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 #1103 RUSSIA 1891 (5 July) registered cover sent by the future Emperor Nicholas II to his cousin Prince George of Greece in Athens, forwarded to Bernstorff Palace in Gjentofte near Copenhagen. Inscribed "from the heir apparent Tsarevich.", postmarked at the Nizhny Novgorod railway station in Moscow, with Odessa, Athens, Brindisi, Copenhagen and Gjentofte transit and arrival markings. One 5k stamp has been removed (Nicholas was returning from his nine-month trip to Asia. While he was in Japan, an assassin who tried to kill him was thwarted by Prince George, his traveling companion. George returned to Europe via America while Nicholas went home via Siberia. George was the son of King George I of Greece. He lived with his uncle in Bernstorff Palace). Illustrated in Rossica No.171  | Price Realized $325.00 |
