Booklets of the World; U.S. and Worldwide; Russia
April 6-7, 2011 and April 11-12, 2011
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #3117 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889-92 1k-7r, issues complete, 15 different, each with a boxed "Specimen" handstamp, fine-v.f., rare S Catalog #41-54S | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #3118 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889-92 1k-7r group of 14 different, each with boxed "Specimen" overprint, fine-v.f. and extremely rare S Catalog #41-54S | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #3119 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 1r light brown, brown & orange, vertical pair, imperf. between, 1901 cds, v.f., ex-Mertens (Mi.44xUMw) O Catalog #45a Catalog Value €750 | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #3120 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889-92 1k, 2k, 3k, 4k, 5k, 7k and 14k Arms, seven different, paying 35k in 1906 on cover from Moscow to Paris, fine-v.f. and attractive seven color (!) franking  Catalog #46/51 | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #3121 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 2k purple, imperforate plate proof on card, v.f., ex-Kirchner P Catalog #47P | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #3122 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k lilac, perforated essay, unadapted octagonal design, v.f. and beautiful item E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #3123 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k carmine and green, perforated essay, unadapted octagonal design, v.f. and beautiful item, signed Mikulski E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #3124 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k Prussian blue and lilac, perforated essay, unadapted octagonal design, v.f. and beautiful item, signed Mikulski E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #3125 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k purple and light green, perforated essay, unadapted octagonal design, v.f. and beautiful item, signed Mikulski E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #3126 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k purple and light green, imperf. die essay in form of a wrapper, v.f., extremely rare E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $5,000.00 |
 | Lot #3127 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 5k green, imperf. and gummed trial color proof, tiny translucency at upper left, fresh and v.f., rare P Catalog #49P | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #3128 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 7k yellow green and lilac, imperf. die essay in form of a wrapper, v.f., extremely rare E Catalog #50E | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #3129 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 14k carmine & light blue, center inverted, cancelled together with 7k dark blue on piece by "Lubin, prov. Yaroslaw, 3 Dec. 1891" postmark, fine and rare inverted center (first sub-printing), only a few known, with Mikulski cert. (50xK) O Catalog #51a Catalog Value €5,000 | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #3130 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1889 14k blue & rose, center inverted, nicely centered, good color, small thin, fine appearance, signed Dr.P.Jemchouhin etc., O Catalog #51a Catalog Value $ 4,000 | Price Realized $2,000.00 |
 | Lot #3131 RUSSIA - IMPERIAL 1889-92 Issues 1891 (25 Oct) letter written by and autographed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893), Russian composer of the Romantic era. His wide ranging output includes symphonies, operas, ballets, instrumental and chamber music and songs. He wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, the 1812 Overture, his First Piano Concerto, his last three numbered symphonies, and the opera Eugene Onegin. The letter is accompanied by an addressed, unfranked envelope, all in the composer's hand. In 1892, Tchaikovsky was voted a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in France; he was only the second Russian, after the sculptor Mark Antokolsky, to be so honored. A rare autographed letter from the famous composer | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
