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 | Lot #66 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, three copies, cancelled "Berdiansk", May 1858 on piece, left stamp with corner fault, right stamp cut close at right and placed upside-down, rare piece Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,100.00
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 | Lot #67 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, three copies, each with an early dated pmk, on cancelled on piece, margins all around, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,050.00
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 | Lot #68 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, two copies, each cancelled on piece by double oval "Valk Lif. 18" (Valk, province Lifland) pmk, margins all around, fine Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #69 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, three copies, each cancelled on piece by undated straight line "Berdichev" (prov. Kiev) in cursive Cyrillic letters pmk, all v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,400.00
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 | Lot #70 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, selection on album page, three singles, each cancelled on piece, also two FLs, all used from Tauroggen (letters to St.Petersburg and Riga), March-June, 1858, little toning on one of the covers, still a v.f. group
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $5,250.00
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 | Lot #71 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, five copies, each cancelled on piece by double-circle "Kovno" pmk, also another copy tied by this special pmk on FL used June 23, 1858 to St.Petersburg, all mounted on an album page, v.f.
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $5,250.00
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 | Lot #72 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, selection on page, four singles, two cancelled on piece, also a FL, all used from "Polangen" to Libawa, stamps used April-June, 1858, v.f.
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,250.00
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 | Lot #73 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, two singles, each with margins all around, tied by boxed "Revel" 25 April, 1858 and "Fellin" 4 June, 1858 on pieces, both v.f., signed Bloch, Richter, Mikulski Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #74 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, five singles, each with margins all around, tied by boxed "Odessa" 4 April, 1858, "Nezhin" June, 1858, "Kharkov" 27 Apr 1858, "Bialystok" 28 March, 1858 and "Fellin" 4 April, 1858, all v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,250.00
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 | Lot #75 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, six singles, cancelled by "Grobin", "Goldstadt", "Odoyev", "Pskov", "Porechye" and "Wiazma" April or May, 1858 pmks, all v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,900.00
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 | Lot #76 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, two copies, each cancelled on piece by straight line "Mitawa" undated pmks, both v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,000.00
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 | Lot #77 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, two singles, one cancelled on piece by boxed three-line "Volmar Otpravleno" (dispatched from Volmar) 28 May 1858 datastamp, another showing portons of the same strike, both v.f.,ex Mertens collection Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #78 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, beautiful color, margins all around, tied by "Rovno" 11 June, 1858 datestamp on small piece, v.f., signed Mikulski Catalog #1 | Price Realized $850.00
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 | Lot #79 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by large oval "Khvalinsk" (prov. Saratov) "June 6, 1858 Otpravleno" (dispatched) pmk, v.f. and beautiful item Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #80 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, three singles, each cancelled on piece by a biligual 1858 double-circle postmark incl. "Derpt/Dorpat", "Windawa/Windau" and "Goldingen", one slight cut in at upper right, others with full margins, fine-v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,050.00
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 | Lot #81 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, three singles, each cancelled by "Tula" (prov.Tula) decorative oval dated pmk, two diff. types (one without year used February-April 1858, the other with year, adapted in May of 1858), v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #82 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, beautiful color, margins all around, tied by "Arkhangelsk" May, 1858 datestamp on small piece, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #83 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, left sheet margin single, cancelled by "Grobin" Apr, 1858 pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #84 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by "Saransk" (prov. Penza) in straight line capital Cyrillic letters, v.f., ex-Mertens collection Catalog #1 | Price Realized $450.00
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 | Lot #85 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, right sheet margin single, cancelled by "Mariupol" July, 1858 pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #86 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled by "Juriewez Podolskyj" 7 May, 1858 pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #87 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by two strikes of boxed "Kremenchug" 9 March 1858 departure pmks Catalog #1 | Price Realized $475.00
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 | Lot #88 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by boxed three-line "W Murom Otpravleno" (sent to Murom) 29 Apr 1858 datestamp, unusual and rare Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #89 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by "Iz Shatsk" (from Shatsk) 17 Apr 1858 datestamp, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #90 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by "w Usvyat" (to Usvyat) 6 Apr 1858 datestamp, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #91 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, two copies, each cancelled by undated straight line "Slutsk" (prov. Minsk) pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #92 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled by undated straight line "Epifan" (prov. Tula) pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #93 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled by undated straight line "Meshchovsk" (prov. Kaluga) pmk, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $700.00
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 | Lot #94 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, horizontal pair, margins all around, tiny nick at top left, cancelled by faint "Libawa" departure datestamp, fine Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,100.00
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 | Lot #95 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, intense colors, cancelled on piece by straight line "Libawa" datestamp, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $500.00
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 | Lot #96 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, four singles, each cancelled by straight line "Libawa" datestamp, between March and June, 1858, two cancelled on pieces, v.f. Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,600.00
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 | Lot #97 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled on piece by boxed "Vinnitsa" (prov. Kamenets Podolskij), v.f., rare Catalog #1 | Price Realized $525.00
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 | Lot #98 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled by undated straight line "Berdichev" (prov. Kiev) in cursive Cyrillic letters pmk on piece, also same postmark tying 20k orange & blue on large piece of a FL Catalog #1,3 | Price Realized $1,450.00
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 | Lot #99 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, "Riga" cds (used March-June, 1858), fresh and v.f., signed Pfenninger Catalog #1 | Price Realized $400.00
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 | Lot #100 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on piece by boxed "Riga" 17 Feb 1858 datestamp (instead of the customary pen stroke used during this time period), v.f. example of this provisional pmk (used on pre-philatelic letters from 1850-58). One of onlytwo known first stamps of Russia with this cancel Catalog #1 | Price Realized $900.00
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 | Lot #101 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by double-circle undated "Kirsanov" (prov. Tambov) pmk on outer FL to St.Petersburg, addressed to the head office of Russian Company for Steamship and Trade (ROPIT), stamp with closed tear at top, otherwise fineand rare usage
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $1,450.00
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 | Lot #102 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, plate II, single used on FL from Odessa, 4 April, 1858 to St.Petersburg, v.f. and beautiful Russian Number 1 on cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,900.00
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 | Lot #103 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, large margins all around, tied by boxed "Sevastopol" 7 June, 1858 pmk on cover to Moscow, with boxed "Polucheno" 18 June, 1858 arrival datestamp, intact wax seal on back, signed Bloch, Calves, ex-Small collection
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,600.00
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 | Lot #104 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, plate I, margins all around, tied by boxed "Wilno" 22 April, 1858 pmk on cover to Warszawa, with red 7/5 (Gregorian calendar) and "3/P" (3:00 P.M.) arrival on back, insignificant toned specks, v.f.
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,500.00
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 | Lot #105 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, plate II, margins all around, tied by boxed "Wilno" 23 April, 1858 (Julian calendar) pmk on FL to Warszaw, with red 9/5 (Gregorian calendar) and "9/R" (9:00 A.M.) arrival on back, v.f. The letter is actually a folded invoice from the Jozef Zawadzki printers to a relative & representative in Warsaw. The firm has perpetrated a clear case of postal fraud as the stamp has been previously used (red Warsaw pmk) and re-used from Vilno, signed Bojanowicz
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,500.00
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 | Lot #106 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, margins all around, tied by boxed "Revel" 29 April, 1858 pmk on outer FL to Riga, boxed "Polucheno" 2 May 1858 struck on arrival, fresh and beautiful cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,500.00
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 | Lot #107 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, beautiful color, margins all around, tied by boxed "Kursk" 24 May, 1858 datestamp on FL to Moscow, intact wax seal on back, splendid Russia Number One on cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,500.00
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 | Lot #108 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, placed upside down on FL to St.Petersburg, tied by two strikes of straight line "Mitawa" undated pmk, with bilingual "Mitawa/Mitau" May 5, 1858 (last digit of year omitted) departure canc; on back, v.f. and unusual exampleof a double departure strike, ex-Faberge and Mertens collections
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,000.00
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 | Lot #109 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied on small cover by straight line, undated "Jacobshtadt" pmk, sent to Riga, with bilingual 25 June, 1858 departure pmk and boxed "Polucheno" 26 June arrival pmks; also with 1855 10k postal stationery entire showingidentical departure and arrival sequence of pmks, small piece of cover restored at top, otherwise fine and scarce application of pre-philatelic markings from present-day Jekabpils (Latvia)
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,000.00
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 | Lot #110 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by boxed "Sventsyany" (prov. Vilnius) in straight line Cyrillic letters, addressed to Warsaw, with another departure two-line date stamp on back, red Warszawa "13/5" (Gregorian calendar) arrival on back, v.f. and probably unique usage from present-day "Svenchonis" (Lithuania), ex-Faberge
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $7,000.00
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 | Lot #111 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, cancelled by undated straight line "Berdichev" (prov. Kiev) in cursive Cyrillic letters pmk on small FL to Mohilev, boxed 1 April 1858 departure datestamp on back, v.f.
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,000.00
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 | Lot #112 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by "Talsen" (prov. Kurland) 25 June, 1858 unframed datestamp on FL to Mitawa, with "Polucheno Mitawa 27 June" arrival pmk on back, v.f. and rare usage from a small village post office
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,250.00
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 | Lot #113 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by "Kovno odpravleno March 14" (Kovno dispatched) cds on FL to St.Petersburg, with firm cachet of "S.Gottkiewicz", v.f. example of the rare Kovno, double circle departure pmk
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,250.00
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 | Lot #114 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by boxed "Astrakhan" 15 April, 1858 departure datestamp on FL to Saratow, also with double-circle "Saratow Polucheno April 17" arrival pmk (without year date), all markings on front, fine and attractive cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,900.00
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 | Lot #115 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by ornamental "Smolensk" Feb 19, 1858 double circle pmk on outer FL to Tver, with boxed "Polucheno" 28 Feb. arrival datestamp on back, little paper erosion on the address portion of lettersheet, fine and rare cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,000.00
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 | Lot #116 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by "Riga" 22 April, 1858 cds on outer FL to Pernau, with bilingual "Pernau/Pernow" 23 April, 1858 arrival pmk on back, oval "Fenger & Co., Riga" merchant's cachet, fresh and v.f. cover
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,800.00
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 | Lot #117 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by ornamental "Tula" 4 March pmk (without year date) on FL used in 1858 to Moscow, intact wax seal on reverse, v.f.
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,250.00
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 | Lot #118 Handstruck Stamps Used as Provisional Cancels 10k brown & blue, tied by double-circle undated "Tukkum" (prov. Kurland) pmk on outer FL to St.Petersburg, with "Tukkum 8 June" departure datestamp on back, also clear "Polucheno Vecher" (received in the evening) 12 June, 1858 arrival,v.f. cover from present day Tukums in Latvia
Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,000.00
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