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 #2091 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1904 (14 Sep) picture postcard (creased) sent from Postal Wagon No. 264 (Vladivostok-Harbin line) by a Kunst and Albers employee to James Richard Durant, Master of the "S/S Knight Commander", in care of His Britannic Majesty's Embassy in St. Petersburg. The message reads in part: "Dear Capt. Durant, Capt. Ohlerich left last Friday, two days after you. Hoping you are getting on well with your case". ("the Knight Commander", a British merchant ship, was headed to Yokohama with a cargo of foodstuffs and railway material when she was boarded by the Russian Navy on 23 July off the coast of Japan. The Russians declared the cargo to be contraband and after the crew was removed, the ship was sunk. The British owners sued for damages but lost the case. After the sinking, Durant was taken to Vladivostok. He left on 14 September and reached St. Petersburg on 5 October. He left for London before this postcard arrived in St. Petersburg. Capt. Ohlerich was master of the German cargo ship "Thea" which was sunk by the Russians on 24 July in the Sea of Japan. Kunst and Albers was the largest chain of general stores in Siberia) (this cover is illustrated in Forces Postal History Society Journal No. 327)  | Price Realized $190.00 |
