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 #1260 Siberia Kolchak government 1919 (14 Nov) YMCA bilingual POW free frank card sent to Vienna, with oval Vladivostok Railway Station departure pmk, four-line Vladivostok Censor No.7 cachet, interesting text (the writer comments that he was transferred from Krasnoyarsk in August, presumably as the Red Army was advancing eastward, now is eating well and getting paid as a barber to the General Staff), unusual dispatch from an Austrian POW  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1261 Siberia Kolchak government 1919 (15 Nov) cover franked on both sides with two each 15k, 25k and 50k, plus single 20k paying the correct 2r rate from Achinsk, addressed to the Welfare Committee for Prisoners of War in New York, Vladivostok censor hs, opened and resealed, fine usage from Achinsk, just west of Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway | Unsold |
 | Lot #1262 Siberia Kolchak government 1919 (25 Dec) registered cover franked on back with imperforate strip of 4x1r, paying correct postage (2r postage and 2r registry fee), sent from Vladivostok to George Kestlin at Russian Bank for Foreign Trade in Paris, with rare internal style Vladivostok (city) registry label "Vladivostok I Gor.Primorskoi Obl" and boxed censor cachet of Censor No.12, cover forwarded to London, with 31 Jan 1920 arrival, signed Mikulski | Unsold |
 | Lot #1263 Siberia Kolchak government 1919 (16 Aug) registered cover from Kansk, franked on back with imperf. 1r and perforated block of 4x10k/7k paying old rate 70k postage and 70k for registration, addressed to YMCA in Bern, Switzerland, boxed rectangle cachet of the Vladivostok censor, scarce "Kansk Yenisseisk Prov." registry label, with Bern arrival Oct.13 on back, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1264 Siberia Kolchak government 1919 (21 June) registered cover from Kansk (Yeniseysk prov), sent via Vladivostok to Switzerland, franked on back with pair of 15k,10k/7k and 1r imperf. Imperial Arms, paying the correct 1.40r (70k postage and 70k Registry), addressed to the "International Peace Bureau, department for help for Prisoners of War", San Francisco and New York transit, Bern arrival pmks on back, Vladivostok Military Censor No.6 and sealing tape, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1265 Siberia Kolchak government 1919-1920 (Dec-Jan) collection of 17 commercial covers or cards from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk to Austria (card written on Christmas eve by a free Austrian POW traveling on Irkutsk 241 Postal Wagon on the Trans-Siberian Railway, hoping to get to Nikolsk-Ussuriysk and home from there), commercial covers to USA, registered mail from Ufa to Moscow, others from Krasnoyarsk to London, censored card from a freed German POW, sent from Irkutsk to Berlin. Other destinations include Switzerland, Denmark, each cover with a detailed write-up with respect to rates, franking, registry labels, contents and censor markings. A fine group | Unsold |
 | Lot #1266 Siberia Kolchak government 1920 (17 Feb) Prisoner of War card from Alexandrovskoye Zab(aikal) franked with 50k and 25k Arms, paying internal rate to Harbin, Manchuria, addressed to the Swiss Red Cross, advising of the transport of 25 invalids from Krasnoyarsk to a concentration camp in Vladivostok, fine and interesting card | Unsold |
