Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
September 24-25
Our September 24-25, 2024 auction features solid selections of United States (including further material from the Larry Brasler stock), Canada, Great Britain & British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Italy, as well as Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland. There is an old-world collection of Mixed Frankings and Redirected Mail, formed by a European gentleman, with an extraordinary selection of combination usages. Other areas areas are well represented, with China, Japan and Korea. As always, the sale contains 160+ large lots and collections, with individual country albums, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and much more. The sale will take place live via CherrystoneLIVE.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1212 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1874 (24 Mar) FL from Constantinople to Liverpool, franked with 3k Levant, used in combination with Russian 20k blue & orange, sent via Odessa, with transit and arrival pmks, fine mixed franking Russian Levant cover, with Eisold certificate  | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1213 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1874 (8 Dec) outer FL from Constantinople to France, paying 16k with Russian Levant 3k Numeral, used in combination with Russian Coat of Arms (horizontally laid paper) 3k and 10k adhesives, tied by blue Constantinople departure cds, handstamped "Oplacheno" (Paid), with Odessa and Paris transits, arriving Lyon (22 Dec), portion of address panel excised and covered-up, otherwise fine mixed-franking combination | Unsold |
 | Lot #1214 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1875 (3 Mar) FL from Constantinople to Germany, franked with 3k Levant, used in combination with Russian 3k and 10k, sent via Odessa, with transit and Fischhausen arrival pmks, fine mixed franking Russian Levant cover, with Eisold certificate | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1215 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1876 8k on 10k carmine & green, blue surcharge inverted, used, fine, signed Stanley Gibbons O Catalog #17b | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1216 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1891 commercial cover (M.C. Rangos, Batoum) franked with ordinary Russian 10k dark blue, canceled at Constantinople (indicating the letter was probably carried from Batum privately and entered the mail in Constantinople), with oval receiving "ROPIT AGENST. XIOCA" (Ropit Agency of Chios) at bottom, also Constantinople pmks and faint merchant's oval on back, filing folds away from the stamp, fine (Tchilingirian Type 11) | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1217 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1910 picture postcard to Constantinople, franked with 20pa/4k Levant, canceled by violet ROPIT Samsun 19 Dec. 1910 cds, repeated alongside, some water stains at bottom, otherwise fine | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1218 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1912 (15 Dec) cover to Athens, with negative "Chios Poste Russe Gratuit" and violet ROPIT Chios departure pmk alongside, minor overall toning, fine (after Greek forces occupied Chios during Greco-Turkish War in 1912, Russian authorities permitted free-franking privileges from their offices in Chios) | Price Realized $140.00 |
