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 #921 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH KUWAIT - Covers and Postal History 1933 (18 May) large cover franked with 1a, 12a and 1r chocolate & green, registered and flown to London, with blue Registered label at left, blue crayon and folded, well away from the stamps. The sender, Major Frank Holmes (1874-1947), known affectionately by Arabs as "Abu Naft" (the Father of Oil), was a British-New Zealander mining engineer, geologist and oil concession hunter, who represented the Emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah who signed an oil concession (covering the entire 15,800 square km of Kuwait for 75 years), with Major Holmes as his representative in London. Oil was struck in Kuwait in February 1938)  Catalog #SG 25 | Price Realized $525.00 |
