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 #239 AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE 1796 George Washington (1732-1799, U.S. President, General, leader of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, and the first to become U.S. President), signed ship's letter (15 3/4 x 12 3/4 inches, framed), text in three languages (English, French and Dutch), certifying the peaceful and legitimate voyage of the ship "Commerce" of Boston, carrying a cargo of rice and indigo, from Charleston, South Carolina to Falmouth, Massachusetts; signed and dated (5 February 1796) by Washington as President, also by Edmund Randolph, Secretary of State, other signatures of the port of Charleston authorities, notarized; printed on paper, completed by pen, with white embossed wafer seals of the United States and South Carolina, some intersecting folds and paper separations (partly mended on back), folds through the President's signature, still fine-v.f., strong presentation of George Washington's signature | Unsold |
