U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
April 29-30, 2014
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | 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  Catalog #C23a | Unsold |
