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 #1142 RUSSIA 1906 (14 May) postcard sent from Milford Haven, Wales to Charles Gibbes in St. Petersburg, with arrival docketing. Also included is an autograph cover and notecard sent in 1901 by Countess Elizaveta Vladimirovna Saburova Mr. Gibbes, who was at her daughter Alexandra Andreyevna Shidlovskaya's Volchy estate near Volokonovka (Gibbes, an 1899 Cambridge graduate, taught English in Russia from 1901, and served as the English tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1908 to 1918. He accompanied the Imperial family when they were sent to Siberia in 1917 and was one of the first to visit their execution site in Yekaterinburg in the summer of 1918. Afterwards he lived in Harbin where he converted to Russian Orthodoxy and became a priest, adopting the name Nicholas in honor of the late Tsar. He returned to England in 1937)  | Unsold |
