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 #714 JAPAN Kumamoto POW Camp in Japan 1914-15 collection of 19 covers or cards from Kumamoto Temple POW Camp in Japan, including early mail to Germany, inter-camp correspondence Japan to Hong Kong, another to Himeji Camp, cover to Kiauchau, forwarded to the United States, various transit slips; card addressed to a crew member aboard ship at Shanghai, etc., some described on pages, fine and scarce group (this camp opened on 11th November 1914 and was closed on 9th June 1915, when 500 German POWs were transferred to Kurume Barracks. This Kumamoto camp was originally a POW camp used in the Russo-Japanese War)  | Price Realized $850.00 |
