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 #826 POLAND 1850 (ca) cover from Michalowice to Warszawa, with perfect departure and "Franco" in red, arrival pmk on back, minor backflap tears, otherwise fine  | Unsold | |
| Lot #827 POLAND 1857 Imperial Russia, 10k brown & blue imperforate (No.1), previously used, cleaned and re-used from Warszawa, with "1" in concentric rings cancel, margins all around, good color, fine and extremely rare example of early Postal Fraud re-using the first stamp of Russia in Poland, signed Diena O | Price Realized $750.00 | |
| Lot #828 POLAND 1860 10k blue & rose, unused with full original gum, previously hinged, well centered for issue, perfectly defined pastel colors, splendid example of this rare unused stamp with original gum, superior quality, signed Herbert Bloch, also Alberto Diena, with his 1969 certificate (Fi.10,000zl for the cheapest shade) * Catalog #1 Catalog Value $2,400 | Price Realized $2,500.00 | |
| Lot #829 POLAND 1860 10k blue & rose, nice colors and intact perforations, usual centering, canceled by "1" in concentric circles (Warsaw), fresh and fine stamp, signed Diena O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $270.00 | |
| Lot #830 POLAND 1860 10k blue & rose, nice colors and intact perforations, usual centering, placed upside down (a common practice to show defiance of the Russian rulers) and tied by "1" in concentric circles on FL from Warsaw to Berdyczew, red Warszawa (in Cyrillic) "16.1." departure cds, fine and attractive Poland Number One on cover, signed Diena Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,300.00 | |
| Lot #831 POLAND 1919 90h red violet, pos.I4-22, l.h., fresh, v.f., signed Diena, Mikulski, etc., * Catalog #50 Catalog Value $1,500 | Price Realized $1,000.00 | |
| Lot #832 POLAND 1919 2kr blue, 3kr carmine, 4kr yellow green, l.h. or h.r., fine-v.f., signed Mikstein, Diena, etc., * Catalog #52-54 Catalog Value $402 | Price Realized $230.00 | |
| Lot #833 POLAND 1919 10kr violet, pos.IVB-10, h.r., perfect centering, fresh and v.f., signed Mikulski, with his 1972 certificate, * Catalog #55 Catalog Value $14,000 | Unsold | |
| Lot #834 POLAND 1919 25h blue, pos. IIB-81, minor h.r., well centered, v.f., signed Diena, Mikulski, etc., * Catalog #58 Catalog Value $2,000 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
