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.
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 | 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 |
