1857 1k green and rose, plate essay on wove paper, cut octagonally, with full round margins and perfect embossing, fresh and v.f. essay, rare -
Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
Welcome to our September 9-10 sale, with 1228 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.1 and 2, both with original gum, Special Printings, inverted centers 1869 and Pan-Americana, Inverted Jenny, flight covers and more.
The foreign section includes specialized Egypt Zeppelin flight covers, Scandinavian countries, with Denmark, Finland and Sweden, France and Colonies, Germany and German Colonies, Great Britain (with many rarities, all with BPA certificates), British North America (excellent group of postal history ex-Wilkinson), British Commonwealth, Baltic Countries, Italy and Italian Colonies, Korea, Poland, Russia, Switzerland and many others.
As always there are many Large Lots and Collections, with an exceptional selection of Reference material and cover lots.
Lot #911 - Russia
1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, tied by "9" in oval of dots on FL from Tauroggen (today Taurage) to Riga, with boxed 1858 departure datestamp (also on back), with boxed "Polucheno 27 Sept 1858" arrival on back, usual filing fold well away from the stamp, fine and attractive Russia Number One on cover from Lithuania, ex-Matuzas -
Lot #912 - Russia
1857 10k brown and blue, margins all around, tied by framed "Tauroggen 15 Mar 1858" datestamp on outer folded letter to St. Petersburg, usual filing folds away from the stamps, v.f. Russia Number one cover, signed Bolaffi, Diena -
Lot #913 - Russia
1858 30k carmine & green, unused (regummed), good color and perforations, fine -
Lot #914 - Russia
1866 1k black, imperforate plate essay inscribed "Proba" in Cyrillic letters, with central "Epreuve de Timbre" in French, with herringbone pattern in margins, also another similar essay, with orange background with numerals "1", v.f., scarce pair of essays, with Mikulski certificate -
Lot #915 - Russia
1866 1k black, imperforate plate essay inscribed "Proba" in Cyrillic letters, with central "Epreuve de Timbre" in French, with herringbone pattern in margins, incomplete at right, also another similar essay, with orange background with numerals "1", v.f., scarce pair of essays -
Lot #916 - Russia
1875 20k blue & orange, horizontal pair, right stamp crossed "T" variety, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 32,32Ka) -
Cat. Val. $ 720
Lot #917 - Russia
1876 (10 Apr) postal card from Reval to Chemnitz, franked with two examples of 2k vertically laid paper, tied by cds, with departure postmark on back, arrival on front, fine and rare usage -
Lot #918 - Russia
1880 (Oct) outer FL from Riga to Amsterdam, paying 42k with 6x7k (horizontally laid paper), filing folds through one, otherwise fine, with arrival pmk -
Lot #919 - Russia
1884 7k blue, imperforate single, good color and margins, h.r., thin, otherwise fine, signed Mikulski (Zagorsky 35Pa) -
Cat. Val. $ 1,200
Lot #920 - Russia
1887 1r gray blue & brown, imperforate die essay on thin card, large central oval with blue network, center embossed, fresh and v.f., rare, signed Mikulski -
Lot #921 - Russia
1906 (vertically laid paper) 5r green and blue, sheet corner margin block of four, perf. separations, stamps n.h., v.f. -
Lot #922 - Russia
1909 15k blue, trial color proof, horizontal pair, n.h., right stamp creased, otherwise v.f., with Mikulski certificate -
Lot #923 - Russia
1917 (25.10) registered bank business cover from Moscow to Gomel (today second-largest city in Belarus), correctly franked with 35k, tied by cds, with additional Moscow (26.10) departure and Gomel (Mog.) arrival on 28th October, fine-v.f. A significant historical item used on the day of the Great October Revolution (on 7 November 1917, Vladimir Lenin led his revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government. Russia...
Lot #924 - Russia
1917 Currency stamps, 1k orange and 2k green, panes of 25, unused without gum as issued, v.f., -
Cat. Val. $ 1,500
Lot #925 - Russia
1918 (19 Sep) home-made cover registered in Verny (today Almaty in Kazakhstan) franked on back with Postal Fiscals 5k, 20k and 75k, paying the proper 1r, side flaps opened, fine-v.f., rare -
Lot #926 - Russia
1918 35k dark blue, upper left sheet corner margin single, variety imperf. at top, n.h., natural gum wrinkles, v.f. -
Lot #927 - Russia
1918 35k dark blue (100), apparently a complete sheet, used in combination with additional franking incl. Imperial Arms multiples, paying 63.50r on parcel card from Lyubintzy Novgorod Gouv. (23.11.19) to Petrograd, with invalidating punch holes applied to stamps and card, rare and unusual item -
Lot #928 - Russia
1918 70k red brown (40) including vertical strip of four on front, also panes of 16 and 20 on back, used in combination with imperf. 50k Imperial Arms, paying 28.50r on parcel card from Borovichi Novgorod Gouv. (22.11.19) to Petrograd, with arrival pmk (25.11), fine and rare -
Lot #929 - Russia
1918-19 selection of eight money transfer cards, franked with different combinations of postal fiscals 1k, 5k, 10k, also 50k, 5r,10r, 25r and 100r, used from Russian Central Asia incl. Novaya Bukhara, Chardzhui (Turkmenistan), Merke (Turkestan), Tomkak to Tashkent, Kokand (Fergana), also one from Kandalaksha to Petrozavodsk, etc., five are registered, some normal flaws, mostly fine-v.f., very rare group -
Lot #930 - Russia
1921 (5 Sep) registered cover sent without stamps from Odessa to the United States, bearing the rare provisional 3-line handstamp "Oplacheno Diengami", with postmaster's signature at bottom ("Paid in Cash" amount of 3,125rub filled in by hand), New York (6 Nov) arrival pmks on back, usual cover wear, fine example of pre-payment of postage in cash, during the uncertainty of post-revolutionary inflation era -
Lot #931 - Russia
1921 (27 Oct) small registered cover sent without stamps from Saratov to Leipzig, bearing "Von Ausland uber Berlin" registration label, Moscow transit and Leipzig (9.11) arrival pmks, framed "Pochtovyj Zbor" handstamp on back relative to the rate collected, with postmaster's signature -
Lot #932 - Russia
1921 (16 Jan) registered cover sent without stamps from Gaisin to Germany, with "Von Ausland uber Berlin" registration label, Moscow transit and Berlin (3.2) arrival pmks, manuscript "Collected 10,000r" (correct rate) and postmaster's signature (due to constantly changing postal rates, shortages of stamps resulted in manuscript notations "collected in cash", "paid cash" etc. These envelopes were not normally saved by collectors and are...
Lot #933 - Russia
1921 2r brown and 200r dark brown, each double impression, l.h. or n.h., v.f. -
Lot #934 - Russia
1921 250r violet, horizontal pair, double impression, creases and offsets on back, fine -
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