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 #2010
RUSSIA
1867 (24 Nov) registered cover sent by a police informant in Orlov to Count Peter Shuvalov (director of the Third Department of His Imperial Majesty’s Own Chancellery, Chief of the Corps of Gendarmes, Adjutant General, Lieutenant General, and Cavalier in St. Petersburg), inscribed “secret, very important, into his own hands.” The postage was 25 kopecks for weight and registration plus 5 kopecks for a receipt, with the Orlov post office wax seal and four wax seals of the sender who wrote “Seal of my coat of arms” around each one
Envelope
Price Realized
$160.00

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