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 #1152 RUSSIA 1909 (14 Oct) registered postcard sent from Yalta by Albert Niquille, the Swiss tutor of Grand Duchess Ksenia's children, to Ferdinand Thormeyer in Carouge, Switzerland (the message reads, "Ai-Todor 13 Oct. 1909. Dear Monsieur Thormeyer, This photo will undoubtedly remind you of familiar territory. It is here that after having studied dry conjugations, we limbered our spines with archaeology. The day this photo was taken, the bottom of an amphora was unearthed. Needless to say, the news of this amazing discovery made a noise in Landerneau." Ksenia and her husband Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich lived at Ai-Todor, near Yalta. Niquille returned to Switzerland in the spring of 1917), illustrated in Rossica No.166  | Unsold |
