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United States - International Registration Labels

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Lot Description

5001

1904 (11 Mar) 90c stationery entire envelope, registered from Boston to Tsingtau, China, sent via Seattle, where Registry Exchange label was added (only 10 recorded), handstamped "Return Receipt Requested", with "Old Home Week" labels, transit and Tsingtao (15 Apr) arrival pmks on back, scarce inbound registered mail from the United States to Kiauchau (Image) (image 5001a)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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United States Postal Agency in Shanghai, China

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5002

1905 (1 Aug) American Postal Agency Shanghai, China, Official Business legal size envelope sent free of postage to Postmaster, Seattle, Wash., with "Registered U.S. Postal Agency Shanghai, China" datestamp, transit and arrival pmks on back, fine (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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United States Intervention in China

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5003

1900-41 Postal History of the American Forces in China, exhibit documenting the history of the American military involvement in China, from participation in the multinational intervention to suppress the Boxer Uprising until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The story gives emphasis to the large variety of postal markings used on mail from the U.S. Army, Navy and Marine personnel deployed to China, with earliest and latest known postmarks, Registered mail, incoming markings, various Military Stations, studies of rates and other relevant information, eloquently conveyed by Mr. Kugel, who spent several decades acquiring this material. The collection includes a cover from General Chafee (commander of the U.S. forces in China Relief Expedition) to General Randolph in South Carolina, forerunner mail sent through the Japanese Post Office, U.S. Postal Station in Tientsin, registered cover from Germany, with rare "Received Military Postal Station No.1 China" pmk (less than 5 recorded), plus many others. With over 180 covers and cards, this collection can be easily transformed into a gold-medal presentation. For a complete video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045102207

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Current Opening Price...$4,500.00
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5004

1900 (20 Sep) Legation of the United States of America, Peking, China diplomatic cover sent from Peking without postage, assessed Postage Due of 2 cents when handled at the Military Postal Station in Tientsin, with "Due Cents" and "2" in blue crayon, returned to sender, with Oct.4 M.P.S. No.1 arrival, fine, one of the only two (!) recorded examples of the Due marking on China Relief Expedition mail (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5005

1900 (20 Sep) cover to Port Carbon, Pa, endorsed "Soldier's Mail", franked with C.E.F. Indian stamps prepaying the UPU rate, nevertheless not recognized and assessed Postage Due of 2 cents when handled at the Military Postal Station in Tientsin, with "Due Cents" and "2" in blue crayon, fine, with arrival (21 Oct) pmk on back, one of the only two (!) recorded examples of the Due marking on China Relief Expedition mail (Image)

Current Opening Price...$700.00
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5006

1904 (30 June) cover from New York to Kobe, Japan, franked with 5c Louisiana-Purchase, seized by the Russians during its Trans-Pacific journey on "S.S. Calchas", recaptured during the Russian retreat from Southern Manchuria in August, when it received "Delayed in Transmission having been Intercepted by Russians on board "CALCHAS", various blue crayon markings, finally arriving Kobe on 9 Sep 04, filing fold and some hinge marks, interesting cover used during the Russo-Japanese War (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5007

1905 (28 July) cover from Captain John Pershing (later General "Black Jack" Pershing, commander of the AEF in WWI), an observer in the Russo-Japanese War attached to General Kuroki Tamemoto's Japanese First Army in Manchuria, initially addressed to his wife care of American Legation in Tokyo, forwarded care of "Taft Party" in Manila (where then Secretary of State William Howard Taft was on an inspection tour), transit and arrival pmks, some cover wear, scarce and appealing item (Image)

Current Opening Price...$450.00
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5008

1906 (15 June) cover (opened for display) from Buffalo, NY to Batavia, Dutch East Indies, with a manuscript direction "Please forward to Pekin, China", backstamped at Batavia, Weltevreden and Soerabaja, Hong Kong, Tientsin, Peking, where it was endorsed "Not in American Legation Guard, Peking, China", turned over to the Japanese Post Office and returned back to sender after five months. A well traveled cover (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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United States Intervention in China Yangtze River

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5009

1935-41 collection on exhibit pages, 25 covers or cards showing postmarks of the U.S. Naval patrols on the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers. There are pmks from "U.S.S. Luzon", "U.S.S. Monocacy", "U.S.S. Guam", "U.S.S.Mindanao", official mail from "U.S.S. Oahu" to the Commanding Office of "U.S.S. Wake", sent 4 December 1941 and "Unable to Deliver COMSOWEST-PAC" (applied in Australia in late 1942), and others, mixed condition, scarce lot. (The U.S. Navy's Yangtze Patrol was a naval force with minor combat power, mostly serving as a constabulary and diplomatic force. "YangPat" was gunboat diplomacy made manifest, with "U.S.River Rats" doing their best to defend American lives, interests, and property in China, until WWII) (Image) (image 5009a) (image 5009b) (image 5009c) (image 5009d) (image 5009e) (image 5009f) (image 5009g) (image 5009h) (image 5009i) (image 5009j) (image 5009k) (image 5009l) (image 5009m) (image 5009n)

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Current Opening Price...$900.00
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United States Intervention in Northern Mexico

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5010

1916 partial exhibit of 30 covers and cards, including unused picture postcards, letters, War Department Penalty envelope, YMCA Patriotic envelopes, Soldier's Mail, etc. Also included is a cover from the Dominican Republic, sent 1918 to the Secretary of the Navy, with "Head of Military Government Santo Domingo" cachet, "Passed by Censor" hs, with arrival marking, plus a cover from a Marine Sgt in Camaguey, Cuba, sent via the Civil Post Office in Manati to Cincinnati on 16 March, 1920 (Image) (image 5010a) (image 5010b) (image 5010c) (image 5010d) (image 5010e) (image 5010f) (image 5010g) (image 5010h) (image 5010i) (image 5010j) (image 5010k) (image 5010l) (image 5010m) (image 5010n) (image 5010o) (image 5010p) (image 5010q) (image 5010r)

Current Opening Price...$1,400.00
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United States Intervention in Haiti

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5011

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1927-29 collection of 30+ covers or cards, U.S. Navy and U.S.M.C. in Haiti, ship markings include "U.S.S. Seattle", "U.S.S. Smith Thompson", "U.S.S. Camden", "U.S.S. Brooks" and others, departure markings Port-au-Prince, Gonaives, "U.S.Marine Corps Port au Prince", official Navy handstamps, Field Hospital, machine cancels, mixed condition (Image) (image 5011a) (image 5011b) (image 5011c) (image 5011d) (image 5011e) (image 5011f) (image 5011g) (image 5011h) (image 5011i) (image 5011j) (image 5011k) (image 5011l) (image 5011m) (image 5011n) (image 5011o) (image 5011p) (image 5011q) (image 5011r) (image 5011s) (image 5011t) (image 5011u) (image 5011v) (image 5011w) (image 5011x) (image 5011y)

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Current Opening Price...$900.00
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United States Intervention in Nicaragua

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5012

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1896 large cover "Legation of the United States" corner card cachet, franked with 20 Centavo regular issue, tied by indistinct pmk, addressed to Commander F.Handford "U.S.S. Alert", Corinto, Nicaragua, little toning, otherwise fine, with Corinto, May 19, 1896 pmk on back (on 2nd May 1896, a force of about 100 American and British marines from the USS cruiser "Alert" and British "Comus" landed in Corinto to protect foreign interests) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5013

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1926-29 collection of 100+ covers or cards, mostly U.S. Navy in Nicaragua, ship markings include "U.S.S.Tulsa", "U.S.S. Trenton", "U.S.S.Salinas", "U.S.S.Richmond", "U.S.S.Denver" and many others, departure markings of Bluefields, Corinto, Managua, etc., few registered, some better markings, mixed condition. For a complete video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045116687

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Current Opening Price...$1,400.00
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United States Army at War - World War I (AEF)

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5014

1917-23 collection on 48 exhibit pages (three frames), with 94 covers and cards selected to represent the Standard Postmarks used on mail from the U.S. military personnel in Europe. There are Steel, Machine and Large Rubber "U.S. Army Postal Service" cds, Military Postal Express Service cds, American Red Cross markings, Postal Express Service (PES), sub-station cds, "Received from Army Bordeaux", Italian Service with large "U.S.- A.P.O." and "Posta Americana Franchigia Militare" A.P.O. pmks, two covers showing different "U.S. Postal Agency Siberia" cds, Third Army "A.P.O.710" pmks (only about a half dozen examples recorded with these markings), American Forces in Germany "A.F.G." on official War Department "Headquarters American Forces in Germany" cover, low-number APOS, some with Postage Dues added on arrival, cover with 2c from AEF booklet (APS certificate) and much more, mixed condition, mostly fine or better. For a complete video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1045117499

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Current Opening Price...$1,400.00
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5015

1917-20 "Over There", U.S. Forces Abroad in WWI and its Aftermath, the original exhibit, offered mostly intact, with 130+ covers and cards organized in three parts to show U.S. troops in transit and U.S. Forces during and post-WWI in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Austria, Monaco, Ireland, Montenegro, Turkey, censored mail, Service with the British Army, including Air Service Post Office, special units in France, including a letter from an American pilot with the "Lafayette Flying Corps", American Red Cross, U.S. Navy, Registry markings, Incoming mail, special stationery envelopes and cards, Armistice Day (11 Nov 1918) pmks, American Commission to Negotiate Peace cover, special rates and services and much more. A historical presentation, with a large number of seldom offered items. For a full video of this lot please visit https://vimeo.com/1044807690

Current Opening Price...$2,300.00
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5016

1917-22 Mail to and from Foreign Destinations, 32-pages exhibit, with 42 covers or cards, AEF mail to Malta, Belgian Congo, Ceylon, China, Manchuria, Japan, Dutch East Indies; incoming AEF mail from Dominican Republic, Greece, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Denmark, Latvia, Tunisia (addressed to a member of the 4th Regiment of the U.S. Air Service in Nantes), China, also AEF from a Polish Volunteer in France, AEF mail to Isle of Man, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Panama, Argentina, Uruguay, Ireland, Great Britain, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Serbia, fine and extraordinary assembly (Image) (image 5016a) (image 5016b) (image 5016c) (image 5016d) (image 5016e) (image 5016f) (image 5016g) (image 5016h) (image 5016i) (image 5016j) (image 5016k) (image 5016l) (image 5016m) (image 5016n) (image 5016o) (image 5016p) (image 5016q) (image 5016r) (image 5016s) (image 5016t) (image 5016u) (image 5016v) (image 5016w) (image 5016x) (image 5016y) (image 5016z)

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Current Opening Price...$1,400.00
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5017

1917 (29 Dec) American Expeditionary Forces/Office of the Commanding General cover, with "General Pershing" and "Soldier's Letter" added, "A.E.F. Passed as Censored" handstamp, addressed to Mrs. Cora Nye in Wellesley, Mass., accompanied by a corresponding stationery letter, marked "Personal" and signed "John J. Pershing", both mounted on an exhibit page (General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing gained fame after leading U.S. forces in pursuit of Pancho Villa in Mexico. He served as commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) during World War I. When General Pershing returned home, Congress made him only the second person (after George Washington) to be honored with the rank of "General of the Armies of the United States.") (Image)

Current Opening Price...$230.00
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5018

1918 "Soldier's Mail" cover to USA, via APO 785 (then located at Allerey, France), clear strike of "U.S. Army Post Office 11 Nov 1918", with AEF censor cachet alongside. Examples of mail with Armistice Day pmks are difficult to find (the staffs at the Military Post Offices were too busy celebrating to be processing the mail) (Image)

Current Opening Price...$180.00
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5019

1918 Traveling Post Offices, selection of seven covers or cards on exhibit pages, with "From T.& C. R.P.O.West" (Tours & Chaumont), "Bordeaux-Vierzon-Paris R.P.O.", "Dijon-Marseilles R.P.O.", "Le Mas & Tours M.P.E.S.", various censor markings, mixed condition. The TPO markings of the AEF during WWI are extremely rare, only about a dozen or so recorded (Image) (image 5019a) (image 5019b) (image 5019c)

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Current Opening Price...$1,400.00
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5020

1919-23 collection on 16 exhibit pages, with 30 covers and cards examining the use of postmarks inscribed "Third Army" or "3rd Army", presented in numerical order by APO numbers, providing designations of military units, the towns in which the Post Offices were located and the dates during which the Third Army postmarks are recorded, showing earliest and latest recorded usages, censor markings, destinations, etc., all meticulously described, with extensive information provided for each item (Image) (image 5020a) (image 5020b) (image 5020c) (image 5020d) (image 5020e) (image 5020f) (image 5020g) (image 5020h) (image 5020i) (image 5020j) (image 5020k) (image 5020l) (image 5020m) (image 5020n) (image 5020o)

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Current Opening Price...$700.00
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Cherrystone Auctions Sale - 0225

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