Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World
July 11-12, 2023
Cherrystone's Summer Auction will be take place July 10-11, 2023. There are numerous highlights, including United States, with an intact "Roosevelt Album", a collection of Crash & Disaster mail formed be the late Zvi Aloni (contributor to the American Air Mail Catalogue) and portions of Carl A. Kilgas' collections of China, Taiwan, PRC and Korea. There are substantial showings of Italy and Italian Colonies, Central and South America, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, plus hundreds of Large Lots and Collections offered intact and more. This is a public auction, with live internet bidding via CherrystoneLIVE
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1495 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1932 (12 Dec) Australia-England, flight by Hans Bertram, cover with 2p and 6p O.S., tied by Darwin N.T. pmks and addressed to Melbourne, with Bertram Atlantis Expedition cachet, little toning, with London (8 Dec 37) and Melbourne (23 Dec 37) arrival markings on back, accompanied by a letter from Postmaster-General of Australia explaining the "lost letter." (Hans Bertram left Darwin for his return flight to Germany on 12th December, 1932. He crashed at Surabaya (Netherlands Indies) and reached Berlin on 17th April, 1933. Among the mail carried, were letters for delivery to Melbourne, which were found five years later at Berlin G.P.O.)  | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1496 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1934 (6 Dec) first flight, Imperial Airways Singapore to Darwin, stage Brisbane to Gaza, cacheted cover with Australian franking, 21 Dec. 34 arrival pmk on back, v.f., one of only 10 carried | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1497 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AUSTRALIA Flight Covers 1934 (10 Dec) first flight Quantas Airways London to Singapore, Stage Gaza to Port Darwin to Camooweal, Australia, cacheted cover from Jerusalem, with 20 December arrival pmk on back, only 10 (!) carried | Price Realized $230.00 |
