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 #3090 United States Postal Agencies in Japan 1874 (1 June) stampless cover ("Wachtels & Co. Japan" backflap imprint) endorsed "Via San Francisco Per Overland Route" to France, with local, carved out of wood "HIOGO JAPAN" around the dial cancel, "PAID" in the center, transit pmks of San Francisco (June 28), New York (July 8), "Ang.Amb. Calais" and "Paris a Clermont" (July 20), with St. Etienne (21 July) arrival on back. Diamond shaped British accountancy mark "G.B./3F60c" and charged "15" (decimes), indicate that the cover was treated as unpaid, in spite of the "PAID" Hiogo marking. A rarity, one of only two covers recorded with this locally made cancel  | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
