1861 Hermes, without figures on back, 1L chocolate, 2L bistre, 5L green, 20L blue, 40L violet, 80L carmine, six blocks of four, h.r., post office fresh, occasional wrinkles, v.f. and spectacular group of blocks
United States & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions United States & Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
We are pleased to present our November 18-19 sale, with 1,533 lots, including the Abraham Siegel stock of postal history of the world, as well as properties of numerous other vendors and estates sold by their order.
There are selections of attractive United States regular issues and commemoratives, Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia.
Great and Britain and British Commonwealth are highlighted by Canada 12p Victoria, as well as unused London-London 25c green & yellow, followed by the only known example on cover.
In addition, there are numerous rarities from Baltic Countries, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Russia, with seldom seen errors and varieties, gold-standard definitives on cover and Air Post.
As always, Cherrystone auctions include selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world.
The sale concludes with 140+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers.
Lot #793 - Greece
1861 1 Lepta chocolate, unused with original gum, large margins all around, h.r., v.f., signed Diena, -
Cat. Val. $600
Lot #794 - Greece
1861 (20 Dec) outer folded letter from Athens to Trieste, franked with 5L, 10L, 20L and 40L, each with margins all around, cancelled "31" (Kalamata), with 11/1 Trieste arrival postmark on back, lettersheet has been refolded, stamps v.f., signed Diena, with 1994 Roger Calves certificate. A wonderful four-color franking
Lot #795 - Greece
1861 20L blue and 10L red orange, each with margins all around, tied by "67" numeral cancels on outer FL from Syros (1 Nov), departure cds alongside, fine usage, with arrival postmark on back, signed Calves
Lot #796 - Greece
1861 10L red orange, blue, two slightly different shades, h.r., margins all around, tiny thin spots, still v.f., -
Cat. Val. $2,080
Lot #797 - Greece
1861 10L red orange, blue, two used singles, slightly different shades, margins all around, v.f., -
Cat. Val. $1,000
Lot #798 - Greece
1869 outer FL originating in Taganrog, addressed to Corfu, with 40L added in Kerkura on arrival, Constantinople cds alongside, stamp cut in at left, but brown "0" in first "40", reading "4C"
Lot #799 - Greece
1874 (29 Nov) FL from Messologion to Trieste, franked with two examples of 20L blue, plus diagonal strip of three of 5L (thin paper, numerals on back), right stamp diagonal half, usual margins (stamps were separated by hand rather than by scissor, hence marginal irregularities), fine and unusual 52 1/2L (?) rate, with Patras and Kerkura transit and Trieste arrival pmks, signed Diena
Lot #800 - Greece
1875 20L ultramarine, horizontal strip of three, right stamp "02" on back, folded, with scissor cuts between stamps, fine
Lot #801 - Greece
1896 Olympics, complete set, h.r., fine-v.f., -
Cat. Val. $1,784
Lot #802 - Greece
1896 Olympics, complete set used, fine-v.f., -
Cat. Val. $1,248
Lot #803 - Greece
1900 1d on 40L imperforate top sheet corner margin block of 10, also perforated, lower right sheet corner margin block of nine, stamps n.h., the latter with perf. irregularities at top, fine-v.f.
Lot #804 - Greece
1900-1901 Surcharges on Olympics stamps, set of five, n.h., fine-v.f., signed Diena (Karamitsos 165-169) -
Cat. Val. €2,440
Lot #805 - Greece
1906 Olympics, complete set, h.r., fine-v.f., -
Cat. Val. $516
Lot #806 - Greece
1906 Olympics, complete set, n.h., fine-v.f., scarce unhinged, -
Cat. Val. $1,500
Lot #807 - Greece
1917 Iris, imperforate horizontal pairs, complete set, also unissued 4d, fine-v.f.
Lot #808 - Greece
1934 Cruiser "Giorgios Averif", 3d violet & black, vertical imperforate pair, l.h. at top, bottom stamp n.h., v.f., with 2005 Sismondo certificate (Karamitsos 519a) -
Cat. Val. €2,500
Lot #809 - Greece
1933 Youth of Marathon, 50d-100d, set of three, n.h., v.f., -
Cat. Val. $1,800
Lot #810 - Greece
1933 Youth of Marathon etc., set of three, n.h., v.f., signed Buhler (Karamitsos 523-525, Euro 2,100) -
Cat. Val. $1,800
Lot #811 - Greece
1933 Apollo, 100d brown & green, sheet corner margin single, n.h., v.f.
Lot #812 - Greece
1934 Stadium, 8d blue block of four, perf. 11 1/2 : 12 1/2, n.h., v.f., -
Cat. Val. $800
Lot #813 - Greece
1940 Publicity release from the Greek Postal Administration with the entire set of 20 printed in color overleaf and described, fine-v.f., scarce
Lot #814 - Greece
1940 Greek Youth Organization, set of ten in blocks of four, n.h., 100d single toned perforation, otherwise fine-v.f. (Karamitsos 571-80) -
Cat. Val. €4,750
Lot #815 - Greece
1946-49 Venizelos 300d and Dodecanese Union, 1,000d imperforate sheets of 50, n.h., v.f., each probably unique as a full imperf. Sheet (Karamitsos 660a,694a, catalogue value for 25 imperforate pairs) -
Cat. Val. €8,250
Lot #816 - Greece
1951 St. Paul, blocks of four, overprinted "Akyron" in red, n.h., v.f.
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