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 #4559 ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SIBERIA United States forces in Siberia 1920 (8 Jan), a sixteen page letter (headed "The American Red Cross Commission to Siberia Camp Service), erroneously dated "8 Jan 1919", written at "Berezovka, Siberia" by an American Army Officer ("Harold, 27th Infantry, Manila, P.I.") commanding a company size unit in the Siberian Campaign 1918-20. The contents include reference to the rescue of Czech troops, protecting a train on the Trans-Siberian Railroad across Siberia and dramatic descriptions of the efforts involved. He further discusses his being furnished with money and other supplies to be used for bribes as required to get the trains through. He mentions acts of sabotage, commenting on both the Cossacks and the Bolsheviks, the atrocities committed in a small Siberian town by the Cossacks upon Russians suspected of being Bolshevik. The entire letter is a remarkable chapter in the grim pages in the history of the Russian Revolution and an exceptional account of the A.E.F. involvement in Siberia | Price Realized $475.00 |
