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 #818 ISRAEL - WORLD WAR II and HOLOCAUST 1941 four registered covers from USA to Camp de Gurs, Basses Pyrenees, France, addressed to either "Monsieur Le Commandant" or "Officer in Charge", transit and arrival pmks, some with German censor markings (The French government established the Gurs camp before war with Germany and well before the occupation of France in June 1940. Originally, Gurs served as a detention camp for political refugees and members of the International Brigade fleeing Spain after the Spanish Civil War. In early 1940, the French government interned about 4,000 German Jewish refugees as "enemy aliens," along with French leftist political leaders. In June 1940, Gurs fell under the authority of the Vichy regime, which eventually closed the camp in 1943. Almost 22,000 prisoners passed through Gurs, of whom over 18,000 were Jewish)  | Unsold |
