Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
May 9-10, 2023
Welcome to our May 9-10, 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. There are 1,487 lots in the sale, which begins with United States and U.S. Possessions, including graded items, Plate Blocks, and modern errors. In the Worldwide section we are pleased to offer Great Britain and British Commonwealth, European Countries, Asia and the rest of the world. There is a splendid collection of Egypt and Orient Zeppelin flights, featuring three of the four known Suez dispatches, plus other rarities. There are further selections from the estate of Dr.Martin Stempien, a respected postal historian and Secretary to the Chairman of the Expert Committee at the New York Philatelic Foundation from 1988-2018. The auction concludes with over two hundred Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1480 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE TOPICALS 1930s-60s issues in carton, with Belgium, semi-official folders, souvenir sheets, French Africa, with imperforate and trial colors from Gabon, Butterflies on Stamps, imperforate and varieties from Ecuador, miscellaneous Red Cross, including issues from Displaced Persons Camps (Dachau-Allach), Morocco imperf. varieties on covers, Spain local issues, EPILA imperf. souvenir sheets on covers, numerous errors and varieties, other covers, Russian Semi-Postals and Air Post in quantities (unfortunately stuck down), etc. An interesting holding, ex-Serebrakian  *O | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #1481 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE TOPICALS 1980-2010 Afghanistan-Zimbabwe, large accumulation neatly arranged in 741 folders, mostly souvenir sheets from 126 different countries, all catalogued, nice variety of topicals, with larger quantities of Aitutaki, Antigua, Cameroon, Cook Islands, Gibraltar, South Korea, Mongolia, Tonga, etc., n.h., fine-v.f., cat. $102,000+  ** | Unsold |
 | Lot #1482 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE TOPICALS 1980-2010 Aitutaki-Zambia, large accumulation of complete sets from 61 different countries, neatly arranged in 165 folders, all in full sheets (2-10 of each set), Scott numbered and catalogued, nice variety of topicals from Antigua, Brazil, Guiana, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Tonga, etc., n.h., fine-v.f., cat. $74,000+ ** | Unsold |
