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 #3054 United States - Postal Stationery Postal Cards 1888-1955 United States Postal Cards sent by Registered Mail, one frame (16 pages) exhibit presented chronologically, with 30 stationery postcards, uprated and Registered to various destinations, domestic and international, unusual rates, some with Registry labels added on departure, several extremely rare, including UX6 registered in 1897 to Yalta, Crimea, 1892 registered reply card to Vienna, 1896 Jefferson stationery card with additional franking registered from U.S. Postal Agency in Shanghai (one of only two such cards recorded), 1909 1c card with Dallas, Texas domestic registry label (possibly unique), 1907 2c registered card with New York and San Francisco Registry labels to Netherlands Indies (only recorded card with two International Registration labels), 1917 5c Grant card Registered and Special Delivery to Berlin, others to Russia, Denmark, Switzerland, German Occupied Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, etc., most interesting and certainly difficult to assemble  | Price Realized $26,000.00 |
