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 #944 SAUDI ARABIA 1941 CASOC (California-Arabian Standard Oil Co.), four covers to the United States, various franking, one sent via Singapore, another routed via Lagos, Nigeria, each opened by censor, three showing the return address of "Bahrein Island, Persian Gulf", fine  | Price Realized $150.00 | |
| Lot #945 SAUDI ARABIA 1960-76 Buqqa Oil & Gas Separating Plant Issue, specialized collection on exhibit pages, with used and unused singles, including high values, imperforate pairs (6), blocks of four (12), proofs of center and frame, Essays produced by Dar El Asfahani (the official Saudi stamp printer), plate flaws and other varieties, including double printing, also 19 covers, both domestic and to USA, fine collection, with many seldom offered items *OCatalog #227/341 | Price Realized $2,300.00 | |
| Lot #946 SAUDI ARABIA 1976-1986 Al Khafji Oil Drilling Platform, specialized collection on exhibit pages, including unique hand painted Essay (from the printer's files) for the 2 riyal value, color errors, double impressions, horizontal gutter pairs, perforation shifts, imperforate pairs (8) and imperforate gutter pairs (3), inverted watermarks, 20+ covers, re-issued values, 1986 hand painted Essay for the 20th Anniversary of Oil Discovery stamp, some covers, etc. A fine collection, with many extremely rare items included *OCatalog #731/751 | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
