Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
July 9-10, 2024
Welcome to our July 9-10, 2024 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. With 1,554 lots, this auction features properties of various owners and estates from all over the world, including selections from the philatelic stock of Larry Brassler, with a solid selections of United States, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Other areas are well represented, with China, Japan, Korea and Pakistan. As always, the sale contains 190+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more. The sale will be held live via CherrystoneLIVE.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1147 RUSSIA 1858 20k lilac & green, perforated proof on unwatermarked paper, unused without gum, v.f. P Catalog #3P | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1148 RUSSIA 1869 (22 Jan) outer FL from Taganrog, franked with 10k and 20k (unwatermarked), tied by cds and sent to Greece, taxed 45L on arrival in Corfu, with the addition of 5L (margins just in at right) and 40L (margins all around), departure, Petraeus transit and Kerkura arrival pmks, filing fold through 40L, otherwise fine and colorful letter from Russia to Greece  | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1149 RUSSIA 1874 cover from Riga to Leipzig, franked with 1k (2), 3k, 5k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by departure pmks, repeated alongside, with arrival pmk on back, fine and attractive 20k rate and four-color franking to Germany | Unsold |
 | Lot #1150 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r and 7r Arms, Posthorns without Thunderbolts, vertically laid paper, fresh, v.f., the former signed Bloch, * Catalog #39-40 Catalog Value $2,000 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1151 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r black & gray (vertically laid paper), used, well centered, with perforations intact, tiny flaws (as often), fresh and fine stamp, signed Diena, etc., O Catalog #39 Catalog Value $675 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1152 RUSSIA 1898 (21 Oct) cover from Nakhichevan to the Russian Monastery in Afon, franked on back with 7k dark blue, tied by departure cds, showing transits of Odessa (23 Oct), Ropit Constantinople (30 Oct), Afon (1 Nov) and Illinsky Skit (3 Nov), with oval "Doplatit" 6k due mark on front, minor cover faults, otherwise fine usage from Nakhichevan (today an exclave of Azerbaijan) | Unsold |
 | Lot #1153 RUSSIA 1906 5r blue green & pale blue, perf. 11 1/2, top sheet margin single, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #71a Catalog Value $1,400 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1154 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary, 5r Nicholas II, complete sheet of 50, marginal tears and perf. separations, mostly intact, stamps n.h., post office fresh, v.f.  **Catalog #104 | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1155 RUSSIA 1919 (5 Apr) registered cover from Moscow to Petrograd, paying 3r with five imperforate blocks of 4x10k dark blue, used in combination with pair of perforated 50k, fine and scarce usage, with arrival (8 April) pmk on back Catalog #124 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1156 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 1r orange, horizontal pair, left stamp without overprint, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #191c | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1157 RUSSIA 1923 (18 Oct) cover from Moscow to Munich, paying 45r (1923) plus 12k (gold), with 5r and 2x20r RSFSR, used in combination with 12x1k imperforate (gold) definitives. With the October 18 conversion value at 550r to 1r gold, the 45r (RSFSR) equal just over 8k (gold) for a total of 20k, which was the correct rate for the foreign letter rate, fine mixed RSFSR/Soviet definitives cover, with "Obmen 250r" red surcharge (variety displaced overprint) on 35k chain breakers on back Catalog #240,241A,250 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1158 RUSSIA 1923 10r gray, imperforate sheetlet of 25, with intact inscription at bottom, n.h., usual gum wrinkles, v.f. **Catalog #241d | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1159 RUSSIA 1924 15k lemon, five used examples, various postmarks, fine-v.f., O Catalog #287 Catalog Value $1,050 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #1160 RUSSIA 1925 Definitives (watermarked), 4k black (two) invalidated perforated and gummed trial color proofs, also 8k olive (typographed), fine * | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1161 RUSSIA 1926 Lenin, 2r black violet, perf. 12 1/2, fresh color, h.r., fine, * Catalog #343a Catalog Value $2,250 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1162 RUSSIA 1926 (28 Oct) registered cover from Moscow to Sofia, franked with Esperanto Congress 7k horizontal gutter pair and single 14k, paying correct 28k foreign registered letter rate, with 25k on 7k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents value "1175" rubles indicated by pen, Sofia arrival (3 Nov) cds on back, fine, possibly unique example of the rare gutter pair on cover Catalog #347,348 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1163 RUSSIA 1927 8k on 3k (lithographed), 8k on 8k green (typographed), each with surcharge inverted, l.h., fine and scarce * | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1164 RUSSIA 1938 Red Army, 80k variety imperf. at bottom, n.h., fingerprints on gum, v.f. (Zagorsky 495Pb) ** Catalog #634var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1165 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, imperf. souvenir sheet of four, canceled to order with bi-lingual "Riga" cancel, n.h., slight gum wrinkles and adhesions, v.f., rare, Catalog #1327a,vasr Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1166 RUSSIA 1958 Mendeleyev Congress, overprint on 40k Butlerov, n.h., v.f. ** | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1167 RUSSIA 1972 Sobinov, 10k red brown with "Narodnyj Artist CCCP" inscription at bottom, unaccepted in this form (the stamp was released with the revised "Narodnyj Artist Respubliki") (People's artist of the Republic, rather than People's Artist of the Soviet Union), bottom sheet margin single, n.h., v.f., issued stamp included for comparison, 2001 Wassman certificate (Zagorsky 4049var) ** Catalog #3966var | Unsold |
