U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
October 12-13, 2021
Our October 12-13, 2021 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. This 1,458 lot sale begins with United States, with 19th and 20th Century single rarities, graded items, proofs, essays and back of book material. The Foreign section focus is on Asia, with an outstanding collection of Large Dragons of Shanghai, used and unused individual rarities and a powerful balance lot. There is Japan with Offices in Korea, followed by stamps and Postal History of Imperial Korea, Mongolia, as well as Russian Offices in China, with Chinese Eastern Railway Stations. European countries include Austria, with local issues, France & Colonies, German Colonies, Italian States & Colonies, Poland, Russia, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, an important collection of Persia and select rarities from the rest of the world. The sale concludes with Large Lots and Collections, with hundreds of albums comprising a collection formed by Solomon Goldberg and sold on behalf of the UJA of New York. Additional lots range from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and cover lots. Scans of the large lots are continuously being added.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #849 KOREA - COVERS and POSTAL HISTORY 1866 (15 Nov) single page document headed "Division Navale Des Mers de Chine" (Naval Division/China Seas) Expedition de Coree (Korean Expedition) "Certificat de blessure" (injury report), signed by the commanding Admiral on board of "Le Guerriere", at Mouillage de L'ile Boisse, Korea, 15 November 1866, bearing "Division Navale le des mers de Chine" seal, with French military emblem, folded, with some ageing and paper splits (in 1866, reacting to increasing numbers of Korean and Chinese converts to Catholicism, the Korea government sanctioned massacres of a number of French Catholic missionaries, as well as thousands of Korean converts. That same year France launched a punitive expedition against Korea, invading and occupying portions of Ganghwa Island in the fall of 1866. The French frigate La Guerriere commanded by Admiral Roze was the lead ship in the French campaign against Korea) | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
