Russian Stamps (Internet Only)
May 16, 2012
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #2122 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1902-17 collection of 28 covers or cards written up on pages, including Nizhniy Perm Steamer, covers posted on board ships in the Baltic Sea, to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsingfors, Lubeck, Hamburg, Wiborg, Mariehamn (Aland Islands), Abo, also across the Gulf of Bothnia (cover from Vasa to Stockholm, opened by censor, cancelled in Sundsvall, Sweden), also Batum-Odessa, Nizhny-Astrakhan (Volga River) Steamer, Nizhniy Rybinsk, White Sea (Belo-morye) card from Kem (route originated in Arkhangelsk-Kem-Keret-Kandalasha-Umba-Kovda), also Dniepr, Lena and Volga River mail, plus 1917 cover from Vladivostok to USA, via Tsurugua and Yokohama, also some stamps incl. multiples (many Romanov adhesives) with various interesting Ship Mail pmks, fine-v.f. and compact representation of Russian ship mail  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #2123 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1902 cover to Stockholm posted on board a ship in the Gulf of Finland, receiving a "ship picture" pmk, put ashore at Helsingfors, with 10k (5x2k) Russian franking, sent to Stockholm, with 7.8.02 arrival | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2124 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1904 (6 May) cover to Prussia, carried by ship from Finland and marked "Paquebot." First port of call was Copenhagen, where it was taken to a local post office, with 11k (4k and 7k) Russian franking, cancelled and sent to Germany, with Eberswalde 7.5.04 arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2125 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1905 (28 Feb) cover from Abo to Hamburg, taken to the Stockholm post office on docking in Sweden, where 10k Russian franking (5x2k green) were cancelled. The "Fran Finland" handstamp confirms the cover as ship-mail, with Hamburg (2.3.05) arrival pmk on back | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2126 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1906 (9 Apr) picture postcard posted on board a ship in the Gulf of Finland, receiving a "ship picture" pmk, put ashore at Vyborg, with 3k Russian franking, sent to Kakisalmi, fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2127 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1913 (26 Oct) cover originating from Riga, traveling via Finland (either Helsingfors or Abo) to Sweden, where it was taken to the Stockholm post office. The "Fran Finland" handstamp designated it as ship-mail (probably ex-Finland despite its Riga origin), charged 2k concessionary fee, with 2k Romanov adhesive postmarked at Stockholm, filing fold at bottom, otherwise fine | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #2128 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1913 (22 Nov) 4k Romanov stationery card to Stockholm, sent from Riga and posted on board the ship "Odin", with "Fran Finland" handstamp in error (should have been "fran Ryssland"), postmarked at the Stockholm post office 24.11.13, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #2129 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1914 (5 Aug) Chinese picture postcard franked with 4k Romanov, written by a Danish worker in Vladivostok to Copenhagen. World War I, which started two days earlier, cut off Russia from communication with rest of Europe. This card was put on board a ship leaving Vladivostok for Japan, where the "Paquebot" cachet was applied. At Tsuruga, the card was postmarked 20.8.14, went across Japan to Yokohama (28.8) and from there to America and Denmark. This postcard traveled nearly three-quarters of the way round the world, some toning and corner creases, fine | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #2130 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1916 (7 Jan) 4k Romanov stationery card to Japan, carried by ship from Vladivostok, on arrival it received a validating "Paquebot" cachet, and Tsuruga arrival pmks, v.f. | Price Realized $450.00 |
