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 #1097 RUSSIA 1889 (8 Aug) cover and letter sent to Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich at his estate in Ilinskoye near Moscow, via Khimki station on the Nikolai Railway. Postmarked in Postal Wagon No.34 (Kostroma-Moscow rail line). The sender, Daria Tyutcheva, former lady-in-waiting to Empress Maria Alexandrovna (mother of Sergey and wife of Emperor Alexander II) informs Sergey about the illness of her sister Anna, who had been lady-in-waiting to Empress Maria from 1853 to 1858 (when Daria replaced her), after which she was Sergey's governess (Anna died on 11 August 1889 in Sergievsky Posad. Sergey was assassinated by a terrorist bomb in 1905. Anna and Daria were daughters of the poet Fyodor Tyutchev). Illustrated in Rossica No.177  | Price Realized $190.00 |
