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 #2061 RUSSIA Air Post 1922 (10 Nov) registered cover (opened for display), franked on both sides with 12 different stamps, including 45r with red overprint, sent from Moscow to England, with 21 November Oppeln (Germany) transit and 22 November Crayford arrival pmk, cover reduced at backflap and at top, otherwise fine  Catalog #C1 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2062 RUSSIA Air Post 1924 10k on 5r green, basic stamp wide "5", used, v.f., with Raybaudi certificate, O Catalog #C7a Catalog Value $700 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #2063 RUSSIA Air Post 1930 Graf Zeppelin and Call to Complete 5-year Plan in 4 years, 40k dark blue, 80k carmine, imperforate singles, each with ample margins, n.h., v.f., signed Goznak, ** Catalog #C12b-13b Catalog Value $5,700 | Price Realized $1,800.00 |
 | Lot #2064 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error of color), bottom sheet margin single, stamp n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $900 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #2065 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error of color), well centered, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $900 | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #2066 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #2067 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #2068 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Expedition, 1k-50k complete, n.h. and post office fresh, each stamp well centered, fresh and v.f., ** Catalog #C58-68 Catalog Value $2,058 | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #2069 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, position 1 ("P" of "Perelot" defective), h.r., v.f., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $500 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #2070 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k dark brown, h.r., v.f., signed Goznak, etc., * Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $500 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #2071 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, n.h., v.f., signed Diena, Goznak, etc., ** Catalog #C68 Catalog Value $1,275 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2072 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, lower case "f" in "San Francisco", trace of a light hinge mark at top, very fresh and well centered, v.f., signed Goznak, * Catalog #C68b Catalog Value $1,500 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #2073 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k brown, lower case "f" in "San Francisco", n.h., v.f., signed Diena, Goznak, ** Catalog #C68b Catalog Value $2,250 | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #2074 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r on 10k lower case "f", variety horizontal position of the watermark, h.r., v.f., signed Goznak. A rarity * Catalog #C68b,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2075 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, surcharged 1r on 10k, lower case Cyrillic "f" (in San Francisco), used on registered and flown cover from Moscow (August 2), with letter ("I send you with this letter our rarest stamp - with flight of Levanevsky through the North Pole to S.Francisco. Now every man here could buy only one stamp, but I get for you one on the envelope") addressed to Mr. W.C.Steiger in New York, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachet, v.f., signed Mikulski and Diena. (Three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. This cover was actually carried by Levanevsky on this ill-fated flight and returned to Moscow.) A 1985 Mikulski certificate states that "this cover is a great Air Post and Russian rarity" Catalog #C68b | Unsold |
