U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
August 9-10, 2016
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1195 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown & blue, seven used examples, various paper and shade varieties, different postmarks, fine-v.f. O Catalog #2 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1196 RUSSIA 1858 10k brown and blue, beautiful deep color, tied by "393" numeral in dots cancel on outer FL from Dorpat to Riga, with corresponding departure (29 Nov 1858) circular postmark and "Polucheno" arrival datestamp  Catalog #2 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1197 RUSSIA 1858 20k blue & orange, thick paper (first printing), cancelled "1" short numeral, experimental postmark (used only for one week in February 1858), lower right corner perf. partially detached, otherwise a fine appearing example of this postmark rarity, ex-Faberge collection, with 1998 Mikulski certificate ("as of today, only 3 copies registered with this postmark") O Catalog #3 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1198 RUSSIA 1858 30k carmine & green, unused with full original gum, beautiful color and fresh, hinge thin at top, fine appearance, * Catalog #10 Catalog Value $1,175 | Price Realized $150.00 |
 | Lot #1199 RUSSIA 1866 1k black & yellow, imperforate single, used, ample margins all around, minor flaws as often, fine and rare stamp, O Catalog #19b Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1200 RUSSIA 1869 (22 Jan) outer FL from Taganrog, franked with 10k and 20k (unwatermarked), tied by cds and sent to Greece, taxed 45L on arrival in Corfu, with the addition of 5L (margins just in at right) and 40L (margins all around), departure, Petraeus transit and Kerkura arrival pmks, filing fold through 40L, otherwise fine and colorful letter from Russia to Greece | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1201 RUSSIA 1879 (8 Mar) registered cover franked with 1k, 20k and pair of 5k, paying 31k, stamps tied by "Seletz" two-line datestamp, addressed to France, near Geneva, with Postal Card No.3 transit and Geneva arrival pmks on back, fine and scarce | Unsold |
 | Lot #1202 RUSSIA 1883 7k blue, imperf. single, l.h., v.f., * Catalog #35a Catalog Value $750 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1203 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r and 7r Arms, Posthorns without Thunderbolts, vertically laid paper, fresh, v.f., the former signed Bloch, * Catalog #39-40 Catalog Value $2,100 | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #1204 RUSSIA 1884 3.50r black & gray (vertically laid paper), used, well centered, with perforations intact, tiny flaws (as often), fresh and fine stamp, signed Diena, etc., O Catalog #39 Catalog Value $700 | Price Realized $230.00 |
 | Lot #1205 RUSSIA 1889 Horizontally laid paper, 1r orange & brown, horizontal pair imperf. between, h.r., v.f. * Catalog #45a | Price Realized $500.00 |
 | Lot #1206 RUSSIA 1902 25k dull green & lilac, center inverted, cancelled Zhitomir (30 Mar 1906), well centered, v.f., signed Mikulski. A rare inverted center, known only used, O Catalog #64a Catalog Value $6,500 | Price Realized $3,000.00 |
 | Lot #1207 RUSSIA 1902 35k dark violet & green, horizontal bottom sheet margin pair, left stamp center omitted, partially omitted at right, due to a fold-over, fine and rare * Catalog #65b | Price Realized $400.00 |
 | Lot #1208 RUSSIA 1914 (9 Jan) picture postcard (Kamchatka, Petropavlovsk) to Switzerland, franked with 4k carmine, tied by a good strike of "Post Sv. Olgy" (Olga Bay), repeated at bottom, fresh and v.f. A rare dispatch from this remote area of the world | Unsold |
 | Lot #1209 RUSSIA 1917 Karl Marx and Lenin, unaccepted designs, three imperforate essays in black, 2r and 5r values, fine-v.f., scarce E | Unsold |
 | Lot #1210 RUSSIA 1918 Private Courier Post, 1r "Privatpost Deutsch-Baltisches Comite St. Petersburg", unused with gum, red control handstamp, v.f. * | Price Realized $300.00 |
 | Lot #1211 RUSSIA 1919 (5 Apr) registered cover from Moscow to Petrograd, paying 3r with five imperforate blocks of 4x10k dark blue, used in combination with pair of perforated 50k, fine and scarce usage, with arrival (8 April) pmk on back Catalog #124 | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1212 RUSSIA 1920 (7 June) registered cover (opened for display) from Briansk to Moscow, franked on back with 10r Imperial Arms, tied by both departure and arrival pmks, addressed to Leon Trotsky (at the time, People's Commissar of Army and Navy Affairs and chairman of the Supreme Military Council. Trotsky had control of the Red Army, responsible only to the Communist Party leadership), some cover wear and slightly reduced at left, scarce destination | Price Realized $550.00 |
 | Lot #1213 RUSSIA 1922 unissued 3r dark blue, imperforate block of four, n.h., v.f.  ** | Unsold |
 | Lot #1214 RUSSIA 1922 10,000r on 40r (smaller size), also red "R.S.F.S.R." (larger size), v.f. * Catalog #195b,200f | Unsold |
 | Lot #1215 RUSSIA 1922 (8 May) registered cover from Odessa to Berlin, franked with vertical pair and pane of 20x10,000r on 40r type II "R.S.F.S.R." (with periods), used in combination with additional franking applied on both sides of the cover, including 20x7,500r, 5x200r, 5x300r, also Postal Fiscals stamps 3x10k, 2x25k, also 1,000r, 5,000r on 2r, 7,500r on 250r, all with appropriate pmks, correct 400,000r rate, with German arrival 23.5.22 on back, some filing creases, mostly between stamps, otherwise v.f. and spectacular franking, with no less than 22 (!) of the rare "R.S.F.S.R." surcharges, one of the most significant showpieces from RSFSR, ex-Prof. Vernik and Aurora collections, signed Ebnet, BPP (two other letters known with comparable franking, all from Odessa) Catalog #200c | Price Realized $7,500.00 |
 | Lot #1216 RUSSIA 1922 red surcharge 10,000r on 40r, block of four, struck on both sides, displaced on gum, v.f. **Catalog #200var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1217 RUSSIA 1922 10,000r greenish blue, vertical watermark, block of four, l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 43a) */**Catalog #204P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1218 RUSSIA 1922 5r ocher & black, yellow background inverted, n.h., v.f., scarce ** Catalog #211var | Price Realized $250.00 |
 | Lot #1219 RUSSIA 1922 20r on 15k imperforate, lower right sheet corner margin single, position 100, l.h., post office fresh, two tiny positional pinholes at extreme lower right corner portion of the surcharge (probably used by the printers to keep the sheet in place), v.f. and unique positional piece, with Aleksander Zverev and Igor Kirzner certificates * Catalog #224 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1220 RUSSIA 1923 (18 Oct) cover from Moscow to Munich, paying 45r (1923) plus 12k (gold), with 5r and 2x20r RSFSR, used in combination with 12x1k imperforate (gold) definitives. With the October 18 conversion value at 550r to 1r gold, the 45r (RSFSR) equal just over 8k (gold) for a total of 20k, which was the correct rate for foreign letter rate, fine mixed RSFSR/Soviet definitives cover, with "Obmen 250r" red surcharge (variety displaced overprint) on 35k chain breakers on back Catalog #240,241A,250 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1221 RUSSIA 1923 Workers and Soldiers, imperf. 5r (234), 10r (588), also unissued 1r and 2r perforated and imperf. (200), mostly horizontal pairs, n.h., v.f. stock (Zagorsky 0105/108,0112,113) ** Catalog #240b,241c Catalog Value $10,000 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1222 RUSSIA 1923 10r gray, imperforate sheetlet of 25, with intact inscription at bottom, n.h., usual gum wrinkles, v.f. **Catalog #241d | Price Realized $450.00 |
 | Lot #1223 RUSSIA 1924 15k lemon, five used examples, various postmarks, fine-v.f., O Catalog #287 Catalog Value $825 | Price Realized $350.00 |
 | Lot #1224 RUSSIA 1925 Definitives (watermarked), 4k black (two) invalidated perforated and gummed trial color proofs, also 8k olive (typographed), fine * | Price Realized $190.00 |
 | Lot #1225 RUSSIA 1925 Definitives (watermarked), 2k, 5k and 8k varieties, each pre-print fold, first two used, last one n.h., fine-v.f., unusual O* | Price Realized $240.00 |
 | Lot #1226 RUSSIA 1925 Lenin Mausoleum, 7k deep blue, imperforate block of four, proof on factory paper, v.f. PCatalog #294P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1227 RUSSIA 1926 Lithographed, 8k olive brown, variety "small head", bottom sheet margin single, double impression, n.h., v.f. (Zverev 121w, $3,000) ** Catalog #311var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1228 RUSSIA 1926 Lenin, 2r black violet, perf. 12 1/2, fresh color, h.r., fine * Catalog #343a | Price Realized $140.00 |
 | Lot #1229 RUSSIA 1926 (28 Oct) registered cover from Moscow to Sofia, franked with Esperanto Congress 7k horizontal gutter pair and single 14k, paying correct 28k foreign registered letter rate, with 25k on 7k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents value "1175" rubles indicated by pen, Sofia arrival (3 Nov) cds on back, fine, possibly unique example of the rare gutter pair on cover Catalog #347,348 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1230 RUSSIA 1927 8k on 3k (lithographed), 8k on 8k green (typographed), each with surcharge inverted, l.h., fine and scarce * | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1231 RUSSIA 1927 10th Anniversary of the October Revolution, 3k red, horizontal strip of three, misperforated, cancelled Moscow, with full original gum (offset on back), fine O Catalog #375var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1232 RUSSIA 1927 Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, 28k green, perforated trial color proof, affixed by red "PROEKT" 14 June 1927 overprint on a presentation card, some adhesions on back, proof v.f., scarce (Zverev $6,000) P Catalog #381P | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #1233 RUSSIA 1927 Tenth Anniversary of the Russian Revolution, 28k orange, perforated trial color proof, affixed by red "PROEKT" 22 July 1927 overprint on a presentation card, v.f., scarce (Zverev $6,000) P Catalog #381P | Price Realized $4,750.00 |
 | Lot #1234 RUSSIA 1932 (10 Dec) 10k stationery card from Kaluga to Moscow, written by Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astronautic theory, the Russian father of rocketry, a self-educated man, but he developed insights into space travel and rocket science that are still in use over a hundred years later, earning him a place in history as one of the pioneers of astronautics), fine and scarce Space-related item, with 2002 Melnikov certificate | Unsold |
 | Lot #1235 RUSSIA 1933 Ethnographic Congress, complete set of 21, blocks of four, n.h., many with sheet margin, good colors, fresh, fine-v.f. A scarce set of blocks (Zverev $30,000) **Catalog #489-509 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1236 RUSSIA 1933 Order of the Red Banner, 20k perf. 9 1/2, very fresh, unused (regummed), fine, with 2005 Mandrovski certificate (Zverev 348A, $4,000 for hinged) (*) Catalog #518var | Price Realized $950.00 |
 | Lot #1237 RUSSIA 1933 Baku Commissars, set of five perforated trial color proofs, mostly with gum, 5k carmine imperf. at right, with printer's crayon, fine-v.f. (Zverev $10,000) P Catalog #519-23P | Unsold |
 | Lot #1238 RUSSIA 1934 Nogin, Sverdlov, blocks of four, 10k with sheet margin at left, 15k with crayon "10" on back of the upper right stamp, all n.h., fine set of blocks (Zverev $7,000) **Catalog #530-531 | Unsold |
 | Lot #1239 RUSSIA 1934 Lenin, 1k, 3k and 20k, three different photo proofs on cards, v.f. P Catalog #540/544P | Price Realized $290.00 |
 | Lot #1240 RUSSIA 1937 Dzerzhinsky, 10k brown, printed on ordinary instead of chalk surfaced paper, n.h., v.f., rare in this condition (Zverev 472b, $3,000) ** Catalog #606var | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1241 RUSSIA 1938 (Nov) registered cover from Barvicha to Leningrad, sent by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (son of Leo Tolstoy, also Russian and Soviet writer who wrote in many genres but specialized in science fiction and historical novels) to Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (another famous writer), filing fold away from the stamps, fine, with arrival pmk | Unsold |
 | Lot #1242 RUSSIA 1938 Red Army, 80k variety imperf. at bottom, n.h., fingerprints on gum, v.f. (Zagorsky 495Pb) ** Catalog #634var Catalog Value $2,500 | Price Realized $700.00 |
 | Lot #1243 RUSSIA 1938 First Transpolar Flight from Moscow to USA, 40k and 50k imperforate singles, also 20k vertical imperforate pair, h.r. or l.h., top stamp with minor gum toning, otherwise v.f., with 2001 Mandrovski certificate for the singles and 2005 Buchsbayew certificate for the pair. A rare group */** Catalog #637a,638a,639a | Price Realized $2,800.00 |
 | Lot #1244 RUSSIA 1938 First Transpolar Flight from Moscow to California, 10k and 20k imperforate singles, l.h. or n.h., minor natural gum creases, v.f. */** Catalog #640a,641a | Unsold |
 | Lot #1245 RUSSIA 1946 Bombers, 1r dark gray, variety imperf. at bottom, left sheet margin horizontal pair, n.h., fine-v.f. ** Catalog #993var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1246 RUSSIA 1947 Moscow, 1r dark violet, vertical pair imperf. between, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 1083) ** Catalog #1142var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1247 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets of four, fine-v.f. *Catalog #1327a,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1248 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets of four, fine-v.f. *Catalog #1327a,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1249 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, perf. and imperf. souvenir sheets, n.h., fresh, v.f. **Catalog #1327a, var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1250 RUSSIA 1949 Lenin Mausoleum, imperf. souvenir sheet of four, cancelled to order with bi-lingual "Riga" cancel, n.h., with slight gum wrinkles and adhesions, v.f., rare, Catalog #1327a,vasr Catalog Value $3,000 | Price Realized $900.00 |
 | Lot #1251 RUSSIA 1958 Mendeleyev Congress, overprint on 40k Butlerov, n.h., v.f. ** | Price Realized $750.00 |
 | Lot #1252 RUSSIA 1962 Arctic Station souvenir sheet of four (size 160x118mm), stamps overprinted "1962", with only a single "25 Let" overprint at bottom (should be a three-line overprint) and dates with dashes "1937 - 1962" at sides (instead of a single line overprint at bottom), hinged at top, v.f., rare, with Liapine certificate (with regular sheet included for comparison) *Catalog #1767a,var | Unsold |
 | Lot #1253 RUSSIA 1966 Ion Yakir, 4k dark green, imperf. trial color proof, v.f. P Catalog #3187P | Price Realized $280.00 |
 | Lot #1254 RUSSIA 1969 Mendeleyev, proof of the souvenir sheet, official handstamp on back, some toning, undoubtedly rare P Catalog #3608P | Price Realized $600.00 |
 | Lot #1255 RUSSIA 1976 Innsbruck souvenir sheet, larger size proof on ungummed paper, with factory inscriptions on back, v.f., with a regular sheet included for comparison P Catalog #4415P | Price Realized $1,000.00 |
 | Lot #1256 RUSSIA 1976 Fedotov, 6k Painting, perforated proof with partly separated label at left, printed on "factory" paper, attached on a presentation card, v.f. P Catalog #4456P | Price Realized $1,100.00 |
