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
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 | Lot #2086 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1872 (14 Feb) money letter from Vladivostok to Helsinki, canceled "Vladivostok Nar. AM.", intact wax seals, fine. One of four recorded covers with this postmark which was introduced when the Vladivostok post office opened in 1868. The central wax seal reads Vladivostokskaya Pocht. Kont. Na R. Amurye, both the postmark and wax seal erroneously place Vladivostok on the Amur River, instead of the Amur Bay. The letter contained 50 rubles and the postage was 75 kopecks (20 kopecks for weight, 50 kopecks for the 1% insurance fee and 5 kopecks for a receipt). Sent by Johan Albin Stierncreutz (who was the captain of an Amur River steamship from 1875 to 1895). Vladivostok's population was only 500 at the time and mail was dispatched once every two weeks (illustrated in Rossica Journal 163)  | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
