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 | Lot #1423 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1851 (19 Sep) outer FL sent from "Gogenkrein", via "Port Kunda" to Revel, with single straight-line Gogenkrein post office departure handstamp on back, two-line Port Kunda transit and framed arrival datestamp alongside, fine usage in Estonia. Many ordinary post offices were situated at ports, steamship piers and docks (items bearing such postmarks were usually, but not always, carried by ship)
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 | Lot #1424 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1856-1915 (maritime postmarks) collection of 25 covers and cards, neatly written-up exhibition style on 13 pages, with pre-philatelic diamond shaped postmarks of Odessa and St. Petersburg, steamship post office of "Poti-Kerch-Odessa", "Kazan-Astrakhan", "Perm-Nizhny", "Odessa-Batum", "Blagoveschensk-Stretensk", "Blagoveschnensk-Nikolayew", "Ustkuta-Yakutsk", "P.B.A.P." (Russian East-Asiatic Ports), "Murmansk", "Belomorsk", "Varde-Arkhangels", "Vladivostok-Shanghai" etc., fine and scarce group
| Price Realized $11,000.00
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 | Lot #1425 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1910 (5 Jan) picture postcard (Canea, Crete), addressed to St. Petersburg, franked with pair of 10pa surcharges, sent with a steamship of ROPIT to Odessa, where the stamps were cancelled (17.01.1910), with special violet "Paquebot" alongside, also unclear two-line "Tagrin" datestamp, oval cachet of the Floating Exhibition of the Russian Society of Steamship and Trade in violet, v.f.
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 | Lot #1426 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1911 (29 Mar) picture postcard (Acropolis), from Athens to Moscow, franked with 20pa on 4k, sent with a steamship of ROPIT to Odessa, where the stamp was cancelled, also with special violet "Paquebot" alongside, arrival postmark (7.4.11), fine
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 | Lot #1427 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1914 (20 Apr) picture postcard (Pyramids of Giza), from Cairo to Rostov-on-Don, franked with 20pa on 4k (defective), sent with a steamship of ROPIT to Odessa, where the stamps were cancelled, also with special red "Paquebot" alongside, arrival postmarks (1.5.14) at bottom, fine
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 | Lot #1428 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1915 (23 Oct) registered cover (slightly reduced at right) from Baku to Teheran, franked on reverse with pair of 10k dark blue, violet censor "D.C. G.A.L" handstamp, with arrival pmk, fine example of the maritime post on the Caspian Sea
| Price Realized $230.00
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 | Lot #1429 RUSSIA Russian Ship Mail 1915 (8 Dec) cover franked on back with 3k Arms and 7k Romanov, cancelled by pen, used from Enzeli to Teheran, where it arrived on 13th December, franking apparently not recognized, with large "T" handstamped on front, fine and rare maritime usage on Baku-Enzeli-Teheran line ("Caucase et Mercure Steamship Co") on the Caspian Sea and Russian stamps in Persia
| Price Realized $1,400.00
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