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 #1502 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1913-39 three large On His Majesty's Service covers, sent registered to London or Australia, one franked with 2x2p and 4p George V, the other two unfranked, fine-v.f.  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1503 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1917-45 selection of seven covers including a scarce registered cover to New York franked with 12x1p War Tax, a registered cover from Tarawa to Birmingham, U.K. franked with 6p and 1sh, a 1927 cover from the same correspondence franked with 2sh5p, 1937 "Solar Eclipse" Expedition cover, a 1944 cover from Tarawa and a 1945 cover from Ocean commemorating the reopening of the Pacific, a fine-v.f. group | Unsold |
 | Lot #1504 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1925 £1 violet & black, red, l.h., v.f., signed Holcombe (SG 24,£550) * Catalog #26 Catalog Value $600 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1505 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH GILBERT & ELLICE ISLANDS 1939-45 selection of thirteen covers, one sent from G.P.O. Ocean Island to USA, showing the scarce type I censor hs (in use only August 28-October 2), three covers with the Type II censor handstamp (which was recorded to be in use between March 1940 and October 1941), eight covers with the "Passed by Censor No. 1" postmarks (in use from March to November 1944), all sent from Fanning Island to various destinations, and an August 1945 cover from Tarawa to Australia with "Passed by Censor No. 8" handstamp which was allocated to Tarawa, fine-v.f. and scarce group | Unsold |
