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 #5255 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces Abroad (Post World War I) 1918-20 collection on 19 exhibit pages, with 43 covers or cards, British military units in Occupied Central Powers, including Austria, Hungary, including cards from the gunboats patrolling the Danube from Budapest and Vienna, with "Received from H.M.Ship No Charge to Be raised" handstamps, British Naval Transport Office Fiume, etc., British troops in Bulgaria, also Germany, various FPO and censor markings, military mail, British Army of the Rhine, etc., fine and interesting military exhibit  | Unsold | |
 | Lot #5256 GREAT BRITAIN British Forces Abroad (Post World War I) 1919-20 collection on 15 exhibit pages, with 32 covers or cards, starting with a postcard sent from APO S.100, British contingent in Montenegro, cover from a member of the British Force in Belgrade, mail from British personnel in France, utilizing APOs S.2, S.4, S.87, S.48, S.38 and others, registered "On his Majesty's Service" cover from Paris, also Belgium, one with oval "Commandant of British Troops/Brussels" handstamp, various Field Post Offices, "British Military Intelligence Commission Brussels" handstamps, Luxembourg, Netherlands, card from Army Post office S.105 in Rotterdam, boxed Censor handstamp, three cards from Denmark, showing different postal markings applied in Copenhagen for mail from a small British contingent sent to assist in the evacuation of freed POWs from camps in Northern Germany, also three cards and cover from British Military Mission in Poland | Unsold |
