U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
February 2-3, 2021
Our February 2-3, 2021 Auction will be held live via CherrystoneLIVE. This 1,400 lot sale features United States and European countries, including Austria, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy and Colonies, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Western Ukraine, and many others. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented. Also featured are large die proofs from the American Bank Note Company, issued for various South and Central American countries. The auction concludes with a strong selection of 130+ 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 #938 Siberia 1865 (22 Sep) cover (opened for display, backflap slightly trimmed), franked with Russian 10k brown & blue perf. 12 1/2 (Scott No.8), sent from Chita to Tobolsk, with 21 October 1865 arrival. The addressee, Jan Akko, took part in the Polish insurrection of 1863-64. As a result, he was deprived of rights, exiled to Siberia, and his estate in Kovno province was confiscated by the Russian government. The sender, Andrey Bukovsky (return address in Polish), was a major in the Transbaikal Cossack army (By April 1864, the leaders of the uprising were arrested and executed, marking the official end of the January Uprising. According to Russian statistics, after the end of the insurrection 396 people were executed and 18,672 were exiled to Siberia. Vast numbers of Poles were also sent to the interior of Russia and to the Caucasus, Urals and other remote areas. Around 70,000 people were imprisoned and subsequently exiled from Poland and consigned to distant regions of Russia)  | Price Realized $130.00 |
