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 #1093 RUSSIA 1886 (28 May) residency permit issued by the Liteiny Women's Gymnasium under the auspices of the Office of the Institutes of Empress Maria. The certificate grants Mr. Thormeyer, a French language teacher at the Gymnasium, permission to live anywhere in the Russian Empire for a period of one year starting 2 October 1885. It is signed by the school's inspector and bears the school seal. A 60 kopeck revenue stamp was attached on front and on back is a 30k St. Petersburg city government stamp, canceled by a police hs, also showing Thormeyer's address. A second police hs gives his address as the Peterhof palace (Thormeyer was hired as the French tutor for the children of Emperor Alexander III on 14 August 1886 when the Imperial family was at the Peterhof palace, their summer residence) | Unsold |
