U.S. & Worldwide Stamps
April 25-26, 2012
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1159 RUSSIA 1848 stationery entire envelope, 20k blue, indicial on backflap cancelled by pen, used 12 December 1855 to Moscow, with framed St. Petersburg Railway Station departure datestamp on front, arriving Moscow the next day, intact wax seal, also endorsed "Leon-Athenes, 24 November 1855" (perhaps carried in person from there), fine and rare usage of the stationery from SPB Railway station, with Mikulski certificate  | Unsold |
 | Lot #1160 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown and blue, used and partly adhered on piece, margins all around, v.f. O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1161 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, neat Odessa 1858 border cancellation, v.f., rare, with Buchsbayew cert. O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1162 RUSSIA 1858 20k green & violet, perforated trial color proof on unwatermarked and gummed stamp paper, left sheet margin part gutter block of four, hinged in margin, stamps n.h., post office fresh, v.f. A rare multiple, only one sheet of 100 issued  **Catalog #3P | Price Realized $10,000.00 |
 | Lot #1163 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thin paper, used, well centered, v.f., signed Friedemann etc., with 2009 Philatelic Foundation certificate, O Catalog #3 Catalog Value $1,750 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1164 RUSSIA 1873 (18 Jan) cover from Grodno to Germany, franked on back with block of 10 of 1k black and yellow, vertically laid paper, tied by Postal Car cds, with datestamp and Alsfeld 2/2) arrival pmk, fine and remarkable franking Catalog #19c | Unsold |
 | Lot #1165 RUSSIA 1866 vertically laid paper, 20k blue and orange, h.r., fresh and fine stamp, rare in this condition, * Catalog #24a Catalog Value $5,000 | Price Realized $2,700.00 |
 | Lot #1166 RUSSIA 1866 vertically laid paper, 30k carmine and green, unused with partial gum, fine, * Catalog #25a Catalog Value $750 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1167 RUSSIA 1875 vertically laid paper, 2k black and red, unused without gum, imperceptible abrasion at top left corner, otherwise fine, (*) Catalog #26a Catalog Value $7,500 | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #1168 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r black and gray, l.h., fresh and well centered stamp, v.f., signed Kosack, * Catalog #39 Catalog Value $1,000 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1169 RUSSIA 1896-1900 French postal cards and stationery to commemorate Tsar's visits to France, selection of 56 unused items, some duplication, occasional mounting flaws, mostly fine-v.f. | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1170 RUSSIA 1902 7k blue, imperforate single, dramatically shifted groundwork, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #59b | Unsold |
 | Lot #1171 RUSSIA 1902 7r black & yellow, center inverted, centered to bottom as always, h.r. and somewhat disturbed original gum, beautiful colors and fresh, fine example of this popular rarity, with 2992 Alex Rendon certificate * Catalog #70a | Price Realized $8,000.00 |
 | Lot #1172 RUSSIA 1912 Red Cross "diploma," with stationery cards with pre-printed messages to be filled out by the attending nurse (in Verhneudinsk or Ulan-Ude today), numbered and dated, v.f. and interesting Red Cross item | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1173 RUSSIA 1918 1r German-Baltic Committee, three copies, various shades, control handstamps in Russian, German and one with both, h.r., fine-v.f., scarce, * Catalog #Standart PM1 Catalog Value €1,500 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1174 RUSSIA 1921 2,250r dark blue, block of six, with full horizontal watermark at top, n.h., v.f. (Standart 21var) ** | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #1175 RUSSIA 1922 Volga Famine, blue, black and orange surcharges inverted, three different, first one l.h., others n.h., v.f. (Standart 22,25,27var) */** | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1176 RUSSIA 1922 250p+250p on 35k, black surcharge inverted and partially printed on folded over selvage, h.r., v.f. and striking variety (Standart 25Ta) * | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1177 RUSSIA 1922 250+250r on 35k, horizontal block of six, black overprint and surcharge double, n.h., v.f. (Standart 25var) ** | Price Realized $800.00 |
 | Lot #1178 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 1r orange, red surcharge inverted, n.h., also another variety, surcharge split, v.f. (Standart 28var) */** | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1179 RUSSIA 1922 10,000r on 40r (I), surcharge double and displaced to right, also top sheet margin single, surcharge shifted, v.f. (Standart 32var) * | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #1180 RUSSIA 1922 10,000r on 40r (38 1/2:23), P.C.F.C.P. with periods, h.r., v.f. (Standart 33 II) * | Price Realized $170.00 |
 | Lot #1181 RUSSIA 1922 surcharged 10,000r on 40r slate (38.5x23mm) with periods after R.S.F.S.R., n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #200f | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #1182 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 1r orange, inverted and double surcharges, both n.h., the latter with gum creases, v.f. (Standart 34var) ** | Price Realized $260.00 |
 | Lot #1183 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 2r brown, four distinct shades of the basic stamp, v.f., scarce (Standart 35) */** | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1184 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 2r light brown, basic stamp double impression, h.r., creased, otherwise v.f., rare (Standart 35var) * Catalog #35var | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1185 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 2r brown, surcharge inverted and shifted, horizontal pair, n.h., gum creases, otherwise v.f., signed Goznak (Standart 35var) ** Catalog #35var | Price Realized $200.00 |
 | Lot #1186 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r on 20r blue, violet (pelure paper), each with surcharge inverted, l.h., the latter slightly trimmed, otherwise v.f. (Standart 37Ta,37BPTa) * | Price Realized $200.00 |
 | Lot #1187 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r dark violet, proof on unwatermarked, gummed paper, n.h., v.f. (Standart 40P) P | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #1188 RUSSIA 1922 7,500r blue, double impression, one displaced, n.h., v.f. (Standart 41var) ** | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1189 RUSSIA 1922 7,500r dark blue, double impression, one inverted, h.r., v.f. (Standart 41var) * | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1190 RUSSIA 1922 1k orange, perforated lower left sheet corner margin block of four, positions 19,20,24,25, n.h. and post office fresh, signed Rosselevitch, Eichental, with 2006 Mandrovski certificate ** | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #1191 RUSSIA 1922 5r yellow and black, four varieties, two with double impression of black, others with shifted yellow background, l.h. or n.h., v.f. (Standart 59Ta,var) */** | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1192 RUSSIA 1922 10r varieties, two different, one brown over black, other with shifted background, also 45r with complete offset on back, l.h. or n.h., v.f. (Standart 60,63var) */** | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1193 RUSSIA 1922 Star surcharges, 100r on 15k, perforated sheet margin block of six, fold-over crease, with top four stamps without overprint, partly printed on back, also additional stamps from the original multiple ** | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1194 RUSSIA 1923 20r Red Army Soldier, four proofs incl. two different shades of gray (perf.) also violet, perf. and imperf., l.h. or n.h., v.f. (Standart 104P) P | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1195 RUSSIA 1923 4r brown, two imperf. singles, each double impression, one double impression/one inverted, , v.f., rare (Standart 110var) * | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1196 RUSSIA 1922 Rostov on Don, 4,000r (4t) rose (triangle), triple impression, some green offsets on front (cigarette company paper), vertical crease, otherwise fine, P | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1197 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (Typographed), 2k green, imperf. "pair", trimmed at upper left, double impression, v.f. P | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #1198 RUSSIA 1924 definitives (typographed), 1r brown red, imperforate upper right sheet corner margin single, very lightly hinged, natural inclusion, still v.f. and rare positional piece (Standart O55Pa) * Catalog #290var Catalog Value €6,700 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1199 RUSSIA 1927 surcharged 8 Kop (space of 0,75mm between line) on 7k chocolate, perf. 14 1/2x15, never hinged and post office fresh, natural gum wrinkles, surcharge slightly doubled, v.f. This is one of the rarest stamps from the Soviet Union, with Victor Liapine cert. (Liapine No.279, value Euro 35,000) (Standart 209) ** Catalog #349var | Price Realized $18,000.00 |
 | Lot #1200 RUSSIA 1927 surcharged 8 Kop (space of 0,75mm between line) on 7k chocolate, perf. 12, unwatermarked and watermarked, two different, never hinged and post office fresh, natural gum wrinkles and inclusions, v.f., rare, with Victor Liapine cert. (Liapine No.A279, 280, value Euro 5,250) (Standart 209A,210) ** Catalog #349var | Price Realized $10,000.00 |
 | Lot #1201 RUSSIA 1927 14k Esperanto, imperforate vertical pair, hinged at top, bottom stamp n.h., v.f. */** Catalog #374var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1202 RUSSIA 1927 5k brown, imperforate bottom sheet margin single, h.r., disturbed gum, v.f. * Catalog #376b | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1203 RUSSIA 1927 7k dark green, imperforate single, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #377b | Unsold |
 | Lot #1204 RUSSIA 1933 Baku Commissars, 5k-40k blocks of four, four different, n.h., usual natural dried gum skips, 20k with light, natural gum creasing at top, v.f., scarce in blocks (Standart 346-349) **Catalog #520-523 | Price Realized $2,500.00 |
 | Lot #1205 RUSSIA 1934 Lenin Mausoleum, 5k brown, imperforate sheet margin single, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #524a | Price Realized $675.00 |
 | Lot #1206 RUSSIA 1934 Fedorov, set of two imperforate singles, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #529a-30a | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #1207 RUSSIA 1934 Mendeleev, 5k emerald, imperforate top sheet corner margin single, proof in nearly issued color, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #536var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1208 RUSSIA 1935 Anti-War Issue, 5k-35k blocks of four, complete set of five, n.h. and post office fresh, 5k with some trimmed and short perforations at upper left, otherwise v.f., scarce in blocks (Standart 387-391) **Catalog #546-550 | Price Realized $12,500.00 |
 | Lot #1209 RUSSIA 1935 Kalinin, 20k black, imperf. horizontal pair, n.h., two horizontal gum bends, otherwise v.f.. (Standard 428Pa) ** Catalog #576var Catalog Value €3,600 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1210 RUSSIA 1935 Frunze, Bauman and Kirov, set of three imperforate singles, h.r., minor gum bends, handstamped guarantee marks, fine-v.f. (Standart 432Pa-34Pa) * Catalog #580-82var Catalog Value €1,325 | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1211 RUSSIA 1937 50k brown, imperf. bottom margin vertical pair, n.h., usual natural gum wrinkles, v.f. (Standart 467Pa) ** Catalog #604var Catalog Value €6,000 | Price Realized $5,500.00 |
 | Lot #1212 RUSSIA 1938 Shota Rustaveli, 20k dark green, imperf. horizontal pair, n.h., v.f., with tiny handstamped guarantee marks, catalogue value for hinged (Standart 487Pa) ** Catalog #610var Catalog Value €9,000 | Price Realized $6,500.00 |
 | Lot #1213 RUSSIA 1937 Definitives (unwatermarked), 4k lilac, 20k green, imperforate singles, h.r., the former with minor discoloration, v.f., rare (Standart 455Pa,458Pa) * Catalog #615,617Avar Catalog Value €1,620 | Price Realized $1,200.00 |
 | Lot #1214 RUSSIA 1936 Definitives (unwatermarked) 5k orange brown, block of four, n.h., v.f. (Standart 456) **Catalog #615A | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1215 RUSSIA 1936 Definitives, 10k gray blue, imperf. horizontal pair, l.h., v.f. (Standart 441 Pa) * Catalog #616var Catalog Value €1,500 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1216 RUSSIA 1937 Definitives (unwatermarked), 10k olive, imperf. sheet margin single, l.h., v.f. (Standart 457Pa) * Catalog #616Avar Catalog Value €2,000 | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #1217 RUSSIA 1937 Definitives (unwatermarked), 20k green, imperforate sheet margin single, l.h., v.f. (Standart 458Pa) * Catalog #617Avar Catalog Value €620 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1218 RUSSIA 1939 Definitives (unwatermarked), 30k red lilac, imperforate horizontal pair, n.h., v.f. (Standart 577Pa) ** Catalog #618var Catalog Value €2,000 | Price Realized $1,700.00 |
 | Lot #1219 RUSSIA 1937 Definitives (unwatermarked), 40k Lenin, imperforate sheet margin single, h.r., v.f. (Standart 443Pa) * Catalog #619var Catalog Value €370 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1220 RUSSIA 1937 Definitives (unwatermarked), 40k Lenin, imperforate single, h.r., v.f. (Standart 443Pa) * Catalog Value €370 | Price Realized $160.00 |
 | Lot #1221 RUSSIA 1939 Lenin, 5r brown, variety imperf. at left, h.r., fine (Standart 584Pb) * Catalog #621var Catalog Value €2,500 | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #1222 RUSSIA 1937 North Pole, 40k and 80k imperforate singles, large part disturbed gum, otherwise fine, * Catalog #627a-28a Catalog Value $2,500 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1223 RUSSIA 1938 Soldier, 50k vertical pair, imperf. horizontally, hinged at top, folded between stamps, fine and rare * Catalog #633var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1224 RUSSIA 1938 Chapayev, 1r imperf. vertical pair, n.h., v.f. (Standart 496Pa) ** Catalog #635var Catalog Value €5,000 | Price Realized $4,000.00 |
 | Lot #1225 RUSSIA 1938 First Transpolar Flight, 40k brown and red, imperforate single, h.r., penciled position and initials, natural gum wrinkles, v.f. (Standart 499Pa) * Catalog #638var Catalog Value €1,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1226 RUSSIA 1938 Papanin, 50k imperf. horizontal pair, n.h., v.f. (Standart 518Pa) ** Catalog #646a Catalog Value €5,000 | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1227 RUSSIA 1938-1941 Sports, Be A Hero (2), Airplanes, Militia and Nizam-al-Din, n.h., fine-v.f. (Standart 473/729) ** Catalog #608/C75 Catalog Value €1,067 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1228 RUSSIA 1939 Lermontov, 15k vertical pair, variety imperf. at top, bottom stamp l.h., top n.h., v.f. (Standart 621Pb) * Catalog #757var Catalog Value €1,200 | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1229 RUSSIA 1939 Steelworker, 15k blue, imperforate vertical pair, l.h. at top, bottom stamp n.h., v.f. (Standart 576Pa) */** Catalog #713a Catalog Value €5,000 | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1230 RUSSIA 1939 Definitives, 30k blue (aviator), imperforate sheet margin single, n.h., v.f. (Standart 608Pa) ** Catalog #736var Catalog Value €1,500 | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1231 RUSSIA 1939-1942 issues distributed by the UPU, selection of 243 stamps, three of each, usually in horizontal or vertical strips of three, cancelled three-line "Specimen Collection Mauritanie" in violet, affixed on parts of album pages, some dated at top and bottom, fine-v.f., probably unique group from the recently dispersed archive S | Unsold |
 | Lot #1232 RUSSIA 1940 All Union Agricultural Fair, 30k Pavilions, two different se-tenant sheets of 36, centrally folded horizontally and vertically between stamps, with perf. strengthening and some separations, otherwise fine-v.f. ** | Price Realized $6,250.00 |
 | Lot #1233 RUSSIA 1940 Agricultural Exhibition, set of 17 different, all in horizontal or vertical strips of three (51 stamps), cancelled three-line "Specimen Collection Mauritanie" in violet, affixed on large album page, dated at top and bottom, fine-v.f., probably unique group from the recently dispersed archive S Catalog #794-810S | Unsold |
 | Lot #1234 RUSSIA 1943 Bering, 30k blue, horizontal pair imperf. between, n.h., v.f. (Standart 762var) ** Catalog #886var Catalog Value €1,700 | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1235 RUSSIA 1945 Griboyedov, 60k gray, horizontal pair imperf. between, n.h. v.f. (Standart 867var) ** Catalog #967var Catalog Value €1,500 | Price Realized $625.00 |
 | Lot #1236 RUSSIA 1945 Bombers, large multiples comprising 40 sets (except for Standart 899 only 36), all in blocks of four to part sheets of 28 etc., n.h., fine-v.f. (it is possible to have six complete sets of blocks of four) **Catalog #Standart 896-904 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1237 RUSSIA 1945 Bombers, 1r dark gray, variety imperf. at bottom, right sheet margin horizontal pair, n.h., fine-v.f., rare (catalogue value for used, mint unpriced) ** Catalog #Standart 898Pa Catalog Value €2,000 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1238 RUSSIA 1946 Bombers, blocks of four, cplt set of nine, n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #Standart 938-46 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1239 RUSSIA 1946 Definitives (lithographed), 30k blue (aviator), vertical left sheet margin pair, bottom stamp variety "OCCP" (instead of "CCCP"), l.h. in margin, stamps n.h., fine, ** Catalog #Standart 988Ka Catalog Value €6,000 | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1240 RUSSIA 1947 Air force, 30k violet, horizontal pair, variety imperf. at left, l.h., v.f., signed Mikulski (Standart 1053Pa) * Catalog #1159var Catalog Value €900 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1241 RUSSIA 1947 Resorts of the USSR, 30k red brown (Afon), horizontal pair imperf. vertically (l.h.), also imperf. single (n.h.), v.f. (Standart 1102var) */** Catalog #1166var | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1242 RUSSIA 1947 Resorts of the USSR, 30k gray violet (Sochi), vertical pair between, h.r., v.f. (Standart 1103var) * Catalog Value €1,200 | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #1243 RUSSIA 1947 Resorts of the USSR, 30k blue (Kislovodsk), horizontal pair imperf. between, l.h. (if at all), v.f. (Standart 1108var) * Catalog #1168var Catalog Value €1,200 | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1244 RUSSIA 1948 Ostrovsky, imperforate singles, set of three, also additional vertical imperf. pair of 60k brown, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #1227-1229var | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1245 RUSSIA 1948 Definitive, 20k brown, variety imperf. at bottom, n.h., v.f. (Standart 1161Pa) ** Catalog #1217var Catalog Value €450 | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #1246 RUSSIA 1948 Air force Day, overprinted "June 1948" in red, blocks of four, 1r variety dry print, n.h., v.f. (Standart 1214-15) **Catalog #1246-47var | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1247 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, imperforate souvenir sheet, n.h., usual light gum wrinkles and inclusions, otherwise v.f. **Catalog #1327a,var | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1248 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, imperforate souvenir sheet of four, expertly regummed, v.f. (*)Catalog #1327avar | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1249 RUSSIA 1956 Suvorov, 3r block of four, left stamps variety imperf. at left, n.h., v.f. and rare (Standart 1773Pa) **Catalog #1890var Catalog Value €3,600 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1250 RUSSIA 1961 Space, cacheted FDC (first man in space) autographed by Yuri Gagarin, v.f., with Roger Koerber certificate | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #1251 RUSSIA 1964 Tokyo, green souvenir sheet, n.h., v.f. (Standart Bl.36I) ** Catalog #2921-26var Catalog Value €300 | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #1252 RUSSIA 1964 Tokyo, green souvenir sheet, also the regularly issued souv. sheet in red, n.h., v.f. (Standart Bl.36I,37I) ** Catalog #2921-26var Catalog Value €315 | Price Realized $220.00 |
 | Lot #1253 RUSSIA 1980 Jean August Ingres, 32k imperf. sheet margin single, n.h., usual gum wrinkles and fingerprints, v.f. (Standart 5037Pa) ** Catalog #4858var Catalog Value €2,700 | Price Realized $750.00 |
