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.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #5144
LITHUANIA Gardinas (Grodno)
1918 50sk surcharges on Russian Stamps, 3k-70k perforated set of eight, also 50sk on 3k red double surcharge, mostly sheet corner margin, generally n.h. blocks of four (5k lower left, others lower right), first eight showing deformed "a" in "Lietuva" (pos.24); also 50sk/1k and 50sk/5k imperforate blocks of four (top stamps h.r., bottom pairs n.h.), plus 50sk/15k imperforate horizontal top sheet margin pair (technically a block of four since complete surcharge is struck on the unprinted margin), all fine-v.f., signed Mikulski. A unique complete set of eleven blocks of four (only 20, 25 and 50 of the imperforate values were issued)
Box */**
Catalog #L1-8,L1a,2a,4a
Price Realized
$25,000.00

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