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 #1081 RUSSIA 1838 outer FL from Odessa to Genova, disinfected, showing Odessa Quarantine Station markings on departure, second disinfection at Brody, with usual cover slits, charged on arrival  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1082 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, thin paper, used, colorless watermark "3" shifted completely to bottom, irregular perfs in places, well centered, fine, signed Eisold, etc., O Catalog #4var Catalog Value $2,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1083 RUSSIA 1881 (26 Sep) money letter (opened for display, slightly reduced at top), sent from Stretensk in Trans Baikal Territory to Helsinki, Finland. The letter contained 50 rubles. The postage was 53 kopecks (calculated on back at 21 kopecks for weight, 25 kopecks for insurance, and 7 kopecks for registration). Sent by Johan Albin Stierncreutz, who was the captain of an Amur River steamship | Unsold |
 | Lot #1084 RUSSIA 1883 (24 July) 7k stationery entire envelope sent from the Tiflis railway station to Captain I. K. Kirpotin at the camp of the 1st Caucasian rifle battalion in Suram (Georgia), postmarked "Tiflissk. P. O. Poti-Tiflissk. ZH. D." (only recorded example) and "Pocht.Vagona Poti-Tiflissk Zh.D. Vagona Poti-Tiflissk. ZH. D.", some toning, but this is the earliest recorded mail from the Tiflis station branch office, which opened in 1873 (the Poti-Tiflis railway mail transport administration allotted money for salaries, cancelers, weights, etc. Ivan Kuzmich Kirpotin, born in 1841, fought in the Caucasian and Russo-Turkish Wars and was awarded the Order of St. George for valor. Grand Duke Michael Nikolayevich, the Caucasian viceroy, was godfather to his son) | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #1085 RUSSIA 1885 (14 Aug) 4k stationery card sent by the explorer Sven Hedin from the Tiflis railway station to his father in Stockholm, with Moscow transit and Stockholm arrival pmks, fine (Hedin, on the first of many trips to Russia, was on his way to Balakhany, a suburb of Baku, to act as tutor to the son of Erhard Sandgren, who worked for Nobel Oil. He writes "Dear Dad and Mom, I am now in Asia. We left Vladikavkaz at 6 am Tuesday morning. We traveled in two carriages. The Sandgrens and engineer Fernstrom used the smaller one and I was on the one with the luggage. I had the better view. Now and then we changed places. From Vladikavkaz one follows the Georgian military road. It is a marvel of engineering, snaking along the vertical mountain sides. For several hours one has the top of Mt. Kazbek above one's head. It is overwhelmingly magnificent. The mountains are incredible. They disappear in a bluish fog and are covered by snow. There are no words to describe them. In any case we traveled all day and changed horses at every station. I have twenty photographs of the mountains and stations. We continued all through the night because Sandgren wanted to meet someone in Tiflis. The road is 20 Swedish miles (200 km) long. Where it is very steep one drives with 5-6 horses. We were blessed with gorgeous moonshine and imposing fairytale pictures. Tiflis is a nice city. I am very tired after the journey through the night. Greetings to all from Sven") | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1086 RUSSIA 1903 (11 Mar) cover franked with 2x10k dark blue, sent by Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich (brother of Tsar Nicholas II) from Gatchino to his former tutor Ferdinand Thormeyer in Carouge, Switzerland, with German "Vom Auslande uber Bahnpost 11 Eingerschrieben" Registry label, bearing the Romanov Crown and Michael's cipher on the backflap, v.f. | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1087 RUSSIA 1916 (19 Feb) cover franked with 10k dark blue, addressed to Petrograd, Shlisselburg Fortress, with oval Prison Censor cachet, v.f. (During Imperial times the fortress was used as a notorious political prison. Among its famous prisoners were Ivan VI, who was murdered in the fortress in 1764, and Lenin's brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, who was hanged there as well) | Unsold |
 | Lot #1088 RUSSIA 1917-24 Madagascar Postes & Telegraphes "Collection de Berne" Archive, five large sheets, dated 8 November, 1924, numbered 5-8, with 126 different horizontal (few vertical) strips of three, tied by red overprints and countersigned by the secretary and director of Post and Telegraph in Berne, Switzerland, with virtually complete R.S.F.S.R., including surcharges, Early Soviet Commemoratives and Definitives, plus Semi-Postals, Air Post (C1-5), as well as Postage Dues, some gutter strips (rare), surcharges and Imperial definitives to 10r (used in RSFSR), fine-v.f., possibly unique S | Unsold |
 | Lot #1089 RUSSIA 1918 (12 Apr) postal card sent by an Englishwoman in Kharkov to her brother in England, franked with two each 1k and 3k imperf. and 10k/7k Arms. The lady witnessed the German occupation of Kharkov on 8 April: "Yesterday morning we heard cannonading in the distance. The commandant went out to meet them and say we surrender and in the evening they arrived in great numbers", fine and interesting eyewitness account | Unsold |
 | Lot #1090 RUSSIA 1922 10,000r (with periods after Cyrillic letters) on 40r slate, type I and II, usual disturbed gum, h.r., fine-v.f., signed Dr.P.Jemchouhin and Mikulski, rare, * Catalog #200c,f Catalog Value $1,300 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1091 RUSSIA 1924 50k brown, typographed, l.h., large margins all around, fresh and v.f., * Catalog #275A Catalog Value $6,750 | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #1092 RUSSIA 1924 15k lemon, l.h., well centered, fresh and v.f. example of this extremely rare stamp, showing rich color and full typographed characteristics, without the usual inclusions and faults, with 1988 Mikulski certificate ("very good quality, with full original gum, small trace of a hinge"), * Catalog #287 Catalog Value $25,000 | Price Realized $12,500.00 |
 | Lot #1093 RUSSIA 1925 18k violet, watermarked, imperforate lower right sheet corner margin single, without the usual chalky lines, n.h., v.f., rare ** Catalog #316var | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1094 RUSSIA 1925 Lomonosov, perforated and gummed essays on thick, gummed paper, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #326-27E Catalog Value $100 | Price Realized $110.00 |
 | Lot #1095 RUSSIA 1926-28 Lenin, 1r brown, 2r dark violet, 3r green, three imperforate horizontal pairs, mostly l.h., last one n.h., with handstamped guarantee mark, very rare, only a few "sets" exist (Zagorsky 128,129,221Pa) */** Catalog #342,43,406var | Price Realized $9,500.00 |
 | Lot #1096 RUSSIA 1927 10th Anniversary of October Revolution, 5k deep brown, imperforate single, h.r., disturbed gum and folded at right sheet margin, fine, * Catalog #376a Catalog Value $1,650 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1097 RUSSIA 1928 (28 May) parcel card from Moscow to New York, franked with a combination of three different Regular Issues, including 50k brown (watermarked), 40k carmine and 2r (Lenin), minor toned and paper clip rust spots, otherwise fine and attractive. Also included is a registered cover from Leningrad to USA, franked with 4k definitive issue, used in combination with two Semi-Postals | Unsold |
 | Lot #1098 RUSSIA 1929 Pioneers, 10k olive brown, 14k slate, each perforated 12 1/2x12x10 1/2x12, l.h., fine-v.f., scarce, * Catalog #411b,412a Catalog Value $565 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1099 RUSSIA 1933 Order of the Red Banner, 20k black, red & yellow, perf. 9 1/2, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #518var Catalog Value $8,000 | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1100 RUSSIA 1934 Fedorov, 20k carmine rose, 40k indigo, imperforate vertical pair, l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski, etc., */** Catalog #529a,530a Catalog Value $3,350 | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
 | Lot #1101 RUSSIA 1935 Spartacist Games, complete set, n.h., usual gum, fine-v.f., ** Catalog #559-568 Catalog Value $940 | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #1102 RUSSIA 1935 Kalinin, 3k, 5k, 10k and 20k set of four perforated trial color proofs in brown, v.f., rare P Catalog #573-76P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1103 RUSSIA 1935 Kalinin, 20k brown black, imperforate horizontal pair, h.r., v.f., * Catalog #576a Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1104 RUSSIA 1938 First Trans-Polar Flight, 20k brown black & red, vertical pair imperf. between, canceled to order (with original gum), v.f., extremely rare, with 2016 Zagorsky certificate (Zverev $6,500) O Catalog #637var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1105 RUSSIA 1946 Sverdlov Theater Square, 20k red brown, horizontal strip of three, imperf. between and at left, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 983Pa) ** Catalog #1062var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1106 RUSSIA 1946 Sverdlov Theater Square, 20k red brown, horizontal strip of three, imperf. between and at left, used with additional franking on registered Jabari cover addressed to England, some adhesive toning, otherwise fine, scarce Catalog #1062var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1107 RUSSIA 1947 30th Anniversary of the Revolution, 30k and 1r each with displaced center, n.h., fine-v.f. ** Catalog #1183,1187var | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1108 RUSSIA 1950 Skyscrapers, complete set in blocks of four, n.h., v.f.  **Catalog #1518-25 | Price Realized $1,800.00 |
 | Lot #1109 RUSSIA 1964-70 Green Tokyo Olympics, two souvenir sheets, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #2921-26 | Price Realized $200.00 |
 | Lot #1110 RUSSIA 1964-70 Green Tokyo Olympics and Lenin Type I souvenir sheets on unaddressed covers, v.f. Catalog #2921-26,3788var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1111 RUSSIA 1965 Space (Cosmonaut's Day), sheets of 24, also additional four blocks of 6x20k, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #3022-23 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1112 RUSSIA 1966 800th Anniversary of Shota Rustaveli (Art), imperforate proofs of stamps (3) and souvenir sheet, v.f. P Catalog #3235-38P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1113 RUSSIA 1975 Fairy Tales (Palekh), 4k-20k se-tenant strip of five, right pair imperf. between and at margin, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 4484-4488var) ** Catalog #4400-4404var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1114 RUSSIA 1975 Fairy Tales (Palekh), 4k-20k se-tenant sheet of 20, completely imperforate at right, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 4484-4488var) **Catalog #4400-4404var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1115 RUSSIA 1975 Fairy Tales (Palekh), 4k-20k se-tenant sheet of 20, completely imperforate at left, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 4484-4488var) **Catalog #4400-4404var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1116 RUSSIA 1978 Paintings, 12k lower right sheet corner margin block of four, upper stamp part of black inscription and value missing, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #4711var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1117 RUSSIA 1984 Space, 15k two different lower right sheet corner margin blocks of four, one with black inscriptions doubled at left, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #5270var | Unsold |
