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 #1198 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1875 (29 Sep) 5k stationery card from Krasnoyarsk to London, sent by John Milne (a mining engineer, geologist, and the father of modern seismology. In 1875 the Japanese government offered him a position as Professor of Mining and Geology at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo. He left home on 3 August 1875 and traveled for seven months across Siberia, Mongolia, and China. During his 20 years in Japan, Milne became one of the leading experts on earthquakes and co-invented the Gray-Milne seismograph). The message, written in Krasnoyarsk reads, "My dear Mother, I am now en route for Irkutsk with General Smirnikof and Baron Stackelberg. We muster 4 carriages in all. At every station now we are in Eastern Siberia (which is the General's territory). The post horses and drivers neatly dressed are in waiting when we stop at a village to take tea or supper". The 5k postcard was sold for the current rate of 4 kopecks and could not be mailed abroad until 19 June 1875, some ink discoloration, illustrated in BJRP No.107, ex-Wortman  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1199 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1892 (26 Mar) 4k stationery card sent from Kola to Berlin, with "P.O.V+G Kola", with hand-drawn map on back, showing sender's route from Norway to Kola, skirting Lake Enare in Finland. The message, datelined Kola, reads, "Greetings from 69th north, 52nd east of Ferro, where I arrived in the following manner: ("picture of reindeer 1 pulling the guide/interpreter in a sleigh, followed by reindeers 2 and 3 each pulling luggage, reindeer 4 without a sleigh, and reindeer 5 pulling the writer, sometimes like this (picture of the writer falling off the back of his sleigh after his reindeer is frightened by a wolf). The day after tomorrow I will journey back and tell you more."). Kola had a population of 600 at this time | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1200 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1896 (9 Sep) postcard sent from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to Munich by a sailor on the German armored cruiser SMS Kaiser, part of the German East Asia Squadron. The message reads, "On board SMS Kaiser, Greetings from Siberia", with arrival pmk | Price Realized $180.00 |
 | Lot #1201 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1897 (18 Aug) 4k stationery card sent from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to Schleswig, Germany by a sailor on the German cruiser SMS Arcona, part of the German East Asia Squadron, with arrival pmk | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #1202 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1901 (12 Oct) picture postcard mailed from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to New York. The message reads, "On the deck of Graf Ignatieff. Now I am on the steamer named G. Ignatieff and am near Blagoveshchensk. Wonderful to tell you that the Amoor River is going very sandy year after year, and so often our steamer lost its movement." The Graf Ignatiev transported passengers on the Amur River from 1894 until 1957 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #1203 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1902 (31 Aug) a folding postcard with a panoramic view of Vladivostok, sent from Vladivostok to Tsingtau, China, postmarked "Postal Wagon No.265" (3.9.02, earliest recorded postmark from the Harbin to Port Arthur direction), Port Arthur transit and Chefoo arrival pmks; also included is a 1903 cover from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, stationery of Enoch Emery, an American merchant with general stores in Siberia, sent in care of American Commercial Agent Richard Theodore Greener (who was the first African-American to graduate from Harvard and was US Commercial Agent in Vladivostok from 1898-1905) | Price Realized $625.00 |
 | Lot #1204 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1906 (1 July) folded panoramic view card of Vladivostok mailed on a Chinese Eastern Railway train and sent to France, franked with 1k and 3k Arms, tied by oval Vladivostok-Harbin pmks, with St. Die, Vosges arrival on back | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #1205 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1907 (10 June) 3k stationery card uprated with 1k Arms, written on an eastbound Trans-Siberian Railway train "near Omsk". When the sender reached Vladivostok he posted it on the ship "Baltica" of the Russian East-Asiatic Steamship Co. which was sailing to Tsuruga, Japan. The card was then transported by rail to Yokohama and placed on a ship to Seattle. Postmarked "Paraxod Ob. R. V. A. P." and Yokohama (23 June), with framed "Paquebot" applied in Tsuruga (Hosking 3441 "very rare"). The sender was Samuel Vestey, whose family was one of the richest in England. The message reads in part, "My address will be British Post Office Hankow. These are the new Russian cards. I will try to get the whole set at Vladivostok but doubt whether they will have them there yet." | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #1206 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1908 (25 Sep) U.S. picture postcard from East Orange, New Jersey, via Tsuruga to the American Consul Lester Maynard in Vladivostok, with transit and arrival pmks. Maynard was consul in Vladivostok from 1908 to 1911 | Price Realized $90.00 |
 | Lot #1207 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1909 (14 July) picture postcard franked with 1k and 4k Arms, sent from Vladivostok to Dresden by sailor Karl Ernst Wilhelm Apelt on the German armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, part of the German East Asia Squadron. In December 1914 she was sunk by the Royal Navy near the Falkland Islands. The Russian cruiser Askold can be seen (with five funnels) in the photo of Vladivostok harbor on the back of the postcard | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #1208 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1911 (3 Aug) 4k stationery card with additional franking (1k-14k Arms, paying total of 45k) sent from Vladivostok to Leipzig by sailor Alfred Hahndorf serving on a German warship. The SMS Scharnhorst, Emden, Leipzig, and Nurnberg were visiting Vladivostok. Hahndorf was taken prisoner in 1914 when the Japanese captured Tsingtao. He returned to Germany in 1920 | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #1209 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1911 (5 Aug) an illustrated Japanese envelope, franked with 10k Arms, sent from Vladivostok to Hamburg (by Chief Stoker Sandberg on the German light cruiser SMS Nurnberg, part of the German East Asia Squadron. The Nurnberg was sunk by the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914), minor cover creases and wear, otherwise fine | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #1210 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1914 (20 May) registered 7k stationery entire envelope additionally franked with 3k and pair of 10k Romanovs, sent from Vladivostok by Nikolai Vasilyevich Kuener to Oberhofen, Switzerland, with a domestic registration handstamp and an international registration label. Kuener was professor and chair of geography and history at the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok. The enclosed letter contains an extensive want list for Kuener's stamp collection, fine cover, with 16 June arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $100.00 |
 | Lot #1211 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1917 (8 Sep) cover franked with 5c U.S. regular issue, sent from Cleveland to YMCA secretary Donald Alexander Lowrie in Novo-Nikolayevsk, Siberia. The cover first traveled to Petrograd where it was censored on 26 October (the first day of Communist rule). It arrived in Novo-Nikolayevsk on 9 November and was forwarded back to Petrograd to the American Consulate. It was postmarked at the government and diplomatic mail delivery section of the Petrograd post office on 19 January 1918, and at the American Consulate on the same day (1 February new style). The handstamp "Unclaimed" was applied at the consulate (Lowrie provided aid to German and Austro-Hungarian POWs in the Tomsk area (including Novo-Nikolayevsk) from September 1916 until the United States entered the war in April 1917, when he became the General Secretary of the Odessa and Moscow YMCA branches) | Price Realized $325.00 |
