373rd Auction

1875, 7 k. on horizontally laid paper, tied by cds. "MOSCOW 12 OKT.1878" to illustrated envelope 'GASSNER'S MUSEUM' (D'Industrie et Anatomie) to Bavaria with Moscow postal censor mark and arrival mark; envelope with slight faults, still fine and very attractive. Most unusual.

1884, 2k. green and 5k. lilac tied by cds. "DZHULFA 1" resp. "DZHULFA 2" to reverse of two covers to Tabriz, fine, scarce Provenance: Peter Ashford Collection

1884, Coat of arms 3k. red imperforated horizontal pair, fresh color, the left stamp just touched at left, 3mm tear between stamps at base, right stamp margin into design on 2 sides, with strip of paper added at top, used with clear cds. "LAGODEKHI 6 FEB 1887", of very fine appearance, with only one other copy known, that being unused, one of the great rarities of classical Russian philately, certificate Ceremuga (2019) Provenance: Zbigniew Mikulski (Private Treaty)

1884, 7k. blue, three resp. two stamps tied by cds. "ERIVAN 16 FEB 1889" to reverse of two covers via Dzhulfa to Tabriz, a little roughly opened, otherwise fine, scarce Provenance: Peter Ashford Collection

1899, 5k. lilac and 7k. blue tied by cds. "TASCHLA 6. MARCH 99" to registered wrapper 2k. green with white label, fine and scarce

1899, 5k. lilac, two singles with additional franking tied by cds. "NEMIROV 28 APR. 1900" to reverse of registered cover to Australia with transit and New South Wales arrival mark, inland label in a distinctive local style, fine

1903, Free Frank privilege asserted with red wax seal and violet numbered cachet to send ordinary letter from SARAPUL to Mont Athos. On reverse clear Kazan and Odessa transits and arrival mark of ROPIT AFON. The letter must have travelled directly by ship from Odessa to Athos ; if it had gone via Constantinople and then overland, the Free Frank privilege would not have extended into Ottoman territory. Very unusual item of Black Sea / Mediterranean ship mail 

1917, 1k. orange block of nine and single tied by cds. "PETROGRAD 1. APR. 17" to reverse of neat typed ordinary letter to Abo with part of red Finnish censor mark on front, the earliest recorded postal use of any 1917 imperforate, fine Provenance: Trevor Pateman Collection

1923, Labor Day 1-4r.,  1r. with bronce and golden overprint, mostly marginal copies tied by cds. to 5 small pieces, fine

1900, complete undivided sheet of six stamped papers for curreny transactions, spectacular watermarks make this ideal for lightbox framing and display, few folds, otherwise fine

ST. PETERSBURG: 1889. Issue for Women 1r. 8k. blue, 2nd class, used, small thin otherwise a very fine and clean copy with well above average perforations

1906, Coat of arms 3k. tied by oval "BLAGOVESCHENSK-STRETINK PAROKHOD 16 7 06" to picture postcard, showing river steam boat, sent to Rig, scarce, fine

1908, Coat of arms 1 and 3k. tied by oval "PAROKHOD OBSCH. R.V.A. 15 6 08" to picture postcard posted "au milieu de la mer du Japon" with Tsuruga transit mark to Strasburg, there re-addressed, some surface faults, scarce

KHARKOV: 1922, cover back with 5k. perforated stamps overprinted "0250" using an enumerator, the franking at 4500rbl. is correct, as can be seen also fromi the comparison cover using onoverprinted 5k. stamps. This overprint is illustrated in Joseph Geyfmans Handbook on page 379 and classed as "doubtful", interesting item

MINSK: 1921, 250r. on 2k. green as block of six with clear cds. "MINSK 10 2 22", few perfs slightly seperated, fine

1920, 25r. on 3k. red, horizontal strip of four tied by cds. "GELENDZHIK 25 9 20" to money transfer for 5000rbl. to Moscow with arrival mark, showing on front red "OPLACHEN" cachet to remove any ambiguity caused by the use of "Trophy" stamps, fine Provenance: Robert Taylor Collection

"CHIFU 2.9.13", small cds., clear strike on 1913, Romanow 2 k. green on piece; very scarce on the Romanow issue

RUSSIA USED IN SIN-KIANG: "KASHGAR KIT. VLAD. be 17 5. 18", good strikes on 1917, 1 r. imperforated with chalk lines, used on large piece, minor creasing; extremely rare on the 1 r. value

1851, cyrillic cds. "KONSTANTINOPEL 1851 MAY 14" on reverse of long entire letter written in Italian, sent from Constantinople to Odessa showing many disinfection slits, scarce, fine

Kadnikovsksk: 1879, 3 k. green with pen stroke on cover, vertical folds and tiny spots (Gurevich 6)  

Irbit Dnepr: 1888, 2 kr. tied by pen stroke to reverse to cover with sender cachet, cover slight toned, otherwise fine

1927 SOLOVKI. A group of 7 unused picture postcards and 3 unuse ones, all produced by ISLON in the Solovki Prison Camp which Alexander Solzhenitsyn called "the mother of the Gulag". The used cards with long messages have cancels of KEM and MURMANSK-LENINGRAD. This is believed to be the only significant holding of Solovki prisoner mail outside Russian archives and is accompanied by a copy of A.Gullotta, "Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki 1923-1930"

1910, Wappen 1 Rbl. 8 horizontal nicht zertrennte Druckbogen, dazu etliche Schalterbogen, postfrisch, meist gute Erhaltung (Mi.-Nr. 77B)

1918/21, 5 Geldüberweisungsabschnitte, dabei Lokalausgaben, Ukraine Trident-Ausgaben etc.

1924, Arbeiter 15K. gelb auf Faserpapier "Limonka", fünf sauber gestempelte Werte, meist gute Erhaltung

STUMME KRIEGSSTEMPEL: 1914/17, umfangreiche Sammlung mit hunderten von Marken bzw. Briefstücken, dabei oft Einheiten, sowie über 200 Briefen und Karten, dabei Einschreiben, Paketkarten, Ganzsachen und Zensurstempel, alles sauber aufgezogen und genau beschriftet
 

1862/1917, 12 Briefe, Karten und Ganzsachen mit polnischen Stempeln, überwiegend Warschau

1871/99, 24 Briefe, Karten und Ganzsachen, dabei Bahnpost, interessantes Los

1880/1910 (ca.), 3 Briefe, 1 Ganzsache und eine Rückseite von Mont Athos, dabei Papiersiegel

1896/1911, interessante Partie mit 10 Briefen und Karten, dabei Drucksache, Mt. Athos, Post in der Levante, Incoming Mail etc., etwas unterschiedliche Erhaltung

1899/1917, 6 R-Briefe mit weißem Registrierzettel mit eingedruckter Nummer aus dem Kreis Witebsk, dazu 3 weitere Briefe aus dem Gebiet

1914/16, 8 Briefe mit Numeratur-R-Stempel, alle verschieden, dabei seltener "JAROSLAVL BOLSHAYAR MANUFAKTURA" mit R-Zettel nach Paris, 6 Briefe ex Harry von Hofmann

SCHIFFSPOST: 1906/67, interessante Partie mit über 90 Briefen und Karten, dabei über 50 frühe Belege, sauber aufgezogen nach Geographischer Lage und Schiffslinien, dabei viele bessere, dazu einige lose Marken und Briefstücke, meist gute Erhaltung  

STUMME KRIEGSSTEMPEL: 1914/16, interessante Partie von 28 Briefe und Karten mit einigen verschiedenen Stempeln, dazu einige Briefstücke und lose Marken, gute Erhaltung

FISKALMARKEN: 1860/88, Gebührenmarken der Moskauer Polizei, dabei die seltene 25 kop. von 1860 vollrandig und gut erhalten, dazu 30 Marken der 2. Ausgabe sowie 2 Halbierungen auf Briefstücken

Fiskalmarken: 1887, Gerichtsmarken (Sudenik-Version) 1, 3 und 5 Rubel in 25er-Blocks, postfrisch, Falzspuren im Bogenrand