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 #144 United States 1930-79 Issues 1931 Postal Counterfeits, 2c carmine Perf. 11.65, block of 12, n.h., fine-v.f., rare,  **Catalog #634 (CF1) Catalog Value $2,700 | Price Realized $450.00 | |
| Lot #145 United States 1930-79 Issues 1931 Postal Counterfeits, 2c carmine Perf. 11.65, block of 32, n.h., some perf. separations at bottom, fine-v.f., rare multiple, **Catalog #634 (CF1) Catalog Value $7,200 | Price Realized $900.00 | |
| Lot #146 United States 1930-79 Issues 1931 Yorktown, 2c carmine red & black, variety "black color omitted", n.h., fine, with 2017 PFC stating "it is a genuine, never hinged Scott 703 variety, with faint albino impression of each vignette portrait, but with faint traces of black in the lower left area of the left vignette, and at the bottom of the right vignette". In both cases, these "traces of black" are virtually impossible to see. A spectacular variety ** Catalog #703var | Price Realized $900.00 | |
| Lot #147 United States 1930-79 Issues 1944 (9 Aug) Prisoner of War card (little reduced at top) to Germany, sent by an inmate in Camp Papago Park, with U.S. Censor and German "Gepruft" cachet handstamped on arrival (a POW facility located in Papago Park in the eastern part of Phoenix. It consisted of five compounds, four for enlisted men and one for officers. Called "Schlaraffenland" - "the land of milk and honey", by its mostly U-boat-crew inmates)  | Price Realized $140.00 | |
| Lot #148 United States 1930-79 Issues 1979 15c John Paul Jones, with dramatic perforation shift resulting in text nearly omitted at bottom, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #1789var | Price Realized $120.00 |
