U.S. and Worldwide Stamps and Postal History
April 12-13, 2016
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1334 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, two copies, each cancelled by blue "19" in circle of dots (Kowno), fresh and fine-v.f. O Catalog #2 | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #1335 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, tied by blue "19" in circle of dots postmark on outer FL from Kowno to Warszawa, with departure (Nov 1, 1858) in blue and arrival in red cds on back, filing fold away from the stamp, v.f. and splendid letter from Kowno  Catalog #2 | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1336 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, thick paper, watermarked "3", excellent colors, neat "Balta 20 Nov. 1865" cancel, v.f., O Catalog #4 Catalog Value $2,750 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1337 RUSSIA 1866-1879 5k trial color proofs on perforated and gummed stamp paper, the complete set of five (orange, red, green, violet and blue), also 7k brown & orange, blue & carmine, violet & green, perforated trial color proofs, set of three, mostly with gum, some h.r. and minor flaws, generally fine-v.f. * Catalog #22P,27P | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1338 RUSSIA 1868 vertically laid paper, 1k black & yellow, imperforate single, adequate margins, with shifted background as always, used, some creases, fine appearance. This variety exists only used, Catalog #19f Catalog Value $7,250 | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1339 RUSSIA 1877 (12 Mar) registered cover (professionally restored) paying 31k rate with 1k and 30k (horizontally laid paper), tied by double strikes of straight-line pre-adhesive postmark of "Stancya Sumsi. Vyat 12 Mar 1877" (another single strike on back), sent from Sumsi to Vyatka, with arrival cds (16 Mar) alongside, fine usage of Sumsi Postal Station pre-philatelic cancel | Unsold |
 | Lot #1340 RUSSIA 1883 (19 July) 3k stationery card from the "Libraire et magasin de musique de Boleslas Koreywo a Kieff", addressed to Pressburg, Austria, with Hungarian 2k rose lilac added on arrival, cancelled Pozsony July 3, 83, redirected to Mainz, with Ausg. (4 Aug) arrival pmk at bottom, fine redirected card from Russia to Pressburg (Pozsony in Hungarian, present day Bratislava) | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #1341 RUSSIA 1884 7k blue perf. 14 1/2x15, groundwork inverted, unused, well centered, tiny thin, otherwise v.f., rare (7k blue was issued in 1884 and again in 1888; there are differences in perforation and size of the stamp), with Mikulski certificate (*) Catalog #35b | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1342 RUSSIA 1884 7k blue, type B, perf. 14 1/4x14 3/4, groundwork inverted, used, cancelled "Michajlowskyj Chutor (prov. Kaluga), 1899", fine and rare stamp, with Mikulski certificate, O Catalog #35b Catalog Value $1,600 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1343 RUSSIA 1884 7r gold, black and imperial pink, perforated essay (square format) on gummed, vertically laid paper, v.f. and beautiful item, ex-Kirchner E Catalog #40E | Price Realized $9,500.00 |
 | Lot #1344 RUSSIA 1889-92 1k-7r group of 15 different, each with framed "Specimen" overprint, fine-v.f., rare S Catalog #41-54S | Price Realized $2,400.00 |
 | Lot #1345 RUSSIA 1889 5k purple and light green, perforated essay, unadapted octagonal design, v.f. and beautiful item, signed Mikulski E Catalog #49E | Price Realized $3,250.00 |
 | Lot #1346 RUSSIA 1889 14k carmine & blue, horizontally laid paper, center inverted, exceptionally well centered, light pmk not obstructing the center, fresh and v.f., signed Mikulski, ex-Faberge (with distinctive red "Faberge-Ferrary" handstamp on back), O Catalog #51a Catalog Value $4,500 | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1347 RUSSIA 1889-92 beautifully illustrated charity envelope addressed to Berlin, v.f., rare | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1348 RUSSIA 1893 (14 Apr) Persian 2 1/2 Nasser-ed Din Shah postal card (H&G 4), franked with 4x1k orange, used from Kharkov to Guatemala, New York transit and Guatemala City arrival pmks, fine and undoubtedly rare usage of a Persian stationery card from Russia to Guatemala | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1349 RUSSIA 1897 (21 June) cover franked with 3k and 4k carmine, cancelled by the dotted circle of "Stockholm" postmarks, also boxed "Fran.Ryssland" origin hs alongside, addressed to Stettin, Germany, with arrival pmk on back, v.f., with Holcombe certificate, ex-Liphschutz collection | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1350 RUSSIA 1904 vertically laid paper, 4k rose red, groundwork inverted, neat 1906 postmark, well centered, fresh color, couple of slightly irregular perfs as always, v.f., with 1995 Mikulski certificate ("sehr seltener Fehldruck, bekannt nur in ein paar Stucken"). A very rare stamp, one of only a few known, listed but unpriced in Scott's O Catalog #57Cg | Price Realized $14,000.00 |
 | Lot #1351 RUSSIA 1902 7k dark blue (vertically laid paper), imperforate horizontal gutter, top sheet margin strip of four, fresh, creases, small scissor cut between two left stamps at bottom, nevertheless v.f. and striking rarity, signed Buhler, ex-Mertens and Faberge, with a red "Faberge" handstamp on back * Catalog #59b | Price Realized $10,500.00 |
 | Lot #1352 RUSSIA 1906 Tsar Nicholas II, imperf. 1r essay, upper left sheet margin copy, v.f. E | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1353 RUSSIA 1906 Tsar Nicholas II, perforated essay in gray blue, on stamp paper, with scroll frame showing minor variations of shading, value tablet blank, v.f. E | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1354 RUSSIA 1907 two Russian picture postcards (Persian prisoners being tortured), each franked with 2k green and sent from Tiflis to Amsterdam, interesting due markings, fine | Unsold |
 | Lot #1355 RUSSIA 1909 7k blue, imperf. left sheet margin single, l.h., faint red owner's handstamp on reverse, v.f., with 2006 Buchsbayew cert., * Catalog #78b Catalog Value $1,450 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1356 RUSSIA 1909 15k red brown & deep blue, double impression, one inverted, l.h., v.f. and spectacular variety * Catalog #81var | Price Realized $475.00 |
 | Lot #1357 RUSSIA 1910 St. Petersburg, unexploded 2r booklet, salmon covers with black inscriptions, six panes of 6x1k orange, three panes each of 6x3k carmine and 7k blue, each separated by glassine interleaving, minor cover creasing, with tiny paper splits, fine example of this rarity  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1358 RUSSIA 1917 Coat of Arms, auxiliary issue for Petrograd, unexploded 1p98k (2r) booklet, with three panes of 6x1k, 3k and 7k, separated by glassine interleaves, yellow covers with black inscriptions, handstamped "Petrograd" over "St. Petersburg", unusually fresh and free of the usual staple rust, minute surface abrasion | Price Realized $5,600.00 |
 | Lot #1359 RUSSIA 1915 (26 May) cover from St. Petersburg to the infamous prison fortress in Schlisselburg, franked on back with 10k dark blue, arrival pmk and oval prison censor hs in violet, fine | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #1360 RUSSIA 1915 large cover with Red Cross label on reverse, addressed to Vyborg, with 8.X.1915 arrival pmk, very rare | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1361 RUSSIA 1917 definitives, 1k, 2k, 3k and 5k imperf. vertical gutter pairs, each stamp with security punch, overprinted with part letters "Obrazets", v.f. S | Unsold |
 | Lot #1362 RUSSIA 1917 1r imperf. pane of 50, plus labels, dramatic shift of red center, n.h., v.f. and spectacular multiple  **Catalog #131e,var | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1363 RUSSIA 1918 (13 Dec) Imperial 3k stationery entire envelope, additionally franked with combination of imperf. 20k Arms, Postal Savings stamps 1k (pair) and 10k, used in combination with Chainbreakers 70k brown, paying 1,05r from Sementsovo, registered to Petrograd, with arrival pmk on back. Interestingly, the postmaster of Sementsovo did not possess a registry handstamp, hence it was entered and numbered by hand. A fine combination usage, signed Mikulski, with Hovest certificate | Price Realized $1,500.00 |
 | Lot #1364 RUSSIA 1919 Priority telegram from Serpukhov, dated Nov. 10, 1919: "protracted fighting at the front; cavalry corps of comrade Budennyi requires very determined measures, by the units of 42nd division…according to directive issued by me to employ the reserve units..". Signed by Stalin, also by Army Commander Egorov (future Marshall of the Soviet Union killed during the Great Purge) as a member of the Revolutionary Council. A rare document from Russia's Civil War | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1365 RUSSIA 1922 5,000r surcharged in red on 5r gray blue, basic stamp double impression, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #198var | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1366 RUSSIA 1924-25 15k lemon, ten copies, used, fine-v.f., O Catalog #287 Catalog Value $1,650 | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #1367 RUSSIA 1925 Definitives, 50k and 1r tied by Shangli-Kurgan cds on Parcel Card, with oval Kirgiz Post handstamp, also large part of a money order, franked with 5k, 10k and vertical pair of 3r, all with clear "Dzharkent" (Kazakhstan) pmks, plus 1k imperf. strip of three, cancelled "Turkestan", fine and rare usage in Soviet Asia | Unsold |
 | Lot #1368 RUSSIA 1929 definitives (watermarked) 6k blue special printing, perforated 12:12 1/4, sheetlet of 20 (as opposed to the 1925 issue which was printed in gutter sheets of 100, which can be separated into panes of 25), with margins on all four sides, three stamps l.h. at top, adhesion and small thin affecting the stamp at upper right (also small part of selvage missing), folded vertically between stamps (tiny perf separations at bottom margin), natural wrinkles and diagonal creases affecting three stamps at bottom, also abrasions in left margin away from the stamps. A rarity, one of only a handful recorded, with Mandrovski certificate (Zagorsky 81B, $55,000; Zverev $20,000) */**Catalog #309var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1369 RUSSIA 1935 Anti-War Issue, set of five trial color proofs (ultramarine) on watermarked stamp paper, perf. 11 1/2, fresh and v.f., with gum (which is not original), very rare (Zverev $12,500+) P Catalog #546-550P | Price Realized $9,500.00 |
 | Lot #1370 RUSSIA 1935 Tolstoy, 20k perf. 11, vertical pair, imperf. between, also single variety imperf. at right, used, fine-v.f. O Catalog #579a,var | Price Realized $210.00 |
 | Lot #1371 RUSSIA 1936 Definitives (unwatermarked) 4k lilac, 10k olive, 20k green, imperforate blocks of four, first l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., others l.h., usual gum creases, mostly v.f., ex-Small collection. A rare set of imperforate blocks (Zverev $55,000) */**Catalog #615,616A,617Avar | Unsold |
 | Lot #1372 RUSSIA 1937 Moscow Architecture, 3k-50k imperforate, the complete set of seven, including 40k with sufficient margin at top, mostly l.h., occasional creases and minor flaws, mostly v.f. (Zagorsky 460Pa/467Pa) */** Catalog #597b/604b Catalog Value $7,340 | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
 | Lot #1373 RUSSIA 1937 Moscow Architecture, 40k violet, top sheet margin imperforate vertical strip of three, n.h., v.f., seldom offered in such perfect condition (Zagorsky 466Pa) ** Catalog #603b Catalog Value $21,900 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1374 RUSSIA 1944-46 10k-40k Landscapes, Revolutionary Heroes, War Issues etc., selection of nine different "fantails", varieties imperf. at top, right and left, used, fine-v.f. O | Unsold |
 | Lot #1375 RUSSIA 1948 Ostrovski, set of three imperforate horizontal pairs, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1168-1170Pa, $4,400) ** Catalog #1227-1229var | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
 | Lot #1376 RUSSIA 1948 Soccer, 30k horizontal pair, imperf. between, l.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1221var, $2,800) * Catalog #1255var | Price Realized $650.00 |
 | Lot #1377 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, 1r perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets of four, both appear n.h., but with disturbed gum, otherwise v.f. *Catalog #1327a,var | Price Realized $1,300.00 |
 | Lot #1378 RUSSIA 1955 "Copernicus", painting by Jan Matejko, 1r multicolored, white paper, special imprimatur sheetlet of ten (2x5), l.h., post office fresh, fine-v.f., extremely rare (Zagorsky 1720) *Catalog #1752 Catalog Value $25,000 | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
 | Lot #1379 RUSSIA 1957 October Revolution, 40th Anniversary souvenir sheet of three, plate proof with large margins at bottom, v.f. (Zagorsky Bl.24var) P Catalog #1943aP | Price Realized $3,500.00 |
 | Lot #1380 RUSSIA 1957 All Soviet Philatelic Exhibition, 60k imperf. single, unused without gum as issued, h.r., v.f. (Zagorsky 2021Pa, $1,600) (*) Catalog #2030var | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1381 RUSSIA 1957 All Soviet Philatelic Exhibition, 60k imperf. top sheet margin single, unused without gum as issued (hinged in margin, stamp n.h.), v.f. (Zagorsky 2021Pa, $1,600) (*) Catalog #2030var | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #1382 RUSSIA 1958 Definitives, 40k rose red, line-perf. 12 1/2, sheet of 50 (5x10), folded between stamps, n.h., but top half dried, slightly disturbed gum, nevertheless fresh, fine-v.f., rare sheetlet (Zagorsky 2183) */**Catalog #1689var Catalog Value $90,000 | Price Realized $18,500.00 |
 | Lot #1383 RUSSIA 1958 Tchaikovsky, 1r green & lilac perf. 12 1/2, horizontal pair imperf. between, slight gum skip at left, natural inclusion, v.f., with 2010 Mandrovski certificate. A rare variety, unlisted (Zagorsky 2039var) */** Catalog #2046var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1384 RUSSIA 1959 Basketball Overprint, "Ch" of Chile under "K" variety, n.h. but disturbed gum (adhesions), v.f. (Zagorsky 2193I, $2,300) ** Catalog #2170var | Price Realized $425.00 |
 | Lot #1385 RUSSIA 1961 Definitives, 2k green, 3k violet blue, 4k bright red and 10k orange, four imperforate horizontal pairs, n.h., gum creases, 2k with tiny marginal translucency, v.f. and rare group of imperfs ** Catalog #2240,42,43,46var | Price Realized $6,750.00 |
 | Lot #1386 RUSSIA 1961 Lomonosov, 6k ultramarine, frame omitted (center only), lower left sheet corner margin single, n.h., v.f. ** Catalog #2170var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1387 RUSSIA 1962 Space, 1r souvenir sheet, variety imperf. at left, h.r., v.f., scarce (Zagorsky BL 34Pb) * Catalog #2631Avar Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $850.00 |
 | Lot #1388 RUSSIA 1976 3k red, sheet of 100, spectacularly displaced perforations, diagonally to right, n.h., v.f., probably unique **Catalog #4519var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1389 RUSSIA 1981 Sailing Ship "Tovarishch", 4k imperforate vertical pair, used in 1983 with additional franking on registered cover from Tallinn to USA, v.f., with arrival pmk (Zagorsky 5162Pa, $940 for unused) Catalog #4981var | Price Realized $180.00 |
