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 #1130 RUSSIA 1903 (10 Sep) signed autograph postcard sent from the Imperial hunting preserve at Belovezh, by Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich to his former tutor in Carouge, Switzerland (the message reads, "10/23 Sept. 1903. My Dear Siocha (a nickname for Thormeyer), We leave today for Skernevitse (another hunting preserve). Sad to leave here. Hunting was remarkably good the whole time. In all, I killed 2 aurochs, 2 elk, 12 deer, 10 goats, 7 boars, 4 foxes, 1 rabbit. After tomorrow I leave from Warsaw for Libau and expect to be in Fredensborg (Denmark) by Sunday. Goodbye. Your M. A."). The photograph shows the Imperial Belovezh palace, illustrated in Rossica No.166  | Price Realized $190.00 |
