U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
May 25-26, 2021
Our May 25-26, 2021 Auction will run live via CherrystoneLIVE. This 1,382 lot sale features United States and Worldwide countries, beginning with a solid selection of U.S. singles, sets, Postal History and Possessions. The Foreign section features a highly specialized collection of French Indochina, with 19th Century military and civilian mail from what is today Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. This collection was formed by a former French Colonial resident, with an excellent eye for postal history and considered a foremost expert of the subject. From Germany, there are used and unused selections from an-old time collection formed with assistance from Herbert Bloch and the Friedl Expert Committee. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are followed by a collection of Imperial Japan, including the original collection formed in 1875 by Baron Maejima Hisoka, founder of the Japanese Postal System. Italian Offices in China include three rare Pechino and Tientsin items, including unique covers. The Poland selection features Krakow Issue, Locals, Polish Army Corps in Italy, with unique errors and varieties. Russia boasts a collection of 300+ lots of Zemstvo, with many ex-Baughman, Faberge, and Bianchi items. In addition, this sale includes a strong selection of 100+ large lots and collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide properties and large cover lots
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 | Lot #1341 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS JAPAN 1871-1900 collection formed by Baron Maejima Hisoka (1835-1919, who founded the Japanese postal service and is known as their "Father of the Postal System". As a Meiji bureaucrat, he was sent to England in 1870 to study the workings of the General Post Office, and upon his return to Japan in 1871, his proposals for the creation of a similar system in Japan were quickly approved. The Japanese post office began operation in April 1871 with a daily service linking Tokyo with Osaka, with 65 post offices in between. Baron Maejima personally coined the Japanese word for postage stamp (kitte). In 1874, Maejima hired a foreign advisor, Samuel M. Bryan, to negotiate a postal treaty with the United States, and to assist in the admission of Japan into the Universal Postal Union in 1877. By the time Maejima retired in 1881, the Japanese postal system had expanded to 5,099 post offices and was continuing to grow. He was honored on several Japanese postage stamps). The album includes a selection of 60 mostly unused early Japanese stamps (1/86) all stuck down to pages, also 32 unused stationery cards, entire envelopes and wrappers (this section alone is stated to catalogue Yen 3,450,000 $32,300), plus unused Lombardy-Venetia, Belgium, Bermuda, Hawaii, South Africa and other British Colonies, also Netherlands, Guatemala, Uruguay and others, strength in postal stationery, with the Baron's personal notations and seal. A wonderful historical item  (*) | Price Realized $13,500.00 |
