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 #1135 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1866 (7 Apr) large part of cover, franked with 10k brown & blue, tied by cds, sent from Blagoveshchensk to Tammerfors, Finland, postmarked "Blagoveshchensk Amursk.7.4.66", cover faults, otherwise fine, stated to be the earliest recorded mail from Blagoveshchensk, where postal operations began in 1859  | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1136 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1886 (7 May) money letter (opened for display and slightly reduced at top) sent from Khabarovsk on the Amur River to Odessa. The letter contained 5 rubles to be transmitted to a Russian monastery on Mt. Athos. Postage was 17 kopecks (endorsed on back, calculated at 7 kopecks for weight, 3 kopecks for insurance, and 7 kopecks for registration) | Unsold |
 | Lot #1137 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1903 (10 Mar) registered cover franked on back with 14k, sent from Vilyuisk (Yakutsk Territory) to St. Petersburg, with Moscow transit and arrival pmks. Mail was dispatched on the 10th and 25th of every month via Yakutsk and Irkutsk. Sent by local teacher P. Kh. Starovatov to the Imperial Academy of Sciences Library. These are the earliest recorded postmarks from Vilyuisk (population 700) | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #1138 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1911 (21 Mar) a declared-value cover sent to Grunau, Germany from the "Amur-Zeya" volost administration post office in Markovo, franked with 2x10k dark blue, postmarked Amursko-Zeiskoye (17.3.11 and 21.3), Blagoveshchensk (23.4), and Grunau (10.6) on arrival. The letter contained 10 rubles. It was mistakenly treated as a domestic letter and the sender was charged the domestic rate of 20 kopecks (10 kopecks for weight and 10 kopecks for insurance) instead of the foreign rate of 24 kopecks (10 kopecks for weight, 4 kopecks for insurance, and 10 kopecks for registration). This letter left Markovo on 21 March and traveled 28 miles by postal carriage to the Blagoveshchensk post office. Unlike uninsured correspondence, money letters were not transported along the shore of the Amur River while it was freezing or thawing, so the letter remained in the post office until the first postal steamer went upriver. This is the only recorded mail from Amursko-Zeiskoye, where postal operations began in 1902. Illustrated in BJRP No. 53. | Price Realized $375.00 |
