U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 20-21, 2018

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Lot #1742
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY
1817-1950 collection in eight large volumes, with hundreds of covers, FLs, stationery entire envelopes and postal cards, from stampless letters to early Soviet, covering wide range of usages, with Steam Ship cancels (Odessa-Batum, Nizhny-Astrakhan, Baku-Enzeli), Travelling Post Offices, Railway Station Post Offices, St. Petersburg and Moscow town cancels, all neatly written-up exhibition style on pages, variety of markings, origins and destinations (Australia, Tunisia, Malta among others), group of 12 cards showing a representation of Field Post Offices and Army units markings during the Russo-Japanese War, also Russian Offices in China and in the Turkish Empire, with some registered mail, Civil War with a selection of Wrangel Army covers, mail from South Russia, Georgia, Far Eastern Republic, Siberia, Ukraine, Baltic Republics, also Postal Savings stamps, Money orders, Philatelic Exchange Tax stamps, RSFSR Inflation mail, mixed-postage rates, World War II, including mail from Soviet-Occupied Poland, censor
Envelope
Price Realized
$4,000.00

Lot #1743
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS RUSSIA - POSTAL HISTORY
1910-1917 collection of 325+ covers or cards, some written up on pages, with a good representation of oval postmarks of Railway Mail Cars, Platforms and Station Postal Desks, with Transcaucasian routes incl. Batum-Baku, Tiflis, others with Odessa, Trans-Siberia incl. Taiga-Vokzal, Warszawa-Vilnius, Tula-Likhvin, Mariupol-Zverevo, Minsk Station, Nizhniy-Novgorod, letter from Osinovka Station/Alexander Railway to the Winter Palace in Petrograd, with a rare State Chancellery arrival pmk, plus many obscure towns, quite a number with Romanov franking, also a considerable selection of stamps on pieces with scarce markings incl. Andizhan, Kineshma, occasional ship markings, plus much more. A great nucleus for expansion, with many rare items worthy of individual auction listing
Envelope
Price Realized
$14,000.00

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