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 #340 EGYPT Zeppelin Flights 1931 Suez acceptance, unaddressed picture postcard (LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin), franked with 50M ("1951" error) lower right sheet corner margin single canceled 11 Apr 31 Cairo, with three additional cancels (Suez, Alexandria and Port Said) produced by the Egyptian Post Office for the visit of the Airship in 1931. This is probably a souvenir card presented to one of the Graf Zeppelin's officers or passengers, v.f. An extremely rare Zeppelin item from Egypt, one of a few known with Suez postmark  | Unsold |
