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 #1102 RUSSIA 1891 (29 Jan) registered cover sent from St. Petersburg by Prince Alexander Petrovich Oldenburgsky to Charles Rabourdin in Hericy, France, with embossed seal reading, "Offices of the Courts of His Highness Prince Alexander Petrovich of Oldenburg and His Wife, Her Imperial Highness Princess Eugenia Maximilianovna." (the prince was the great-grandson of Tsar Paul I, and the Princess was the granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I. The prince's son, Peter Alexandrovich, married Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Tsar Nicholas II, in 1901. Prince Alexander was an adjutant general, commander of the Imperial Guard and medical chief of the Russian Army in WWI. Rabourdin, a Crimean War veteran, was an archaeologist and poet)  | Unsold |
