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.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #440
GERMAN COLONIES German Offices in China Prisoner of War Mail
1916 (28 Feb) registered cover headed "Service des Prisonniers de Guerre", with "Tientsin Eingeschrieben" and Tientsin Deutsche Post departure cds, additional handstamps, addressed to Budapest, opened and resealed by censor, oval "Ouvert par L'Autorite Militaire 2-8", returned to sender, this time via the U.S. Post Office ("Registered Shanghai China") and New York, on to Berlin, again to USA, back to Manchuria, with Moukden (15 Sep) postmarks, also several different postal labels in German and Hungarian, no less than 17 postmarks on back, remarkably well preserved and interesting item
Envelope
Price Realized
$250.00

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