U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 10-11, 2014

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Lot #1331
RUSSIA Air Post
1923 (Jan) registered cover from Moscow to New York, franked on both sides with 26 stamps (paying total of 684r or 6r84k, underpaying the current 7r rate, a very small amount which was apparently overlooked by the postal clerk), including 45r (two), plus a variety of existing issues (mostly valued in 1922 rubles, as no stamps had yet been issued in 1923 rubles), with two complete sets of the Fifth Anniversary of the Revolution, non-denominated charity issue (including the scarce airplane), also regular issues, star surcharges, 100,000r on 250r (two) and 250r on 35k Philatelic Tax stamp, fine cover, with arrival (29 Jan) postmarks
Envelope
Catalog #C1
Unsold
Lot #1332
RUSSIA Air Post
1926 (28 Aug) registered cover from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with three different surcharges including 10k (narrow "0" variety), 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, v.f., with Lysin arrival pmk. Although airmail stamps were not officially authorized for use on non-airmail covers until September 6, 1926, this cover, processed though the Philatelic Bureau, was obviously permitted to pass a week earlier
Envelope
Catalog #C6,7var,8
Unsold
Lot #1333
RUSSIA Air Post
1926 (2 Sep) cover from Nizhny Novgorod, registered from Moscow to Austria, franked with a combination of Air Post, Definitives and Commemorative stamp, paying 38k (the correct foreign registered letter rate was 28k, hence this letter was probably overweight), with 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents indicated "2017" in pen, filing folds away from the stamps, fine
Envelope
Catalog #C7
Unsold
Lot #1334
RUSSIA Air Post
1931 10k-1r perforated set of five, used on registered and flown cover from Moscow to Germany, v.f., with arrival postmark; also special card prepared for the 1932 Philatelic Exhibition, with 24 December Exposition cancellation, fine-v.f.
Envelope
Catalog #C15-19
Price Realized
$250.00

Lot #1335
RUSSIA Air Post
1935 Chelyuskin, 1k-50k complete set, n.h., fine-v.f. (Zagorsky 392-401)
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Catalog #C58-67
Catalog Value $3,100
Price Realized
$1,600.00

Lot #1336
RUSSIA Air Post
1935 Moscow-San Francisco 1r surcharge on 10k dark brown (Levanevsky), pos.13, n.h., v.f., signed Goznak,
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Catalog #C68
Catalog Value $3,250
Price Realized
$950.00

Lot #1337
RUSSIA Air Post
1935 Moscow-San Francisco (Levanevsky)1r on 10k surcharge, block of six (positions 11-13, 16-18), two stamps (upper right and upper left) l.h., others n.h., v.f., signed Goznak, Brun etc. An exceptionally rare positional multiple (Zverev $20,000)
Box */**
Catalog #C68
Unsold

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