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 #1134 RUSSIA 1904 (1 June) cover from St. Petersburg to Mt. Afon in Turkey. The envelope, stationery of the Chancellery of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the Administrative Office of the August Children of Their Imperial Majesties, is addressed to the father-superior of the Holy Monastery of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Virgin. The seal on back reads, "Chancellery of her Imperial Empress Alexandra Feodorovna". Imperial mail was postage-free only within Russia, so postage was due. Illustrated in Rossica No.171  | Price Realized $95.00 |
