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 #1101 RUSSIA 1890 (20 Dec) wrapper front sent from St. Petersburg to Grand Duke Sergey Mikhailovich on his brother's yacht "Tamara" care of the Russian Consulate in Colombo, Ceylon (Sergey and his brother, Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich, toured the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the Indian Ocean for seven months, until their mother's death on 31 March 1891 forced an early return to Russia. For an account of the trip, see "23,000 Miles in the Yacht "Tamara" by G. I. Radde. Sergey was murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918) | Unsold |
