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 #1105 RUSSIA 1893 (14 May) cover from Washington DC to Colonel and Mrs. William P. Orr in Piqua, Ohio, with enclosed invitation from Senator and Mrs. Calvin S. Brice to a dinner and ball for Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich at the Corcoran House on Lafayette Square. The Grand Duke, who arrived in New York on 25 April, was on a goodwill visit in honor of the 400th anniversary of America's discovery, and to thank the USA for its help during the Russian famine of 1892. (Orr was an Ohio businessman and Brice represented Ohio in the Senate from 1891 to 1897, during which time he rented the Corcoran House), illustrated in Rossica No.177  | Unsold |
