Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
November 15-16, 2022
Welcome to our November 15-16, 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. This 1,450 lot sale begins with a session of United States and Possessions, with 19th & 20th Century single rarities, graded items, Plate Blocks, a solid group of Proofs and Essays, modern errors (including some offered at auction for the first time), and better back of the book items. In the Worldwide section we are pleased to offer a solid collection of postal history of Allied Intervention in Russia. Foreign countries include Austria, China, Egypt, France and Colonies, Germany Area including better items from the Eric Neishloss collection. Great Britain and British Commonwealth feature high values from various areas, including BNA, British Africa with selections from the Brian Karenza Collection, and specialized stamps and postal history of Kuwait, with many rarities. There are rarities from Italian States, with unused and used Sardina. The auction concludes with over two hundred Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections from the Cole Estate, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1150 POLAND 1860 10k rose & blue, nice colors and centering, tied by "1" in concentric rings on large part (top flap missing) on outer FL from Warszawa to Grodno, red departure in Cyrillic, cover folds away from the stamp, uncommon destination  Catalog #1 | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #1151 POLAND 1860 10k blue & carmine, nice margins, canceled by "1" in concentric rings on cover from Warszawa (red 15.3 departure in Cyrillic) to Slozno, via Bialystok, endorsed "b.pilno" (urgent), with Bialystok 25.3.64 transit pmk on back, wax seal removed as often, fine cover Catalog #1 | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #1152 POLAND 1863 fieldpost letter sent during the Polish insurrection by Prussian Major General von Stuckradt, the commandant of Fortress Thorn, to Imperial Russian Colonel Prince von Wittgenstein in Wloclawek. The front of the letter is inscribed "military mail to be forwarded by Imperial Russian Captain Mikulicz." The back has a handstamped seal reading Royal Prussian Command Thorn. The letter, which is on stationery of the Royal Command of Fortress Thorn and is dated 2 October 1863, includes a copy of a report received that same day from the nearby Prussian town of Schulitz. That report by Second Lieutenant Spalding of the 5th Pomeranian Infantry Regiment No. 42 reads, "The steamship Praga owned by Count Zamoyski left Schulitz today pulling 10 barges, two of which are loaded with sulfur. From the newspaper I learned that the Imperial Russian Government at Warsaw has established an embargo on sulfur." This letter is evidence of the military cooperation between Russia and Prussia during the suppression of the Polish insurrection. Wittgenstein was military governor of Wloclawek. Count Andrzej Zamoyski was a Polish nationalist who owned a fleet of steamships on the Vistula River. The Russians had exiled him abroad in 1862 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #1153 POLAND 1864 fieldpost letter sent during the Polish insurrection to Prince Sayn-Wittgenstein Berlebourg in Wloclawek. The Russian officer who wrote this letter was on patrol near the Prussian border. Wittgenstein was military governor of Wloclawek. The letter is dated 20 Feb. 1864 and reads, "Yesterday I was here in Sompolno for the big fair. I am sending you this special report to give Your Highness an overview of the situation. Within 20-25 versts of the Prussian border, there are bands of 20-30 insurgents commanded by Callier and Schelinsky. Five days ago they tried to cross the border but failed due to the vigilance of the Prussians. Now most of them are back in Chmielno in Prussia. There is no doubt that they will soon repeat the experiment. The situation in Sompolno is deplorable. The mayor, who was almost hanged once before, cries and asks for the troops that Your Highness had promised to send. We hear that we shall receive a battalion of the Olonetsk regiment from Konin. Fifty cavalry penetrated beyond Konin twenty days ago, captured the mayors of Sluzewo and Tuliszkow, hanged one of them, and looted the city treasury in the latter place. I think it is my duty to patrol this area, but I do not want to lose sight of the rest of the border. I believe that in better weather, cavalry will cross at Zakrzewo and infantry at Nowa Wies and Skulsk. Our patrols go out of Piotrkow to Skulsk. Perhaps until the battalion arrives, Your Highness will find the means to send one company, maybe from Izbica. One reserve company would be a big help! With Your Highness's indulgence. I'll end my report." | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1154 POLAND 1918 three 15f stationery cards, one upfranked with 2x15f and registered in 1919 from Lomza to Warszawa, another from Lodz to Leysin, Switzerland, showing framed censor handstamp and arrival pmk, last one used from Warszawa to Ostrowiec, with provisional arrival pmk | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #1155 POLAND 1918 picture postcard from Warszawa to Vienna, Austria, franked with 5f and 10f surcharges, paying correct 15f rate, framed civil censor cachet, card creases; also second Warsaw issue, 30f on GG stamp, used on combination with 20f Arms on registered cover used locally in Warszawa, addressed to the Head of Railway Services, fine-v.f., signed Schmutz Catalog #11,12,24 | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1156 POLAND 1918 25f on 7 1/2pf, variety B4, pos.97 (missing third line), used on illustrated New Year's card from Lowicz to Lodz, fine Catalog #23var | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1157 POLAND 1918-19 large philatelic cover franked with the complete set of 10, plus brown surcharge (error) on 30h green, tied by Lublin cds, with Registry label at top, folded between stamps, fine-v.f., signed Mikulski, etc. Catalog #30-40,32b | Unsold |
 | Lot #1158 POLAND 1918-19 45h on 80h dull blue, block of 10, also vertical strip of five, pos. 10/50, showing incomplete printing, n.h., some natural gum wrinkling, the latter signed Janousek, mostly v.f.  **Catalog #36 | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1159 POLAND 1918 45h on 80h dull blue, double overprint, one inverted, l.h., creased at top, fine appearance, signed Dr.Kronenberg, rare (apparently this error was printed on wrinkled/creased paper) * Catalog #38b Catalog Value $1,350 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1160 POLAND 1918-19 45h on 80h dull blue, double surcharge, one inverted, pre-print creases and paper wrinkles (actually printed on paper which was already wrinkled and creased), n.h., fine appearance, signed Korszen, with his 2006 certificate (Fi.25aNoN, cat. 4,500zl for hinged) ** Catalog #38b | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #1161 POLAND 1919 Money transfer card with Austrian franking, used from Tarnow (13.1.19) to Bochnia, paying 255h, with arrival pmk; also German Occupation (WWI) parcel card from Warszawa to Berlin, fine-v.f., scarce | Unsold |
 | Lot #1162 POLAND 1957 60kr Libelt, imperforate block of four in red brown, n.h., v.f. (Fi.888P1, Zl 8,800) **Catalog #791var | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #1163 POLAND 1959 Mushrooms, 40gr dark lilac, imperforate block of 12, frame only, other colors omitted, unused without gum, v.f., rare (Fi.950nz ng 10,800zl) PCatalog #844P | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1164 POLAND 1959 Mushrooms, 60gr imperforate tete-beche pair, unused without gum, v.f. (Fi.9510nz ng 4,000zl) (*) Catalog #845var | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1165 POLAND 1968 Paintings (battle scenes) six imperforate proof sheetlets of centers only, different colors, v.f. (Fi.9,000zl) P Catalog #1610/19P | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
