Rev. L.L. Tann Collection of Imperial Russia
December 3, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5178 RUSSIA Russian Railroad Markings 1910-17 collection of 325+ covers or cards, mostly written up on pages, with a good representation of oval postmarks of Railway Mail Cards and Station Postal Desks, with Transcaucasian routes incl. Batum-Baku, Tiflis, others with Odessa, Trans-Siberia incl. Taiga-Vokzal, Warszawa-Vilnius, Tula-Likhvin, Mariupol-Zverevo, Minsk Station, Nizhniy-Novgorod, letter from Osinovka Station/Alexander Railway to the Winter Palace in Petrograd, with a rare State Chancellery arrival pmk, plus many obscure towns, quite a number with Romanov franking, also a considerable selection of stamps on pieces with scarce markings incl. Andizhan, Kineshma, plus much more. A great nucleus for expansion, with many rare items worthy of individual auction listing  | Price Realized $7,000.00 |
 | Lot #5179 RUSSIA Russian Railroad Markings 1910 (5.6) cover (little reduced at left) from Vladivostok to Hungary, franked on back with 20k (2k,3k,7k, 2x4k), posted at the railway station postal desk at Nikolsk-Ussuriysk (one stop up the line from Vladivostok, the junction of the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways), with arrival pmks | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #5180 RUSSIA Russian Railroad Markings 1913 (24.7) 3k Romanov stationery card from a Vasili Blinnikov, a prisoner working on a Railway chain-gang, building the new link in the Trans-Siberian Railway beyond Chita towards Blagoveschensk, to his brother in the notorious Shlisselburg prison. At that time there was only a temporary shuttle rail car, hence the oval pmk reads "Kchenga-Uryum Mobile Post Office", with two different prison censor handstamps including Schlisselburg's applied on arrival, filing folds, rare | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #5181 RUSSIA Russian Railroad Markings 1913-14 two picture postcards, each paying 3k, one with "St.Shashka Sam Zl. Zh.D." (Station Shashka on the Samara-Zlatoust Railway) pmk to Samara; the other to Petrograd, written in Arabic, with rare pmk of "St.Ulu-Telyak Sam-Zl.Zh. D" (Station Ulu Telyan on the Samara Zlatoust Railway, east of Ufa). Ulu-Telyak is in the Iglinskiy Region, present day Bashkortostan | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5182 RUSSIA Russian Railroad Markings 1916 (14.12) cover sent unpaid to Maryama (Lifland Province, Gapsal district), with oval "Kars Vokzal" (Armenia) postmark, backstamped 25.12, fine and scarce usage from Armenia during the Transcaucasian Campaign | Price Realized $700.00 |
