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 #1371 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE 1840-1965 single property offered intact, large old-time collection formed by a European collector, mostly in Borek and Behrens albums (10) and smaller supplements (7), with Albania, Austria, mostly used to 1920, unused thereafter, with 10sh Dollfuss (380), Hitler overprints to 5M and Semi-Postals, Belgium, 19th Century used, mostly complete to 5fr, souvenir sheets, Parcel Post, Semi-Postals from 1935 on, extensive Bulgaria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Denmark with Greenland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, with Karelia, France, Ceres, Napoleon to 5fr, Bordeaux, Type Sage, Merson, Semi-Postals and Air Post, Postage Dues, French Colonies General Issue, Andorra mostly complete to 20fr, French Post Offices Abroad, Greece, Large and Small Hermes Heads, 1896 Olympics to 5dr, 1906 complete (used), various overprints, commemoratives and Air Post mostly unused (Scott 378-80,C8-21), also Epirus, Crete, Ionian Islands Great Britain, mostly used with Queen Victoria and George V to £1, also Morocco Agencies, Gibraltar, British Levant, Malta, Ireland, Iceland (better items include C12-13), Italy early issues used, later commemoratives and Air Post unused (CO2), Post WWII Issues, Parcel Post (including Q76), AMG-VG, Trieste Zone A, Aegean Islands, Rhodes, some Italian Colonies, Vatican City, Roman States, Modena, Romagna (complete), Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, with some Local Issues, Port Gdansk, Central Lithuania, Ukraine, Portugal, Romania, Russia, some better unused (551-54, C68), others c.t.o., also Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland (all souvenir sheets, Pax issue, Officials), plus Turkey and Yugoslavia, generally clean and fine-v.f. *O | Unsold |
