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 #1190 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1864 (26 May) FL from Constantinople to Marianpol, franked with 3x10k brown & blue, perf. 12 1/2, tied by blue departure pmks (repeated on back), with oval merchant's handstamp alongside  | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1191 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1877-78 Russo-Turkish War, 10k brown & blue canceled "Plovdiv", also Telegram dated 27.6.1879 from Sofia to Tirnovo, used during the Russo-Turkish War. Until the summer of 1879, there was no Bulgarian Postal Organization; also 1888 Telegram to the French Consul in Sofia, and 1907 picture postcard (Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand) from Peterhof to Paris O | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1192 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1893 (28 Sep) registered cover (opened for display) addressed to St. Petersburg, franked with 3x10k numerals, tied by double circle "ROPIT Trebizond" pmks, "Batum-Kutais" transit and arrival pmks, some cover mending, otherwise fine | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1193 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1907 (11 July) The Commercial Company of Salonica, Limited, cover to Salonica, franked with pair of 20pa on 4k, tied by blue ROPIT / AG / CAVALLA 11 Jun 1907 oval date stamp with another far clearer strike on the back along with two strikes of ROPIT / Salonica 12 Jun 1907 arrival cds, cover open at bottom and with some wrinkling along left edge and a small scuff at top, fine and very rare usage from Cavalla (Tchilinghirian reported no covers recorded yet, but this cover and a few picture postcards have since been discovered) | Price Realized $2,100.00 |
 | Lot #1194 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1909 (13 May) registered cover (Banque Imperiale Ottomane on backflap) to Leipzig, franked with 2x1pi on 10k blue, tied by blue "Ropit Metelin" departure cds, with Constantinople transit, "Post Russe Metelin Recommandee" Registry label, fine cover | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1195 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1911 (1 Aug) registered cover to Odessa, attractively franked with 20pa on 4k plus 5pa, 10pa, 20pa 1pi Kerassunde overprints, all tied by nice strikes of blue ROPIT / Kerassunde 1.VIII.1911 cds, appropriate registry label, backstamped on arrival, v.f. | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #1196 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1913 (11 Mar) postal stationery 20pa on 4k card addressed to Berlin, with two "ROPIT ORDU" departure strikes in violet, showing oval "Spir. A. Papadopoulo ORDOU Turquie Mer-Noir" merchant's handstamp on back, fine and rare usage from this small port on the Ottoman coast of the Black Sea | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1197 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1913 20pa on 4k Romanov, intact postal reply card registered in 1914 from Constantinople to Germany, additionally franked with 10pa and 15pa (2) Romanov surcharges | Unsold |
 | Lot #1198 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1914 (15 July) ROPIT cover registered to Paris, franked with 2p on 20k, tied by blue ROPIT / Mersina 15 VII 1914 cds with accompanying registry label, light transit backstamps, also a 1914 receipt for a registered letter with slightly different type of Mersina cancels, fine | Price Realized $475.00 |
