Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
February 7-8, 2023
Welcome to our February 7-8, 2023 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 1,366 lot sale features better United States, with quality material assembled by a Japanese gentleman. Foreign countries include Albania, with 1913 Double Eagle handstamps, Austria, France and Colonies, Germany with a selection of WWII Occupation Issues, Great Britain and British Commonwealth with Australia, BNA, New Zealand, British Asia and Africa. There are rarities from Iran, including postal history, Italy and Italian Colonies, a collection of hand-painted Karl Lewis covers and more. The auction concludes with over two hundred Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums and specialized collections, to multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2116 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1918-26 U.S. Government Flight covers, collection of 47 items, including C1 (seven covers, including Dec.17 first flight from New York to Chicago, Dec.19 Washington to New York and others), C2 (eight covers, including July 15 first flight to Chicago), C3 (five covers, including May 15 first flight to New York), various covers with C4-6 franking, also regular issue stamps, commercial and flown covers, all neatly described on pages, mostly fine or better  Catalog #C1-6 | Price Realized $1,800.00 |
 | Lot #2117 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1925-35 Roessler cachets, group of 80 covers, mostly with printed cachets, different franking and flights, with 17c Wilson canceled Dec.28, 1925 Air Mail Field Bellefonte, others with Lindbergh cachets, many addressed to E.Orange, N.J., mostly fine-v.f. | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #2118 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1926-30 Lindberghiana, collection of 84 covers or cards written-up on pages, early Contract Air Mail Route Number two (2), Lucky Lindbergh and Welcome covers, Goodwill Tours 1926-28, various stop-overs, some autographed by Pilot B.L. Rowe (Dominican Republic, Haiti), and much more, including some photos, newspaper, interesting cachets, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #2119 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1927-29 Lindberghiana, collection on pages, with clipped signature "With Best Wishes Charles A. Lindbergh" (Steve Hansen certificate), 1927 Post Office department Contract Air Mail Service from Springfield, Ill. Jan 29, 1927 (name of pilot: Lindbergh), plus 68 covers or cards, many flown by Lindbergh 1926-28, some better cachets (Worden, Gorham), also picture postcards (Lindbergh and his mother, "The Spirit of St. Louis", etc.), West Indian Aerial Express Mail (Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba) covers, Panama, with inverted overprint, also British Guiana, Trinidad, Surinam plus others, fine-v.f., interesting and valuable collection | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #2120 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1930-60S collection of thousands of covers and cards, CAM and FAM cachets, Pan-American Airlines, including Trans-Pacific flights, mostly in pochettes and numbered, many with foreign frankings, special flights and interesting cachets, mostly fine-v.f. An excellent lot, housed in 2 cartons, ready for further study and display | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #2121 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Covers and Postal History Flight Covers 1946-65 Pan-American Clipper collection in 10 volumes (500+ covers), formed by Willis Lipscomb (senior vice president and a director of Pan American World Airways, Chairman of Clipper Service), with a complete showing of First Clipper Air Mail Flights from various countries, with foreign and mixed franking, Austria to London, Belgium to Newfoundland, Czechoslovakia to Newfoundland, Bolama to Trinidad, Lisbon to Belgium, Karachi to Gander, Ankara to Karachi, Tokyo to New York, hundreds of others with corresponding franking and cachets, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
