Russia
February 11, 2009
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #593 RUSSIA Russian Offices in the Turkish Empire 1865 10pa red brown & blue, top sheet margin vertical pair, with large margins except just touching at upper left, showing portion of adjoining stamp at bottom, cancelled by "781" in triangle of blue dots on FL from Mersina to Beirut, with "Gerbin & Chamar/ Mersina" bilingual merchant's cachet, plus the Russian Post office arrival postmark of "Port Beirut", fine and very rare cover, signed Bartels, with 2004 L.Melnikov A.I.E.P. cert., ex-Faberge collection (lot 76 in the 1940 auction)  Catalog #2 | Unsold |
