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.
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 | Lot #1132 RUSSIA Ship Mail 1910 (8 May) picture postcard franked with 4k red, written in Vladivostok and sent to the US Naval Station in Cavite, Philippines. It was posted on a ship of the Russian East-Asiatic Steamship Company which delivered the card to Tsuruga, Japan, from where it was transported by rail to Kobe and then placed on a ship of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Co. for transmission to Manila. Postmarked "PAROKHOD OBSHCH. R. V. A. P." (8.5.10) and Tsuruga and Kobe. The message reads, "I should love to take snapshots of the queer sights I see, but this is a fortress with a soldier on every street corner to arrest cameras and such, and as jails never attracted me much, I refrain"  | Unsold |
