Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
March 12-13, 2024
Cherrystone Auctions March 12-13, 2024 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. The sale contains 1,316 lots and will be offered in four sessions, beginning with United States, with a specialized collection of Postal History of the South, ex-Dabney. Worldwide sections include an exceptional collection of Bavaria, with stamps and covers, offered for the first time at auction. There are solid sections of France, Italy, British Commonwealth, all with many individual rarities. Also featured is a collection of Sweden, with exceptional First Issues. There are 200 Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized holdings and featuring a comprehensive collection of Indian Feudatory States (estimated to realize $100,000), multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact. Kindly note that we will continue adding images for many lots. If scans for the lot you are interested in are unavailable, please check again in a few days.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #258 CHINA 1837 (15 June) FL (commercial contents) from Canton to London, endorsed inside "p.Bencoolen, via St. Helena", boxed "Forwarded by Joa.W.Alsop, Jr." and "Liverpool Ship Letter" handstamps on back, endorsed "pr.St.Andrews" on front and ms "3/2" due rating, with London arrival (18 DE 1837), fine and unusual routing taking 6 months to arrive via Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, spectacular cover  | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #259 CHINA 1839 (10 May) FL from Canton to London, endorsed "Per Premier" (private ship), landed via "Swanage Ship Letter" boxed handstamp in red, with 17 October, 1839 arrival pmk (170 days in transit), charged '1/5" (d), fine letter from China, with the scarce red "Swanage Ship Letter" marking | Unsold |
 | Lot #260 CHINA 1869 (2 Sep) FL from Shanghai to France, with "Shang-Hai Bau Francais" departure cds, oval "T.Sandri & Co. Tien-Tsin China" merchant's cachet, charged "96" in blue crayon, small piece of address portion missing, horizontal filing fold, fine cover | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #261 CHINA 1885 5c bister brown, h.r., good color, fine, * Catalog #12a Catalog Value $ 700 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #262 CHINA 1890 large cover with three separate bilingual "Legation of the United States of America to China" handstamps, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #263 CHINA 1895 1/2c Chefoo stationery card to England, canceled Local Post Chefoo 23 Jan 95, sent via Shanghai, where pair of 2c Hong Kong Queen Victoria adhesives were added for external transmission, with Colne Mar 1, 95 arrival on back | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #264 CHINA 1897 (15 Dec) Japanese stationery 3sn card used from Woosung, with large dollar departure pmk, Shanghai transit alongside, addressed to Germany, sent via Yokohama to Germany, with several due markings and Osterode arrival, filing fold, rare | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #265 CHINA 1897 large official cover with four handstamps "Kaiserlich Deutsche Gesandschaft in Peking" struck in violet, also another large cover with similar "Kaiserlich Deutsche Gesandschaft in China" handstamps | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #266 CHINA 1897 large official cover with three handstamps in oval "Legation des Pays Bas en Chine", struck in violet within a corresponding Chinese handstamp, also another cover with similar oval in blue, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #267 CHINA 1899 (25 Feb) German 3pf stationery wrapper to I.M. Customs Woosung, Shanghai, China, additionally franked with Austria 1kr gray, tied by "Schiffsbrief" handstamp, with Lindau Bodensee departure cds, Shanghai dollar dater and scarce "Woosung" arrival dollar cancel on back, each of the daters missing "25" in "the 25th year of Emperor Kuang Hsu", fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #268 CHINA 1899 (21 Nov) picture postcard ("Gruss aus Peking") to Germany, franked with 1/2c (2) 1c and 2c CIP Coiling Dragons, sent via the French Post Office in Shanghai, where 10c "Chine" was added for further transmission to Niederaula, arriving 2/1/00, minor faults, otherwise fine and colorful combination | Unsold |
 | Lot #269 CHINA 1900 red band cover with various directional handstamps, including Min-Shin boxed cachet, sent from Canton to Siam, fine and very rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #270 CHINA 1902 official mail, large envelope from the Magistrate of Laichow to the German Viceroy of Kiauchau, delivered by Yizhan courier to Kiaochow, from there placed into the Chinese Post, with 4c franking, canceled by 5 Oct 02 cds, fine and rare | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #271 CHINA 1907 (10 May) 1c stationery card from Tsen Tscheou to Paris, additionally franked with 1c and 2c CIP Coiling Dragon adhesives, tied by native cancels, with Shanghai and Hankow pmks, with French Post Office Shanghai departure (17 May), framed "Compagnie Imperiale Des Chemins de Fer Chinois" and "Ligne de Kaifong/Honan Fou" handstamps, endorsed "Via Siberia" in blue crayon, fine and scarce card | Unsold |
 | Lot #272 CHINA 1913 (24 Feb) picture postcard (Hall of Classics, Peking) to England, franking with single 4c CIP Coiling Dragon, tied by Peking departure pmk, with oval South Manchurian Railway IJPO Moukden Changchun datestamp alongside, fine and interesting routing | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #273 CHINA 1913 cover to Turku, Finland, franked on back with a combination of issues, 1c orange (2) and 3c plus 5c, tied by Hankow departure pmks, with Moukden and Harbin transits, arriving in Finland on 18.II.13, fine cover | Unsold |
 | Lot #274 CHINA 1916 folded circular from Apostolic Vicariate in Kweiyang to Peking, franked with 3c Junk, departure pmk below, red oval "Passed by Kweiyang Censor", fine and rare usage | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #275 CHINA 1917 (30 Oct) native cover from Fung Hsien, franked with 3c Junk, various transits including "Tangshan Ku", Chengchow, Siaoyi, etc., also censor cachet "Censored by Censor Tai Yuanfu" (warlord), fine and rare cover | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #276 CHINA 1918 (July) 1c stationery postal card, additionally franked with 1/2c Junk, sent by a German POW in Hai Tien to Berlin, bilingual framed "Correspondance des Prisonniers de Guerre" and Peking departure cds, oval "Internerungslager HAITIEN" at bottom, "Passed by Censor 490", fine | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #277 CHINA 1919 (10 Aug) cover to USA, franked with 10c Junk, with rectangular "Chikhom" in red, also cds, with Canton transit on back, fine cover from the Chas. Chin correspondence, early usage of the pmk | Unsold |
 | Lot #278 CHINA 1923 red-band cover addressed entirely in Chinese, sent from Kwantung (8 Oct) to Phnom Penh (French Indochina), franked on back with strip of 3x3c and 1c Junk, paying 10c rate, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #279 CHINA 1923 surcharged in red on first Peking printing 2 Cts on 3c blue-green, surcharge inverted error, deep bright color, well centered, very fine and fresh with original customary flat and dried gum, apparently n.h., with 2009 Pascal Scheller certificate. It is believed that there are less than 20 examples known of this error (According to contemporary reports (Theodore Sidall), only 13 of these stamps exist and were acquired at Wanhsien, a small port about half way between Chungking and Ichang, in July, 1924, by a Dr. A. Germain, the medical officer on the French gunboat "Balny." He applied 2 of the stamps to separate covers which he mailed to himself locally and sold 10 unused examples to Theodore Champion, French stamp dealer, who then sold a block of four and a single to M.D. Chow, two singles to Bush and one each to Hinds and Hawkins). One of the "Four Treasures of the Republic" (Chan 280a)(China Stamp Society Catalogue327b,$250,000) (catalogued as hinged) ** Catalog #247a Catalog Value $ 175,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #280 CHINA 1942-45 Dr.Sun Pacheng Issue, perforate set of 9, also $4, $20, $30, $40 (two different), $50 horizontal pairs. imperf. between, $20, $30 and $40 vertical strips of three imperforate horizontally, $5 and $30 imperf. at right, plus $40 block of four imperf. between (yielding two vertical pairs), unused without gum as issued, fine-v.f. (*) | Unsold |
 | Lot #281 CHINA 1942-47 selection of seven items, including Chan 539b (surcharge misplaced horizontally), 547e (surcharge inverted), 718 (20c on 28c Martyr), 760B ("20" on 17c block of four, surcharge slightly double), 950A (20c on 8c surcharge double), 955 (20c on 8c watermarked), 971a (surcharge inverted), with or without gum as issued, occasional toning noted, fine-v.f., scarce assembly  (*)** | Unsold |
 | Lot #282 CHINA 1949 1c-500c Redrawn, complete set, unused without gum as issued, n.h., fine-v.f., (*) Catalog #973-81 Catalog Value $ 1,042 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #283 CHINA 1949 Flying Geese, $1-$10 set of four, also unissued 10c violet, 16c imperforate, also UPU $1 orange red & black without overprint, unissued without gum, last one with some toning, mostly fine-v.f. (*) Catalog #984-87,988var | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #284 CHINA 1950 Cheng Ch'eng-kung, complete set, unused without gum as issued, l.h., fine-v.f., (*) Catalog #1012-24,C64 Catalog Value $ 522 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #285 CHINA 1966 Masks, blocks of four, n.h., some gum disturbances, otherwise fine-v.f., **Catalog #1471-74 Catalog Value $ 424 | Price Realized $100.00 |
