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 #763 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1939-41 (After the German (1 Sep 1939) and Soviet (17 Sep) invasions, the government and 20,000 Polish military crossed the southern border into Romania. The soldiers and members of government were interned in various places from Banat through to Wallachia, and as far as Dobrogea. In Campulung-Muscel, an internment camp for Polish soldiers existed from September 1939 to March 1940. The Commander in Chief of the Polish army, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz was lodged in the nearby town of Dragoslavele), collection of 25 covers, cards and one telegram, written-up on pages, used October 2, 1939 to German occupied Poland, various red cross and censor markings, scarce "Deutsches Okupationsgebiet Osten Dienstpost" handstamps in red, registered cover from Targoviste camp, officers' camp in Targu-Jiu, also a card from Constanto to the Targo-Jiu camp, others from Babadag Camp to Vilnius, Braila Camp to Biezanow, card from Targu-Jiu camp to POW Oflag Xa in Germany, cover and card from Polish Officers' Camp in Calimansti; cover from Russian occupied Poland, sent via Odessa to a military hospital in Constanta; two covers from German Occupied Poland to camps in Romania; censored cover from Warszawa to Calimanesti Camp, sent Feb 11, 1941, but returned to sender, as the camp was already liquidated. An interesting collection  | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
 | Lot #764 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1939-41 Polish Internees/POWs in Hungary, selection of 10 covers or cards from various camps, including Petlenpuszta, Magyarova, Ipoltszalka, Esztergom Tabor, Sarvar, Mosdos, Nagyncek, Gyujto and Vamosmikola, addressed to German Occupied Poland, also to Polish Red Cross in Vichy, France, etc., one incoming card from Tarnow to Tapioszele "Selecta" in Hungary (temporary housing from Polish POWs) | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #765 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1940 (Mar) card from German-occupied Poland to Bartlomiej Bobonski in Romanian Targu-Jiu camp, also another card sent in August 1943 to the same individual, this time a POW in Stalag VID, Dortmund, Germany (under the order of February 12, 1941, Polish soldiers interned in Romania were handed over to the Germans) | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #766 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1940 Polish Internees in Switzerland, two specially prepared souvenir sheets, with military handstamps, fine-v.f.  | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #767 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1940 selection of 10 covers or cards from Polish Internees in Switzerland, various Camps, two specially printed stationery cards, one with bilingual label, most addressed within Switzerland, one to Lisbon, another to Germany, various censor markings, etc., also three unused stationery cards, one showing "Timrbe" (instead of "Timbre") error in inscription, fine and scarce group | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #768 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1941 letter from Comisani Camp with "Romanian Ministry of National Defense Camp for Interned Poles Comisani" handstamp in green, sent to a Polish serviceman in Targu-Jiu Camp; addressee not recorded (possibly escaped), annotated in Polish "not known in soldiers' camp", dated July 14, 1941, with "Passed by Censor No.156", apparently now in British controlled Palestine, Latrun camp, where Polish Carpathian brigade was being formed, showing bilingual "Interned Belligerent", boxed "Free of Charge" and censor label, fine and rare cover, possibly the only recorded correspondence from Romanian internment Camp after February 12, 1941 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #769 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1941 (24 May) Russian 20k stationery card canceled "Starobielsk Voroshilovgrad", sent by Jan Sulkowski, a Polish officer held in the NKVD Camp Starobielsk II, addressed to his wife in Suchotin, Kazakhstan, where families of Polish officers were deported. In addition, there is another 20k stationery card from Mrs Sulkowski in Suchotin to her husband in Starobielsk, showing departure and arrival pmks, considerable card wear, rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #770 POLAND Internment of Polish Soldiers during World War II 1941 two Soviet stationery cards, one from Jercewo (March 30) to Belarus, with Post Office Box 233/17-1m Railway Construction Labor Camp; the other from Semigorod to Stalingrad, some toning, fine and scarce pair of cards | Price Realized $170.00 |
