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 #2089 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1882 (19 Aug) 3k postal card sent by a sailor on the German frigate "SMS Elisabeth" from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki, Yokohama and San Francisco to another sailor on "SMS Moltke" in Montevideo, Uruguay, then forwarded to Valparaiso and Valdivia, Chile. Written on the front is "care of the German consulate" and "please forward this card." (As part of the First International Polar Year (1882-83), the German corvette Moltke transported a scientific team from Montevideo to South Georgia, arriving on 20th August and leaving for Valparaiso on 3rd September)  | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
