Rev. L.L. Tann Collection of Imperial Russia
December 3, 2008

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
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
Envelope
Price Realized
$550.00

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