troops were pulled out of Siberia in early 1920, although some civilian train experts did stay on until later. The last of the Czechs had been withdrawn by September. This left only the Japanese, who became stuck in the quagmire of a prolonged intervention until 1922, when forced to withdraw without having achieved their goals)  | Price Realized $900.00 |
