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 #1043 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMAN COLONIES 1889-1915 balance of a collection, with a nice showing of German Offices in China forerunners, mostly on pieces, Morocco cancels, including few scarcer towns, also six covers or cards, including British and Belgian Occupation of German East Africa, German New Guinea, Cameroun British C.E.F. 1/2d (6) on cover from Duala, French Togo, "Specimen" overprints, complete Yacht sets from German South-West Africa and Caroline Islands, plus "Lost Colonies" (19 different labels), some Kaiser's Yacht forgeries, three unused Morocco multiples, showing HAN and other marginal markings, etc.  O | Unsold | |
| Lot #1044 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS GERMAN COLONIES 1907-20 collection on pages, 30+ covers or cards displayed to show different usages prior to and during WWI, including ship mail (card from Kiauchau to a passenger on-board "Seydlitz" in Ceylon; Japanese stationery card to "SMS Tiger"; "Tsingtau-Gr.Hafen" card to "Iltis"), mail to German POWs in Japan, before and after the outbreak of War, late mail to troops in Kiauchau, POW covers from Japan, War-time military mail, covers to German wounded in Hong Kong and Australia, Japanese Red Cross covers to Switzerland, censor cachets and labels, Camp seals, etc. A well presented and meticulously described study | Price Realized $950.00 |
