The Alfred F. Kugel Collection
June 18-19, 2024
We are pleased to present our June 18-19, 2024 auction, featuring Part One of the Alfred F. Kugel collection of Postal History of the world, being sold on behalf of the American Philatelic Society. The first of many to follow, this sale is only a sample of the vast amount of material yet to be presented. We begin with United States Dollar values on cover, U.S. States Postal Agencies in the Far East, U.S. International Registration Exchange Labels, U.S. Intervention in Mexico and Registered Mail from U.S. Possessions. There is a splendid selection of the International Intervention in China during the Boxer Rebellion, extensive showing of German Colonies in China and the Pacific, with dozens of rare and unusual items, including unique Tientsin handstamps on 2m and 3m Reichspost. In addition, there are selections of World War I British Occupation of Baghdad, Jordan, Salonika, Mafia Island, Saudi Arabia, plus elusive covers from the Austrian, British, Ottoman, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese Empires.
This is a Public Auction, with Floor Bidding and live internet bidding via CherrystoneLIVE
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #3253 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Military Mail 1919 three postcards with "Ceskoslovenska Polni Posta" Fieldpost markings, No.75 (2 Feb) Czechoslovak Army HQ at Kosice, No.46 (17 Mar) for Colonel Hrbensky at Uzhorod and No.22 set up for the troops of Colonel Sembera, also at Kosice, each card with a different cachet, fine-v.f. Many of the soldiers were former legionnaires who had served in Italy and France and brought their unit markings home with them  | Unsold |
 | Lot #3254 CZECHOSLOVAKIA Military Mail 1919 (17 May) picture postcard (Miscolc) with "Ceskoslovenska Polni Posta No.75", with violet military cachet alongside, datelined 17 May, 1919, sent by a soldier from Miskolc, a city located nearly 40 miles inside Hungary. On 20 May 1919 Colonel Aurel Stromfeld, attacked in force and routed Czechoslovak troops from Miskolc. A rare example of identifiable mail from Czech occupied Miscolc | Price Realized $425.00 |
