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

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1809
JAPAN
1872-73 20s lilac, 30s gray, each with a Mihon overprint, minor flaws, good colors
S
Catalog #17,18S
Unsold
Lot #1810
JAPAN
1897 (29 Sep) registered cover from Kyoto to USA, franked with 5sen and 10sen, tied by cds, with Yokohama transit and New York arrival datestamps, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1811
JAPAN
1920 registered cover from Nagasaki to Hong Kong, addressed to Captain Summit, Quartermaster Agent U.S.A.T. "President Grant", franked with block of 4x5sen, tied by cds, forwarded to the War Department in Washington, DC, later to the Philippines, via "Seattle Victoria Seaplane Mail" (boxed cachet), with Chicago transit and Manila arrival pmks, some cover wear, otherwise fine, well traveled cover (U.S. Grant transported elements of the Czech Legion from Vladivostok, Russia, early in 1920, as part of the evacuation of that force in the wake of the Russian Civil War in Siberia)
Envelope
Price Realized
$250.00

Lot #1812
JAPAN
1920s-37 selection of 24 different, regular issues, commemoratives and Air Post, n.h., fine-v.f.
**
Catalog #129/269,C4/7
Unsold
Lot #1813
JAPAN
1924-37 Empress Jingo 5y gray green (granite paper) and 10y dull violet (curvy waved lines watermark), n.h., post office fresh, well centered, v.f. (catalogued as hinged singles)
**
Catalog #189,253
Catalog Value $850
Price Realized
$475.00

Lot #1814
JAPAN
1948-49 Beauty and Flying Geese, sheetlets of five, n.h., usual gum wrinkles, v.f.
**
Catalog #422a,479a
Price Realized
$190.00

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