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  • Lot# : 74 Russia

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    1905 (Dec 17): Persian stationery picture postcard 5 c. with add. 1903 12 c. blue, tied by oval Meshed datestamp, sent registered to Visé Belgium. No Persian registration mark, just handwritten registration number added, Persian Gaoudan cds (Dec 20), purified at the Russian border in Gaudan (nowadays Ashgabat), correponding 'OBEZZARASHENO' one-line handstamp in violet applied, Russian 'R' in circle applied to clarify registered status, two Belgium transit and Visé arrival cds's (Jan 2) alongside.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 1681 Russia

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    1812 (March 11): Prephilatelic entire letter from a Frenchman in Moscow to St. Petersburg with crisp MOCKBA handstamp in red colour (Dobin no. 002 g, rarity '7') on front.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF

    Lot# : 1682 Russia

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    1850 (Sept 30): Entire letter from Odessa to Constantinople, slitted for disinfection, carried under terms of the 1848 Postal Treaty with Greece; struck with fine framed ODESSA despatch in black and italic "Franco" alongside denoting pre-payment. Reverse with Piraeus and Syros (Oct 9) datestamps in black and charged 40 lepta due in red manuscript. A fine and scarce entire.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 1683 Russia

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    1852 (April 3): Cover from St. Petersburg to Athens/Greece struck with boxed and dated "St. Petersburg" despatch handstamp, most unusually routed- most probably via Moscow, Kiev, Odessa to Kishinev and thence to Beltsy and struck on reverse with early usage of very rare SKULIANY manuscript filled datestamp (May 1) in black (Dobin Type 1.04). Athens datestamp of receipt in blue (May 19) alongside and charged "60" lepta due in manuscript. A rare cover that displays well.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 250 CHF

    Lot# : 1684 Russia

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    Georgia 1858 (March 5): Mourning letter from Kutais with contents in French from Princess Anastasie Gagarine whose husband the Military Governor of Kutais had been murdered, sent to Wiesbaden and forwarded to Naples, manuscript charge marks, 13 transit and arrival cancels and notably rare oval despatch cancel 'KUTAIS 1858 MARTA 5 OTPRAVLENO' (Dobin 51.2.06.1.05, Ashford Type 2), only two recorded examples going abroad, a splendid item.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1685 Russia

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    1859 & 1865: Entire letters to Helsingör, Denmark; the earlier entire from Kronstadt endorsed "per Dampfer" at top with framed Cyrillic "Kronstadt" datestamp on reverse and framed "AUS / RUSSLAND" in red; 1864 entire from St. Petersburg via Lübeck with red circular "Aus Russland / Porto" datestamp and framed "Porto" in black. Both covers are rated "35" skilling due, the single letter rate: 3 sgr. Russian share, 3 sgr. German share and 2 sgr. Danish share.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 1686 Russia

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    1867/71: Two covers to Wädensweil Switzerland, dispatched at the Russian P.O. Hussiatyn at the border to Austria with bilingual cds in black resp. blue (Dobin type 1.01), "PORTO" mark from the same office and Austrian "RUSSIE" marks alongside, extensive Rötel calculations, on reverse transit cds's of the Austrian P.O. in Hussiatyn, Lemberg, Vienna and Wädensweil arrival cds. Two colourful items.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 1687 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 1
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    1858 (July 16): 10 kop. brown & blue imperf., plate 2, narrow to good margins all round, tied by crisp circular dotted cancel '37' of Revel to top left corner of outer letter sheet with framed REVEL 16 IYULYA 1858 departure mark in black on reverse, sent to Moscow (July 20, as noted inside). Cover refolded. Following May 1858 postage stamps of Russia had to be obliterated by newly introduced dotted numeral marks, the circular ones being issued for governmental and regional P.O.'s. Mi = EUR 5'000.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1688 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 2
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    1858: 10 kop. brown & blue, perf. 14½ : 15, 2nd plate on thick paper, cancelled with a crossed pen strike on entire letter from the Imperial Agricultural Society to a village in Kursk Gubernia, handwritten date in the text is 25 March (1858), departure date postmark 'Moscow / 2nd city post department / 27 March 1858' on reverse (not listed in Dobin), no arrival mark. Rare pen cancellation of the stamp, which was in use between January and March 1858. 
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1689 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 7,9,12
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    1867 (June 25): Imperial Arms 1858 issue 30 kop. red & green perf. 12¼ : 12½, 1864 issue 1 kop. black & yellow perf. 12¼ : 12½, and 1865 issue 1 kop. black & yellow perf. 14½ : 15 (pair & 1, one glued around corner edge and damaged during opening), all tied by Rostov cds's to outer letter sheet, endorsed 'via Konstantinopoli' and sent to Syra, taxed for internal Postage Due on arrival with Large Hermes Head 1862-67 10 l. orange and 20 l. blue (pair), cancelled by SYROS/67 12 AUG. 67 cds's with arrival cds on reverse. Some vertical creasing, but a spectacular unusual mixed franking of great appeal on a rare cover.
    Provenance: Constantinople collection (Corinphila sale, December 2007), lot 7313.
    Starting bid : 3,400 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,400 CHF

    Lot# : 1690 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 2
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    City Post St. Petersburg 1863: 5 kop. black & blue in complete sheet of 100 stamps, showing nicely all the plate flaws, fold between upper and lower part of the sheet and perforation separation below three stamps, some minor wrinkles at the edge of the margins as usual, unmounted mint Standard catalogue 2011 = EUR 18'000 for a mint compl. sheet.
    Starting bid : 3,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 3,200 CHF

    Lot# : 1691 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 12,17
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    1873 (Dec 1): 1 k. black & yellow (2) and 30 k. rose & green, tied by cds's of 7th St. Petersburg Expeditiya on franco outer letter sheet of second weight rate to London with arrival mark (Dec 17) alongside. Slight horizontal fold in the envelope away from the stamps. 
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 1692 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 18x,20xb,22x
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    1870 (Sept 22): 1 k. black & yellow, 5 k. black & grey-blue, and 20 k. blue & orange, all perf. 14½ : 15 on horizontally laid paper, tied by an upright strike ODESSA 22 SEP 1870 to fully pre-paid envelope sent to London with 'P.D.' in red and black AUS RUSSLAND alongside, Russian and Prussian T.P.O. cds's and London arrival cds (Oct. 11) on reverse. A fine cover.
    Starting bid : 180 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 1693 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 18x,21x,22x
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    1878 (March 7): Imperial Arms definitives 1k. black & yellow, 10k. brown & blue, and 20 k. blue & orange, tied by prephilatelic two-liner of the horse-carriage station Mordwinskaya to cover, sent to Sarapul with arrival mark on reverse (March 8). A fine three-color cover of the third-weight rate.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1694 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 19x,20x,21y
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    1866: Imperial Arms 3 kop. black & green and 5 kop. black & violet, horizontally laid paper and 10 kop. brown & blue vertically laid paper (2), tied by clear 'S. Peterburg 1 Eksp. 28 Dek 71' cds's to outer letter sheet, sent to Reims with 'P.D.' in frame, St. Petersburg Warsaw train station cds, Prussian 'Aus Russland' in red, French ambulant mark 'Avricourt à Paris' and Reims arrival mark (Jan 13) on front and reverse. Fine combination of both issues.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 150 CHF

    Lot# : 1695 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 26x
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    1875 (Sept 26): Entire letter from Sebastopol to Syra, Greece franked by 1875-82 8 kop. red & grey tied by cyrillic "Sebastopol" cds, transit of Odessa below (30/9) and reverse showing two Postal Wagon datestamps, Vienna datestamp (14/10), Triest oval datestamp, Kerkyra cds and Syra arrival cds (8/10). Some creasing away from adhesive but a scarce and unusual entire with contents concerning a ship-wreck.
    Starting bid : 180 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1696 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 55x
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    1889: Arms definitive 3½ rub. black & grey, horizontally laid paper, in a complete sheet of 25 with full sheet margins all round (usually partially cut away), some marginal perforation separation and minor wrinkles at the edge of the margins as usual, unmounted mint Standard catalogue 2011 = EUR 3'625 for stamps only.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1697 Russia

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    1891 (Dec 3): Arms definitives 3 kop. red (2), 4 kop. rose, 5 kop. violet, 7 kop. blue and 10 kop. blue, tied by blueish small Vladivostok cds's to front and reverse of registered envelope, sent via Nagasaki (Dec 19/21), Yokohama (Dec 25), San Francisco (Jan 20, 1892) and New York (Jan 26), where a registration label was attached, to Rio de Janeiro Brazil with CAPITAL FEDERAL arrival mark on reverse (March 2). Vertical and horizontal fold away from the stamps, but in spite of these imperfections an early use from Vladivostok to a very rare destination.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 1698 Russia

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    1899 (April 20): 3 k. stationery postcard, postmarked with figural mark of the telegraph office no. 31 (Dobin type 04-31-05) and sent to Helsingfors. In addition two detached horizontal pairs of 1 k. orange arms definitives showing both types of rare XXXI mark.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 400 CHF

    Lot# : 1699 Russia

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    1902 (March 5): Arms definitive 10 kop. blue, tied by Vladivostok cds to envelope, sent via Nagasaki (March 22) and Brisbane (April 21) to Sydney (April 25). Some toning but a fine destination.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 180 CHF

    Lot# : 1700 Russia

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    1903c.: 1 k. orange arms definitive, tied by figural mark of the 15th city PO to charity envelope of the St. Petersburg Red Cross committee, sent within the city, red cds alongside. Russian Art Nouveau decoration of the cover.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 180 CHF

    Lot# : 1701 Russia

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    1905: Two picture postcards dispatched without stamps in St. Petersburg showing rare blueish or grey postage due labels and doplatit marks alongside. Rare taxation labels.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1702 Russia

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    1909: Arms 4 k. red postal stationery card sent registered to St. Thomas, DWI, up-rated for registration with Arms 10 k. blue tied by "Rostov" cds of despatch and sent via London (Feb 9). Registration label at left tied by framed "ST. THOMAS" registration cachet in violet of arrival (Feb 24). Card returned-sadly the message reads: 'On 16 June 1908 I sent you 71 stamps value 17/5d. and I wish to know when I can expect yours in exchange...'. Card also has bilingual "Parti" label tied on re-arrival in Rostov. Rare usage to an extraordinary destination.
    Starting bid : 160 CHF
    Hammer price : 190 CHF

    Lot# : 1703 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 69,76
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    1913 (Aug 30): Arms definitives 70 k. orange & brown and vert. pair 10 k. blue, tied by Karasubasar Taurida cds's to parcel card from Crimea to Switzerland. White bilingual Karasubasar parcel label, sent via the Russian customs (negative cachet on the lower left), Germany (Thorn cds of Sep 17 on reverse), and Swiss cutoms (green Postzollamt Basel cachet and label on front) to Sanatorium Schatzalp at Davos with arrival mark on reverse (Sep 20). A fine complete parcel card, accompanying obviously a parcel sent to a Russian guest / patient of the well-known sanatorium decribed in Thomas Mann's 'Zauberberg'.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1704 Russia

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    1914 (Jan 12): Arms definitive 10 kop. blue (2) tied by 'St.Petersburg Warsaw station' cds's to registered envelope, sent to Naples with violet machine registration mark of that station P.O., on reverse handstamp "Taken from the postbox" and red Napoli arrival mark (Jan 29). Machine registrations at train P.O. are rare.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1705 Russia

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    1914 (Oct 5): Russian 3 k. red postal stationery card sent registered to Brighton, UK up-rated with 1913 Romanov issue 1 k. and 10 k. tied by Warsaw cds's. Censor cachet at left and Registered label at right, card with extraordinary message: "I sent you a card from Petrograd. The GPO is open but the others are not, I suppose you read in the papers what is going on here. Poor Poland. Since 10 days a terrible battle is being fouight just outside (Warsaw). The noise of the Cannons is awful...the noise goes on night and day...last friday a bomb fell near the Station, several people were killed, the town is full of wounded". The German advance was halted by the Poles and Russians just short of Warsaw in the middle of October 1914.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1706 Russia

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    1915 (May 15): Arms definitives 20 k. blue & red and 25 k. green & violet, tied by Mariinskij Posad Kaz(an) cds's to parcel card sent  to Degelby Aland Islands Finland. The parcel did obviously not reach the addresse, as the card was given intact into the archives. Repaired archive holes away from the stamps.
    Provenance: Collection Jack Moyes.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1707 Russia

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    1916 (Nov 24): 20 k. Imperial Arms, tied by violet cds 'TSURUGA JAPAN 24 11 16' to commercial envelope, slightly reduced, with pre-printed «Vladivostok» company address, with boxed violet PAQUEBOT alongside, sent to Seattle USA, on reverse same Tsuruga cancel and well-struck Korean transit cancel 'KEIJO / GHOSEN 26 11 16' in black, together with attractive red paper seal inscribed 'Vladivostok' - the reverse thus shows three stages in this letter»s journey.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1708 Russia

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    1917 (Sept 12): Imperial Arms 5 kop. mauve imperf., tied by oval T.P.O. datestamp 'Kharbin 263 Vladivostok' (Kiryushkin & Robinson rated 'G') to picture postcard, sent to Pervayarchka Primorskaya Oblast in Russian Far East with arrival mark (Sept 15) and Vladivostok censor mark alongside.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1709 Russia

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    1917 (Oct 25): Picture postcard sent postage-free from 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 : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1710 Russia

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    Revenue Stamps 1880/90(ca.): Baku District Court Fiscals, the first four types complete in reconstructed sheetlets of six. The stamps were printed like lottery tickets with a counterfoil on the left and the stamps in a vertical strip of six on the right. Basic stamps are scarce and a reconstruction therefore difficult to accomplish.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 320 CHF

    Lot# : 1711 Russia

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    1900/10(ca.): Lot six picture postcards designed by Boris Zvorykin depicting tale scenes, three used, some edge wear and toning.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : 160 CHF

    Lot# : 1712 Russia

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    Bilibin 1904: Ten unused picture postcards with wooden houses, churches, magazines, all from Northern Russia, a complete postcard set designed in 1904, divided address side, six cards from printing house N. Kadushin, St. Petersburg, issued for St. Jevgenia Society (Red Cross) Standard catalogue nos. 13-22.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF

    Lot# : 1713 Russia

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    Bilibin 1905: Sirin and Alkonost, two mythological creatures on unused picture postcards, a complete pair designed in 1905, divided address side from printing house Golike & Vilborg, St. Petersburg, issued for St. Jevgenia Society (Red Cross), Sirin with some spots on address side Standard catalogue nos. 23-24.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 160 CHF

    Lot# : 1714 Russia

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    Bilibin 1908: Eight unused cards depicting costumes of the Opera 'Boris Godunov' of Mussorgsky, also designed by Ivan Bilibin, a complete postcard set designed in 1908, divided address side from printing house N. Kadushin, St. Petersburg, issued for St. Jevgenia Society (Red Cross) Standard catalogue nos. 25-32.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF

    Lot# : 1715 Russia

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    Bilibin 1911/12: Six unused cards, complete set depicting Kulitch - Gorod and Paskhalnij Ded among other motifs, divided address side from printing house N. Kadushin, St. Petersburg, issued for St. Jevgenia Society (Red Cross), some toning on address side Standard catalogue nos. 51-56.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 440 CHF

    Lot# : 1716 Russia

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    1914/16: Lot seven unused picture postcards, incl. six cards designed by Boris Zvorykin depicting stylised fighting scenes between Russia and its Allies against the German enemy, all censored in April 1916, in addition card with St. George, some toning.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF

    Lot# : 1751 Russia

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    Northern Army 1919: Proof of 5 kopeck on back of paper printed in Estonian and 50 kopeck on plain card in unissued colour, fine and rare.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 360 CHF

    Lot# : 1752 Russia

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    Denikin 1919 (July 24): 15 k. red (pair) and 35 k. blue (2) of the Denikin Ednaya Rossiya issue in combination with 3.50 r. Imperial Arms definitives imperf (strip of three, three pairs, and four examples), all overprinted with Tridents, tied by Grishino Ekaterinoslav Gub. cds's to front and back of money transfer card. Stamps punched for sure devaluation. Great combined use Denikin and Trident stamps.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1753 Russia

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    Denikin 1919 (Sep 11): Kerenski 5 k. stationery postcard with Ukraine Trident overprint and add. franking of Denikin - Ednaya Rossiya stamps (5k. pair, 10k., 15k., and 35 k. pair), cancelled by Kiev cds. Philatelic use in the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic after the defeat of the Denikin army.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1754 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 8B
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    1919 (Dec 12): Denikin Ednaya Rossiya 3 r. brown & green in marginal horizontal pair tied by Rostov cds to complete Money transfer form, transfering 300 r. to Berdiansk (April 21). The delayed delivery was due to the fact that this item stayed in Rostov until the occupation of the Donetsk region by the Red Army. As the item shows a Soviet export cachet, it was presumably never delivered to the address.
    Provenance: Robert Taylor collection with his notes.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1755 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 3B,5B
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    1920 (March 6): Denikin Ednaya Rossiya 15 k. red (pair) and 70 k. grey-blue tied by Vladikavkaz cds to reverse of cover to Petrovsk-Port Dagestan. Short-lived tariff of January 1st, 1920 valid in areas still under White control.
    Provenance: Robert Taylor collection with his notes.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1756 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 21
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    Far Eastern Republic 1920: 1 k.Imperial Arms imperf. with  'DVR' overprint, previously overprinted with '70', pane of 25, never hinged with some paper creasing, plates as genuine and a useful specialist item.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1757 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 176x,180
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    RSFSR 1922 (April 4): 7500 r. on 250 r. first RSFSR definitives (horizontal gutter pair with plate number) and 22500 r. definitives (vertical pair) tied by Petrograd cds's on reverse of registered envelope to Berlin (Apr 14). The registration mark on the front of the cover is a combination of a one-line 'St. Pétersbourg' handstamp and a numerator mark; this combination can be found as a temporary substitute only for few months at the beginning of 1922.
    Starting bid : 100 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1758 Russia

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    1922 (June 26): 2 kop. green (13 in units, one fallen of) and 1 kop. orange (pair) Imperial Arms definitives and 10 kop. green Denikin stamp, in total 40 kop., revalued to 400'000 r., tied by cds's of Bakhmut to reverse of registered cover, sent via Warsaw to Berlin with transit and arrival marks (July 3). Opened on three side for better display, a fine late Denikin use.
    Provenance: Collection Dr. Seichter with his notes.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1759 Russia

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    1922 (Apr 15): Ukrainian stationery postcard (Katerynoslav overprint type 14, inverted on reply card, Bulat # 127a, unpriced) used as blank card with 1000 r. 2nd RSFSR definitive series (2) & 10000 on 40 r. overprinted definitive, tied by Katerrinoslav Ukrainian style cds's and sent via Moskau to Harlem (Holland). Taxed, as the tariff was 18000 rub.
    Provenance: Collection Zelonka.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1760 Russia

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    1922 (Sep 7): Registered Ukrainian stationery postcard (inverted Poltava overprint type 24, not listed in Bulat) used as blank card with Imperial Arms definitive 10 k. blue perf. and 1 r. dark-brown & orange imperf. (vertical pair), giving the 12 r. registered postcard rate, tied by Poltava cds's and sent to Petrograd with arrival mark on reverse (Sept 15).
    Provenance: Collections Seichter and Zelonka.
    Starting bid : 180 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1761 Russia

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    1923 (June 14): 10 r. Worker definitive (vert. pair) tied by cds 'MOSKVA 14 6 23' to registered cover, sent to Berne, on reverse pair first issue Philatelic exchange stamps, 100 r. on 70 k. Kerensky, neatly tied by boxed cancel and rare.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 2633 Russia

    Catalogue# : 5-7
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    1858/64: Selection used 1858 definitives, perf. 12¼ : 12½ with 10 k. brown & blue (165), 20 k. blue & orange (21), and 30 k. red & green (2), mixed quality but characterized by a large variability of dotted numeral marks such as railway lines, provincial cities as well as cds obliterations Standard = EUR 3'100 for stamps only.
    Provenance: Kronenberg Auction, 1985
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 750 CHF

    Lot# : 2634 Russia

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    1866/1949: Collection hundreds used/unused stamps with useful sets and souvernir sheets such as 1947 Anniversary Soviet stamp issues souvernir sheet and 800th Anniversary Moscow souvernir sheet in type I.
    Starting bid : 900 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,400 CHF

    Lot# : 2635 Russia

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    1890/1930(ca.): Lot 180 primarily used revenue stamps from Imperial and Soviet times, issued by cities, gubernias and the state, in addition Imperial revenues 3 rub. & 5 rub in part sheets of 40 subjects with OBRAZETS overprint, Revenues Russian embassy in Berlin 10 kop. & 2.25 rub in compl. sheets with some perforation separation and five documents.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,200 CHF

    Lot# : 2636 Russia

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    1905/1925: Lot dozens of full or part sheets unused, few cancelled to order, incl. Imperial Arms definitives, Romanov issue, 1914 charity issue, North-Western Army, Denikin and Kuban overprints, in addition 1925 exchange fee stamps, seven values from 5 kop. on 1 kop  to 1 rub. on 3 kop., nearly all in complete sheets of 25 (2), some with good perforations.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,700 CHF

    Lot# : 2637 Russia

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    1910/23: Lot 40 full printing sheets and some part sheets incl. Imperial Arms perf./imperf., Chainbreaker 70 kop., Civil War with Far East Republic, Koltshak, Kuban, Denikin, in addition RSFSR definitives, some duplication, interesting lot for the specialist.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 2638 Russia

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    1910/35 ca.: Lot of 350 different labels and vignettes of all types, including charity, advertising and propaganda, most appear to be pre-1920, a fascinating pot-pourri in two albums.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,200 CHF

    Lot# : 2639 Russia

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    1914/92: Collection hundreds used/unused stamps, incl. Phrygian Cap Overprints 1917 (4), Airmail and Zeppelin issues of the 1930s used, 1964 Olympics souvernir sheet with number, in addition postage due, Civil War issues, and Transcaucasia.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 750 CHF

    Lot# : 2640 Russia

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    1917/24: Lot several complete and part sheets, incl. Romanov money stamps and RSFSR definitive issues with and without ovpts, in addition Germany 1922 Airmail stamps Dove 1 m. - 5 m., mint, all four values in 13 complete sheets with gutters and printing numbers.
    Starting bid : 50 CHF
    Hammer price : 380 CHF

    Lot# : 2641 Russia

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    St. Petersburg 1779/1817: The fine group of twelve entire letters and outer letter sheets, nine with the first  ST. PETERSBOVRG prephilatelic postmark type (Dobin 0.01) and three with the one-line SANCT PETERSBOURG mark (Dobin type 3.02), showing different subtypes with a far above average quality of strikes and covers.
    Starting bid : 1,600 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,600 CHF

    Lot# : 2642 Russia

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    1820/59: Fine collection of 50 entire letters and nine early postal stationery envelopes with St. Petersburg prephilatelic postmarks, incl. red straight line Cyrillic 'S.P.Burg' 1820, 1st, 2nd, and 6th otdyelenie 1841/57 datestamps, and different POLUTSHENO (received) arrival marks. This collection is characterized by a far above average quality of strikes and covers.
    Starting bid : 800 CHF
    Hammer price : 800 CHF

    Lot# : 2643 Russia

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    St. Petersburg 1822/35: Interesting Selection nine entire letters and outer letter sheets with prephilatelic circular datestamp types, incl. two covers sent to Riga and Reval with red Dobin type 1.07 and seven items sent abroad (Dobin types 3.03 and 3.04). A lot with ideal strikes.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 2644 Russia

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    Catalogue# : 2x,2y,5,6
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    1858/82: Group of 13 covers from St. Petersburg Main PO, incl. items with 10 k. brown & blue, 1858 issues, either perf. 14¼ x 15 (2) or 12¼ x 12½, (5), or 20 k. blue & orange, perf. 12¼ x 12½, all tied with dotted numeral marks "1" (type 2 or 3 of the main PO) with red datestamps alongside. In addition five covers, all postmarked with diff. variations of the rare arrival mark of the 8th expeditiya in St. Petersburg (Baillie & Peel type 2C2). An interesting selection Standard catalogue = $ 3'500+ for covers with stamps only.
    Starting bid : 1,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,000 CHF

    Lot# : 2645 Russia

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    1864/82: Collection of 40 entire letters and one cover front with stamps of 1865 - 1879 issues as well as nine stampless entire letters, all dispatched at St. Petersburg,with only one exception. In general an above average quality group with many interesting rates, destinations, plate flaws and stamp combinations. Several opinions and certificates Mikulski and Hovest BPP.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 2,400 CHF

    Lot# : 2646 Russia

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    1866/1929: Partly written up collection with over 115 examples of 1 k. single frankings, much fine and unusual, including 1 k. black and yellow (11 items), visiting cards, Romanov issue etc. providing the basis for a powerful and unusual exhibit.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2647 Russia

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    1875/1930(ca.): Group 200 covers/picture postcards/stationeries with a large variability of postmarks, rates, routes and usages such as registered and insured mail, censorship, fieldpost, railway mail, use in Finland and Levant. A fine lot.
    Starting bid : 600 CHF
    Hammer price : 850 CHF

    Lot# : 2648 Russia

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    1881/1905: Collection St. Petersburg town post datestamps and figural marks on 100 covers, picture postcards, postal stationeries and receipts, incl. 1898 stationery postcard with perfect figural mark of the 15th sub-office, Baillie & Peel types 3B and 3F4 of the town post expeditiya with codes 1 - 10 (code 10 unknown to B&P) as well as Baillie & Peel type 4A cds of the otdyelenies no. 1 to 32 in a large variety. In addition group 250 stamps, all postmarked with figurative cancels of different sub-offices.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : 900 CHF

    Lot# : 2649 Russia

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    1881/1917: Lot 19 covers incl. 1881 printed matter marriage announcement to Switzerland, St. Petersburg Adresnij Stol card, two Prisoner of war linocut printings on formular cards, two formular cards with 1917 Iswestijya overprints and 1917 picture postcard Petrograd to the Belgian army.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 2650 Russia

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    1907/13: Ten covers and postcards, incl. nine items sent from or via Moscow to St. Petersburg showing 'S. Peterburg MSK' postmarks with serial numbers '1' (7) or '2' (2). In addition postcard with 4 k. red Arms definitive, tied by cds of temporary PO established during the St. Petersburg navigation congress in 1908.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2651 Russia

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    1916: Lot 70 covers and postcards, all with censorship-related marks, labels and stripes, incl. registered mail, Fieldpost, some Finnish covers with Finnish stamps, many items to the Red Cross in Denmark.
    Starting bid : 350 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2652 Russia

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    1893/1910(ca.): Lot 13 picture postcards with vessels, either civil or military, in addition unused special French stationery card 'Visite de l'escadre Russe à Toulon' and some vignettes with Russian vessels.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 2653 Russia

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    1896/16(ca.): Lot  90 picture postcards used/unused with topography content, printed primarily in Russia, incl. early lithographic cards, cards from all areas of the Russian Empire such as Bessarabia, Ukraine, Crimea, Armenia (Ani, Kars), Georgia, Baltic Area, St. Petersburg (Duma), Siberia (Trans-Siberian train crash) and Manchuria, mixed quality but interesting content.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 600 CHF

    Lot# : 2654 Russia

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    1898/1916(ca.): Lot 24 postcards used/unused with ethnology content, printed in Russia or abroad, also rarer cards from Caucasus or Siberia.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 260 CHF

    Lot# : 2655 Russia

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    1899/1910: Lot ten picture postcards used/unused depicting public figures, incl. Pushkin on 1899 commemorative card, Suvorov, members of the 1906 Duma such as Prince Lvov, predecessor of Kerensky in 1917. Rarely seen cards.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 220 CHF

    Lot# : 2656 Russia

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    1900/05: Collection of 24 charity picture postcards used/unused for the St. Evgenia foundation (Red Cross), incl. early cards with figurative address side (3)  and pre-1905 cards. A fine selection.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 300 CHF

    Lot# : 2657 Russia

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    1900/1916(ca.): Lot 50 postcards used/unused and four original photographs, all with military motifs, incl. 20 photo postcards showing Bulgaria Liberation War 1877 (commemorative festivities AT Shipka Pass and battle scene paintings), A few related to Russo-Japanese War, five War Loan propaganda cards, majority with cartoons related to the fight with Ottoman Empire.
    Starting bid : 450 CHF
    Hammer price : 500 CHF

    Lot# : 2658 Russia

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    1900/17(ca.): Lot 95 picture postcards used/unused, incl. designs by Bem, Bakst, Solomko, charity cards for St Jevgenia foundation (Red Cross), 1899 Pushkin commemorative card, several diff. artist cards, an interesting lot, in addition reproductions Bem postcards.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 2659 Russia

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    Bilibin 1902/26: 15 used/unused picture postcards, complete set with diff. motifs incl. better items such as five Sagadki cards and two postrcards designed by Bilibin 1926 in Paris, divided and undivided address sides from diff. editors and printing houses, mixed quality.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 550 CHF

    Lot# : 2678 Russia

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    1939/48: Selection of 50 Soviet Fieldpost covers and cards, many related to the Leningrad siege showing censorship and propaganda imprints and marks; in addition some unused Soviet propaganda items incl. 'Pakhomov Leningrad 1942-1948' lithography postcards as well as German original photographs from the theater of war.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 2965 Russia

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    Zemstvo 1925/93: Lot five books related to Zemstvo stamps, incl. 1925 Chuchin, original print in Russian language (normally found only as reprint), 1932 Schmidt Postwertzeichen der Russischen Landschaftsaemter ('Big Schmidt'), both volumes as spiral-bound xerox copies, 1934 Schmidt Collection in Berlin Museum ('Small Schmidt'), original but strongly damaged, 1980 Bordewijk Zemstwo Catalogus, in Dutch, and 1993 Oleg Fabergé, Imperial Russia Zemstvo Post ('Blue Book'). A useful selection.
    Starting bid : 400 CHF
    Hammer price : 480 CHF
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