1893 (24 Sep) cover franked with 5s ultramarine, tied by "Yokohama Meiji" cds and addressed to Shanghai, transit pmk of "Kobe-Meiji", small defect, otherwise fine, with transit & arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $230-250
U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
Welcome to our June 2014 Sale, with 1667 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World.
This four-session auction commences with quality United States, with unused examples of Scott's Nos. 2 and 12, both with original gum, Special Printings, inverted Candle and Stock Exchange errors, Zeppelin Plate Blocks, Postage Dues and Revenues. Autographs of Jefferson, Napoleon, Peter the Great, Roosevelt, Marylyn Monroe and others are featured as well.
The foreign section includes China (good selection of Dowagers, ex-Holcombe), Scandinavian countries, with Denmark, Finland and Sweden, France and Colonies, Germany and German Colonies, Great Britain (with another unused 10sh Edward I.R. Official), British North America (Newfoundland with unused De Pinedo, Balbo double impression and Martynside flight covers), British Commonwealth, Baltic Countries, Italy and Italian Colonies, Korea, Poland, Russia (with an exceptional collection of Imperial Postal History offered intact) and Soviet Union, Switzerland and many others.
As always there are over 120 lots of Large Lots and Collections.
The entire sale is online, with additional images added daily and on request.
This is a public auction taking place live at our 57th Street Galleries and online at CherrystoneLIVE. A limited number of printed catalogues are available. Cherrystone Auctions 119 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 [email protected]
Lot #1069 - Japan
Lot #1070 - Japan
1894 Silver Wedding of Emperor Meiji, 5s ultramarine, eight singles, n.h., fine-v.f. (Sakura 2) -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1071 - Japan
1905 cover franked with 8s blue lilac, various red chops on both sides, v.f. -
Estimate price: $140-150
Lot #1072 - Japan flight covers
1917 (28 Mar) picture postcard to France, bearing a violet cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise D'Aeronautique Au Japon - Le Chef de Mission", v.f. and rare card from the French Air Force unit in Japan during World War I -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1073 - Japan flight covers
1919-26 1 1/2s blue, used with additional franking on picture postcard, also 11 additional cards (mostly picture postcards), usually first flights including five issued by the Aero-Philatelic Society of Japan to commemorative First Flight Osaka-Dairen (1926), fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1074 - Japan flight covers
1928 (3 Apr) First Flight Tokyo to Paris by Costes and Le Brix, stationery envelope of "The Imperial Hotel of Tokyo", violet "Raid : Tokyo a Paris" cachet, addressed to the pilot, v.f., with "Bourget Aviation 14.4.28" arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1075 - Japan flight covers
1928 (3 Apr) First Flight Tokyo to Paris by Costes and Le Brix, stationery envelope of "The Imperial Hotel of Tokyo", violet "Raid : Tokyo a Paris" cachet, addressed to the pilot, v.f., with "Bourget Aviation 14.4.28" arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $450-500
Lot #1076 - Japan japanese forces in siberia
1923 (January), military star stationery postal card, cancelled FPO 50 from soldier 1st Corps Aleksandrovsk Defense Force, North Sakhalin to Ogata Gun, fine and rare (after the Russo-Japanese War, Russia and Japan signed the Treaty of Portsmouth of 1905, which saw the southern part of the island below 50th parallel north reverting to Japan; Russia retained the other three-fifths of the area. During the Siberian Intervention, Japan briefly...
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