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 #1170 RUSSIA 1916 (31 Dec) official card sent by the Chancellery of Her Imperial Majesty Alexandra Feodorovna and the "Administrative Office of the August Children of Their Imperial Majesties", in the Winter Palace in Petrograd, to a prisoner Semyon Averyanov in the Saratov temporary hard labor prison. With the only recorded example of the postmark of the "Petrograd Winter Palace telegraph office" and handstamp of the "Chancellery of Her Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna". The printed message on the back reads, "Notice. By command of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, your petition has been forwarded by the director of the Chancellery of Her Imperial Majesty to the Minister of War." The handstamp, dated 9 January, reads, "This information has been given to me.", signed by Averyanov and Deputy Warden Nazarov. Averyanov was probably freed by the Provisional Government's amnesty in March 1917. Illustrated in Rossica No.171  | Price Realized $250.00 |
