Booklets of the World; U.S. and Worldwide; Russia
April 6-7, 2011 and April 11-12, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1906 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown and blue, Kovno cancel, margins all around, v.f., signed Brun, with 1982 PFC O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #1907 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, thin paper, excellent color and well centered example, with intact perforations on all sides, tied by numeral "6" in dots arranged in oval, on outer folded letter to Taganrog, with boxed "Odessa September 30" (1858?) departure datestamp on back and internal docketing in manuscript. The lettersheet has been re-folded at top, with the usual horizontal filing fold away from the stamp, which has been lifted for inspection and properly replaced. A fine cover, ex-Mertens and Agathon Faberge collections (offered at auction on Nov 21, 1939, lot 207 described as "a fine and fresh copy used on cover at Odessa and tied with "6" in oval of dots), with 1999 Paul Buchsbayew certificate. Mr. Zbigniew Mikulski recorded only 10 (!) covers franked with Russia Number four. Of those, five are multiple frankings (three were contained in the Mikulski collection sold through Cherrystone in 2006) and one single franking exists used in the Kingdom of Poland. A treasure of Russian Imperial philately  Catalog #4 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1908 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, beautiful color and intact perforations, cancelled "2" in dots, v.f. O Catalog #10 | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #1909 RUSSIA 1905 25k dull green and lilac, center inverted, well centered and cancelled on small piece by the usual "Zhitomir 24.3.06" cds, v.f. and rare invert, signed Mikulski O Catalog #65a | Price Realized $4,250.00 |
 | Lot #1910 RUSSIA 1918 Chain breakers, 70k brown, variety imperf. at top, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #150var | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #1911 RUSSIA 1921 (3.11) cover franked on back with 5k Postal Savings and 3r Control Stamp, used from Saran-Gorka (Novg) to Petrograd, addressed to a Prisoner of War Camp (No.II) for Czech legionnaires, fine and scarce combination franking to an unusual destination | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1912 RUSSIA 1921 300r green, pelure paper, top sheet margin gutter pane of 20, n.h., v.f.,  **Catalog #184a Catalog Value $400 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1913 RUSSIA 1921 300r green, pelure paper, top sheet margin gutter pane of 20, n.h., v.f., **Catalog #184a Catalog Value $400 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1914 RUSSIA 1922 registered cover from Kharkov to Hong Kong, franked with 35x1r imperf. (350,000r in 1922 currency), returned to sender from Moscow, with handstamp "back to sender in Kharkov, no mail deliveries to the destination indicated", stamps folded at sides and bottom, fine and impressive cover to uncommon destination, to which service was not yet established | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1915 RUSSIA 1923 1r-20r, imperf. set of seven, with additional 1r-10r (12 stamps in total), l.h., few n.h., fine-v.f. */** Catalog #238a-241c | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1916 RUSSIA 1923-24 selection of seven covers or cards addressed to Livingston Jenkins, General Secretary of the Esperanto Movement, in London, various franking, fine-v.f. | Unsold |
 | Lot #1917 RUSSIA 1924 definitives (typographed), 2k green, top sheet margin imperf. single, double impression, with horizontal invalidating perforations, n.h., v.f. ** | Unsold |
 | Lot #1918 RUSSIA 1924 definitives (typographed), 50k brown, imperforate single, large margins all around, small h.r., v.f. and rare, with Sismondo cert. * Catalog #275A | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1919 RUSSIA 1927 14k Esperanto, imperf. horizontal pair, full margins all around, n.h., natural gum inclusion at right, fresh and v.f., with Sismondo cert. ** Catalog #374var | Price Realized $2,900.00 |
 | Lot #1920 RUSSIA 1932 Mopr, 50k dark red, pane of 50, cancelled to order, fine-v.f. Catalog #479 Catalog Value $400 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1921 RUSSIA 1938 North Pole, 80k red, imperf. sheet margin pair, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #628a | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1922 RUSSIA 1940 Liberation of Western Ukraine, 10k deep rose, variety imperf. at right, used, fine (Standart 631variety, unlisted) O Catalog #767var | Price Realized $270.00 |
 | Lot #1923 RUSSIA 1945 Griboedov, 60k gray brown, horizontal pair imperf. between, l.h., v.f. (Standart 867) * Catalog #967var Catalog Value $2,000 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1924 RUSSIA 1945 Academy, 30k sheet corner margin block of four, variety imperf. at right, n.h., v.f. (Standart 884Pa) **Catalog #987var Catalog Value $1,725 | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #1925 RUSSIA 1948-52 Definitives, 5k-60k, complete set in corner margin blocks of four, also Semenov and Skaters & Skiers, blocks of four, n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #1214-1221,1615,1617-8 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1926 RUSSIA 1949 State Sanatoria, complete set in corner margin blocks of eight, n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #1366-1375 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1927 RUSSIA 1949 Sports, complete set in corner margin blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1415-1419 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1928 RUSSIA 1949 Sports, complete set in blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1415-1419 | Price Realized $130.00 |
 | Lot #1929 RUSSIA 1949 Sports, complete set in blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1415-1419 | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1930 RUSSIA 1950 40k Voter, raster variety, cancelled to order, v.f. and rare O Catalog #1443var | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1931 RUSSIA 1975 Art, se-tenant horizontal strip of five, variety imperf. between 4th and 5th stamps, also right margin, n.h., v.f. (Standart 4444/48) ** Catalog #4404avar Catalog Value $2,070 | Price Realized $800.00 |
