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 #5257 GREAT BRITAIN British Occupation of Germany (Post World War I) 1919-27 collection on 21 exhibit pages, with 50+ covers or cards showing British military markings in Cologne, Army Post Office S40, oval "Army of the Rhine", "Local Commission for the British Occupation Zone", "Imperial War Graves Commission Rhine Area", "General Staff", "Rhine Army Dairy Farm", incoming mail to the BAOR, one from Italian Fieldpost Office in Smyrna, another from a German Civilian in Wiesbaden; Royal Air Force mail, one sent to London through APO S40 in Cologne, by a member of the No.2 Balloon Wing of the RAF, bag tag "to be dropped at Cologne"; Naval mail from Hamburg, Helgoland and Kiel, the latter with "Fortification Sub-Commission" cachet, Rhine Flotilla markings, Military Mission in Berlin cachets, Occupation of the Ruhr Valley, one with "Essel Coal. Bureau Reparation Commission" cachet, another with pre-printed "Inter-Allied Rhineland High Commission British Department A.P.O. S40 British Army of the Rhine" return address, Inter-Allied Aeronautical Commission, official O.H.M.S. cover from the Armaments Sub-Commission in Munster, with "A.P.O. G.R." Registry label (only a few recorded), plus others, interesting and uncommon presentation  | Unsold | |
 | Lot #5258 GREAT BRITAIN British Occupation of Germany (Post World War I) 1920-21 collection of 11 covers or cards from Upper Silesia, written-up on pages, with "H.Q. 1st Silesian Brigade British Silesian Force", "Interallied Commission Upper Silesia", different markings of the Controller of Railways, Army Post Offices, various frankings and destinations | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #5259 GREAT BRITAIN British Occupation of Germany (Post World War I) 1920-35 selection of seven covers or cards from Saar, written-up on pages, with a "Registered 4 1/2p" stationery envelope from Fieldpost 10 to another member of British Saar Force at Saarbrucken, H.Q. British Contingent Saar Force markings, inbound Military Mail, cover sent on the final day of the British Military Postal Service in Germany (FPO 10, 21 Feb 1935), etc., mixed condition (Michel €5,000) | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
