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 #1107 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS MIDDLE EAST 1969-2007 Petroleum Production, mostly Gulf States and Emirates, collection on exhibit pages, Abu Dhabi, stamps and Postal Stationery Aerogrammes, showing displaced surcharges, double overprints for use in the U.A.E., various issues from Dubai dedicated to oil exploration, "Specimen" overprints, multiples from De La Rue archives, 1969 Oil Production set of five Bromide Proofs of the artist's paste-ups (one of only two sets recorded); Ras Al Khaima, large composite master proof of Ras Al Khaima's offshore exploration stamp (20d), printed alongside 5d (Shaikh Saqr), also die proof and imperforate block of four, as well as printed stamps of 20d and same overprinted "76" (failure of the exploration effort led to withdrawal of the stamp, remainders were overprinted "76" and distributed to the Union Oil employees), Sharjah imperforate sheet of the 1964 World's Fair Issue, Boy Scout proof sets, also sets and covers from Syria, Oman, Yemen Arab Republic, some overprinted for the 1967 "Jordan Relief Fund", covers, souvenir sheets, plus miscellaneous other countries. A fine collection featuring unique and rare items from the Gulf States  *P | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
