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 #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

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