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 #1247
RUSSIA Russian Offices in China - Sinkiang
1898 (8 Apr) registered (without the registry etiquette, manuscript endorsement at left) red band cover to Peking, franked with Russian 20k carmine & blue, tied by "KULDZHA SEMIP.OB Pocht. Tel.Kont." (Kuldja, province of Semi-Palatinsk, Tchilingirian Fig.404), additional strikes repeated alongside and on front, showing transit postmark of Troitskozavodsk, some additional chops, fine and scarce usage (Kudja, transliterated from Uyghur as Gulja, is a city within the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China)
Envelope
Price Realized
$2,400.00

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