U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 29-30, 2014

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1112
RUSSIA
1857 10k brown and blue, cancelled "174" in dots, margins all around, v.f.
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Catalog #1
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #1113
RUSSIA
1857 10k brown and blue, used and partly adhered on piece, margins all around, v.f.
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Catalog #1
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #1114
RUSSIA
1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, neat Odessa 1858 border cancellation, v.f., rare, with Buchsbayew cert.
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Catalog #1
Price Realized
$800.00

Lot #1115
RUSSIA
1858 (28 Nov) outer FL from Odessa to Riga, franked with 10k brown & blue (interesting plate flaw showing deformed numerals at bottom right), tied by "6" in oval dots, usual filing fold (away from the stamp), departure and arrival datestamps on back, some tape reinforcements, otherwise fine
Envelope
Catalog #2
Price Realized
$525.00

Lot #1116
RUSSIA
1858 (10 June) outer FL from Riga to Pernau, franked with 10k brown & blue, tied by cds departure, arrival datestamp on back, filing folds away from the stamps, fine and attractive cover
Envelope
Catalog #2
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #1117
RUSSIA
1858 10k brown & blue, tied by indistinct numeral in dots pmk on outer FL, with framed St. Petersburg arrival datestamp on back, fine
Envelope
Catalog #2
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #1118
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
Box **
Catalog #3P
Price Realized
$9,500.00

Lot #1119
RUSSIA
1861 (14 Oct) outer FL from Polangen to Libawa, franked with 2x10k brown & blue, each cancelled by "240" in rectangle of dots, departure and arrival pmks (same day) on back, filing folds away from the stamps, fine
Envelope
Catalog #8
Price Realized
$240.00

Lot #1120
RUSSIA
1866-70 two FLs from St. Petersburg and Moscow to London, each paying 26k, first with combination of 2x3k (perforated. 12) and single 20k perforated. 14 1/2 (unwatermarked); the latter with two each 3k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), appropriate sequence of transit and arrival pmks, filing folds, otherwise fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$375.00

Lot #1121
RUSSIA
1867 (Dec) FL from Taganrog, via Moscow to Genova, franked with 5k and 20k (unwatermarked) and 10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by cds, with oval "Franco" and red "P.D.", with transit and arrival pmks, filing folds away from the stamps, fine letter to Italy
Envelope
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #1122
RUSSIA
1871 (Nov) outer FL from Odessa to Paris, franked with single 3k and 5x5k (vertical pair and horizontal strip of five), all horizontally laid paper, tied by cds, with Vienna transit and "Autr. Strasbourg" entry cds, filing folds through the stamps, still fine and attractive 28k rate, with Mikulski certificate
Envelope
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #1123
RUSSIA
1872 (28 Nov) cover from Odessa to Marseilles, franked with 1k and 3k (unwatermarked) and vertical pair of 10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by cds, with framed "Aus Russland Franco" and "Frankirovano" handstamps, also red "P.D." and blue French entry pmk. On back there is Breslau-Berlin mailcar and Paris transit pmks, arriving at destination on 16 December, v.f. and attractive cover, with Mikulski certificate, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$240.00

Lot #1124
RUSSIA
1873 (4 Jan) outer FL from Odessa to Marseille, paying 24k with 1k, 3k and pair of 10k (all horizontally laid paper), tied by Odessa Rail Road Post Office cds, with framed "frankirovano" (franked) and Postal Car No.47, also Breslau Oderberg transit markings on back, Lyon a Marseille and arrival pmks, filing fold (through 3k), fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$200.00

Lot #1125
RUSSIA
1873 (20 Apr) cover from Tiflis to Obergrombach, Grand Duchy of Baden, paying 15k with 5k and 10k (horizontally laid paper), sent via St. Petersburg, Berlin etc., with transit and arrival pmks, backflap defective, otherwise fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$160.00

Lot #1126
RUSSIA
1877 (June) registered cover to St. Petersburg, paying 23k with 3k and 2x10k (horizontally laid paper), tied by Rybinsk-Bologovsk Rail Road station markings, some wear and tear, with arrival pmk
Envelope
Price Realized
$160.00

Lot #1127
RUSSIA
1879 7k gray and rose, vertically laid paper, deep colors, h.r., fine, with 2006 Buchsbayew certificate (Zagorsky 33I)
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Catalog #27b
Catalog Value $4,700
Price Realized
$2,400.00

Lot #1128
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.
Envelope
Price Realized
$1,400.00

Lot #1129
RUSSIA
1902 7k blue, imperforate single, dramatically shifted groundwork, h.r., v.f.
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Catalog #59b
Price Realized
$450.00

Lot #1130
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 and undervalued rarity (one sheet of 25 printed), with 2992 Alex Rendon certificate
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Catalog #70a
Price Realized
$9,000.00

Lot #1131
RUSSIA
1906 5r (vertically laid paper), top sheet margin pair and strip of three (originally a horizontal strip of five), stamps n.h., fine positional piece
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Catalog #71
Price Realized
$525.00

Lot #1132
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 #1133
RUSSIA
1915 10r carmine lake, yellow & gray, groundwork inverted, slight toning, otherwise fine,
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Catalog #109d
Catalog Value $500
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1134
RUSSIA
1917 (24 Oct) picture postcard franked with 2x1k and 3k, paying 5k from Petrograd, cancelled 25 October (Day of the Revolution 1917), sent to Odessa, fine, with Mandrovski certificate. A significant historical item used on the day of the Great October Revolution (On 7 November 1917, Vladimir Lenin led his revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government (Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show a 25 October date. The October revolution ended the phase of the revolution instigated in February, replacing Russia's short-lived provisional parliamentary governmen.) The card was written by Vladimir Vladimirovich von Lange, a Major-General (Odessa Military District), with a distinguished career which included service in the Far East, during the Russo-Japanese War and during World War I (dismissed from the service due to illness in 1916). General von Lange is writing to his mother in Odessa, with reference to Petrograd Workers and Soldiers Deputies
Envelope
Catalog #C23a
Unsold
Lot #1135
RUSSIA
1922 5,000r on 1r orange, red surcharge inverted, n.h., also another variety, surcharge split, v.f. (Zagorsky 28var)
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Catalog #191var
Price Realized
$140.00

Lot #1136
RUSSIA
1922 5,000r on 2r light brown, basic stamp double impression, h.r., creased, otherwise v.f., rare (Zagorsky 35var)
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Catalog #192var
Price Realized
$230.00

Lot #1137
RUSSIA
1922 5,000r on 2r brown, surcharge inverted and shifted, horizontal pair, n.h., gum creases, otherwise v.f., signed Goznak (Zagorsky 35var)
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Catalog #192var
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1138
RUSSIA
1922 5,000r dark violet, proof on unwatermarked, gummed paper, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 40P)
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Catalog #202P
Price Realized
$290.00

Lot #1139
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. (Zagorsky 59Ta,var)
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Catalog #211var
Price Realized
$800.00

Lot #1140
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. (Zagorsky 60,63var)
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Catalog #212var
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #1141
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
Box **
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #1142
RUSSIA
1923 20r Red Army Soldier, four proofs incl. two different shades of gray (perforated.) also violet, perforated. and imperf., l.h. or n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 104P)
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Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #1143
RUSSIA
1923 (4 Oct) registered and flown cover from Moscow to Zurich, franked on both sides with a total of 33 stamps (all RSFSR) including 5r Airfleet adhesive and 250r on 35k Foreign Exchange surcharge, with appropriate transit and arrival markings, fine
Envelope
Price Realized
$550.00

Lot #1144
RUSSIA
1923 Workers and Soldiers, imperf. 5r (234), 10r (588), also unissued 1r and 2r perforated. and imperf. (200), mostly horizontal pairs, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 0105/108,0112,113)
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Catalog #240b,241c
Catalog Value $10,000
Price Realized
$900.00

Lot #1145
RUSSIA
1924 Definitives (typographed) 3k red brown, printed on gum only, imperforate horizontal strip of three, some creases, otherwise fine
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Catalog #273var
Unsold
Lot #1146
RUSSIA
1924 Definitives (typographed) 15k lemon yellow, perforated 14 1/4x14 3/4, n.h., well centered, v.f., with 1991 Mikulski and 2009 Buchsbayew certificates. A superior example of this popular Soviet rarity (Zagorsky $46,500)
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Catalog #287
Price Realized
$23,000.00

Lot #1147
RUSSIA
1925 Lenin Mausoleum, 40k magenta, unissued design, imperforate and gummed single, v.f. (Zverev $2,000)
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Unsold
Lot #1148
RUSSIA
1929 definitives (watermarked) 6k blue special printing, perforated 12:12 1/4, sheetlet of 20 (as opposed to the 1925 issue which was printed in gutter sheets of 100, which can be separated into panes of 25), with margins on all four sides, three stamps l.h. at top, adhesion and small thin affecting the stamp at upper right (also small part of selvage missing), folded vertically between stamps (tiny perforated. Separations at bottom margin), natural wrinkles and diagonal creases affecting three stamps at bottom, also abrasions in left margin away from the stamps. A rarity, one of only a handful recorded, with Mandrovski certificate (Zagorsky 81B, $55,000; Zverev $20,000)
Box */**
Catalog #309var
Unsold
Lot #1149
RUSSIA
1925 Definitives (watermarked) 3r perforated 12 1/2 (type I), with perforated letter of Obrazets (Specimen), l.h., v.f., with Mandrovski certificate (Zagorsky 96IA)
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Catalog #324aS
Unsold
Lot #1150
RUSSIA
1925 Lomonosov, 3k orange brown, imperforate proof on cartridge paper, v.f. (Zverev $650)
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Catalog #326P
Unsold
Lot #1151
RUSSIA
1932 cover franked with 10k "Spartakiada" label, sent to Tashkent, where it was charged first 15k and later 30k penalty due, with arrival pmk on back, interesting
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #1152
RUSSIA
1933 Ethnic Minorities, 4k ultramarine (Birobidzhan), trial color proof on watermarked paper, unused without, with part of a red (Proekt) letter at bottom, fine
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Catalog #492P
Price Realized
$950.00

Lot #1153
RUSSIA
1933 Baku Commissars, selection of eight perforated trial color proofs on watermarked stamp paper, with or without gum, 4k gray, 5k red brown, 20k green, 20k red, 20k gray, 35k red brown, 35k red, plus 40k green, occasional abrasions or gum disturbances, mostly v.f., rare (Zverev $16,000+)
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Catalog #519-523P
Price Realized
$8,500.00

Lot #1154
RUSSIA
1934 Sverdlov and Nogin, perforated plate proofs in lilac, both on watermarked stamp paper, fine-v.f., only a few exist (Zverev $6,000)
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Catalog #531-532P
Unsold
Lot #1155
RUSSIA
1935 Anti-War Issue, set of five trial color proofs (ultramarine) on watermarked stamp paper, perforated. 11 1/2, fresh and v.f., with gum (which is not original), very rare (Zverev $12,500+)
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Catalog #546-550P
Unsold
Lot #1156
RUSSIA
1935 Engels, 20k ultramarine, perforated trial color proof on stamp paper, v.f., rare
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Catalog #558P
Unsold
Lot #1157
RUSSIA
1935 Tolstoy, 3k and 20k multicolor plate proofs on stamp paper, v.f., rare (Zverev $5,500)
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Catalog #577P,579P
Unsold
Lot #1158
RUSSIA
1936 Definitives (unwatermarked) 4k lilac, 10k olive, 20k green, imperforate blocks of four, first l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., others l.h., usual gum creases, mostly v.f., ex-Small (Zverev $55,000)
Box */**
Catalog #615,616A,617Avar
Unsold
Lot #1159
RUSSIA
1937 Architecture of Moscow, 5k brown red, imperf., h.r., v.f., signed Goznak
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Catalog #598var
Price Realized
$180.00

Lot #1160
RUSSIA
1948 Definitives, 20k brown, variety imperf. at bottom, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1161Pa)
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Catalog #1217var
Catalog Value $470
Price Realized
$150.00

Lot #1161
RUSSIA
1948 Lenin, 30k lilac and 1r blue, imperforate trial color proofs on gummed stamp paper, v.f., rare
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Catalog #1307P,1309P
Price Realized
$2,000.00

Lot #1162
RUSSIA
1949 50k Maly Theater, variety imperf. at left, used, v.f. (Zagorsky 1358Pa)
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Catalog #1401var
Catalog Value $300
Price Realized
$210.00

Lot #1163
RUSSIA
1949 Chapayev, 40 orange red, variety imperf. at top, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1342Pa)
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Catalog #1403var
Catalog Value $500
Price Realized
$210.00

Lot #1164
RUSSIA
1950 Latvian Republic, 2r variety imperf. at top, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1454Pa)
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Catalog #1496var
Catalog Value $1,000
Price Realized
$325.00

Lot #1165
RUSSIA
1956 Suvorov, 3r block of four, left stamps variety imperf. at left, n.h., v.f. and rare (Zagorsky 1773Pa)
Box **
Catalog #1890var
Catalog Value $4,600
Price Realized
$1,500.00

Lot #1166
RUSSIA
1958 Industry, 40k blue, line-perforated. 12 1/2, block of four, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 2159A, catalogue value for singles)
Box **
Catalog #2118var
Catalog Value $3,120
Price Realized
$1,500.00

Lot #1167
RUSSIA
1965 Space, 20k silver foil varieties, one without background (embossing), the other with shifted background, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 3098var)
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Unsold
Lot #1168
RUSSIA
1967 Izvestia, 4k overprinted with Medal of Lenin and three line inscription, unissued as such, n.h., v.f., with Pritula cert. (Zagorsky 3380)
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Catalog #3308var
Price Realized
$1,400.00

Lot #1169
RUSSIA
1976 3k red, sheet of 100, spectacularly displaced perforations, diagonally to right, n.h., v.f., probably unique
Box **
Catalog #4519var
Unsold

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