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 #858 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, canceled "128" in rectangle of dots (Kremenets), margins all around, v.f., signed Diena O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #859 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, three singles, one with portion of adjoining stamp at left, but cut in at right, canceled on piece by Odessa datestamp, other canceled "354" (Olgopol) in rectangle of dots; last one with straight line and manuscript cancels, creases and other minor flaws, otherwise fine O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $475.00 | |
| Lot #860 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, canceled by "6" (Narva) in rectangle of dots, also another with boxed "Odessa" datestamps, each with margins all around, minute flaws, fine-v.f., O Catalog #1 Catalog Value $1,700 | Price Realized $350.00 | |
| Lot #861 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, large and even margins all around, canceled on piece, fresh and v.f. O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $250.00 | |
| Lot #862 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, canceled on piece by pre-philatelic DERPT pmk, fine O Catalog #2 | Price Realized $140.00 | |
| Lot #863 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, thin paper, well centered, canceled on piece by "6" in oval of dots cancel of border post office in Odessa, stamp lifted for inspection and replaced, v.f., with 1994 Mikulski certificate O Catalog #2 | Unsold | |
| Lot #864 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thick paper, used, bright colors, fine, O Catalog #3 Catalog Value $1,700 | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #865 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thin paper, neat numeral cancel, well centered, fine and attractive stamp, with 1970 Diena certificate, O Catalog #3 Catalog Value $1,700 | Price Realized $475.00 | |
| Lot #866 RUSSIA 1866 30k carmine & green, block of four, n.h., post office fresh, fine-v.f.,  **Catalog #25 Catalog Value $1,100 | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #867 RUSSIA 1883 14k blue & rose, horizontally laid paper, Center Inverted, light and unobtrusive "Tarasha" cds, corner perforation crease at lower left, with handstamp on back, 1929 Royal and 2018 Buchsbayew certificates, O Catalog #36b Catalog Value $6,250 | Unsold | |
| Lot #868 RUSSIA 1909 7k blue, imperforate horizontal pair, small h.r., large margins all around, fresh and v.f., signed Kosack, Romeko, etc., rare, * Catalog #78b Catalog Value $2,500 | Price Realized $1,250.00 | |
| Lot #869 RUSSIA 1918 Chainbreakers, 35k blue, imperforate horizontal pair, l.h., minor gum toning, slightly showing on front, also 70k brown, top sheet margin imperf. single, l.h., offered as a trimmed "fantail", plus a set of singles (catalogue value for 149a only) * Catalog #149-50,149a Catalog Value $1,600 | Unsold | |
| Lot #870 RUSSIA 1922 20r on 15k imperforate, lithographed surcharge, position 34, l.h., v.f., with handstamped guarantee, 1994 Mikulski certificate, * Catalog #224 Catalog Value $9,500 | Price Realized $2,300.00 | |
| Lot #871 RUSSIA 1928 100th Anniversary of birth of Leo Tolstoy (stamps were never issued), 10k, 14k, 18k (two) and 28k black, perforated photo essays, five different, each mounted on card, four with values confirmed in red ink, two showing corrections in Chinese ink, 28k with corner fault, otherwise fine-v.f., probably unique, with 2019 Liapine certificates E | Unsold | |
| Lot #872 RUSSIA 1931-34 three Registered covers from Moscow to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, each with Foreign Exchange officials added on reverse, Genova or Aden transit marks on back, uncommon destination  | Unsold | |
| Lot #873 RUSSIA 1939 30k on 4k claret (unwatermarked), top sheet margin horizontal strip of three, n.h., fine, with 1995 Dieter Wassman certificate, ** Catalog #743a Catalog Value $1,575 | Unsold | |
| Lot #874 RUSSIA 1946 1r (Medal for defense of the Caucasus), horizontal pair imperf. between, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 977Pa, 80,000Rub) ** Catalog #1072var | Price Realized $500.00 | |
| Lot #875 RUSSIA 1946 10k green (Oil Derricks), vertical pair imperf. between, used, v.f. (Zagorsky 992Pc, 50,000Rub) O Catalog #1076var | Price Realized $325.00 | |
| Lot #876 RUSSIA 1958 60k (Industrial Exhibition), imperf. bottom sheet margin single, unused without gum as issued, n.h., v.f., signed Romeko (Zagorsky 2021Pa, 45,000Rub) ** Catalog #2030var | Price Realized $375.00 | |
| Lot #877 RUSSIA 1958 40k (Azerbaijan), variety imperf. at top, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 2148Pa, 30,000Rub) ** Catalog #2129var | Price Realized $350.00 | |
| Lot #878 RUSSIA 1958 Mendeleyev Congress, 40k Butlerov and 1957 40k Mendeleyev commemorative, both with the special unissued overprint, n.h., v.f., the latter signed Mikulski. The Congress was canceled and the two stamps were never issued to the public ** | Unsold | |
| Lot #879 RUSSIA 1958 Mendeleyev Congress, 40k Butlerov with the special unissued overprint, n.h., v.f. The Congress was canceled and the stamp was never issued to the public ** | Unsold | |
| Lot #880 RUSSIA 1959 250th Anniversary of Victory at Poltava, unissued 40k brown & gray violet, n.h., v.f., signed Raybaudi, with his 2005 certificate ** | Unsold | |
| Lot #881 RUSSIA 1962 Sabir, 4k inscribed "Azerbajanin" in error (instead of "Azerbaijan") at top, lower left sheet corner margin block of four, n.h., v.f., extremely rare (only 250 stamps issued, few blocks recorded) ** | Unsold | |
| Lot #882 RUSSIA 1990 Capitals, imperforate blocks of four, 12 different (missing Frunze; Riga and Erevan do not exist imperf.), n.h., v.f. **Catalog #5854/5868var | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #883 RUSSIA 1981 60th Anniversary of Adzhar Autonomous Soviet Republic, 4k imperforate vertical pair, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 5114Pa) ** Catalog #4933var | Unsold |
