U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 29-30, 2021

Our Summer Sale will take place live via CherrystoneLIVE on June 29-30, 2021. This 1,525 lot sale features United States and Worldwide countries, including the Mark Hegman collection and several other important properties from all over the world. We begin with United States, followed by Austria, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany & their respective Colonies, comprehensive Italian Area, Poland, Russia with rare numeral dot cancels and Offices in China. British Commonwealth is well represented with strength in Victoria and George V singles and sets. There is noteworthy Colombia with 1920 Scadta vignettes, other South and Central America, selections of Ethiopia, China, and the rest of the world. The auction concludes with close to 200 large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers. We continue to provide additional images of lots and collections up until the auction dates.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #378
EGYPT Zeppelin Flights
1931 Suez acceptance, unaddressed picture postcard (LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin), franked with 50M ("1951" error) lower right sheet corner margin single canceled 11 Apr 31 Cairo, with three additional cancels (Suez, Alexandria and Port Said) produced by the Egyptian Post Office for the visit of the Airship in 1931. This is probably a souvenir card presented to one of the Graf Zeppelin's officers or passengers, v.f. An extremely rare Zeppelin item from Egypt, one of a few known with Suez postmark (a 10 April 1931 Suez Graf Zeppelin cover was last sold at Cherrystone Fred Blau collection, March 2020, price realized $25,300 including 15% buyer's commission)
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