U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
June 10-11, 2014
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| Lot #1256 RUSSIA 1782-1917 Imperial Postal History collection, written up exhibition style (mostly in English) on pages, starting with pre-philatelic, covering the various outposts of the Russian empire, including Poland, Russian Far East including China, numerous comments by postal clerks and officials, uncommon destinations and more. There are 309 exhibition pages, with 554 covers, folded letters, parcel cards, postcards, money orders, stationery entires, neatly arranged in order with pre-philatelic single straight-line handstamps, numeral postmarks, railway markings, maritime, fieldpost offices (covering Russo-Turkish Wars, Russian Corps in China, Russo-Japanese and First World Wars), Temporary post offices (Fieldpost on maneuvers). Another section deals with special postmarks and those include payment marks, "time of day" arrival handstamps (some from overseas), registration markings, routing and delayed delivery, "damaged in transit," addressee search and unable to deliver postmarks (insufficiently paid, franked up to  | Unsold |
