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 #1173 RUSSIA 1919 (28 Apr) registered cover sent from Yekaterinburg by Alexander Maximovich Simonov to Charles Sidney Gibbes, Secretary to the British High Commissioner in Siberia, at the British Consulate in Omsk, then forwarded by diplomatic bag to Vladivostok, with Yekaterinburg and Omsk (both of which were under White Russian control) transits, handstamped to indicate that postage of 1 ruble, 5 kopecks (the correct registered letter rate) was paid in cash, there being no stamps available. Also with manuscript "opened by me H. Davison." (Simonov was editor and publisher of the newspaper "Yekaterinburg Week" and until 1917, a member of the city council. Gibbes had been the English tutor of Tsar Nicholas's children. In January 1919, he accepted a position with Sir Charles Eliot, British High Commissioner in Siberia. He moved to Omsk briefly and then on to Vladivostok. Hugh Davison was British vice-consul in Vladivostok)  | Unsold |
