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
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1224 RUSSIA Russian Offices in China 1909 (21 Aug) cover franked with 7k dark blue (red Kitai overprint) tied by Shanghai Poste Russe departure cds, repeated alongside, sent to a well known merchant in Bukhara, with elaborate violet handstamp and "Staraya Bukhara" arrival pmks, some cover edge faults, otherwise fine, uncommon destination (Bukhara from Shanghai)  | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1225 RUSSIA Russian Offices in China 1911 (30 Jan) underpaid picture postcard sent from Omsk to Chzhalantun Station, Chinese Eastern Railway, franked with 2x1k yellow, oval "Doplatit" (To Pay) applied in Omsk, with "2k" added in pencil, showing a perfect arrival strike of "Chzhalantun St.Kit.Vost.Zh.D.", v.f. and extremely rare usage, extraordinary incoming mail to Chalantung (an important center in northern Manchuria, handling all types of mail on Line 261/262, about mid-way between Harbin and Manchuli) | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1226 RUSSIA Russian Offices in China 1912 picture postcard, franked with 3k red, sent to Hailar, with well struck arrival in Hailar, station of the Chinese Eastern Railway (26 Feb 12), fine and scarce incoming mail to the Chinese Eastern Railway Station in Hailar (formerly a county-level city, Hailar is today an urban district that serves as the seat of the prefecture-level city Hulunbuir in northeastern Inner Mongolia) | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1227 RUSSIA Russian Offices in China 1915 (1 Aug) registered cover franked with 10k Semi-Postals, tied by Harbin departure cds, with two different Registry labels, one in Cyrillic, the other "Kharbin Poste Russe", sent to Switzerland, opened by censor in Irkutsk, with two corresponding handstamps, Petrograd transit and Zollikon arrival pmks on back, v.f., scarce usage of the Semi-Postal issue from Harbin | Price Realized $450.00 |
