U.S. and Worldwide Stamps
November 12-13, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2673 RUSSIA 1832 FL from St.Petersburg, sent via Memel to Bordeaux where it was disinfected, with slits, also boxed "Prusse par Forbach" and accountancy mark, address somewhat smeared, otherwise fine, with arrival pmk  | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #2674 RUSSIA 1849 small FL from St.Petersburg to France, attractive illustrated stationery sheet, with boxed two line departure datestamp, sent to Nice, taxed 20(deci), with red "T.A.3" and "12 Ago" arrival hs, v.f. | Price Realized $170.00 |
 | Lot #2675 RUSSIA 1853 10k black, stationery entire envelope cancelled by pen, with "Oboyan July 27" departure pmk, addressed to Smolensk, fine | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #2676 RUSSIA 1855 Telegraph, dated 26 June 1855 and headed "Telegraph Station Helsinki", interesting contents, used during the Crimean War, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2677 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, the first stamp of Russia, margins all around, beautiful colors, tied by oval "Valk" departure pmk on FL to Riga, with additional "Valk.Lif. 18" (Valk, Lifland province, plus first two year numerals) plus "Polucheno 19 May, 1858" arrival pmks on back, addressee's name and address obliterated by pen, v.f., signed Diena Catalog #1 | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
 | Lot #2678 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, thin paper, tied by "38" numeral pmk on FL from Riga to Volmar, with 15 Nov departure and 16 Nov arrival datestamps on back, fine Catalog #2 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #2679 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, tied by numeral cancel in rectangular dots and used on FL from Berdichev to Warszawa, red arrival pmk struck on the stamp, stains, otherwise fine appearing and unusual application of the Polish arrival cancel, Catalog #2 Catalog Value $ 350 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2680 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, tied by "1" numeral cancel on FL from St.Petersburg to Jacobstad, Finland, red St.Petersburg 7 May, 1858 departure datestamp, fresh and v.f. Catalog #2 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #2681 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue tied by "55" numeral canc. on FL from Kherson to Odessa, couple of small stains, otherwise fine Catalog #2 | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #2682 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue tied by "95" numeral canc. on FL from Kotelnik to Vologda, two-line departure datestamp (3 December 1859) on reverse, v.f. Catalog #2 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2683 RUSSIA 1858 10k black, plate proof on unwatermarked paper, frame only, central oval blank, v.f., ex-Mehrtens collection P Catalog #2P | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #2684 RUSSIA 1865 cover from Moscow to Nice, franked with 1k, 2x3k, 10k and 20k perf. 12 1/2, paying 37kop rate, tied by 27.1.65 pmks, with boxed "Aus Russland", additional departure and arrival pmks on back, wax seal removed from back, fine and most attractive four color franking to France, ex-Faberge | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #2685 RUSSIA 1866 FL from St.Petersburg to England, franked with 1k (3), 3k (perf.12 1/2), 10k (unwatermarked) and 2x5k (horizontally laid paper), paying 26kop rate, tied by 8 May St.Petersburg-Warsaw railroad cds, red "Aus Russland Franco" and boxed "P.D.", oval forwarding and Bradford arrival pmks, filing fold affecting one stamp, fine and attractive four color franking | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #2686 RUSSIA 1866-70 10k green and carmine, perforated proof on glazed chalky paper, irregular perfs as often, otherwise fine and very rare P | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #2687 RUSSIA 1866-70 20k blue & orange, imperforate and gummed proof on glazed, chalky paper, prepared for the 1867 Paris Exhibition, overall toning, otherwise fine, ex-Breitfuss, very rare P | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #2688 RUSSIA 1867 FL from St.Petersburg to Livorno, franked with 5k (horizontally laid paper) and 30k unwatermarked, red "Aus Russland" German acceptance and transit pmks, minor overall toning, rare mixed franking usage, with arrival cds Catalog #18 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2689 RUSSIA 1869 FL from St.Petersburg to Florence, franked with 2x3k (horizontally laid paper) and 30k unwatermarked, red "Aus Russland" German acceptance, with 3 1/2sgr due in red crayon, also Udine-Verona transit and Firenze arrival pmks, one 3k with rounded corner, fine and scarce mixed franking Catalog #18,20 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #2690 RUSSIA 1872 registered cover (slightly reduced at top), franked with 3k, 5k, 20k and 4x10k Arms, all vertically laid paper, used from Kishinev to Brody (Galizia), boxed "Recomandirt" and arrival pmks, cover faults but impressive franking, rare | Unsold |
 | Lot #2691 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r gray, horizontally (instead of vertically) laid paper, used, cancelled 1885, well centered but with usual faults, fine appearance, extremely rare, with Robineau cert., O Catalog #39a Catalog Value $ 15,000 | Price Realized $8,000.00 |
 | Lot #2692 RUSSIA 1884 7r black & orange, h.r., fine, signed Kruger, * Catalog #40 Catalog Value $ 1,000 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #2693 RUSSIA 1889-92 1k orange, imperforate single, cut in at left and bottom, with part of the adjoining stamp at right, canc. on piece, rare used, O Catalog #46a Catalog Value $ 500 | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #2694 RUSSIA 1893 7k stationery entire, additionally franked on front with 7k blue and on reverse with 1k yellow and 4k red (another stamp missing), registered from Revel (now Tallinn, Estonia) to Montevideo, Uruguay, fine, with arrival pmk, scarce destination | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #2695 RUSSIA 1902 vertically laid paper, 7r black & yellow, center inverted, centered to bottom as always, l.h., fine example of this popular rarity * Catalog #70a | Price Realized $11,000.00 |
 | Lot #2696 RUSSIA 1909 10k dark blue, printed on gummed side only, rounded lower right corner, otherwise fine * Catalog #79var | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #2697 RUSSIA 1909 10k dark blue, vertical pair, printed on both sides, v.f. and extremely rare variety * Catalog #79var | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #2698 RUSSIA 1915 10r Arms, sheet margin single, variety imperf. at top, natural gum wrinkles, also another variety with shift of yellow background, stamps n.h., v.f. * Catalog #109var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2699 RUSSIA 1916 cover franked with three uncancelled Romanov stamps sent to Amsterdam, opened by censor and backstamped, with return address showing that this cover was sent by a member of Belgian Armored squadron serving with the Russian army, v.f. and rare | Price Realized $180.00 |
| Lot #2700 RUSSIA 1916 Romanov "Money Stamps", 2k unoverprinted with coat of arms on reverse, two sheets of 100, n.h. and post office fresh, v.f.,  **Catalog #115 Catalog Value $ 7,000 | Price Realized $1,800.00 | |
 | Lot #2701 RUSSIA 1917 two 7k stationery entires, each additionally franked with unofficial perf. 12, 1k strip of three and single, both used from Zolotonosha to Petropavlovsk, v.f., with arrival pmk, rare usage of privately perforated adhesives | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #2702 RUSSIA 1917 5r dark blue, green & pale blue, imperf. single with yellow groundwork inverted, v.f., rare and undercatalogued error, with Robineau cert. (Standard 154a variety) * Catalog #133b | Price Realized $5,250.00 |
 | Lot #2703 RUSSIA 1918 35k blue, vertical pair, horizontal perfs shifted, imperf. vertically, n.h., v.f., scarce ** Catalog #149var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2704 RUSSIA 1918 70k brown, horizontal pair, variety imperf. at top (trimmed), n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #150var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2705 RUSSIA 1921 Science and Arts, 250r black, trial color proof on thick chalky surfaced paper, v.f. P Catalog #183P | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2706 RUSSIA 1921 Science and Arts, 250r black, trial color proof on thick chalky surfaced paper, v.f. P Catalog #183P | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2707 RUSSIA 1921 5000r on 2r, black surcharge inverted, two diff. shades, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #192a | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #2708 RUSSIA 1921 surcharged 5000r on 2r, black surcharge inverted, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #192a | Price Realized $120.00 |
 | Lot #2709 RUSSIA 1922 surcharged 10,000r on 40r (type II), overprint with periods after Cyrillic letters, v.f. * Catalog #200f | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #2710 RUSSIA 1922 surcharged 10,000r on 40r (type II), periods after Cyrillic letters, used, v.f. O Catalog #200c | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #2711 RUSSIA 1922 (15.5) registered cover from Odessa to Berlin, franked with block of 16x10,000r on 40r type II, with "P.C.F.C.P." (periods after the Cyrillic letters), also a vertical pair of same, used in combination with additional franking applied on both sides of the cover, including 3x10,000r on 40r (red surcharge), 4x22,500r violet, 3x7,500r on 250r, one each of 7,500r blue, 1,000r red, 5,000r on 5r, plus Control Fiscals two each of 1r and 10r, plus Postal Savings stamps 2x25k (total franking 337,500r) all with appropriate pmks, with German arrival 27.5.22 on back, some filing creases affecting the large block, otherwise v.f. and spectacular franking, with no less than 18 (!) of the rare "P.C.F.C.P." varieties, one of the most significant showpieces from RSFSR (two other letters known with comparable franking, all from Odessa), with Mikulski cert. Catalog #200f | Price Realized $37,500.00 |
 | Lot #2712 RUSSIA 1924 Regular Issue, 4k, 30k and 40k lithographed, fine-v.f., * Catalog #261,63-64 Catalog Value $ 225 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #2713 RUSSIA 1925-28 Lenin four sets, incl. all perf. varieties & imperfs., used, fine-v.f., Catalog #302-303b | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #2714 RUSSIA 1927 surcharged 8 kop on 7k brow, perf. 12, two blocks of four, one watermarked, with defective "8" at upper right, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #349a,350 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #2715 RUSSIA 1927 8k on 1k red (typographed, unwatermarked), surcharge type II inverted, sheet margin single, l.h., v.f. (Standard 168II, $1,400) * | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #2716 RUSSIA 1927 Esperanto, 14k green & brown, imperf. single, large margins all around, very lightly hinged (if at all), slight creasing in the outer margin, v.f., with "D" handstamp on back (Standard $1,400) * Catalog #374var | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #2717 RUSSIA 1928-29 Lenin, 10r indigo perf. 10 1/2x12 1/2, bottom sheet margin single, n.h., centered to left, very rare ** Catalog #408var | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #2718 RUSSIA 1928 Lenin, 15k gray blue, perf. 10, h.r., fine (Standard 244b $600) * Catalog #420var | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #2719 RUSSIA 1932 Maxim Gorky, 15k imperf. horizontal pair, n.h., natural gum wrinkles and skips, otherwise v.f. ** Catalog #470a | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #2720 RUSSIA 1933 Ethnic People of the Soviet Union, 5k carmine (Tungus), 14k blue (Yakuts) and 15k gray green (Belarus), three different trial color proofs on watermarked stamp paper, perf. 11 1/2, unused without gum as issued, two with partial red impressions of letters (Obrazets), fine-v.f., rare P Catalog #493,499,506S | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
 | Lot #2721 RUSSIA 1933 Baku Commissars, 20k violet, variety imperf. at bottom, used on registered cover Moscow to Prague, v.f. and rare Catalog #521var | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #2722 RUSSIA 1934 Lenin Mausoleum, 5k and 10k imperf. singles with large margins, disturbed gum, h.r., v.f. (Standard $2,000) * Catalog #524a-25a | Price Realized $1,800.00 |
 | Lot #2723 RUSSIA 1935 Baltic Cruise ppc franked with Swedish adhesives, canc. Leningrad 12.8.35, with "Baltic Cruise" hs, also "New York-Viking Lands-Russia-New York", MS "Gripsholm" 26 July-29 August cachet, v.f., rare | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2724 RUSSIA 1935 Anti-War Issue, set of five, h.r., v.f., * Catalog #546-50 Catalog Value $ 490 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #2725 RUSSIA 1935 Spartacist Games, complete set, h.r., fine-v.f., * Catalog #559-68 Catalog Value $ 400 | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #2726 RUSSIA 1935 Tolstoy, perf. 11, lower right sheet corner margin block of four, with watermark at bottom margin, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #577a,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2727 RUSSIA 1935 S.Kirov, 40k gray brown, imperf. single, n.h. but slightly dried gum, corner wrinkles, otherwise v.f. (Standard $1,200) * Catalog #582var | Price Realized $625.00 |
 | Lot #2728 RUSSIA 1936 Regular Issues, 10k gray blue, horizontal pair, variety imperf. at right, l.h., fine * Catalog #616var | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2729 RUSSIA 1937 Dzerzhinsky, 10k vertical pair, imperf. between, used, fine-v.f. O Catalog #606var | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #2730 RUSSIA 1937 Dzerzhinsky, 10k variety imperf. at bottom, used, v.f. O Catalog #606var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2731 RUSSIA 1938 Shota Rustaveli, 20k yellow paper, sheet margin block of four, n.h., slightly disturbed gum and couple of natural inclusions, v.f. **Catalog #610var | Unsold |
 | Lot #2732 RUSSIA 1938 Paris Exposition etc., 5k-50k blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #611-13 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2733 RUSSIA 1940 Mayakovsky, 60k gray blue, comb perf. 12 1/4 x 11 3/4, h.r., little toning, otherwise fine, scarce (Standard 642A $720) * Catalog #778var | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #2734 RUSSIA 1941 Zhukovsky, also Karelia CCP, sets in three blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #838-42 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2735 RUSSIA 1941 P.Navoi, 1r lilac, horizontal gutter pair, left stamp imperf. at left, l.h., v.f., extremely rare * Catalog #858var | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #2736 RUSSIA 1941 People's Militia, 30k blue, two copies, one n.h., other h.r., v.f. (Standard $780) *** Catalog #859 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #2737 RUSSIA 1947 Soviet Republics, complete in blocks of four, n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #1104-20 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2738 RUSSIA 1947 Soviet Republics, complete in blocks of four, n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #1104-20 | Unsold |
 | Lot #2739 RUSSIA 1948 Definitives, 5k-60k cplt, 55 sets, mostly in large multiples, n.h., fine-v.f. (Standard $946) **Catalog #1214-21 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #2740 RUSSIA 1950 Uzbekistan, 40k Tashkent, block of four, variety two stamps imperf. at bottom, cancelled to order, v.f. Catalog #1431var | Price Realized $4,250.00 |
 | Lot #2741 RUSSIA 1950 Suvorov, cplt set in blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1464-68 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #2742 RUSSIA 1950 Conference, 40k red, variety imperf. at right, cancelled to order, v.f. O Catalog #1504var | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #2743 RUSSIA 1951 Skyscrapers, complete set n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #1518-25 | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #2744 RUSSIA 1951 Skyscrapers, complete set n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #1518-25 | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #2745 RUSSIA 1958 Russian Industry, 40k Voroshilovgrad, n.h., v.f. This stamp was never issued because on March 5, 1958, the city's name reverted to its original name of Lugansk (Standard XX) ** | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #2746 RUSSIA 1961 Lenin, 4k line perf. 12 1/2, bottom sheet margin single, n.h., v.f. (Standard 2477A $1,440) ** Catalog #2446var | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #2747 RUSSIA 1962 National Library, 4k line perf. 12 1/2 horizontal se-tenant pair with sheet margin at right, n.h., natural inclusion at right, v.f., extremely rare (Standard 2617-18A $5,000) ** Catalog #2609-10var | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #2748 RUSSIA 1969 Fairy Tales (Bilibin), top sheet margin se-tenant strip of five, variety imperf. at right, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #3662-66var | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #2749 RUSSIA 1969 Fairy Tales (Bilibin), top sheet margin se-tenant strip of five, variety imperf. between 20k and 50k, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #3662-66var | Price Realized $600.00 |
