The Alfred F. Kugel Collection, Part Three
February 11-12, 2025
Welcome to the third sale dedicated to material meticulously assembled by Alfred "Al" F. Kugel over a multidecade effort to build an expansive collection of philatelic and postal history items focused on military conflicts of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Upon his passing in 2022, Al Kugel entrusted the American Philatelic Society (APS) with his entire philatelic estate, including 180 boxes of philatelic literature and military postal history material. Much of the material offered across the first three sales has not appeared on the market for decades, many of the items originally acquired through Cherrystone Auctions, where Al was a frequent and valued client. Now, this exceptional collection returns to the marketplace, offering collectors a rare opportunity to acquire significant pieces enriched by Al's extensive scholarship and research.
Al's collection spans global conflicts and military mail from the late 19th century through modern times, with a focus on the break-up of Austrian, German, Ottoman Empire and Russian Empires, military campaigns in the Balkans, with Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Allied Interventions in China during the Boxer Rebellion and in Russia during the Civil War as well as the two World Wars and their aftermaths. An extraordinary array of regional Military and Naval mail from those violent actions form the core of Al's exhibits, China, Japan, and other nations.
This sale will take place via CherrystoneLIVE
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #5174 FRANCE French Forces Abroad Military Mail 1900-45 collection of 190 covers or cards, neatly written-up on pages, covering various French Military Campaigns. Markings included those from pre-WWI training camps, Troops on Maneuvers, Occupation of Territory of Quang-Tscheou-Wan, The Boxer Rebellion, including China Expeditionary Corps and Naval markings from Cruisers "D'Entrecasteux" and "Vauban", cover to a French POW at St. Helena during Boer War, French Occupation of North China (1902-22), including via Siberia during the Russo-Japanese War, French Naval presence on Yangtse River, etc. There are covers from the Conquest of the South Algerian Oases in the Sahara, with some rare military cachets, further territorial expansion, mail from Brazzaville, Bangui, French Congo, military correspondence from Central and Northern Sudan, Tombouctou, Niger, Bamako, etc. Conquest and the Protectorate of Morocco is well represented, also suppression of Revolt in South Tunisia, French Military Mission I Siberia; 1918-20 Re-occupation of Alsace-Lorraine, Rhineland, Upper Silesia, Armee Francaise du Levant, French Navy in Spanish waters, Indochina, South Vietnam, etc. An interesting history lesson  | Unsold |
