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
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 | Lot #1151 RUSSIA 1909 (10 Dec) autograph cover sent from St. Petersburg by Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna to Ferdinand Thormeyer at the residence of her brother Grand Duke Michael in Orel. Thormeyer was visiting his former pupil, who from 1909-1911 was in semi-exile in Orel as commander of the 17th Chernigov Hussar Regt. The Tsar had transferred Michael to Orel in response to Michael's affair with Natasha Wulfert, a commoner  | Unsold |
