U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 29-30, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1191 RUSSIA Russia Used in Asia 1904 (9 Sep) ppc (Zabaikal. Railway) from a station on the Trans-Siberian Railway to Warszawa, with military hs and arrival pmks, fine usage from this remote area in the Chita oblast  | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1192 RUSSIA Russia Used in Asia 1915 (6 June) postal card to Tiflis, with oval "Sarikamish Novo-Aleksandropol" in oval, also "Polucheno v Upravleni I po Postrok z.dor. linii Sarikamsh-Karaurgan" in violet, archival staple holes at right, fine usage. Railway construction in the Caucasus Kars-Sarikamisch line was completed in 1913, continuing with Sarikamish-Karaurgan expansion. | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #1193 RUSSIA Russia Used in Asia 1917 picture postcard (Tiflis) to Petrograd, with blue "Urmijsakaya Ozernaya Flotilya" (Lek Urmia Fleet) naval cachet, cancelled "Polevaya Zapazn. Pocht. Kontora" (Fieldpost Reserve Post Office), confirming military free frank usage, with corresponding photo card showing the actual vessel and its crew, endorsed on back (dated 18 Nov 16, Urmia Lake, Persia), minor creases, otherwise v.f. According to Tchilingirian: "a Russian Consular Post Office is claimed to have operated during the 1910s in this important town of Persian Azerbaijan, but no material emanating from it is known to the authors." Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran, situated on a fertile plain called Urmia Plain, on the western side of Lake Urmia. At the beginning of World War I, tens of thousands of Assyrians and Armenians from Anatolia found refuge in Urmia. The city changed hands several times between Russians and Kurds the following two years. This card is a rare example of Russian Naval presence on Lake Urmia during WWI | Unsold |
 | Lot #1194 RUSSIA Russia Used in Asia 1920-24 postal history, selection of 13 covers, including a correspondence to an U.S. soldier stationed initially in Manila, later at the American Barracks, Tientsin, China, five are from Nikolsk-Ussuryjsk, two with Far Eastern Republic Franking, other Soviet, also other covers from Vladivostok to San Francisco, Red Cross envelope with letter, franked with Imperial 1r, etc., some cover wear and tear, mostly fine and unusual group | Unsold |
