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 #3358 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1916 surcharges, used, unused and handstamped "Specimen", sets of four, fine-v.f. (*)OS Catalog #1-4,1-4S | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #3359 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1916 1/2c-5c surcharges, set of four blocks of four, unused with original gum, h.r., faint gum toning as always, perf. separations, fine and scarce set of blocks  *Catalog #1-4 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #3360 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1916 1/2c-5c surcharges, set of four blocks of four, used, fresh, mostly v.f. Catalog #1-4 | Unsold |
 | Lot #3361 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1916 1/2c-5c surcharges, two sets of four, canceled by Feb 14, 1918 pmks on registered cover to Switzerland, Registry "label" drawn by hand, Nyassa Company and Mozambique transits, censored by the Portuguese, South Africans and the British, with "Passed By Censor" handstamp and bilingual red label at left, London transit and Basel arrival (7 VI.18) pmks on back, v.f. (The Kionga Triangle was a tiny territory on the border between German East Africa (largely overlapping the present-day United Republic of Tanzania) and the Portuguese colony of Portuguese East Africa (present day Republic of Mozambique). Originally, the Germans established this as their outpost south of the Rovuma River, and there was a settlement called Kionga (now Quionga). After the war, the Treaty of Versailles defined the border as running along the Rovuma, thus allotting the triangle to Mozambique)  Catalog #1-4 | Unsold |
 | Lot #3362 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1915 (6 Nov) cover (opened for display) to London, franked with pair of 5c on 100r dark blue, registered from Mozambique, with 1c Postal Tax stamp added on reverse, along with provisional "Correios-Quionga Registrado" Registry label, Portuguese Censor label, Lisbon (15 Jan 17) and London (19 Jan) arrival pmks, fine and extremely rare commercial usage from Portuguese Kionga | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #3363 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1916-17 cover and three cards from Kionga to Portugal, written-up on two exhibit pages, showing military markings of Kionga, Mozambique Expeditionary Corps, "Civil Administration of Occupied Territory / Kionga", including a stationery cover with Kionga preprinted address, franked with a single 2 1/2c surcharge on 100r, addressed to Lisbon, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #3364 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1917 (4 Feb) coverfront addressed to England, franked with pair of 5c on 100r dark blue, used in combination with 1c Postal Tax stamp, canceled "Kionga", with provisional Registry box inserted by hand, red Mozambique and Lourenco Marques Censor cachets, another unidentified handstamp at bottom, some toning, rare commercial usage from Kionga to England | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
 | Lot #3365 GERMAN EAST AFRICA Portuguese Occupation - Kionga 1918 (12 Feb) Civil Administration of Occupied Territories Kionga, corner cachet cover to Switzerland, franked with Lourenco Marques 2 1/2c (single and pair), tied by departure datestamps, with Portuguese and English Censor markings, South-African bilingual censor label, Lourenco Marques and Mozambique transits, Basel (1.V.18) arrival pmk on back. A fine and rare cover used after the supply of Kionga overprints was exhausted. (Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Kionga was Portugal's only reward for its participation in the War. It was incorporated into Mozambique in 1920) | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
