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Lot #1170
RUSSIA Air Post
1926 (28 Aug) registered cover from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with three different surcharges including 10k (narrow "0" variety), 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, v.f., with Lysin arrival pmk. Although airmail stamps were not officially authorized for use on non-airmail covers until September 6, 1926, this cover, processed through the Philatelic Bureau, was obviously permitted to pass a week earlier
Envelope
Catalog #C6,7var,8
$900.00
Bidding Closed
Lot #1171
RUSSIA Air Post
1926 (2 Sep) cover from Nizhny Novgorod, registered from Moscow to Austria, franked with a combination of Air Post, Definitives and Commemorative stamp, paying 38k (the correct foreign registered letter rate was 28k, hence this letter was probably overweight), with 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents indicated "2017" in pen, filing folds away from the stamps, fine
Envelope
Catalog #C7
$230.00
Bidding Closed

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