Russian Local Post (Zemstvo); U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
February 8, 2012 and February 22-23, 2012

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #3461
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1854-65 20k blue and 1k black entire envelopes with indicia on back, first from Riga (2 Sep) to Pernov; other from Kovno to Riga
Envelope
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #3462
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1875 4k green, postal card with description on back missing Cyrillic "P," reading "Uravlenye" instead, used from St. Petersburg (11 Feb 1878) to Riga, v.f.
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #3463
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1875 4k green, postal card with description on back missing Cyrillic "P," reading "Uravlenye" instead, used from Riga (1877) to Kursk, fine
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #3464
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1880-1900 proofs of postal cards, three different items, one 3k black; 3k carmine, printed on both sides, double impression, with printer's underprints, also unused card overprinted Obrazets in large Cyrillic letters, with marginal notations indicating that this might be a proof of size
P
Unsold
Lot #3465
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1918 (Kerensky Government) 20k blue postal card, perforated Obrazets, with handstamped three-line cached of the Peoples Commissariat for Post and Telegraph authorizing usage, details and date (July 2 1918) filled in by hand, v.f. This specimen would suggest that 20k card could have been printed in time to meet the current internal postcard rate which was not reduced to 10k until September 15, 1918. This special card is pictured in the "Sovetskii Kolleksionier" 13, 1975, ex-Blekhman collection
S
Price Realized
$525.00

Lot #3466
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1923 3k unused and folded double sided reply card, one double impression, one inverted and shifted, some creases, very rare
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #3467
RUSSIA Postal Stationery
1950 25k unused unfolded double sided reply card (Kursk railway station), one side completely blank, v.f. and possibly unique (with regular card which is printed on both sides included for comparison)
Envelope
Unsold

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