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 #5361 RUSSIA Russo-Japanese War 1904-05 selection of 33 covers or cards, some on exhibit pages, with representative items from Liaoyang FPO, violet cachet of Manchurian Army on card from Mukden to Warsaw, another from Mukden to Anichkov Palace in St. Petersburg, FPO 4 red-band envelope to Russia, two cards from Russo-Dutch Medical Detachment, markings of "Klyukvennaya" and "Makushino", Field Post Office cover from a Japanese soldier in Korea, two Gunji Yubin cards, FPO 1 postcard and cover from Japanese Occupied Sakhalin, British Military Observer cover addressed to Lt Col Wingate, Deputy Assistant Adjutant General Intelligence, North China Command in Tientsin, Post War cards from Japanese Occupied Dairen and Port Arthur, as well as miscellaneous items, some ex-Dr.Casey, mixed condition, excellent basis for further study and expansion  | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
