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 #918 RUSSIA Telegraph Stamps 1866 20k black, red brown, perforated 12, full original gum, hinge remnant at top, well centered, with intact perforations on all sides, signed Alberto Diena, etc., v.f. There are about 10 of these recorded, most plagued by small defects. This example is absolutely sound, unusually fresh, certainly one of the best known, with 1949 Royal Philatelic Society certificate (Zverev T1, $35,000) (Zagorsky T1, 2,500,000Rub) * | Unsold | |
| Lot #919 RUSSIA Telegraph Stamps 1867 10k on 20k black, red brown, perforated 12, h.r., well centered, with intact perforations on all sides, fine and rare stamp, signed Romeko, Brun, Diena, etc. (Zagorsky T2, 125,000Rub) (Zverev $3,000) * | Unsold | |
| Lot #920 RUSSIA Telegraph Stamps 1867 10k on 20k black, red brown, perforated 12, unused with original gum, hinge remnants, well centered, with intact perforations on all sides, fine and very rare, with 1997 Sorani certificate (Zagorsky T2, 125,000Rub) * Catalog #YT 2 | Unsold |
