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.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #449 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Japanese Occupation 1916 (17 Nov) picture postcard ("Gruss von den Karolinen-Inseln") addressed to Mr. Werner, German Embassy, Peking, franked with Japanese 3s and pair of 1/2s (tiny perf. toning), tied by YAP 5.11.16 (17 Nov 1916) "Kansenyubinsho" Warship post office pmk, framed censor cachet at left, with ms docketing and arrival markings, fine and rare usage from a German missionary on Yap, with a detailed 2017 Florian Eichhorn certificate (in 1919, the Japanese forcibly expelled the last of the German missionaries stationed in Yap, thus ending the Capuchin period on Western Carolines)  | Price Realized $550.00 | |
| Lot #450 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Japanese Occupation 1917 (26 July) Prisoner of War cover addressed to a sailor "Wilhelm" of "S.M.S. Jaguar" at POW Camp Narashino, sent from "Ponape", with Naval Post Office departure pmk, various directional and censor markings, usual cover wear, accompanied by a photograph of German POWs at Narashino, fine cover, one of six recorded from the same correspondence, with 2009 Eichhorn certificate (the Narashino POW camp was opened in 1915 to take some of the German navy and army personnel who had been captured by Japanese forces in the early stages of World War I at the fall of some of Germany's possessions in the Pacific Ocean, such as the Marshall and Mariana Islands) | Price Realized $800.00 | |
| Lot #451 GERMAN COLONIES Caroline Islands Japanese Occupation 1928 (16 Oct) registered cover to Boston, USA, franked with pair of Tazawa 10s blue, tied by "Ponape" departure cds, with Yokohama transit alongside, showing return address of "J.R. Hoppin, Jaluit, Marshall Isls", Registry label with Yokohama handstamp, violet "Passed Free U.S.Customs" and Boston (Nov 24) arrival pmks, minor cover flaws, v.f., with 2008 Eichhorn certificate (after World War I, Japan received a League of Nations mandate to control the Caroline and Marshall Islands) | Unsold |
