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 #5182 GERMANY Allied Occupation Issues 1945-49 "Restoration of Civil Mail Service in Allied Occupied Germany", large, all-encompassing exhibit of 270+ covers or cards, extensively described on 144 pages, starting with forerunners (two Third Reich covers serviced by Allied Military Post Office), Soviet Zone, with "Pochta" stamp on cover from Dresden to Meissen, "Postage Paid in Cash" covers and cards, Soviet Provisional Issues for Saxony, Hitler stamps blacked out and used on covers and cards from Dresden, Chemnitz, Zwickau, Weissbach and Auerswalde. Berlin-Brandenburg issues, East Saxony Numerals and Reconstruction Semi-Postals, both philatelic and commercial mail, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern locals, Saxony Land Reform and Reconstruction Issues, Numerals, "People's" Solidarity stamps, West Saxony Pictorials, Leipzig Fair Presentation sheet with folder, Thuringia Pictorials, Weimar National Theater souvenir sheets, extensive selection of AMG issues on cover, both British and German printings, censored mail, uses from Berlin, Postal Rates, mixed franking combinations with Allied Control Commission issues, perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets on registered covers, various definitives, high value frankings, French Zone General Issues, Baden, Rhineland, Wurttemberg, extensive Bizone Currency Reform overprints, complete set of 52 and unissued 1m-5m values, used (with handstamped guarantee marks, but would have to be re-expertized), variety of combination covers, studies of postal rates, Buildings issues, "Help Berlin" and other Commemoratives, Berlin overprints and Commemoratives on various covers (many addressed to Alfred Kugel), Saar with many better stamps on cover, Soviet Currency Reform handstamped overprints on cover, Goethe souvenir sheet on Registered cover, definitives series and finally the first Bundestag set on stationery lettersheet. A splendid presentation, wealth of material, many rare and seldom offered items included, excellent value  | Price Realized $5,000.00 | |
 | Lot #5183 GERMANY Allied Occupation Issues 1948 Buildings Series definitives, 2pf-5M, complete set of 28 (16pf and 24pf duplicated), used on four "Alfred Kugel" covers, registered and flown (4-5 Jan 1949) to USA, attractive group | Price Realized $230.00 |
