U.S. and Worldwide Stamps; Specialized Russia
September 16-18, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2550 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1863 6k blue, unused with large part original gum, margins all around, minute flaws, fine * Catalog #1 | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #2551 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1864 outer FL franked with Russian 10k brown & blue (Mi.5), tied by an excellent strike of "C.R.N. & C. 17.I.64 Agence Kerassunde" in blue (Compagnie Russe de Navigation et de Commerce), addressed to Constantinople, usual filing fold away from the stamp and markings, fine and very rare forerunner usage from Kerassunde, with 1996 Mikulski cert., ex-Faberge collection  | Unsold |
 | Lot #2552 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1865 2k brown & blue, used, margins all around, v.f., O Catalog #2 Catalog Value $ 625 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2553 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1865 2k brown & blue, used, numeral cancel, margins all around, v.f., O Catalog #2 Catalog Value $ 625 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2554 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1866 2k rose & pale blue (horizontal network), block of four, blue ROPIT Agency cancel, v.f.  Catalog #4 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2555 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1868 3k green, six copies, each used on a separate piece, in combination with Russian franking, various pmks, few minor flaws, fine "mixed franking" group O Catalog #9 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2556 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1883 cover (little reduced at top) franked with Levant 7k (Mi.14x), tied by blue "Ropit Burgas 9 June 83" datestamp, addressed to Constantinople, with black "Ropit Constantinople 10 June 83" arrival postmark on back, little toning, otherwise fine and rare usage from the Ropit Burgas Agency, with Mikulski cert. | Unsold |
 | Lot #2557 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1883 small cover franked with Levant 3x7k carmine & green (Mi.14x), tied by blue "Ropit Tulschinsk Agenstvo 7.VII.83" cds, addressed to Constantinople, with initial 15 July 1883 oval arrival datestamp; addressee was not found and the cover was apparently returned, with appropriate endorsements on front, apparently sent again some time later, with another Constantinople arrival, this time 10 December 1883. A well traveled cover, with small defects on top, with Mikulski cert. stating that only two (!) covers are known from this small Ropit Agency in Tulschinsk, ex-Snegireff and Gordon Torrey | Unsold |
 | Lot #2558 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1883-1913 postal history, selection of 23 covers or cards including two letters, each franked with Russian 7k, sent from Poti and Tiflis to Constantinople, cover with 10k franking from Odessa via Ropit agency to Chios, 1894 cover from Bukhara, via Odessa and Bombay to Peshawar, 4k stationery card with Ropit Beirut cds, cover from Batum to Constantinople, two registered covers from Constantinople, via the ROPIT agency to Alexandria, 1903 cover from Jerusalem to Switzerland, 1910 card from Mitelene, 1901 Odessa to Mont Athos, also Ropit Samsun, Smyrna, Alexandretta (rare), and Stamboul, fine and interesting lot | Price Realized $5,000.00 |
 | Lot #2559 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1892 (13.1) handmade postcard from Smyrna to Brussels, franked with diagonal half of 10k , tied by ROPIT Smyrna cds, with additional Ropit Constantinople transit on back and Brussels arrival pmk, fine provisional usage | Unsold |
 | Lot #2560 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1897 (30.11) picture postcard to Brixen, franked with 2k green and Austrian 10pa on 3kr, both tied by a single Constantinople datestamp, small card faults, otherwise fine and interesting item | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #2561 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1900 (ca) two unused (private) stationery entire letters in black or red, with "to Russia" and "from the Holy City of Jerusalem" in Cyrillic letters, some stains and edge wear, otherwise fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #2562 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1909-10 City overprints complete, l.h. or n.h., fine-v.f., */** Catalog #61-199 Catalog Value $ 1,576 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #2563 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1909-10 overprinted "Jaffa" and "Jerusalem" in black only, some toning, fine-v.f., signed Calves, scarce, O Catalog #71-79,81-89 Catalog Value $ 735 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2564 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1910 5pa-1pi overprinted Dardanelles, Salonique, Trebizonde, selection of nine vertical pairs, each with one stamp missing overprint, fine-v.f. * | Unsold |
