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 #1161 RUSSIA 1912 (1 Mar) cover from St. Petersburg's Nikolai railway station to Yalta and forwarded to Sukhum. No postage was charged. Printed stationery with heading "Formed under the august patronage of His Imperial Majesty Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, the committee for the construction in St. Petersburg of a church in commemoration of the three-hundred-year reign of the house of Romanov." The handstamp on the back has the same wording (the Cathedral of the Fyodor Icon of the Mother of God was built on Poltavskaya street near the Nikolai station between 1911 and 1914. It was closed in 1932 and used as a dairy plant. After major restoration work the cathedral reopened in 2013), illustrated in Rossica No.171  | Price Realized $95.00 |
