Versailles Part IV; The G. Ackerman Collection of Russian Air Post
June 3-4, 2008

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Lot #5211
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1922-38 Collection of 100+ covers or cards, written up exhibition style on pages, from the early stages of the exhibit prepared by Dr.Ackerman, nice variety of air routes and destinations, mostly the European sector, internal and international flights outbound from Moscow, many better items, generally fine-v.f.
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Price Realized
$5,250.00

Lot #5212
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1922-23 Moscow-Konigsberg and Western Europe Route, selection of 17 covers written up exhibition-style on pages, with inflationary frankings, Moscow-Berlin, also Moscow-Konigsberg and other destinations incl. Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, France, interesting study of rates, markings, labels, all properly explained and documented, mostly fine
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Price Realized
$2,300.00

Lot #5213
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1922-23 Selection of 24 flown covers or cards, covering the beginning of Soviet Civil Commercial Aviation, all written up exhibition style on pages, with Imperial stamps, inflationary frankings, first Air Post Stamp (two covers plus one part cover, all somewhat defective) mostly Moscow-Konigsberg and Western Europe, mostly fine
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Price Realized
$21,000.00

Lot #5214
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1924-41 Balance of the exhibit, 130 covers written up on pages with different air routes clearly identified and annotated, including Moscow-Konigsberg and Western Europe, Moscow-Western Europe and beyond, Ukraine and Southwestern USSR, Baku-Teheran, East to the Urals, Leningrad-Riga, Moscow-Warsaw and more. There are many different frankings, rate, destinations, with interesting markings, fine-v.f. An excellent nucleus for further study and expansion
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Price Realized
$8,000.00

Lot #5215
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1925-44 selection of 69 covers written up exhibition-style on pages, variety of routs including Ukraine and Southwestern USSR, Moscow-Konigsberg and Western Europe, Moscow-Kharkov-Rostov-Baku, Leningrad-Riga-Berlin, the Lithuanian route Moscow-Konigsberg, via Kovno, Moscow-Vienna, Leningrad-Stockholm, Moscow-Cluj (Romania) to Prague (Czech route), Baku (Azerbaijan) to Teheran, East to the Urals, West and Central Siberia (Sverdlowsk to Vienna, Krasnoyarsk to USA), Transcontinental route linking the Far East to the Western USSR (Ussuriysk to Moscow), etc., interesting and mostly fine-v.f.
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Price Realized
$8,000.00

Lot #5216
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1928-41 Siberia and the Far East, selection of 30 covers (one front) written up on pages, with excellent descriptions of routes, frankings, rates, destinations and origins, many from and to small towns in West and Central Siberia incl. the Trans-Siberian air route from Sverdlovsk to Novosibirsk, Verkhneudinsk-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok, Ussuriysk-Vladivostok, Berlin to Philippines, via Moscow, Berlin to Wuchang, via Moscow-Irkutsk, Tientsin via Manchouli and Moscow-Berlin via the Euro-Asian Line, South Central Asia including the Alma-Ata-Hami, China (less than 10 known) and others
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Price Realized
$17,000.00

Lot #5217
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1929-41 Northern Siberia and the Far North, selection of seven covers written up on pages, with excellent descriptions of routes, frankings, rates, destinations and origins, including Bodiabo (gold-mining town near the Arctic circle) via Irkutsk to Moscow, Moscow-Yakutsk, Aviaarktika air link from Krasnoyarsk to Igarka/Dudinka (17.3 - apparently one of the earliest carried on this route), Nizhne Kolymsk to Verkhoyansk and another to Yakutsk, Sredne Kolymsk, Olenek to Allayka (Yakut ASSR), mostly fine. A rare group of flown covers from the Russian Far North
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Unsold
Lot #5218
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS RUSSIA Flight Covers
1922-39 Moscow-Leningrad, selection of 17 covers written up on pages, with various frankings and destinations, including Palestine, Buenos Aires, Switzerland and Germany, fine-v.f. and interestin lot
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Price Realized
$7,500.00

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