U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 13-14, 2021
Our April 13-14, 2021 Auction will be held live via CherrystoneLIVE. This 1,067 lot sale features United States and Foreign countries. The sale begins with over 400 lots of high quality U.S. singles including many rarities and graded items. The Foreign section includes Austria, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy and Colonies, Poland, Russia, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, China and South and Central American countries as well as an outstanding selection of the Treasures of Israel Philately, offered for sale at auction for the first time. Featured are the 1948 sheets of Doar Ivri, perf. and imperf. as well as uncut sheets of 300 of the First Festivals issue and the Postage Dues sets. In addition, this sale includes a strong selection of 200+ 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 #739 POLAND 1860 10k rose & blue, unused with gum which is not original, good colors and perforations, fine and fresh (*) Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #740 POLAND 1860 10k rose & blue, three copies used, one defective, others with small flaws O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #741 POLAND 1914 registered cover to the Red Cross in St. Petersburg, franked with vertical strip of 3x7k (top stamp cut as the cover was reduced), tied by mute cancels, showing return address in Warszawa, Registry label No.8 partly excised to conceal the addressee's origin, 16 Aug.14 arrival  | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #742 POLAND 1919 Gniezno Issue, 5pf on 21/2pf (4) and 10pf on 71/2pf (3) surcharges, tied by Ostrzeszow 4.10.19 pmks on registered cover to Poznan, cover stained and faulty, stamps fine-v.f., signed Mikulski (catalogued as used off cover) Catalog #77-78 Catalog Value $ 1,180 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #743 POLAND 1920 correspondence to Lemberg, later Lwow, addressed to the Metropolitan Andrzej Szeptycki (The Servant of God, Metropolitan Archbishop Andrey Szeptycki (1865-1944) was the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from 1901 until his death in 1944. During his tenure, he led the Church through two world wars and seven political regimes: Austrian, Russian, Soviet, Polish, Soviet, General Government (Nazi), and again Soviet. Metropolitan Szeptycki was one of the most influential figures in the history of the Ukrainian Church in the twentieth century. The Lviv National Museum, founded by Szeptycki in 1905, now bears his name), 100+ covers and cards ranging from stampless, to Austria, Poland, Russia, Bosnia, Italy, Lithuania, Generalgouvernment, many interesting arrival and departure markings, mostly fine | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #744 POLAND 1921 (18 Jan) picture postcard from Warszawa to Kaunas, franked with 1k and used in combination with 3m, tied by departure cds, with clear "Kaunas 30.1.21" arrival postmark alongside. Mixed currency frankings are uncommon, and so is the fact that this postcard got delivered directly, at a time when diplomatic relations between Poland and Lithuania were broken and postal service often required involvement of a neutral intermediary country Catalog #128,134 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #745 POLAND 1925 3gr blue, imperforate vertical pair, used on piece, v.f. O Catalog #229var | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #746 POLAND 1934 55g on 60g blue, horizontal pair (pos.59-60), each stamp variety (line above "gr" and defective "r" in "gr"), n.h., v.f. (Fi. 271B2+B3, 1,200zl) ** Catalog #284var | Unsold |
 | Lot #747 POLAND 1939-41 Russian Occupation, four stationery cards from Polish POWs in Stebniki near Drohobycz to Krakow; Kara-Kalpadska ASSR to London, Podkamien near Brody to Krakow and from Stryj via Dulag (German transit Camp) to German occupied Krakow, all neatly described, fine and rare group | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #748 POLAND 1940 correspondence from Lithuania (two 35c stationery cards and one 5c with "Interniertensendung" endorsement) sent by a Polish soldier (aspirant) interned in Lithuania to German occupied Krakow, one from Rokiskins, others from the pemanent camp in Vilkaviskis, all posted from Kaunas. Internee's mail was limited to 20 lines per postcard, and the sender was clearly aware of this limitation (on each card, he numbered his message from 1 to 20), fine-v.f., with German censor markings applied on arrival (In September 1939 about 15,000 Polish officers, soldiers and policemen crossed into Lithuania to escape capture by German or Russian forces. They were interned, first in temporary internee camps (Birstonas, Palanga, Alytus, Kursenai and Rokiskis) and later in four permanent internee camps (Kalvarija, Ukmerge, Vilkaviskis and Kaunas). Over the next ten months, some internees were released for health reasons, some qualified for Lithuanian citizenship, and quite a few had escaped to join fighting with Germans in France, or with Russians in Finland. Once Lithuania came under the direct Soviet control, the remaining internees (about 4700) were declared POWs and transferred to camps in Russia (Kozyelsk and Yuchnov) | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #749 POLAND 1944 Wodzowie, 1zl dark blue, used in combination with 50gr green (Goznak issue) on registered cover from Bialystok to Lancut, both stamps tied by pre-WWII "TFL TLG Bialystok 14 XI 33" cds, additional departure strike alongside, handstamped Registry "Bialystok" at bottom, with "328" filled in by hand, military censor "183" on back, minor cover tears on reverse, otherwise fine, signed Piekut, Petriuk, with 2001 Piekut and 2020 Wysocki certificates. A rare commercially used cover | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #750 POLAND 1945 Liberation "Warszawa" and "Czestochowa", double overprints, n.h., v.f., signed Krawczyk, Mikulski, etc. (Fi.348aNp, 349Np, 6,500zl) ** Catalog #349var,350var | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #751 POLAND 1946 registered postcard from Brzeg to Krakow (long message on reverse), franked with 1.50z on 25gr red brown, surcharge inverted, used in combination with 3zl Liberation of Warszawa overprint inverted and shifted, some card adhesions, otherwise v.f., rare (Fi. 376No, 389No, unpriced on cover) Catalog #346var,384var | Price Realized $475.00 |
