Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
July 12-14, 2022
Welcome to our July 12-14, 2022 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, which will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE and StampAuctionNetwork (SAN). This 1,713-lot sale features United States and Possessions, with 19th & 20th Century single rarities, 1869 Inverted Centers, Special Printings, graded items, Plate Blocks and back of the book material. Foreign countries include Austria, China, Egypt, France and Colonies, Germany with a selection of WWII Occupation Issues, as well as WWI covers from POW Camps, including Japan. Great Britain and British Commonwealth feature high values from Australia, BNA and British Africa. There are rarities from Iran, including postal history, Italy and Italian Colonies, Nepal, Netherlands and Colonies, Panama, Russia and other collecting areas. The auction concludes with over two hundred Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections to multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #636 GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in South Russia 1919 (10 May) cover from England to a British officer in Salonika, franked with 1p red, canceled "30 May Army Post Office SX5" (Likovan, Greece) and forwarded to Tiflis, with "Field Post Office D27" (Tiflis, Divisional Headquarters) transit and "Field Post Office T27" (Train 27th Division) arrival postmark on 27 June, 1919 on back, returned to sender (wife of the officer)  | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #637 GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in South Russia 1919 (28 Dec) registered cover franked with 3x25k violet & green, sent from Yevpatoriya (Tavricheskaya oblast) to "His Excellence, the Admiral of the Allied Forces, Sebastopol", with arrival pmk, cover creases and tears, roughly opened, fine appearance, rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #638 GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in South Russia 1919 (30 July) cover addressed to Athens (c/o Russian Legation), sent by Aspirant Michel Popoff, British Mission Ekaterinodar South Russia C/o Constantinople G.H.Q., with Army Post Office and "Passed by Censor No.370" markings, backstamped on arrival, minor cover flaws, fine (before the postal service was started in August 1919, mail was censored locally and canceled in Constantinople by the Army Post Office) | Unsold |
 | Lot #639 GREAT BRITAIN British Intervention in South Russia 1920 (28 May) "On His Britannic Majesty's Service", legal size envelope, registered to England franked with 4x1/2p green, tied by "Army Post Office B.M.S.R" (British Mission South Russia) cds, repeated on back, censors' signature and London arrival pmks, filing fold away from the stamps, some backflap tears, fine and rare usage (the British military mission arrived in South Russia in late 1918, and started to provide General Denikin's White army with ample supplies. Denikin would have not been able to build his army of more than 200,000 men or to make his operation against Moscow without the British material. The British mission also trained and equipped Russian troops. Many of the British instructors also took part in fighting the Bolsheviks despite the orders of their government) | Price Realized $575.00 |
