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 #1086 RUSSIA 1874 (3 Jan) registered cover from the chancellery of Maria Feodorovna, wife of future Emperor Aleksander III, to the Viault Este women's shoe store in Paris, wax seals reading "Chancellery of Her Imperial Majesty the Tsarevna." Registered mail to France required five wax seals. The postage was paid in cash in the amount of 32 kopecks (2x10 kopecks for weight, 7 kopecks for registration, and 5 kopecks for a receipt). Illustrated in Rossica No.177 | Unsold |
