Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
January 7-8, 2025
Cherrystone Auctions January 7-8, 2025 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World will take place at our Teaneck, N.J. Galleries and via CherrystoneLIVE There are 1,481 lots which will be offered in four sessions, starting with United States, featuring a large collection of U.S. sheets and modern errors. Worldwide sections include an exceptional holding of Israel, including Forerunners and Interim Period. There are solid sections of France, Germany, Italy and Italian States, British Commonwealth, with many individual rarities. Eastern Europe offers a collection of Poland, with many better Krakow overprints, as well as Imperial Russia, with rare inverted backgrounds, Romanov correspondence, followed by Soviet Union, including Air Post and Civil War issues. There are 165 Large Lots and Collections, ranging from single country albums, specialized holdings, multi-carton worldwide groups and large cover lots offered intact
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 | Lot #371 FINLAND 1858 5k blue (Large Pearls in Post Horns), large margins all around, canceled by pen and tied by Helsingfors 18.9.58 cds on complete FL to Borga, with boxed ANK 18/9 datestamp alongside, fresh and splendid first issue cover, correct rate, with Cyril Schwenson certificate (Facit 1IIb, SEK 65,000),
Catalog #3 Catalog Value $7,250 | Price Realized $2,900.00
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 | Lot #372 FINLAND 1866 1p black on yellow, Roulette III, two singles tied on outer FL by Wiborg 7/6 cds, boxed "ANK 8/6" (1868) arrival, right stamp with partially clipped roulette, otherwise fine and attractive cover, with 1996 Mikko Ossa certificate (Mi.7Cy) (catalogue value for single on cover)
Catalog #8 Catalog Value $2,000 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #373 FINLAND 1891-92 Coat of Arms, 1k-7r complete set, used, fine-v.f., O Catalog #46-58 Catalog Value $1,202 | Price Realized $280.00
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 | Lot #374 FINLAND 1891-92 Coat of Arms, 3.50r black & light gray, bottom sheet margin single used on small registered cover to Helsingfors, trilingual "Tammerfors/Tampere" 23.III.99 departure cds and Helsinki arrival pmk on back, faint toning, otherwise fine; philatelically inspired, but with all the proper markings and clearly traveled through the mail, rare single franking on cover (cat. $9,000 for commercially used cover)
Catalog #57 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #375 FINLAND 1891 Horizontally laid paper, 3.50r black and yellow, error of color (instead of black and gray), used on piece, well centered, v.f., signed Senf, with 1984 Diena and 1994 Witschi certificates. A major world-class rarity from Finland (Facit 46v) O Catalog #57a Catalog Value $13,500 | Price Realized $7,500.00
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 | Lot #376 FINLAND 1891-92 Coat of Arms, 7r black & yellow, used on locally addressed Helsinki 29.III.99 cover, philatelic but scarce single franking on cover, v.f.
Catalog #58 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #377 FINLAND 1898-1907 three Russian stationery cards including 3k (2) and 4k, also 4k on picture postcard, each with a different "Is Finlandi" (from Finland) handstamp in violet or black, sent from Helsingfors, via St. Petersburg, two used locally, others to England and New York, with St. Petersburg and Helsingfors cancels, fine group ("From Finland" handstamp was used in St. Petersburg 1898-1908 for mail from Finland not canceled at origin)
| Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #378 FINLAND 1901 Coat of Arms, 2p-10m set of six, l.h. or h.r., fine-v.f., * Catalog #64-69 Catalog Value $791 | Price Realized $230.00
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