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 #3243 CHINA BOXER REBELLION - Russian Forces in China 1902 (Mudantsiang) picture postcard to Petersburg, franked with unoverprinted Russian 3k red, tied by "No.7 Polev (aya) Pocht (ovaya) Kon (tora) Priamur (ski) Okr (ug)" 3.4.02 (7th Field Post Office Priamur District), repeated alongside, fine and incredibly rare, actually the discovery example of the FPO 7 postmark (located in what was then just a village of Mudantsiang, today Mudanjiang, a large city about 70 miles west of the Chinese-Russian border. The area was first settled after the completion of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1903, when a considerable Russian colony was established)  | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
