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 #572 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1899 10pf carmine, postal card from Ponape (14.X.99) addressed to SMS "Jaguar" in Shanghai, cancelled Ponape (date unclear but day-date inverted), fine and early usage from Caroline Islands, stated to be one of only two recorded cards with inverted date  Catalog #Mi.P2 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #573 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1899 10pf carmine, postal card from Yap (6.12.99) addressed to Berlin, with violet Saipan, Marianen (31.12.99) transit and arrival in Germany (2.4.00), fine card, signed Mansfeld Catalog #Mi.P2 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #574 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1899 5pf green, 10pf carmine, two unsevered postal reply cards sent from Ponape and Yap to Germany, fine-v.f., each with arrival pmk, Catalog #Mi.P3,4 Catalog Value € 525 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #575 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1900 5pf green, unsevered postal reply card, up-rated with 5pf green, registered from Ponape to Germany, fine, with Domitz (9.8.03) arrival Catalog #Mi.P6 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #576 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 10pf postal reply card from Gotha (27.2.05), addressed to Ponape, v.f. incoming mail from Germany to Caroline Islands Catalog #Mi.P10A | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #577 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 5pf green, postal card addressed to Solingen, with clear "Angaur Palau-Inseln" (11.12.09) departure cds, fine usage from Angaur Catalog #Mi.P7 | Price Realized $200.00 |
 | Lot #578 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 5pf green, postal card addressed to Munich, with clear "Angaur Palau-Inseln" (11.12.09) departure cds, fine usage from Angaur (an island in the island nation of Palau. The island, which forms its own state, has an area of 8k, its population was 1119 in 2015) Catalog #Mi.P7 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #579 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 10pf carmine, postal card addressed to Zoppot bei Danzig, with clear "Angaur Palau-Inseln" (26.4.12) departure cds, endorsed "(Dpfr.) Coblenz zwischen Angaur und Manila", fine usage from Angaur Catalog #Mi.P8 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #580 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 5pf unsevered postal reply card from Ponape (7.03.09) to Vladivostok, uprated with 5pf green, used via Herbertshohe, German New Guinea (26.3.09), Nagasaki, Japan and Victoria, Hong Kong (1 May), with arrival (28.4.09) pmk on front, fine and unusual route to uncommon destination Catalog #Mi.P9 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #581 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 5pf unsevered postal reply card from Ponape (7.03.09) to Vladivostok, uprated with 2x3pf brown, used via Herbertshohe, German New Guinea, Nagasaki, Japan, with arrival (28.4.09) pmk on front, fine stationery card to uncommon destination Catalog #Mi.P9 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #582 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1901 5pf and 10pf unsevered postal reply cards, each side overprinted Specimen, fine-v.f., scarce, Catalog #Mi.P9,10S Catalog Value € 500 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #583 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Postal Stationery 1914 unused transmission form "Model T", with red "Via Jap." overprint, fine (this was for the newly opened German-Netherlands telegraph office on Yap, which was connected world-wide over Dutch Colonial possessions in South Asia. Its role was to link the German Pacific Colonies into the main submarine telegraph networks. The cable ran from Menado, Dutch East Indies to Yap and Guam. At Yap a spur was run into Shanghai. At Menado links to the Eastern Extension cables were available and at Guam cables owned by the Commercial Pacific Cable Company provided connections to the USA and Philippines) | Price Realized $230.00 |
