Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World
March 18-19, 2025
Welcome to our March 2025 Sale of U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History, taking place Tuesday and Wednesday, March 18-19 at our Teaneck galleries and over the internet via CherrystoneLIVE. The auction highlights are quite numerous, beginning with a solid section of United States including many rarities and graded items. There are outstanding collections of Albania, France, Germany & Colonies, featuring Part I of the extensive collection of Japanese Prisoner of War Camps for captured German soldiers at Tsingtao. Rarities from Italy & Colonies include Offices in China, Oltre-Giuba and others. There are Krakow overprints from Poland, original Artist drawings of the World War II "Gorale" issue, exceptional collections of Russia, Liechtenstein, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, as well as South and Central American countries. There is a collection of "Petroleum and Oil Exploration" on stamps, formed by Dr.Peter Scholle and presented exhibition style on pages, showing rarities from the Middle East and Gulf States. From Egypt, you will find the complete set of Port Fouad in sheets. As always, there are nearly 200 large lots and collections, ranging from single country albums to specialized collections, multi-carton worldwide properties and large cover lots.
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| Lot #392 FRENCH COLONIES Tahiti 1848 (8 Aug) stampless letter to London, datelined "Tahiti Aug 8, 1848" and addressed to the Treasurer of the London Missionary Society, showing arrival pmk (March 13, 1849), manuscript due markings, fine and scarce missionary letter sent by Alexander Chisholm (a missionary with the London Missionary Society in the South Seas from 1842 to 1860. He and his wife arrived in Tahiti in 1843, were reassigned to Samoa and returned back to Tahiti and settled at Hitiaa. In 1852 they retired to Raiatea, where they continued as missionaries until 1860)  | Unsold |
