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 #2329 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GREECE 1861-88 Large Hermes Heads, collection of 170+ used and unused on pages, all printings represented, values to 80 Lepta, neatly mounted and arranged on 10 display pages, all four-margin examples, many signed Holcombe, etc. (this group alone Scott's $14,640). In addition, there is a collection of 18 covers or FLs, really a study of rates, neatly written-up, exhibition style on 17 pages; highlights include 1862 FL from French Levant to Spetzes, four color franking of 5L, 10L, 20L and 80L paying 115L on arrival (signed Calves, with his 1993 certificate), other four-color franking from Italy to Athens, Trieste to Kalamata, Paris to Athens (two), Great Britain to Patras (three), 1866 Greece to Austria Prepaid with 75L (two); Papal States letter paying 21 Bajocchi and charged 20L on arrival in Athens; 1867 letter from Marseilles to Athens, charged 188L, paid with a five-color combination franking; 1872 letter from Argostolion to Taganrog, pre-paid with 120L; Austrian Post Office in Rettimo, letter charged 40L on arrival in Syros, etc., virtually all stamps with margins all around, good markings and mainly fine-v.f., with few certificates (Holcombe, Raybaudi, etc.). An excellent group, certainly a fine nucleus for further study and expansion  *O | Price Realized $11,000.00 |
