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 #1153 RUSSIA 1849-1934 Romanovs and Entourage, collection of 83 covers or cards on pages, each accompanied by a detailed description regarding original and destination, sender's and letter (if enclosed) details, etc. The story begins with a mourning envelope sent by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), wife of Emperor Nicholas I, registered cover containing a secret report sent from Baku to Emperor Nicholas I, 1876 wrapper sent from England to Emperor Alexander II, 1890 registered cover to Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich on his yacht "Tamara" (care of Russian Consulate in Colombo, Ceylon), registered cover sent by the future Emperor Nicholas II to his cousin Prince George of Greece in Athens (inscribed "from the heir apparent Tsarevitch"), autograph covers sent by Grand Duke George Alexandrovich from Abas-Tuman to Gatchino, plus countless others, including letters to Imperial tutors, coverfront from the office of the Postal Director in St. Petersburg sent in 1907 to Empress Maria Feodorovna in Biarritz, France, incoming mail from Norway, Switzerland, Greece, England, etc. A remarkable insight into the Imperial Romanovs, many of the items illustrated in Rossica and other publications, truly an uncommon opportunity to obtain a ready-made collection of letters and cards, each outstanding on its own merits  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1154 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, tied by "1" numeral cancel on outer FL from St. Petersburg to Riga, red departure datestamp alongside, "Polucheno" (received) (8 Sep 1858) handstamp on back, fine, Catalog #2 Catalog Value $650 | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1155 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thin paper, well centered, good color, fresh and fine stamp, O Catalog #3 Catalog Value $1,700 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1156 RUSSIA 1860 commercial letter with printed text, headed "Bergen in Norwegen, 1 November 1859", franked with 10k brown & blue, perf. 12 1/2, addressed to Pernau. The letter was sent unfranked from Bergen, Norway and bears the oval "J.H.Fasner & Sohn, Bergen" merchant's cachet in oval. The 10k adhesive was added in Riga and canceled by "38" in circular dots, with boxed "2 Jan 60" transit, dispatch and "Polucheno" arrival datestamps, fine and undoubtedly unique letter from Norway, with Russian adhesive added in Riga | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1157 RUSSIA 1863 St. Petersburg Local Issue, 5k black & blue, gutter sheet of 100, partly separated along the gutter in middle, few hinge reinforcements, mostly in margin, stamps generally n.h., some natural inclusions, fine-v.f. (catalogued as singles)  **Catalog #11 Catalog Value $5,250 | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
 | Lot #1158 RUSSIA 1872 (19 Dec) outer FL from Taganrog to Greece, franked with 2x10k brown & blue tied Postal Car departure cds, sent via Odessa, with Postal Car and "Kharkov-Odessa" pmks, arriving Syra where it was charged "45" in blue crayon, Greek Large Hermes 5L and 40L (margins all around) were added, with arrival pmk on back, filing fold though 40L, otherwise a fine Russia-Greece combination | Unsold |
 | Lot #1159 RUSSIA 1874 (9 July) small cover from St. Petersburg to France, franked with 3k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by departure cds, with 25c Ceres added on arrival in France and redirected to another destination, with French entry markings, Russian "Oplacheno" (Paid), various transit and arrival pmks on back, minor backflap tears, colorful cover | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #1160 RUSSIA 1889 7k, 14k and 20k die proofs on card, each reduced to stamp size, fresh and v.f., rare P | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1161 RUSSIA 1908 (14 July) 3k stationery card cancelld by Kostroma cds, sent by a political prisoner in Kaluga City jail to his wife, with violet "Prosmotreno/ KGG" prison censor in oval, fine and scarce | Price Realized $170.00 |
 | Lot #1162 RUSSIA 1913 3k rose red, double impression, n.h., v.f., ** Catalog #90b Catalog Value $700 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1163 RUSSIA 1914 cover to Sweden, franked with 7k Arms and 3k Romanov, tied by a mute cancel (probably Warszawa), with Petrograd censor and Stockholm arrival pmks, v.f. | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1164 RUSSIA 1917 10r scarlet, green & gray, green background inverted, 1919 cds, v.f., rare stamp (Zverev $4,000) O Catalog #135a,var | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1165 RUSSIA 1918 (31 July) cover from Vladivostok to Harbin, franked with 35k Arms, tied by departure cds, with large oval datestamp cachet of Religious Consistory in Vladivostok, additional cachet below and another on back, Russian language Harbin arrival marking and returned back to sender, with 8 August arrival. While this cover traveled between Vladivostok and Harbin, Japanese forces landed in Vladivostok on 3rd August 1918, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1166 RUSSIA 1918 (10 Sep) registered (legal size) cover from Vladivostok to USA, franked with 60k Imperial Arms, sent via Yokohama, with "Via Japan" in Cyrillic, addressed to Hearst Pathe News in New York, opened by censor label and arrival pmks on back. Also included is another cover from the same correspondence, franked with imperf. strip of 4x15k, sent from Vladivostok on 11 September, with San Francisco transit pmk, filing folds away from the stamps, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1167 RUSSIA 1918 Chainbreakers, 35k blue, imperforate horizontal pair, l.h., minor gum toning, slightly showing on front, also 70k brown, top sheet margin imperf. single, l.h., offered as a trimmed "fantail", plus a set of singles (catalogue value for 149a only) * Catalog #149-50,149a Catalog Value $1,600 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1168 RUSSIA 1921 100r olive, imperforate essay ("Proletariat of all Republics Unite"), top sheet margin block of four, v.f., rare (Zverev Handbook $7,000) E | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1169 RUSSIA 1922 20r on 15k brown & deep blue, l.h., v.f., signed Romeko, Dr.P.Jemchouhin, etc. A rare stamp, * Catalog #224 Catalog Value $9,500 | Price Realized $4,250.00 |
 | Lot #1170 RUSSIA 1923 definitives (typographed), 50k red brown, imperforate proof on glazed card, sheet margin block of four, v.f., rare block, only one sheet of 100 printed, with Mikulski certificate (this block is illustrated on page 123 of Zverev Handbook) PCatalog #275A/P | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1171 RUSSIA 1925 Lenin Mausoleum, 7k deep blue, olive bister and magenta, three different imperforate plate proofs on card, v.f. P | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1172 RUSSIA 1926 Popov, imperforate proofs on card, two different shades of 7k blue, plus unissued 20k bister brown, v.f. P | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1173 RUSSIA 1926 Lenin, 2r black violet, perf. 12 1/2, l.h., minute toning, otherwise fine, * Catalog #343a Catalog Value $2,250 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1174 RUSSIA 1932 Moscow Exhibition, set of two used with additional franking on illustrated envelope, registered 2.4.33 from Leningrad Philatelic Exhibition, addressed to Helsinki, with 14.4.33 arrival pmk on back, signed Mikulski Catalog #485-86 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1175 RUSSIA 1935 Definitives (unwatermarked), 10k gray black, 15k green, 30k dark blue, first one imperf. at right, others imperf. at left, n.h., fine ** | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1176 RUSSIA 1935 Frunze, Bauman and Kirov, 2k, 4k and 40k gray brown, imperforate plate proofs on watermarked stamp paper, unused without gum, some adhesions on back (these were probably mounted on presentation sheet and removed) P Catalog #580-82P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1177 RUSSIA 1944 Heroes of the Civil War, 30k Schors, corner margin block of four, double vertical perforations between stamps, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #942var | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1178 RUSSIA 1945 collection of 13 original photographs (mostly 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 cm) from Soviet press-archives, each with official handstamp and signature, some marked "Secret", fine and incredibly rare holding, illustrating the May 8th 1945 official surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany, in a former army officers' canteen, in the Berlin suburb of Karlshorst. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who had led the 1st Belorussian Front into Berlin in April 1945 attended on behalf of the Supreme High Command of the Soviet Red Army, with Marshal Arthur Tedder of the Royal Air Force, representing the Allied Expeditionary Force. Three representatives of OKW, Col. Gen. Hans Jurgen Stumpf (Air Force), Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel (Chief of General Staff) and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg (Navy), had arrived earlier in the day from Flensburg and were met by the Allied representatives | Unsold |
 | Lot #1179 RUSSIA 1946 Sochi, 30k green, variety imperf. at left, also 45k Moscow (Kremlin), variety imperf. at right, used, fine-v.f. O Catalog #1054,1063var | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #1180 RUSSIA 1947 Moscow Subway, 60k yellow green, horizontal pair variety imperf. at top, used, v.f. (Zagorsky 1065Pa) O Catalog #1158var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1181 RUSSIA 1958 Radio Day (May 7), 40k line perf. 12 1/2, top sheet margin single, showing double perforations at top, l.h. in margin, stamp n.h., exceptionally well centered for this difficult issue, v.f., with 2007 Mandrovski certificate (Zagorsky 2063A, 300,000Rub $3,500). Also included Khachatur Abovian, 40k perf. 12 1/2 (Zagorsky 1776A) ** Catalog #1799var,2063var | Unsold |
