Rev. L.L. Tann Collection of Imperial Russia
December 3, 2008
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #5168 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1902-17 collection of 28 covers or cards written up on pages, including Nizhniy Perm Steamer, covers posted on board ships in the Baltic Sea, to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsingfors, Lubeck, Hamburg, Wiborg, Mariehamn (Aland Islands), Abo, also across the Gulf of Bothnia (cover from Vasa to Stockholm, opened by censor, cancelled in Sundsvall, Sweden), also Batum-Odessa, Nizhny-Astrahan (Volga River) Steamer, Nizhniy Rybinsk, White Sea (Belo-morye) card from Kem (route originated in Arkhangelsk-Kem-Keret-Kandalasha-Umba-Kovda), also Dniepr, Lena and Volga River mail, plus 1917 cover from Vladivostok to USA, via Tsurugua and Yokohama, also some stamps incl. multiples (many Romanov adhesives) with various interesting Ship Mail pmks, fine-v.f. and compact representation of Russian ship mail  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #5169 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1902 cover to Stockholm posted on board a ship in the Gulf of Finland, receiving a "ship picture" pmk, put ashore at Helsingfors, with 10k (5x2k) Russian franking, sent to Stockholm, with 7.8.02 arrival | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5170 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1902 cover to Prussia, carried by ship from Finland and marked "Paquebot". First port of call was Copenhagen, where it was taken to a local post office, with 11k (4k and 7k) Russian franking, cancelled 6.5.04 and sent to Germany, with Ebersvalde 7.5.04 arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5171 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1905 (28.2) cover from Abo to Hamburg, taken to the Stockholm post office on docking in Sweden, where 10k Russian franking (5x2k green) were cancelled. The "Fran Finland" handstamp confirms the cover as ship-mail, with Hamburg (2.3.05) arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5172 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1906 (9.4) picture postcard posted on board a ship in the Gulf of Finland, receiving a "ship picture" pmk, put ashore at Vyborg, with 3k Russian franking, sent to Kakisalmi, fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5173 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1913 (26.10) cover originating from Riga, traveling via Finland (either Helsingfors or Abo) to Sweden, where it was taken to the Stockholm post office. The "Fran Finland" handstamp designated it as ship-mail (probably ex-Finland despite its Riga origin), charged 2k concessionary fee, with 2k Romanov adhesive postmarked at Stockholm, filing fold at bottom, otherwise fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #5174 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1913 (22.11) 4k Romanov stationery card to Stockholm, sent from Riga and posted on board the ship "Odin", with "Fran Finland" handstamp in error (should have been "fran Ryssland"), postmarked at the Stockholm post office 24.11.13, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #5175 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1913 (20.7) cover (with company's cachet on backflap) to Helsinki, put ashore at Stettin, Germany (today Szczecin, Poland) where the Russian franking (strip of 5x2k Romanov) were cancelled. The use of Russian stamps was initially deemed invalid and the "T" was applied to tax the letter as unfranked mail. The "T" was then crossed out, as the cachet "Aus Dampfschiff" (From Steamship) validated the stamps, with Helsingfors arrival 22.7.14 on back, v.f. | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #5176 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1914 (5.8) picture postcard franked with 4k Romanov, written by a Danish worker in Vladivostok to Copenhagen. The War, which started two days earlier, cut off Russia from Europe. This card was put on board a ship leaving Vladivostok for Japan, where the "Paquebot" cachet was applied. At Tsuruga, the card was postmarked 20.8.14, went across Japan to Yokohama (28.8) and from there to America and Denmark. This postcard traveled nearly three-quarters of the way round the world, some toning and corner creases, fine | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #5177 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1916 (7.1) 4k Romanov stationery card to Japan, carried by ship from Vladivostok, on arrival it received a validating "Paquebot" cachet, and Tsuruga arrival pmks, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
