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 #1150 RUSSIA 1909 (22 Dec) registered cover sent from Khabarovsk to Ferdinand Thormeyer in Carouge, Switzerland, then forwarded to Orel. When the cover arrived in Carouge, Thormeyer was visiting Grand Duke Michael in Orel. Thormeyer's brother Emile re-addressed and forwarded the cover to "Ferdinand Thormeyer with His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich in Orel, Russia," also adding his personal handstamp (the Tsar transferred Michael to Orel a few months earlier in response to his affair with Natasha Wulfert. The sender was Paul Pilicier, a native of Switzerland, who taught French at the Khabarovsk Women's Gymnasium and the Khabarovsk Corps of Cadets)  | Unsold |
