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 #1351 FRANCE French Offices in the Turkish Empire 1857 (28 Oct) FL from Constantinople to Milan, franked with 20c and 80c Empire (each with three margins, cut in at top or at left), tied by "3707" numeral pmks, with red "Piroscafi Postali Francesi" cachet, arriving via Genova, where 80c was cancelled (6 Nov) and used as postage to Milan, arriving on 7 Nov and re-addressed to Adro, with 11 November pmk on back, signed Calves, with 1999 Robineau certificate. An unusual item used from Constantinople via Italy to Lombardy-Venetia  | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1352 FRANCE French Offices in the Turkish Empire 1861 (13 Feb) unfranked FL from Samsun to Constantinople, with oval merchant's cachet at bottom left, conveyed via a French ship of the Trebizond-Constantinople line (there was no French postal agency in Samsun), boxed "Mer Noire" (Black Sea) applied by the French Post in Constantinople, charged "10" (decimes) for unfranked mail, with "Constantinople Turquie 28 Fevr. 61" arrival cds on back, departure and arrival docketing, fine | Price Realized $450.00 |
