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 #1573 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1835-60 three stampless FLs, Calcutta-Bordeaux, Bombay to Paris, red "Paquebots de la Mediterranee" and framed "India", forwarding and entry markings, fine group  | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1574 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1853 (5 Apr) stampless letter from Pondicherry, via Madras to Bordeaux, ms "4" (annas), red "India Paid" and boxed Pondicherry departure datestamps, French entry and charged "60" (decimes) on arrival (15 May), fine | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #1575 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1860 (3 Mar) outer FL from Kurrachee, sent unpaid to Paris, red departure Bombay March 27, 1860 on back, framed "India Unpaid" and "GB 1F60c" accountancy marks, ms notation "Indian Inland Postage not Paid sent via Southampton unpaid", ms "1d" and charged "8" (decimes) on arrival. Also included is an outer FL sent in 1861 to St. Etienne, with framed "India Unpaid", endorsed "Per Simla", via Marseilles, franked with India 1a brown, tied by "J.Maniquet Calcutta", red Calcutta G.P.O. departure and St. Etienne arrival pmks on back, some toning, fine pair of letters from India to France | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #1576 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1869 (7 Oct) FL (printed text "according to private telegrams received, dated Constantinople, the P. & O Steamer "Carnatic" was wrecked in the Red Sea on the 14th of September") to France, franked with pair of 1a brown, tied by oval "Abel Will & Co. Cocanda" merchant's cachet and appropriate duplex departure pmks, with "GB 1f20c" accountancy, French entry pmk and charged "15" in red, also a FL sent unpaid from Calcutta to Bordeaux, with "GB 1F66c" in blue (Salles No.3065), "1" and "Calcutta India Unpaid" struck on back, charged "15" (decimes) due, fine pair of covers from India | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1577 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1869 small cover franked with 1a, 4a and 8pi, endorsed "Stamped", used from Noh, via Bombay and Marseilles to Geneva, various transit and arrival (26.9.69) pmks, fine Catalog #19,23a,26B | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #1578 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1920 George V, group of five different booklets, each with stamps missing, but staples, covers and interleaves intact, fine-v.f., scarce lot (SG SB 10,14,18,20)  | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1579 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1937-40 George VI, 25r dark violet & blue violet, two copies, n.h., v.f. (SG 264,£600) ** Catalog #167 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #1580 BRITISH COMMONWEALTH INDIA 1948 Gandhi, set of four, hinged in a special memorial booklet, v.f. * Catalog #203-206 | Price Realized $240.00 |
