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 #1175 NEPAL 1881 1a milky blue, setting 3, 2a bright purple showing constant plate flaw at top (pos.51, "broken corner"), pin-perforated on European wove paper, h.r., v.f. (Hellrigl values setting 3 at nearly three times the normal setting 1) * Catalog #1,2var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1176 NEPAL 1881 1a ultramarine, pale purple, yellow green, pin-perforated on European wove paper, also imperforate 1a ultramarine and 4a pale green, last two without gum as issued, others l.h. or h.r., fine-v.f., ex-Pattiz (Hellrigl 1,2b,3,4,6b) (SG 1-3,4,6var, £1,875) *(*) Catalog #1-4,6var Catalog Value $1,475 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1177 NEPAL 1881 4a green, pin-perforated on European wove paper, setting 1, l.h., v.f. with 1977 PFC (Hellrigl 3a) (SG 3, £550) * Catalog #3 Catalog Value $500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1178 NEPAL 1881 4a pale green, pin-perforated on European wove paper, setting 1, l.h., fresh and fine example of this scarce shade, with 1984 Hellrigl certificate (Hellrigl 3b) (SG 3, £550) * Catalog #3 Catalog Value $500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1179 NEPAL 1881 1a dull deep blue on European wove paper, position 49, sheet margin at left, also 1a ultramarine, pos.33 (top right corner flattened), plus 2a pale purple, setting 1-3, all unused without gum as issued, v.f. (*) Catalog #4,4var,5 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1180 NEPAL 1881 1a milky blue, 4a yellow green, imperforate single, settings 3 and 1-2, unused without gum as issued, v.f., with 1984 Hellrigl certificates (SG 4,6, £575) * Catalog #4,6 Catalog Value $450 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #1181 NEPAL 1881 1a gray blue, early printing on native paper of good quality, imperforate horizontal tete-beche pair, settings 4-6, positions 51-52 (52 being the inverted cliche), unused without gum as issued, v.f. Hellrigl notes that tete-beche pairs of settings 4-6 are extremely rare with only four or five having been found, with his Hellrigl certificate (SG 7a, £600+) (*) Catalog #7var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1182 NEPAL 1886-89 2a gray violet, early printing on native paper of good quality, imperforate bottom left sheet corner margin block of four, setting 6, positions 49-50/57-58, unused without gum as issued, transfer cliche plate flaws show in positions 50 and 58, bottom right corner squashed and dent in left margin respectively, both are quite prominent, v.f. position piece (SG 8var, £480+)  (*)Catalog #8var Catalog Value $410 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1183 NEPAL 1889-98 4a green, later printing on native paper of good quality, imperforate tete-beche pair in block of four, setting 4-8, positions 45-46/53-54, position 54 being the inverted cliche, unused without gum as issued, well margined and fresh, v.f. (SG 12a,£394) (Hellrigl 13a) (*)Catalog #9a Catalog Value $410 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #1184 NEPAL 1898-1907 4a yellow green on native paper of poor quality, imperforate, tete-beche, settings 9-11, horizontal and vertical pairs, positions 54-55 and 54/62 respectively, bright color, full large margins on each, v.f., with 1984 Hellrigl certificates (SG 17a, £700) (*) Catalog #17a Catalog Value $700 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1185 NEPAL 1917-30 4a yellow green and 1a yellow green error of color with recut frame, imperforate, tete-beche pair, setting 12, positions 7-8/15-16 in unused top right corner block of four, without gum as issued, position 8 is the 1a value error of color and being inverted is tete-beche with adjacent 4a values (SG 41,41b, £778) (*)Catalog #17,17c Catalog Value $710 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1186 NEPAL 1917-30 4a dark green and 1a dark green error of color with recut frame, imperforate, tete-beche pair, setting 12, positions 6-8/14-16, unused top right corner block of six (3x2) without gum as issued, position 8 is the 1a value error of color and being inverted is tete-beche with adjacent 4a values, deep color and a scarcer shade on fresh thin native paper, rare error multiple; only 50-60 examples of the 1a error of color believed to exist, with 1984 Hellrigl certificate, (*)Catalog #17,17c Catalog Value $858 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #1187 NEPAL 1898-1903 2a dull violet on native paper of poor quality, pin-perforated, tete-beche pair, unused without gum as issued, apparently from an unrecorded setting, rich color, trace of toning mentioned for accuracy, fine with Hellrigl certificate ("This tete-beche pair is probably from an unrecorded setting. The cliche on the right is a transferred cliche known to occur in positions 58, 20 and 39. The cliche on the right is possibly position 17; A combination of these two cliches has never been recorded.") (SG 20a, £300+) (*) Catalog #19a Catalog Value $300 | Unsold |
