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 #710 JAPAN Fukuoka POW Camp in Japan 1914 (3 Aug) 5pf German stationery card sent to a soldier in Tsingtao, routed "via Siberia", with Shanghai Deutsche Post (26.10.14) transit, addressee already captured by the Japanese, with framed "Service des Prisonniers de Guerre" and "Fukuoka" POW forwarding hs, red Tsingtao and Fukuoka censor chops, fine and rare item  | Price Realized $850.00 | |
| Lot #711 JAPAN Fukuoka POW Camp in Japan 1914 (1 Oct) picture postcard from Augusburg, with 5pf Bavarian franking on picture side, addressed to a soldier in Tsingtao, who was already captured by the Japanese, with framed "Service des Prisonniers de Guerre" and "Fukuoka" POW forwarding hs, red Tsingtao and Fukuoka censor chops, fine and rare item | Price Realized $240.00 | |
| Lot #712 JAPAN Fukuoka POW Camp in Japan 1915-18 collection of 126+ covers or cards from Fukuoka POW Camp in Japan, some incoming mail, different destinations and excellent showing of censor marks, mostly well described on pages, plus others purchased individually at auction, many still with the original descriptions, Camp stationery lettersheets (rare), cards, receipt for mail and parcels, cover addressed to German Minister of the Navy (Admiral von Capelle), preprinted greetings cards, Money orders, parts of parcel wrappers, etc. An incredible holding, with many unique items, ex-Rungas, etc. (Fukuoka POW Camp was situated at the north of Kyushu and opened on the 11th November 1914. There were two subcamps, one for 25 senior officers, including the former Governor of Tsingtao, plus 40 orderlies, the other for enlisted men. The camp used Japanese seals in various colors on incoming and outgoing mail) | Unsold |
