U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 17-18, 2015
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1117 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown and blue, used, large margins all around, v.f., O Catalog #1 Catalog Value $850 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1118 RUSSIA 1857 10k blue and red, upper right corner sheet margin single, two-line "(P)olang(en)…April" datestamp, fresh and v.f. positional piece, signed Diena O Catalog #1 | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1119 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, tied by ornamental Smolensk Feb 19, 1858 double circle postmark on outer FL to Tver, with boxed Polucheno 28 February arrival on back, minimal ink erosion on the address portion of lettersheet, fine and rare cover, ex-Mikulski  Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #1120 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, close but clear at top, tied by framed Taurogen 19 April 1858 departure datestamp on complete FL to Moscow, with "Speditions-Geschaft John G. Kniep Tauroggen" forwarding agent's handstamp on back, letter folded vertically and horizontally, fine and scarce forwarded item, ex-Small collection Catalog #1 | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1121 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, used in May 1858 on FL to Taganrog, cancelled both by pen and two line departure datestamp in Cyrillic, nice colors, fine, ex-Herman Toaspern Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #1122 RUSSIA 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, cancelled by pen and tied by framed "Brest 19 July 58" departure datestamp on outer FL to Riga, with "Polucheno" arrival datestamp on back, filing fold away from the stamp, fine usage from Brest Catalog #1 | Price Realized $3,750.00 |
 | Lot #1123 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, vertical pair, tied by dot cancels on outer FL from St. Petersburg to Helsingfors, red departure (9 Apr 1858) datestamp alongside, with boxed ANK (24 Apr) arrival postmark on back, fine-v.f., signed Diena Catalog #2 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1124 RUSSIA 1858 10k black, frame only, with central oval blank, plate proof on thick, unwatermarked paper, trial perforations, v.f., rare P Catalog #2P | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
 | Lot #1125 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thick paper, cancelled by "1" in dots (St. Petersburg), fresh vibrant colors, small faults, fine appearance, O Catalog #3 Catalog Value $1,750 | Price Realized $325.00 |
 | Lot #1126 RUSSIA 1858 20k lilac and green, perforated and gummed trial color proofs on stamp paper, one with colorless "2" watermark, the other without watermark, h.r., fresh, fine-v.f., very rare, only 100 of each printed, with Mikulski certificate for each * Catalog #3P | Price Realized $2,900.00 |
 | Lot #1127 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, thin paper, with 1865 town cancel, all perforations intact, fine and late usage of this scarce stamp, with Mikulski certificate, O Catalog #4 Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1128 RUSSIA 1858 1k (two), also 30k carmine & green, used in combination with 5k black & lilac (1865 issue) on FL from Moscow to France, red "Aus Russland Franco" and blue Prussian entry (7 Dec), various transit and arrival postmarks on back, filing fold away from the stamps, fine mixed issues franking Catalog #5,10,14 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1129 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, tied by "1" in dots on FL from St. Petersburg to Pernau, red 6 Feb,1862 departure and arrival postmark on back, lettersheet refolded, fine and rare single franking Catalog #10 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1130 RUSSIA 1866 Horizontally Laid Paper, 1k black & yellow and 30k carmine & green, paying 31k on registered cover used in 1877 (12 December, numeral "1" inserted by hand) from Yaransk to Vyatka, departure postmark repeated at right, fine usage, with intact wax seal, arrival pmk on back Catalog #19,25 | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1131 RUSSIA 1866 1k black & yellow and 30k carmine & green, paying 31k on registered cover used in 1877 (6 Mar) from Yaransk to Vyatka, arrival pmk alongside on front, fine usage, with intact wax seal, departure and arrival pmks repeated on back Catalog #19,25 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1132 RUSSIA 1866 1k and 30k, paying 31k on back of a registered cover used in 1879 (4 Mar) from Sevsk to Moscow, filing folds away from the stamps, fine and scarce registered usage from a small town, with (6 Mar) arrival pmk Catalog #19,25 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1133 RUSSIA 1870 3k green & black, error "V" in groundwork (instead of "3"), horizontal pair, used with additional 20k on FL from Moscow to England, with appropriate departure and Manchester arrival postmark on back, little toning, filing fold through 20k, otherwise fine Catalog #20d | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #1134 RUSSIA 1870 3k green & black, error "V" in groundwork (instead of "3"), used in combination with 5k (correct background) and 20k on FL from Odessa to Vienna, filing fold away from the stamps, v.f., with arrival postmark, Diena cert. Catalog #20d | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1135 RUSSIA 1866 30k carmine and green, vertically laid paper, block of four with central Apr. 7, 1873 St. Petersburg cancel, pinhole through the upper left stamp, otherwise v.f. and rare block, ex-Faberge  Catalog #25a | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1136 RUSSIA 1884 Vertically Laid paper, 3.50r and 7r unused with large part original gum, heavy hinge remnants, fine-v.f., signed Diena etc., * Catalog #39-40 Catalog Value $2,100 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1137 RUSSIA 1884 Arms, 3.50r and 7r unused with large part original gum, heavy hinge remnants, fine-v.f., signed Diena etc., * Catalog #39-40 Catalog Value $2,100 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1138 RUSSIA 1884 Arms, 7r black and orange, sheet margin single, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #40 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1139 RUSSIA 1889-1905 3.50r and 7r (horizontal or vertically laid paper), each cancelled 1905 Reserve Field Post ("Zapasn. Polv. Pochta"), fine and scarce usage of these high values during the Russo-Japanese War O Catalog #54,69 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1140 RUSSIA 1910-17 five items including four covers, two registered, all addressed to Petrograd including one to the Minister of the Imperial Court, His High Excellency the Count Fredericks for transfer to His Imperial Majesty the Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovitch, another to the Grand Duke Constantine, also a ppc from London to the Bulgarian Legation in St. Petersburg, all five with the scarce State Chancellery arrival pmks, ex-Leonard Tann collection | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1141 RUSSIA 1917 "Abdication of the Tsar", collection of 42 mostly unused (few used) blocks of four, eight and twelve, overprinted with Liberty Cap and Crossed Swords, articles from "Izvestia" in red or black, with double, inverted and shifted overprints, plus other varieties, two postal cards, generally fine-v.f. A wonderful selection of these popular, albeit privately produced items * | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
 | Lot #1142 RUSSIA 1917 World War I Propaganda Forgery, 20k+15k money stamps, horizontal se-tenant pair, inscriptions on back ("on par with bankrupt and gangster, so-called government"), unused without gum as printed, v.f., extremely rare item, one of only a handful of se-tenants extant, ex-Liphschutz (*) | Unsold |
 | Lot #1143 RUSSIA 1918 35k dark blue, imperforate horizontal pair, h.r., v.f., with Dr.Leupold certificate * Catalog #149a | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1144 RUSSIA 1918 70k brown, variety imperf. at top, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #150var | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1145 RUSSIA 1918 Chainbreakers, 70k red brown, upper left sheet corner margin block of eight, variety imperf. at top, n.h., horizontal crease, otherwise fine and scarce multiple **Catalog #150var | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #1146 RUSSIA 1921 200r gray brown, sheet of 25, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #182var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1147 RUSSIA 1921 40r violet, proof on watermarked paper, vertical pair, unused without gum, v.f. P Catalog #187P | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1148 RUSSIA 1922 registered cover from Odessa to Paris, franked a complete gutter sheet of 50x7,500 on 250r, plus additional three copies of same, used in combination with Control Stamps 10x25r (all uncancelled), paying the 400,000r for a registered letter abroad, stamps folded over with some inevitable faults, otherwise fine, rare combination franking | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1149 RUSSIA 1922 surcharges, two different unusual fold-over varieties, fine-v.f. * Catalog #191,192var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1150 RUSSIA 1922 5r double impression of black, vertical pair, l.h. at top, bottom n.h., v.f. */** Catalog #211var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1151 RUSSIA 1922 Star surcharges, 5r on 20k surcharge inverted, block of four, l.h. or n.h., v.f., signed Goznak */**Catalog #216a | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1152 RUSSIA 1922 Star surcharges, 30r on 50k brown & green, basic stamp groundwork omitted, upper left sheet corner margin block of four, n.h., natural gum creases and imperceptible toning at bottom right, v.f. and rare multiple **Catalog #219c | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1153 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (typographed), 1k orange, top sheet margin imperforate horizontal strip of five, perforated Obrazets (Specimen), stamps n.h., v.f., rare S Catalog #276varS | Unsold |
 | Lot #1154 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (typographed), 20k green, imperforate horizontal strip of five, perforated Obrazets (Specimen), n.h., v.f., signed Mikulski, with his 1979 certificate S Catalog #288varS | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #1155 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (typographed) 7k chocolate brown, thin paper, imperforate block of four, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 45Pa) **Catalog #282var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1156 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (typographed) 7k chocolate brown, imperforate block of six, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 45Pa) **Catalog #282var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1157 RUSSIA 1924 Definitives (typographed), 3r perf. 10, single and vertical pair, used, fine-v.f., signed Mikulski etc. (Zagorsky 57B) O Catalog #292a | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1158 RUSSIA 1924-25 Definitives (typographed), 5r perf. 13 1/4 x 13 1/2 horizontal strip of three, with invalidating perforations, v.f. (Zagorsky 58) ** Catalog #293var | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1159 RUSSIA 1925 Lenin 5r and 10r horizontal strips of four, perforated "Obrazets" (Specimen), n.h., fine-v.f., signed Mikulski, with his 1979 certificate S Catalog #302-303S | Unsold |
 | Lot #1160 RUSSIA 1925 Popov, 7k proof in light blue, on thick cartridge paper (with factory inscriptions on back), block of four, v.f. PCatalog #328P | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1161 RUSSIA 1925 Popov, unissued 20k imperf. proof in orange brown color, on thick cartridge paper (with factory inscriptions on back), block of four, v.f. PCatalog #328P | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1162 RUSSIA 1926 Definitives (typographed) 8k green, yellow, blue, magenta and carmine, set of five imperforate sheet margins, trial colors on unwatermarked, gummed stamp paper, n.h., first one with horizontal bend, otherwise v.f. P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1163 RUSSIA 1934 Lenin Mausoleum, 5k and 10k imperforate singles, large margins all around, n.h., handstamped (Goznak Museum), ** Catalog #524a-525a Catalog Value $2,400 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1164 RUSSIA 1934 Lenin Mausoleum, 5k and 10k vertical imperforate pairs, n.h., v.f., with handstamped marks on back, ** Catalog #524a-525a Catalog Value $4,800 | Price Realized $2,900.00 |
 | Lot #1165 RUSSIA 1935 Spartacist Games, 1k, 2k, 20k and 40k, four different trial color proofs on watermarked stamp paper, smaller size, perf. 10 1/2, unused without gum, fine-v.f., last two signed Mikulski. A very rare group, only a handful of each printed for presentation purposes P Catalog #559,560,566,568P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1166 RUSSIA 1935 Kalinin, 20k black, imperf. horizontal pair, l.h., pencil notations on reverse, v.f., * Catalog #576var Catalog Value $2,800 | Price Realized $1,900.00 |
 | Lot #1167 RUSSIA 1935 Revolutionary Heroes (Frunze, Bauman and Kirov), imperforate singles, n.h., large margins, 2k creased at right margin, penciled position numbers, v.f. set, ** Catalog #580a-582a Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $1,600.00 |
 | Lot #1168 RUSSIA 1936 Pioneers, 2k red brown and 10k blue, two different trial color proofs on watermarked and gummed stamp paper, perforated 13 3/4, l.h., v.f., with 2012 Mandrovski certificates. A rare pair of proofs P Catalog #584P,587P | Price Realized $9,000.00 |
 | Lot #1169 RUSSIA 1936 Pioneers, 5k magenta, compound and combination perforations, selection of five different including 11x11 3/4, 13 3/4x11, 11x11x13 3/4x13 3/4, 11x11x11x13 3/4 and 11x11x13 3/4x11, n.h., fine-v.f., with Liapine cert. A very rare group of compound perfs, seldom offered ** Catalog #586var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1170 RUSSIA 1936 Pioneers, 10k gray blue, imperforate vertical pair, n.h., v.f., extremely rare ** Catalog #587var | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #1171 RUSSIA 1936 Dzerzhinsky, 10k yellow brown, imperf. lower left margin horizontal pair, used, v.f. O Catalog #606var | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #1172 RUSSIA 1937 Dzerzhinsky, 20k Prussian green, variety imperf. at right, n.h., abrasions at bottom (Zagorsky 470Pd) ** Catalog #607var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1173 RUSSIA 1937-40 Definitives (unwatermarked), 4k, 10k, 30k and 40k imperforate singles, n.h., first three with stains in margin, otherwise fine-v.f. ** Catalog #615,616B,618,619var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1174 RUSSIA 1938 Definitives (unwatermarked), 40k Lenin, imperf. bottom margin vertical pair, n.h., natural gum wrinkles, v.f. (Zagorsky 443Pa) ** Catalog #619var | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1175 RUSSIA 1938 Red Army, 1r horizontal gutter block of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #635 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1176 RUSSIA 1938 Papanin, 50k imperforate horizontal pair, small h.r., owner's handstamp on reverse, v.f. (Zagorsky 518Pa) * Catalog #646a | Price Realized $2,900.00 |
 | Lot #1177 RUSSIA 1939 Lenin, 5r red brown, top sheet margin pair, variety imperf. at left, also a vertical pair, with double vertical perforations, n.h., fine-v.f., rare ** Catalog #621var | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1178 RUSSIA 1940 Chekhov, 30k copper brown, imperf. horizontal pair, small h.r., v.f. and rare * Catalog #766var | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #1179 RUSSIA 1940 Be a Hero, line-perf. 12 1/2, well centered, l.h., v.f., scarce stamp * Catalog #856var | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1180 RUSSIA 1941 Industrialization in the USSR, 30k Locomotive, line-perf. 12 1/2, upper right sheet corner margin block of four, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 690A) **Catalog #820var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1181 RUSSIA 1943 Bering, 30k blue, right margin horizontal pair, imperf. between, l.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 762var) * Catalog #886var | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1182 RUSSIA 1943 Bering, 2r brown, variety imperf. at right, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 765Pa) ** Catalog #889var | Price Realized $575.00 |
 | Lot #1183 RUSSIA 1946 25th Anniversary of the 1st Soviet Postage Stamp, imperf. souvenir sheet of four (size 133x100mm), red color double (!), n.h., natural gum wrinkles and marginal creases, otherwise v.f. A Soviet Union philatelic rarity, one of only perhaps five souvenir sheets with double red color (map of the country) known **Catalog #1080a,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1184 RUSSIA 1946-55 issues, selection of 12 different blocks of four, including set of 25th Anniversary of Soviet Postage Stamps, UPU (imperf. set of two), Chapayev, Makarov set of two, 31st Anniversary of the Soviet Army, also 40k Abovyan, 1r Chkalov and 40k Ostrogradsky, all n.h., v.f. ** | Unsold |
 | Lot #1185 RUSSIA 1947 Arms of the Soviet Union, 1r variety, printing omitted at lower right, h.r., v.f., most unusual and possibly unique item * Catalog #1120var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1186 RUSSIA 1947 Moscow Anniversary, Gorky street, 10k horizontal pair imperf. between, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1074var) ** Catalog #1133var | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1187 RUSSIA 1947 Leningrad, 1r variety imperf. at bottom (slightly trimmed), n.h., v.f., signed Stolow (Zagorsky 1135Pa) ** Catalog #1192var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1188 RUSSIA 1948 Definitives, 10k green, 15k lilac, 20k gray black, 30k red brown, 45k red brown, 50k green, 60k brown, seven different imperforate proofs without gum as issued, raster horizontal diamonds (issued stamps are with vertical diamonds), denominations and colors differ from the approved designs (included for comparison), v.f., only a few known to exist P Catalog #1214-20P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1189 RUSSIA 1948 Ostrovski, imperforate singles, l.h., v.f. * Catalog #1227a-1229a | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1190 RUSSIA 1948 Artillery Day, set of two sheet margin blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1302-03 | Price Realized $375.00 |
 | Lot #1191 RUSSIA 1949 Pushkin, complete set in mostly sheet margin blocks of four (two with marginal inscriptions), n.h., fine-v.f. **Catalog #1359-1363 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1192 RUSSIA 1949 Radishev, set of two sheet corner margin blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1388-89 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1193 RUSSIA 1949 2r violet, raster horizontal diamonds, block of four, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1376var) **Catalog #1419var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1194 RUSSIA 1949 Soviet Film, upper left sheet corner margin block of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1442 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1195 RUSSIA 1949 Return of Western Territories, set of two sheet corner margin blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1427-28 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1196 RUSSIA 1951 Butlerov, 40k raster horizontal diamonds, l.h., v.f., scarce stamp * Catalog #1568var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1197 RUSSIA 1951 Composers, set of two sheet corner margin blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1584-85 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1198 RUSSIA 1951 October Revolution, 40k variety with red color shifted downwards, block of four, n.h., v.f. Only one sheet recorded with shifted red, this being the only known block of four **Catalog #1596var | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #1199 RUSSIA 1951 Constitution, two sets of blocks of four, distinct paper varieties (white and grayish yellow), n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1592-95) **Catalog #1624-27 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1200 RUSSIA 1952 Ordzhonikidze, blocks of eight (folded), n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1622-23 | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #1201 RUSSIA 1952 K. Nasyri, 60 stamps in blocks of ten (folded), n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1641 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1202 RUSSIA 1953 Lenin, five blocks of four, n.h., v.f. **Catalog #1661 | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1203 RUSSIA 1956 Tolstoy, 40k upper left sheet corner margin single, fold-over variety, fine and interesting, probably unique ** Catalog #1897var | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #1204 RUSSIA 1957 Meteorite, 40k gutter block of 12, top strip of four missing perforations at bottom, cancelled to order, v.f., rare (Zagorsky 2002Pb) Catalog #1995var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1205 RUSSIA 1958 40th Anniversary of Komsomol, 60k line perf. 12 1/2, n.h., tiny perf. tear at top, otherwise fine, scarce stamp ** Catalog #2139var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1206 RUSSIA 1959 Conquest of Space, 1r multicolor, red color slightly doubled, n.h., fine and unlisted variety ** Catalog #2160var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1207 RUSSIA 1959 Sholem Aleichem, 40k line-perf. 12 1/2, top sheet margin block of four, n.h., fine-v.f. (Zagorsky 2192A) **Catalog #2164var | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1208 RUSSIA 1961 original photograph (158x198mm), dedicated and signed by Yuri Gagarin, dated 15th April 1961, as "The First Cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union", small closed tear at the bottom of the photograph, rare | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1209 RUSSIA 1963 Artem, 4k bottom sheet margin vertical pair, unusual displaced reverse printing on back, v.f. ** Catalog #2838var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1210 RUSSIA 1965 20th Anniversary of WWII Victory, 2k variety, printed on ordinary (instead of chalk-surfaced) paper, top sheet margin block of four, n.h., v.f., rare **Catalog #3931var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1211 RUSSIA 1990 Soviet Republic Capitals, imperf. blocks of four, 12 different (missing only Frunze), n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 6102/6116var) **Catalog #5854/5866var | Price Realized $900.00 |
