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  • Lot# : 404 Ukraine

    1918: 1 r. brown & orange perforated in a full sheet of 40 with Kyiv type 2g overprint. Ex collection Dr. Seichter with his annotations on the sheet margin which shows some spots and perforation separations.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 405 Russia

    1812 (Jul 7): Folded entire from Kronstadt, St. Petersburg province to Providence, Rhode Island with fine red "SHIP" mark, red cds "NEW BEDFORD Ms JAN 25" and charge marking on front: The sender describes in English the effects of the war against Napoleon on the economic situation. A very early transatlantic item from Russia.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,400 CHF

    Lot# : 406 Russia

    1834/42: Lot five covers from Odessa (4) & Taganrog to Trieste (4) & Genova, tied with fleuron type cds (4) or framed rectangular datestamp as dispatch marks on the reverse.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 407 Russia

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    Catalogue# : U1
    1848: Double-headed eagle 10 (+1) k. black with wide tail postal stationery, cancelled by pen stroke, sent 1849 from St. Petersburg to Moscow, with red framed "S. PETERBURG 26 FEB 1849" departure mark and red two-line "Polutsheno Vetshera 1849 MARTA 1" (received in the evening of March 1, 1849) alongside. Small fault due to the detached wax seal, otherwise a very fine copy of the stationery which is strongly undervalued in the Michel catalogue.
    Starting bid : 240 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 408 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 55x
    1889: 5 r. black & grey arms definitive issues unused og with horizontal watermark in two complete sheets of 25 subjects; one sheet with watermark in correct position, other one with watermark inverted. Usual perforation damage in the margin. An interesting pair. Zagorsky = $ 5'000 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 409 Russia

    1891: 7 k. blue on cover with complete handwritten content from Krasnoe Selo (Jun 18) to Krasnaya Slobodka, written by a member of the Imperial family, presumably Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich of Russia (1858-1915). Cover and letter with the Imperial crown. Opinion Mikulski.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 410 Russia

    Catalogue# : 72IAaVAR,75IAaVAR
    1909/11: 20 k. blue & rose and 50 k. violet & green Arms definitive issue, both in part printing sheets of 50 examples showing the variety shifted background. Zagorsky = $ 2'500 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 411 Russia

    1914: 3 k. red & 7 k. blue, tied with oval railway datestamp "S. Peterburg Nikol. Vokzal. 15.1.14" on reverse of registered local cover with rare red machine registration mark of that P.O. on the front.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 412 Russia

    1917: Picture postcard sent postage-free as Fieldpost from a Engineering Constructional Military Unit as shown by its cachet to train station Zvanka nearby Petrograd with arrival cds of October 25, the day of the October Revolution.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 413 Russia

    Catalogue# : 77VAR,79BxIVAR
    1917/19: Lot several hundreds stamps unused mint  in complete or part sheets, including 1917 5 r. blue & green Arms definitive issues imperf. unused og in a part sheet of 14 examples showing the variety green background shifted to the right (two stamps on top right damaged); plus 1919 1 r. brown & orange Arms definitive issues imperf. unused og with horizontal varnish lines in two complete sheets of 50 showing the varieties background shifted to the base or center shifted to the right. Zagorsky (# 154,PV07) = $ 4'100 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 414 Russia

    Civil war 1919: Arms definitives 5 k. brown imperf., 25 k. green & violet perf. and 50 k. lilac and green perf., tied with oval T.P.O. datestamp "Irkutsk 241 Tshita 25.12.19" on postcard of an Austrian POW to Vienna, White 80 k. tariff abroad of October 1919.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 415 Russia

    Catalogue# : 174a PFI, PFII
    1922: 5000 r. on 20 r. black overprint sickle and hammer definitive issues in a part sheet of 46 stamps showing the plate varieties "no last dot in RSFSR" (fields 5, 6, 9, 10 & 18) and "no two last dots in RSFSR" (field 7). Fine unit. Zagorsky = €1'800 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 416 Russia

    1922: 7500 rub. on 250 rub. violet overprint (block of four valued as three new rubles) and part sheet of 42 examples of 1 rub. brown and orange imperf., tied by "Kharkiv 9.7.22" on reverse of cover to Riga with arrival Krag machine mark on the back of the sheet (Jul 16). Fine presentation of the 45 rub. tariff abroad of July 1st.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 417 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 185-189
    1922: Children»s Relief Fund - Comprehensive and Specialized collection of these issues, only available for sale for one day in Moscow, on 3 written-up pages, including first printing on piece signed and with 2005 Ceresa Certificate (key value also signed Mikulski), 1k imperf key value second printing position 7 mint with Raritan Certificate within full mint set. Further a fine used set mixed printings, one full set of forgeries, one sheet of different forgery types on 22 stamps mint and used as well as  2k in an unused mint block of four and 3k with very misplaced overprint.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 417A Russia Zemstvo

    1869: Pavlograd 5 k. blue, Chuchin no. 1, broad margins all round with og Chuchin = RRR.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 418 Russia Zemstvo

    1895: Large cover front bearing Austria 3 kr. green & black tied by Vienna cds, mailed to Russia with Bogorodsk Zemstvo 4 kr. brown applied and tied by violet cds. Censor marking in black at right (all Newspapers being Censored at this date). Central file fold but a rare and appealing item.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 419 Russia Zemstvo

    1870/1914c.: Lot of 110 used or unused stamps without large duplication from many different Zemstvos. A fine starting or dealer group.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,100 CHF

    Lot# : 420 Russia Zemstvo

    1872/1910 (ca.): The collection of 420 stamps used/unused with better subjects, mounted and carefully described on sheets, the counties sorted along the governments; in addition few postal stationeries. This fascinating lot was assembled in the 1960's, shown at WIPA 1965 and is untouched since then.
    Starting bid : 2,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,400 CHF

    Lot# : 421 Russia

    1858/1981: Lot of used/unused stamps starting with a nice used selection of early Imperial definitives, but also with a complete hinged 1935 Spartakiade set.
    Starting bid : 260 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF

    Lot# : 422 Russia

    1876/1921: Lot of used/unused stamps containing predominantly back-of-the-book issues like postal saving stamps, 1911 fiscal stamps for judicial correspondence 15 k. black & rose in mint condition (22), as well as revenue stamps.
    Starting bid : 340 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 423 Russia

    1915/19 Lot 19 complete printing sheets of the perf. Arms definitives with ruble face values, often in duplicates. Zagorsky = $ 2'800 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 424 Russia

    1908: Lot 14 complete and few part sheets of  Arms definitive issue perf. with varnish lines. Zagorsky = $ 3'100 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 425 Russia

    1917: Lot 44 complete and few partial printing sheets of the imperf. Arms definitives with face values from 1 kop. to 1 rub., often in duplicates. Zagorsky = $ 3'100 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 426 Russia

    1858/1923: Six starting collections of used/unused stamps including interesting values also from the Ukraine, Georgia, Aserbaidshan and Tuva.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 427 Russia

    1862/1921: Lot with several interesting Russian areas including a fine selection of Wenden; Russian Levant definitive issues with interesting cancels seen from Yaffa and Trapezunt or Romanov 30 pia. on 3 r. blackviolet used as margined pair tied in Konstantinopel, further Denikin stamps. A fine lot.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 428 Russia

    1858/1966: Collection of used/unused stamps in old Schaubek album, with the issues following 1941 nearly complete; a good starting collection with many interesting stamps and sets also including postal saving stamps, China, Levant, Caucasus, and civil war issues.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 429 Russia

    1888/1923: Lot of  hundreds of used/unused stamps including better ones such as 1922 5000 r. on 20 r. blue with the two last dots in RSFSR lacking, in three albums.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 430 Russia

    1907/16: Lot of seven complete printing sheets including three sheets of the 1915 Romanov money stamps; in addition two sheets of 1918 Kuban 50 k. on 2 k. green arms definitives, one sheet of 25 stamps of the 1907 3.50 r. black & grey arms definitive vertical watermark with China overprint, and partial sheets of the Levant arms definitive overprints. An interesting lot. Zagorsky = $ 3'800 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 650 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 431 Russia

    1858/1917: Collection of used stamps showing better subjects like 1866/79 issues on vertically laid paper, background and plate varieties. A valuable lot. Mi = € 5'900.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,500 CHF

    Lot# : 432 Russia

    1918/80 (ca.): Lot with hundreds of full sheets unused og including among many others 1918 Chainbreaker 35 k. (5, thin "O" in pos. 99) and 70 k. (14), 1921 300 r. green definitives on Bristol paper; in addition a large section of USSR definitive and commemorative stamps e.g. 1929 50 k. brown on light-brown paper peasant woman in sheets of 100 (9). A good lot for studying plate errors and printer imprints on the margins. Zagorsky = €7'300 for single stamps of the better series only.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 12,000 CHF

    Lot# : 433 Russia

    1857/69: Five prephilatelic or stampless covers (2 franco, 3 porto) incl. one from Beltsy (Bessarabia), all going abroad; in addition ten thin tail 10 k. grey-black postal stationery envelopes. Mixed condition but with a large variety of postmarks.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 434 Russia

    1888/1916: Lot 16 cover & postcards incl. eleven registered covers opened up for display with cover dispatched in Vosnesenskij Zavod (factory P.O.) and two picture postcards to Egypt.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 435 Russia

    1867/1945: Lot ten covers, including 1867 front of cover franked  with 10 k. blue & brown, 5 k. black & lilac, and 3 k. black & green tied by postal wagon cds sent from Moscow to Amsterdam, seven registered covers from 1895/1913 depicting different registration labels, 1926 registered cover sent from Rostov via Moscow by air mail to Göttingen, franked on front with 20 k. green (2), a pair of 10 k. blue and 8k. brown showing a Soviet Air Mail label and two German crimson Air Mail marks alongside, further some Imperial Russia, RSFSR, USSR, Russian Levant & China, Russian civil war areas, Transcaucasia, Ukraine, also a full unused sheet of the 1917 imperforate 1 r. brown & orange (some minor imperfections).  
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 240 CHF

    Lot# : 436 Russia

    1842/1918: Lot seven covers and stationeries, incl. 1842 entire from Moscow to Lausanne, 1872 formular postcard with 5 k. black & grey-blue, 1907 stationery albinos, 1912 two items with red triangle from St. Petersburg, and 1918 early postwar ship mail Astrakhan to Nishni. A delightful group.
    Starting bid : 360 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 437 Russia

    Catalogue# : U4,U7,U10
    1848/63: Nice selection of twenty 10 (+1) k. black  double-headed eagle postal stationery with thin tail, imprinted stamp cancelled by pen, dotted numeral marks, cds's, or not at all, used between about 1854 and 1867, nice departure and "received" marks alongside, often with very fine aristrocratic wax seals. A fine lot.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 438 Russia

    1904/17: Lot 80 covers and few postal stationery, including many Romanov and registered items, also unfranked court covers with seals.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 439 Russia

    1887/1903: Collection 60 covers, postal stationery, and early picture postcards showing numeral postmarks of the St. Petersburg city post, comprising numbers "1" to "XI" in a large variety.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 440 Russia

    1879/1917: Lot 80 interesting covers and postal stationery including registered and censored items.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 441 Russia

    1883/1916: Lot  80 covers and postal stationery including registered items, also railway and Poland related items; in addition ten money transfer orders 1912/17 from Finland.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 442 Russia

    1869/1917: Lot 100 used postal stationery covers and postcards, also including the 1869 city post envelopes in all four formats known in unused condition.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 443 Russia

    1890/1917: Lot 100 covers and postal stationery including registered items, in addition two 1912/13 covers from Tiflis to Persia and two French stationery postcards commorating the 1896 visit of the czar in France.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 444 Russia

    1888/1917: Lot 100 covers and used postal stationery, also including registered items.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 445 Russia

    1878/1917: Lot 100 covers and used postal stationery, also including registered items and material from Poland.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 446 Russia

    1904/24: Lot of 20 formulars, patents and other official documents with revenue stamps, either in czarist (2) or RSFSR design, also 33 telegram formulars from 1897/1907 with telegraph labels; in addition 55 telegram formulars from Serbia 1913/45.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 447 Russia

    1873/1917: Lot 120 used postal stationery, primarily postcards, in addition few covers.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 750 CHF

    Lot# : 448 Russia

    1885/1945 (ca.): Lot 150 covers and postal stationeries, including registered items and money transfer cards from czarist times, but also inflation covers with mass frankings.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 449 Russia

    1877/1917: Collection 180 covers and postal stationery in five albums, with a focus on use in Belarus, Ukraine, Crimea, St. Petersburg and Moskau, as well as early picture postcards.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 950 CHF

    Lot# : 450 Russia

    1857/1960 (ca.): Lot of 250 covers/postal stationery with focus on Inperial items including prephilatelic covers, registered letters, railway mail cancellations, prisoner-of-war correspondence and inflation covers. Interesting group in mixed condition.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 451 Russia

    1857/1918: Lot of 40 interesting covers, including 1857 Rospiska, 1913 postcard with Mantshuriya Vokzal oval date stamp, 1914 mute cancels, better destinations, taxed items and items from Siberia (Irkutsk, Vladivostok), 1916 private mail in Austrian Galizia dispatched in a Russian FPO, 1918 complete parcel card from Bessarabia, plus a selection of nine covers from 1917/18 depicting Kerenski and early Soviet tariffs.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 452 Russia

    Fieldpost World War I. 1914/18: Fine collection of ca. 340 covers or cards, showing datestamps of different main and replacement Field Post Offices, also free postage cachets of different military units and hospitals. An excellently researched study from virtual every front, written up in Russian in three volumes.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 453 Russia

    1921: Lot four covers from the camps of the Wrangel army, dispatched in Belgrad, Galipoli and Constantinople (2).
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 454 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 22-25
    Far East Republic - Issues for Vladivostock1921(April): Vladivostok Soviet Definitive Issue - Specialized Collection on 8 written up pages containing singles, multiples, pane, varieties, 1 PPC HMS Kent to USA with 4k, and four covers to international destinations including one Pappadopulo registered printed cover to the USA with gutter pair and pair of 10k as well as a very large cover to Baltimore with pair of 10k. Scarce so fine.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 455 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 4I
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    1866: 2 pia. horizontal background (2) from first and last print run of this subtype in the colours deep blue & rose and pale blue & rose, showing wide to broad margins with cutting lines, tied by blue double cds (April 9) of Smyrna (Tchilinghirian fig. 150) on cover to Tripoli. Fore-shortened at right but an extremely fine and rare combination cover. Cert. Mikulski (1999).

    Provenance: Caspary collection, H. R. Harmer New York, Sale 13, March 1958, lot 287
                            Fabergé collection, Corinphila sale 105, September 1998, lot 8685.
    Starting bid : 4,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 4,000 CHF

    Lot# : 456 Russian Levant

    1863/73: Lot four stamps, including a 1865 ROPIT 10 para brown & blue used, two copies of the 6 k. ultramarine for printed matters, one unused, other cancelled "Konstantinopol, 11.4.69" (Tchilinghirian fig. 9).  In addition Imperial Post 20 k. blue & orange together with a 1872 3 k. green Russian Levant tied to piece by "Konstantin, 13.9.73" cds. (Tchilinghirian fig. 12). A fine group.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 457 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 11IIa
    1879: 10 k. carmine & green, overprinted with black "thin 7", tied with cds "LATAKIYA 30 YUL." (Tchilinghirian fig. 209) on 1881 folded letter to Aleppo with cds "ALEKSANDRETA 31 YUL." (Tchilinghirian fig. 200) alongside. Horizontal file fold touches the stamp, cover with some toning, however a very rare stamp on entire letter.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF

    Lot# : 458 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 21y
    1900: 10 pa. on 2 k. green, vertically laid paper on picture side of postcard, tied with violet oval datestamp "ROPiT AG. KAVALLA 13 IYUN 1907" (Tchilinghirian fig. 185), with full strike on address side of card, sent as printed matter to the United States, ROPiT Saloniki (Jun 14) transit (Tchilinghirian fig. 178) and Monongahela PA arrival mark alongside (Jul 13). Extremely rare postmark not known on cover to Tchilinghirian.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 459 Russian Levant

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    Catalogue# : 42III
    1909: 1 pia on 10 k. blue 1909 commemorative set 50th anniversary of ROPiT, additional overprint "Dardanelles", tied with blueish cds "ROPIT DARDANELLY 26.XII.1910" (Tchilinghirian fig. 138) on cover to Athens with arrival mark (Dec 28) on reverse. Slight vertical fold not touching the stamp. Postmark on cover not known to Tchilinghirian and use of this series on cover is also rare.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 460 Russian Levant

    1890: Registered cover with three-country franking with Turkey 10 pa. green (2) and 20 pa. violet 1892 definitive issue tied with bilingual cds of Brousse (Jan 27, 1898), sent to the Russian consul in Saloniki, there franked with add. pair 10 kop. carmine & green 1890 ROPiT issue, tied with violet cds (Tchilinghirian fig. 176), registered and sent to Langenargen (Germany), there franked again with Württemberg 3 pf. brown & 5 pf. green (Feb 11) and sent back to Brousse (Feb 18), transit cds of Constantinople and Odessa on reverse. Provenance: Cihangir collection, 121st Corinphila auction, May 2000, lot 522.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 750 CHF

    Lot# : 461 Russian Levant

    1863/1914: Collection of used/unused stamps, carefully described on 34 pages incl. 6 k. blue 1863 for printed matter in all three paper types (stamp with medium paper thickness with small scratch), 1865 10 pa. & 2 pia. used, 1866 issue with both networks, 1876/79 overprints of "8" and "7" on 10 k. incl. the "thin 7" unused. A fine selection Mi = € 6'700.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,500 CHF

    Lot# : 462 Crete Russia administration province Rethymnon

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    Catalogue# : 3
    Russian Military Administration Crete 1899: 1 met. green on horizontally laid paper as a block of 16 with four blue control handstamps, one stamp hinged, the other ones mint. A rarely offered issue Lyapin = € 235 for single stamps only.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 463 Crete Russia administration province Rethymnon

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    Catalogue# : 10b
    1899: 1 gro. blue (8) in two blocks of 4 showing the varieties imperf., lacking control handstamps and double imprint of 2 met. blue on the obverse. Although initiated by philatelists, a rarely offered issue. Signed Spanos.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 464 Russian P.O. in China

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    Catalogue# : 52/Ivar
    1917: "7 Dollars" on 7 r., surcharge inverted in an unused mint block of four, fresh of colour and with full original gum. A great rarity, only one sheet of 25 issued and only block of four known to exist. Cert. Mikulski (2011). Michel unlisted variety, Scott 66 unlisted variety
    Starting bid : 15,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 465 Russian P.O. in China

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    Catalogue# : 83,85-88,90-95
    1913: Imperial Romanov tricentenary issue eleven values up to 1 rub. on incomplete set cover, each stamp cancelled centrically with cds "Shankhai Zagran P.K. 15.3.13". Although the stamps are cancelled to order and in spite of a vertical fold not touching the stamps, an impressive use of Imperial stamps in the Russian PO in Shanghai.
    Starting bid : 240 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 466 Soviet Union

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    Catalogue# : 331,333,412U,1008,1124
    1927/46: Lot seven stamps unmounted with og/used  or on cover, showing different printing and perforation errors, including 1927 10th anniversary of the October revolution 8 k. brown with variety shifted central vignette and 18 k. blue with partial offset on the gummed side, both with annulment perforations, also 1947 800th anniversary Moscow overprint 1 rub. brown used in strip of three with double perforation at base; in addition 1932 Gorky 15 k. brown imperforated on stationary cover with special cds "Kiev Philatelic Meeting 1936" (signed Mikulski) and 1946 Soviet elections 30 k. brown showing variety double horizontal perforation on top. An interesting lot.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 467 Soviet Union

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    Catalogue# : 876Uo
    1943: Definitive issue 3 r. blue-green used as a subject from the top margin showing variety missing perforation on top. Signed Mikulski. Zagorsky = € 600.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 468 Soviet Union

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    Catalogue# : 1190Uo
    1948: Vassilij Surikov 30 k. brown, mint example from top right corner of sheet showing variety: imperf. between stamp and margin at top Zagorsky = € 350.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 469 Soviet Union

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    Catalogue# : 1246Uo
    1948: Sport issue 15 k. violet, mint subject from the top margin of sheet showing variety: imperf. between stamp and margin Zagorsky = € 350.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 470 Soviet Union

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    Catalogue# : 1311Uo/Uu
    1949: Lomonossov 15 k. brown, two used examples from top and base margin of sheet showing varieties: imperf. between stamp and margin Zagorsky = € 500.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 471 Soviet Union

    1923/60: Lot with hundreds of used/unused stamps starting with definitive issues of the 1920s/30s in duplication; in addition commemorative stamps, after 1940 predominantly mint.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,500 CHF

    Lot# : 472 Russia

    1900/60ca.: Lot with several hundred stamps used/unused from Russia and Soviet Union with better values and sets such as 1945 Soviet planes 1 rub. brown red used from top sheet margin showing variety missing perforation between stamp and margin; in addition Ukraine, Finland, Mongolia, Azerbaidshan and Afghanistan. An interesting selection.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF

    Lot# : 473 Soviet Union

    1938/83: Four dealer stock albums with thousands of used/unused stamps, also better values in duplicates.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 474 Soviet Union

    1921/47: Starting collection of hundreds of used/unused stamps focussing on color differences of definitive series but also containing commemorative stamps.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 475 Soviet Union

    1926/34: Lot of hundreds of used stamps in two albums including many better sets and values.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 476 Soviet Union

    1866/1960 (ca.): Lot of used/unused stamps with czarist definitive issues in multiplication showing mute cancels or perfins; in addition Soviet commemorative values and sets with better sets from the 1930s.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 477 Soviet Union

    1858/1957: Lot of used/unused stamps, with many better values and sets like the 1921 famine relief 2250 r. green on Bristol paper; in addition some Russian Levant.
    Starting bid : 650 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 478 Soviet Union

    1858/1957: Lot of used/unused stamps, including predominantly material from the USSR with better sets of the 1930s in used condition.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 479 Soviet Union

    1930/55: Selection of predominantly used airmail sets, including the Zeppelin issues or the Chelyuskin issue, also as multiples. An appealing lot. Mi = € 3'400.
    Starting bid : 850 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 480 Soviet Union

    1939/81: Lot four large dealer stockbooks of hundreds of mint stamps, including one with pairs and blocks of four only.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 481 Soviet Union

    1858/1960: Collection of hundreds of primarily used stamps with the focus on the USSR containing many of the good sets of the 1930s (air mail, Spartakiade).
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 482 Soviet Union

    1921/45: Fine collection of used definitive and commemorative issues, including better sets from the 1930s; in addition 1935 Lewanewskij  stamp hinged and few covers. Mi = € 4'200.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,200 CHF

    Lot# : 483 Soviet Union

    1935/56: Lot of hundreds of used/unused stamps with many good sets including 1935 20th anniversary world war I, Spartakiade, or Iranian art congress used, some in heavy duplication in six albums Mi = € 10'000.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,000 CHF

    Lot# : 484 Soviet Union

    1889/1970 (ca.): Lot of used/unused stamps, containing better values and sets such as airmail issues of the early 1930s, in addition back-of-the-book issues like postage due, exchange fee and postal saving stamps and better stamps from the civil war period like Mariupol and Kuban or local issues like Kharkov; in addition some China and Levant material.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 485 Soviet Union

    1940/90: Lot of thousands stamps used/unused in eight albums, a dealer stock with large duplication showing many thematics-related issues.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 486 Soviet Union

    1924/63: Lot twelve covers and postcards, incl. two registered covers to New York and Baghdad with exchange fee stamps on the reverse, five covers to Egypt and unusual 1957 cover with Soviet fauna stamps, tied with "Paquebot Port-Said" cds, probabely posted by a Russian sailor in Egypt.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 487 Soviet Union

    1930/60 (ca.): Lot 10 used stationery propaganda and advertisement postcards, further five items with propaganda motifs.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 488 Soviet Union

    1950/60 (ca.): Lot 110 covers and postal stationery items with a large variety of frankings in two albums.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 489 Soviet Union

    1922/49: Lot 80 covers and cards, including a section with inflation frankings and few items from the 1930s; in addition a 1946/49 correspondence from Riga to Italy showing partial use of old Latvian obliterators.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 490 Soviet Union

    1922/85: Lot 100 covers and postal stationery items, including better frankings from inflation period and the 1930s, as well as 1964 Olympic Games Tokyo souvenir sheet with number on FDC.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 491 Soviet Union

    1924/60: Lot 180 covers including some large format frankings, e.g. with the 1956 All-Union agricultural exhibition Moscow in part sheets; in addition few unused picture postcards with Moscow motifs.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 492 Soviet Union

    1968/77: Lot 12 autographed portrait cards on Soviet Cosmonauts plus 34 k. stationery envelope, all hand signed by crewmembers of diff. Sojus expededitions into the orbit as there are Beregovoi the Ukrainian Cosmonaut (1921-1995) of Sojus 3, Chrunov of Sojus 5, Filiptschenko and Gorbatko of Sojus 7, Schatalow and Yeliseyew of Sojus 8, Nikolajew and Sewastjanow of Sojus 9 as well as Leonow and Titow.  A fine and scarce group.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 493 Armenia

    1922/23: 2nd Yessayan (Famine Relief) series, the specialised collection on leaves comprising un-surcharged and surcharged stamps from the original printing, 1st reprints, 2nd reprints and the Forgeries, well annotated for further detailed expansion. A scarce and interesting collection.
    Starting bid : 1,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF

    Lot# : 494 Georgia

    1919/23: Lot 36 covers, including 2 rub. brown Princess Tamara (2 & pair) on cover to Switzerland, tied by Italian cds "BRINDISI ARRIVI E PARTENZA 2.11.20", Herisau arrival mark, part of upper backflap missing; in addition 5000 r. green 1922 definitives (1 & vert. pair in different colors) plus 1000 r. on 50 r. violet overprint issue for the famine relief, tied by oval date stamp "TIFLIS VOKZAL 22.1.23" on reverse of cover to Lausanne with Moscow transit machine mark, no arrival mark, opened roughly at right; finally a group of 27 covers and seven formular postcards with 1919 definitives (the postcards with the full set), cancelled to order with different cds's from Tiflis. Rarely offered material.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 260 CHF

    Lot# : 495 France

    1827 (Febr. 28): Charles X King of France and Navarre, 'Lettres de Déclaration de Naturalité' parchment signed by King Charles, the last Bourbon King of France (1757-1836) with the King's large green wax seal, fine.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 496 France

    Lot two early Kings letters, incl. signed parchment (19 x 31cm) of Louis XI (1423-1483), dated "Paris, le 5 novembre 1465", countersigned by his "Secrétaire et Conseiller d'Etat" Germain Le Picart (1431-1490) plus another signed parchment (38 x 29 cm) of Louis XII (1462-1515), dated "Paris le 6 décembre 1485" countersigned by the 'Trésorier des Finances royales' and the 'Secrétaire d'Etat' Jehan Cotereau Seigneur de Maintenon as well as a third parchment signed by Catherine de Cleves Duchesse de Guise (1548-1633) dated "Paris le 27 mars 1572" (upper left corner of sheet restaured).
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF

    Lot# : 497 France

    1729/1804: Lot 60 early covers bearing various clear strucks in black, red or blue, such as Limoux, Vezoul, Nollai, Montarges, S. Malo, etc., further some taxed in manuscript and mail sent abroad.  
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 498 France

    1778/1850: Lot 93 forerunners and related documents, incl. military mail and Départements conquis, mainly showing clear strikes in black or red, housed in a small box.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 499 France

    1794/1848: Département 'Haut-Rhin' - Collection in an album with 66 prephilatelic- or stampless covers showing selected and very fine and clear cancellations, some taxed in manuscript.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 500 France

    1830/70: Lot six lettersheets, headed by lovely illustrations from various manufacturers (Fabrics,Tobacco, Transports, Wine), in addition a small illustrated envelope 'Erinnerung an Frankfurt am Main'.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 501 France

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    1849: Cérès 15 c. green on greenish paper, a mint block of four with large margins all round, of exceptional vibrant colour, unused without gum. An extremely rare block. Signed Roumet; cert. Calves (2007) Cérès = € 160'000.
    Starting bid : 10,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 23,000 CHF

    Lot# : 502 France

    1850 (July 1): Entire letter from Le Mans to Paris franked by 1849 Cérès 20 c. black, used on first day of issue of the 25 c. blue and the consequent rate increase of the same day, tied by grill cancellation with embellished "Le Mans" cds above. Taxed on arrival in Paris (July 2) with manuscript "05" (centimes) due in red manuscript. Extremely scarce entire. Signed Calves.
    Starting bid : 750 CHF
    Hammer price : 950 CHF
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