Rev. L.L. Tann Collection of Imperial Russia
December 3, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5065 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k-5r two complete sets (h.r.), also 65+ covers, cards and stationery, wrappers and picture postcards, partially written up (balance of the collection), with variety of frankings (to 1r), usages, combinations, also used hundreds of Romanov adhesives cancelled in the various parts of the Russian Empire including Asia, plus eight unused currency notes (to 500r), three bonds/stock certificates with elaborate engravings, interesting lot  *OCatalog #88-104 | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #5066 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k-5r complete set of 17, each stamp cancelled by St.Petersburg 21.2.1913 (the exact 300th Anniversary of the day that Michael Fyodorovitch Romanov commenced his reign) pmks on large unaddressed cover, filing folds away from the stamps, fine-v.f. A wonderful cover with the full set of Romanov Issue, tied by the symbolic cancels Catalog #88-104 | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #5067 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k-70k collection of 46 different die proofs, 1k (6), 2k (3), 3k (6), 4k, 7k (3), 15k (5), 14k, 20k, 25k (2), 35k (7), 50k (3), 70k (8), various stages and colors, including issued color, also seven dies of center only (various colors and values), nine of frame only etc., fine-v.f. and wonderful group of Romanov die proofs P Catalog #88/100P | Price Realized $33,000.00 |
 | Lot #5068 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 (30.12.12) three days prior to Issue, picture postcard franked with 3x1k tied by Pochtowyj Wagon (No. illegible) 30.12.12 cds and sent to Starozhilov, with 1.2.13 arrival pmk, fine and rare usage three days prior to the official issue of the Romanov Jubilee Catalog #88 | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #5069 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k (2), 2k and 10k paying 14k on back of a registered cover from Riga to Abo, Finland, with 9.9.14 Helsinki transit and 12.9 Abo arrival pmks, full, virtually intact wax seal and censor label on back. While the stamps are cancelled by the mute or "dumb" pmks (in the attempt to conceal the origin of the letter), the exercise is completely defeated by the Riga return address, also clearly visible on the registration handstamp Catalog #88,89,93 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5070 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k brown orange, vertical sheet corner margin pair, with significant paper fold through the middle, h.r., v.f., ex-Small collection * Catalog #88var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5071 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k brown orange, sheet margin block of four, double horizontal perfs at top, buckled vertical perfs, h.r., v.f.  *Catalog #88var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5072 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 1k brown orange, top sheet margin block of four, imperf. vertically at top, v.f. While faint impressions of perforations ("blind perfs") are visible, none penetrated the paper and this is truly a variety imperf. vertically, v.f. and extremely rare *Catalog #88var | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #5073 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k, 3k and 10k varieties, each showing a significant paper fold, h.r., fine-v.f. * Catalog #89,90,93var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #5074 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k green, single and pair, also 7k brown vertical pair, all with significant offsets on back, fine-v.f. * Catalog #89,92var | Price Realized $525.00 |
 | Lot #5075 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k green, two horizontal pairs, each showing significant paper folds, v.f. * Catalog #89var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5076 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k green, horizontal sheet margin pair, with perforation shift, also a single with errant perforations, v.f. * Catalog #89var | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #5077 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k green vertical pair, double horizontal perfs between stamps, v.f. * Catalog #89var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5078 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2k green, upper right sheet corner block of four, with significant paper fold at upper, causing interrupted print, some albino impressions in margin, v.f. *Catalog #89var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #5079 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 (25.7.14) 2k green used in combination with 2k Jewish National Fund label on picture postcard (the settlement of "Ness-Ziona" in Palestine), used locally in Astrakhan, with arrival pmk. The JNH label shows Theodore Herzl and was used to raise funds for the Jewish Settlements in Palestine Catalog #89 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #5080 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 (2.1) First Day of Issue, 3k red tied by St.Petersburg First Day Cancel on picture postcard to Windawa Catalog #90 | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5081 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3k rose red, horizontal pair, plus single, also 25k red violet, single, all with perforation shifts, h.r., fine-v.f. * Catalog #89,97var | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #5082 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3k rose red, vertical block of six, two rows of double horizontal perforations, v.f. ***Catalog #90var | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #5083 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3k rose red, vertical strip of three, two rows of double horizontal perforations, v.f. * Catalog #90var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5084 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3k rose red, horizontal block of eight, severely shifted perforations, h.r., v.f. *Catalog #90var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5085 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 (2.1) First Day of Issue, 3k stationery card additionally franked with 4k and 7k, paying 14k and registered from St.Petersburg to Germany. The written message in German says: "I was the first at the counter to buy the new stamps; the Jubilee stamps appeared today..", fine and scarce First Day Card, with arrival pmk Catalog #91 | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #5086 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, three copies tied by oval "Arkhangelsk-194-Vologda 20.6.14" pmks, on registered cover to Moscow (21k rate accounts for double weight, plus 7k for registration), with postal clerk's notation; "No.5 (item for the day)/postal car 194. Imperial Russia provided facilities for "registration" on its TPOs. The letter had to be correctly franked and handed to the clerk on the TPO, who wrote on the cover the route (IIB = pochtowyj wagon). A very rare cover, with Moscow 21.6.14 arrival pmk Catalog #92 | Price Realized $675.00 |
 | Lot #5087 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, imperf. left sheet margin single, l.h., tiny yellow gum spots, natural for this type of gum, v.f., with Mikulski cert. * Catalog #92a | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #5088 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, imperf. left sheet margin horizontal pair, right stamp l.h., left n.h., v.f., signed Romeko *** Catalog #92a | Price Realized $2,200.00 |
 | Lot #5089 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, imperf. upper left sheet corner margin block of four, printed on both sides (gummed side with ten images, half of them miscut and tilted), pre-print filing fold at right affecting both stamps, v.f. and spectacular multiple, probably unique **Catalog #92a,var | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #5090 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, sheet margin single with significant paper fold, used, also an unused example with paper fold to the right of the portrait *O Catalog #92var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5091 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, sheet margin single with significant paper fold, used with additional franking (10k war-time rate) on cover from Moscow (19.10.14) to Yuriev, filing fold away from the stamps, fine and unusual usage of a defaced stamp, with arrival pmk Catalog #92var | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #5092 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, two singles, each with a significant paper fold, one with partly smeared and interrupted print at lower right, h.r., fine-v.f., signed Romeko * Catalog #92var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5093 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 7k brown, upper left sheet corner margin block of six, double paper at left causing an interesting variety, hinge reinforced, very unusual *Catalog #92var | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #5094 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 10k and 35k varieties, first with a significant paper fold, the latter missing small part of design at upper right, used, fine-v.f., signed Romeko O Catalog #93,98var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5095 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 10k deep blue, imperf. single, large margins, used, v.f. O Catalog #93a | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5096 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 20k olive green, variety imperf. at right, natural diagonal crease, otherwise v.f., extremely rare * Catalog #96var | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
 | Lot #5097 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 50k brown & slate, upper left sheet margin horizontal pair, fold-over variety resulting in only partial print at left, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #99var | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #5098 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 50k brown & slate, upper right sheet corner margin block of 10, top row with double vertical perforations between stamps, v.f. and rare multiple *Catalog #99var | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #5099 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 70k green & brown, upper right sheet corner margin single, fold-over crease causing interrupted print and some albino impressions in margin, also single 70k with small portion of design omitted at upper right * Catalog #100var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #5100 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2r red brown, imperforate left sheet margin vertical pair, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #102a | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #5101 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 2r red brown, imperforate sheet margin block of six, perforated "Obrazets", h.r., small faults at upper right, otherwise v.f. SCatalog #102S | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #5102 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3r violet, imperforate vertical pair, n.h., small gum loss and tiny thin between stamps, otherwise v.f. ** Catalog #103a | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #5103 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3r brown, die proof on card, intermediate stage with engraver's names, v.f. P Catalog #103P | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #5104 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 3r indigo, die proof on card, early stage with incomplete Eagle, clouds and brickwork, v.f. P Catalog #103P | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #5106 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 5r brown, imperf. bottom sheet margin single, with part of the "Obrazets", perforations, n.h., v.f., signed Buhler S Catalog #104S | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #5107 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 5r claret, die proof of frame only, v.f. P Catalog #104P | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #5108 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 5r rust red, complete design, large die proof on thin card, of intermediate state of the die, without detail to frame-edge, leaves, collar or ribbon, v.f. P Catalog #104P | Price Realized $2,600.00 |
 | Lot #5109 RUSSIA 1913 Romanov Tercentenary Issue 1913 5r gray blue, complete design, large die proof on thin card, of final state, v.f. P Catalog #104P | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
