The Igor Gorski Collection of R.S.F.S.R
February 20, 2014

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #3065
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in yellow and purple, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of a New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay
E
Unsold
Lot #3066
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs, sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky (Education Commissar) and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in magenta and green, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of an old (Imperial) New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay
E
Unsold
Lot #3067
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs, sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky (Education Commissar) and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in ultramarine and yellow green, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of an old (Imperial) New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay
E
Unsold
Lot #3068
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs for the first definitive issue,"Pochta Marka" 5r olive, red, gray blue and violet, four different perforated essays, with and without gum, one thin, others fine-v.f.
E
Unsold
Lot #3069
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs for the first definitive issue, "Pochta Marka" and Star, 20r olive, red, black violet, three different perforated and gummed essays, fine-v.f., rare
E
Unsold
Lot #3070
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 1r-5r gray black, imperforate sheetlet of 14, showing Karl Marx (2r and 5r), Lenin (2r and 5r), New World Allegory (40r), Worker's Hand with Hammer (20r), R.S.F.S.R. (1r) and Symbols of Industry (5r), designed by the artists E.Lancerey, G.Reindorf and K.Hoppe, proposed but not accepted for general release; folded between stamps, marginal wrinkles, fine-v.f., signed Prof. Winterstein. A rarity
Box E
Unsold
Lot #3071
R.S.F.S.R. 1920 Essays - unadapted designs
1920 1r-5r gray blue, imperforate and gummed sheetlet of 14, showing Karl Marx (2r and 5r), Lenin (2r and 5r), New World Allegory (40r), Worker's Hand with Hammer (20r), R.S.F.S.R. (1r) and Symbols of Industry (5r), designed by the artists E.Lancerey, G.Reindorf and K.Hoppe, proposed but not accepted for general release; folded between stamps, marginal thin, v.f.
Box E
Price Realized
$14,000.00

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