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 #2094 RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) 1914 (30 May) registered "declared-value" cover franked with 2x4k and 50k Arms, sent from Tetyukhe to Dornsdorf, Austria. The letter contained 140 rubles. The correct postage was 48 kopecks (3x10k for weight, 8 kopecks for insurance, and 10 kopecks for registration). Mail was dispatched to Vladivostok once a week on a Count Keiserling Co. ship. This is the earliest recorded mail from Tetyukhe, where postal operations began in March 1914. Julius Bryner opened a lead-zinc-silver mine here in 1899, 535 km from Vladivostok in the valley of Tetyukhe River. In 1909 a 38 km narrow gauge railroad opened from the mine to the mouth of the Tetyukhe River at the Pacific Ocean  | Price Realized $260.00 |
