The Igor Gorski Collection of R.S.F.S.R
February 20, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #3021 R.S.F.S.R. Essays (Artist N.Altman) 1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm), including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in red, archival staple holes in margin, slight wrinkles, v.f., one of three known (of which one is the Popov Museum in St. Petersburg), with 1998 Mandrovski certificate. (After the Revolution, Nathan Altman, led an active public life and created works of mass propaganda including sculpture, stamps for the new Soviet state, decorations for the holidays of the 7th November 1918 in the Palace Square in Petrograd and executed a series of graphic portraits of Vladimir Lenin, which were published in a separate album and became very popular)  E | Unsold |
 | Lot #3022 R.S.F.S.R. Essays (Artist N.Altman) 1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm), including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in black, endorsed "not accepted" and dated "21/8" also signed A. Musatov (head of Narkompochtel in 1921), little ageing and toning, minor paper defects (having been removed from a presentation card), absolutely unique, ex-Liphschutz, Shtern collections E | Unsold |
 | Lot #3023 R.S.F.S.R. Essays (Artist N.Altman) 1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm) , including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in black, cut close at bottom left (10th stamp), otherwise v.f., rare RSFSR essay, one of only 3 (!) known (two are in this sale, the other is in the Popov Museum in St. Petersburg), with 1998 Mandrovski certificate E | Unsold |
 | Lot #3024 R.S.F.S.R. Essays (Artist N.Altman) 1918 Industrial Landscape, large die essay (128x187mm) card mounted, design was incorporated into the third row of the Altman proof sheetlet (5r, 4r and 3r), inscribed PCFCP Pochta, value tablets blank, fine-v.f. E | Price Realized $2,700.00 |
