Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
December 13-14, 2022
Welcome to our December 13-14, 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. This 917 lot sale begins with a session of United States and Possessions, with 19th & 20th Century single rarities, graded items including a nice section of Columbians, Plate Blocks and better back of the book items. In the Worldwide section, there are solid selections of Eastern and Western European classics and semi-modern issues, including Austria, German States, Italian Area, with many rarities. Great Britain and British Commonwealth feature high values from various areas, notably stamps and Postal History of Jordan (1414-1959), with collections offered virtually intact, many offered at auction for the first time. There are further selections of a specialized Kuwait holding, including a mostly complete "Koweit" issue. The auction concludes with over one hundred and thirty Large Lots & Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections and worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
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 | Lot #466 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH JORDAN 1920 Kerak Provisional, Moab District Seal (1p) pale blue, with initials "A.K." (Alex Kirkbride), vertical strip of three, h.r. in the middle, folded between stamps, creased at bottom, otherwise v.f., extremely rare (taking the official seal of the Majlis Idara, the adviser impressed it on plain sheets of gummed paper in green ink, each impression falling within a pencil-ruled square 3.5cm in size. Several hundred of these stamps, valued at one piaster each, were so printed, each being initialed "A.K." in violet ink, by the adviser, Alek S. Kirkbride, later British Resident and eventually first British Ambassador to Jordan. They were put into immediate use, and eventually a few copies straggled through to Jerusalem where the postal authorities, now realizing that the need for Transjordan stamps at Kerak was a very real one, took effective steps to get through a small supply, by November 1920, when the new definitives came into general use throughout the country (a horizontal pair, ex-Asch collection realized $15,000 Hammer in our 2011 Santa Fe auction) * Catalog #SG 19a Catalog Value £ 16,500 | Price Realized $10,000.00 |
