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 #1166 RUSSIA 1913 (24 Dec) postcard with New Year wishes sent from St. Petersburg by Alexandra Kossikovskaya (Dina) to Ferdinand Thormeyer in Carouge, Switzerland. The card shows one of Grand Duchess Olga's paintings, signed "OA 1912." (Dina was lady-in-waiting to Olga when she became the girlfriend of Olga's brother Grand Duke Michael. Michael wanted to marry her in 1906, but the Tsar refused, Dina was dismissed and the police prevented a secret marriage in 1907. She died destitute in Berlin in 1923)  | Unsold |
