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 #1124 RUSSIA 1901 (3 Nov) money letter sent by Andrey Alekseyevich Kudinov from St. Petersburg to Copenhagen. The letter contained 303 rubles. Postage was 75k (20k for weight, 40k for insurance, 10k for registration and 5k for sealing wax). The correct insurance fee was 30 kopecks. The letter was mailed at the 11th city postal branch office which was the closest to the Anichkov Palace (in 1878, Kudinov was appointed chamber-Cossack (bodyguard) of future Empress Maria Feodorovna. He lived in the Anichkov Palace in her service until his death in 1915. In 1912 Tsar Nicholas II commissioned Faberge to make a statuette of Kudinov)  | Unsold |
