Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
August 9-10, 2022
Cherrystone is pleased to present our Summer auction taking place on August 9-10, 2022, featuring Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. This sale contains 1,283 lots, with notable United States, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, numerous European countries, with Austria, Belgium, France & Colonies, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Colonies, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Switzerland. From Asia there are selections of China, Laos and Vietnam. South American countries are also well represented, with a good showing of Inverted Centers from all parts of the globe. There and numerous flight covers and large lots and collections. Please note there are no printed catalogues for this auction.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #9110 RUSSIA Postal Stationery 1848 20k dull blue, entire envelope (108:138mm) with imprint on backflap, Eagle with narrow tail, canceled by pen, sent from "Lenkoran" (a small seaside city in Azerbaijan, near the southern border with Iran) to St. Petersburg, bearing a double-line "Lenkoran Odpra. 12 May, 1857" departure datestamp on front, also "Polucheno 1857/31 May Pold" (received in the afternoon of 31 May) arrival on back, with intact wax seal, fine, with Mikulski certificate "sie ist eine Russland-seltenheit und noch dazu in einer sehr guten und schonen erhaltung" (a great Russian rarity in very nice condition). Probably unique usage of the 1848 stationery entire from Azerbaijan  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #9111 RUSSIA Postal Stationery 1899-1903 Advertising lettersheets Empress Maria Fedorovna, three different, two apparently complete, used from Moscow and St. Petersburg, one supplemented with 2k franking, different adlets, mixed condition, mostly fine, scarce used | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #9112 RUSSIA Postal Stationery 1906 10k blue and rose, essay prepared by the Russian delegation to the UPU, complete paid reply card, in letter-card tete-beche format (separated), with bilingual inscriptions "Avec Reponse Payee" and "Reponse", with perforated edges (minor separations noted) all around and on the bottom "detachez la bordure de long du pointille", adhesive markings on back, fine and rare stationery essay, only a few recorded (in the Rossica Journal No.64, Oleg Faberge noted that he had in his collection a double lettercard overprinted "Proekt" and suggested that such a card might also exist without this overprint, but he had not seen one) | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #9113 RUSSIA Postal Stationery 1906 (10k) blue, essay prepared by the Russian delegation to the UPU, complete paid reply card, in letter-card tete-beche format, non-denominated, inscriptions in Cyrillic only, perforated; also a postal card, handstamped "Specimen" | Price Realized $900.00 |
