U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
July 22-23, 2009
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1212 RUSSIA Air Post 1922 (June 27) registered airmail cover (opened for display) from Moscow to Munich, franked with 600,000r (6x10r Imperial arms revalued to 100,000r each). This rate was in effect for the month of June only, with commercial air service on the Moscow-Konigsberg route which started at the beginning of the month, with a rate increase on July 1st, with German airmail markings incl. Munich arrival, fine  | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1213 RUSSIA Air Post 1923 (Oct. 19) registered cover (open for display) flown from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with a combination of RSFSR four each of 3r, 4r, 5r, 10r and 20r (all on back) and gold kopeck Soviet issues with 1k, 3k, 4k, 6k and 10k (issued just one week prior to this cover's posting). The correct registered airmail letter rate was 50 gold kopeck. The old RSFSR inflationary currency had to be converted into gold kopeck at daily published conversion rate. On 19th October it was 565 to 1, hence the 168r franking on reverse of this cover equaled 29k (gold), combining for 53k (gold), more than enough to send this letter, with red Konigsberg air arrival cachet and handwritten Moscow registration detail, fine and scarce combination franking, filing fold away from the stamps | Unsold |
 | Lot #1214 RUSSIA Air Post 1926 cover attractively franked with two different sets, registered and flown from Moscow to Paris, fine-v.f., with arrival pmk Catalog #C6-9 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1215 RUSSIA Air Post 1931 50k gray blue (error), h.r., v.f. * Catalog #C23a Catalog Value $ 950 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1216 RUSSIA Air Post 1932 15k gray black, perforated 10 1/2, entire sheet of 40, cancelled "Roshal Moscow 17.7.1933" to order, with full original gum (never hinged), fresh and fine-v.f. Multiples of this rare perforation are virtually non-existent; this is probably the only sheet still intact. A fabulous rarity  Catalog #C25b | Price Realized $16,000.00 |
 | Lot #1217 RUSSIA Air Post 1934 Stratosphere Disaster, set of three, also 5k perf. 14, n.h., fine-v.f. (Mi.480-82, 480C) ** Catalog #C50-52, 50a | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1218 RUSSIA Air Post 1934-37 issues, 5k-20k, also additional franking, used in 1936-38 on four registered covers from Leningrad and Moscow to Chile and England, fine-v.f. Catalog #C53-56/75 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1219 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Chelyuskin Rescue, complete set, 30k l.h., balance n.h. and post office fresh, fine-v.f. *** Catalog #C58-67 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1220 RUSSIA Air Post 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, 1r surcharge, two different, one small "f" variety, both n.h. and post office fresh, v.f., signed Goznak (Standard 420,420Ka, cat. value $4,500) ** Catalog #C68,68b | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1221 RUSSIA Air Post 1963 40th Anniversary of Aeroflot, 10k airplane and map, black color (name of the country and denomination) omitted, left sheet margin single, n.h., v.f., rare (Standard 2727Ta, cat. value $4,700) ** Catalog #C101var | Price Realized $4,250.00 |
