COMPREHENSIVE RUSSIAN AREA MATERIAL:
Imperial Postage Stamps and Postal History, including
scarce early stationery pieces, gorgeous exemplar of 30k carmine
and green (#4, very lightly hinged), corner margin block of four
of 5r with perforation 11 1/2 (#71a, MNH), selection of scarce TPO
cancellations, including St. Petersburg Local Railways Postal
History Collection, and many more valuable items;
RSFSR Issues, representing numerous printing and surcharge
varieties, as well as Soldier 100r orange with error stamp of 70r
in imperforated complete pane of 25, which in addition with double
impression, one of just a few recorded;
Soviet Union includes multiple rarities such as three card
mounted essays of the Second regular set, Moscow Philatelic
Exhibition souvenir sheet (''Kartonka'') with red cancellation,
one of just a few known, trial color proofs of commemorative
issues from 1933-37, various blocks of four from 1930-50's, the
largest known multiple of 1948 Art Theater, 40k blue with raster
square in block of nine, perforation varieties of 1950-60's, and
finally Palekh Paintings of 1976, 14k with inverted gold color
(ornament and denomination) in bottom left corner margin block of
four, modern rarity with just several known to exist;
Semi-Postal items, representing World War I Postal Charity,
"Philately for the Children", ''Philately for the Labor'' and
"Leningrad Flood" issues, including numerous proofs and
varieties;
Air Post stamps and covers section, shows imperforated
Zeppelin set of 1930, cover prepared to be sent by Zeppelin,
franked with Airship 50k gray blue, error of color, great range of
Consular surcharges, including two sheet reconstructions for 24mk
and 120mk stamps and many other valuable items;
Non-Postal stamps, including Fiscal and Official stamps of
Imperial
Russia, as well as various Soviet Charity stamps and Cinderella
labels;
Post Offices in China and Turkish Empire contains elusive
lots with stamps of early issues, including large black surcharge
7k on 10k, printed on vertically laid paper (one of two recorded
exemplars), in addition extremely rare postal history items, such
as cover from Constantinople to Aleppo of 1869, R.O.P.iT. Office
in Burgas cover to Constantinople of 1883 and several others
Locals of the Civil War of 1918-22, including Kharkov,
Kustanai, Siberia and Verny (Alma-Ata) issues;
Zemstvo (Rural Post) includes valuable stamps and postal
history material, such as Ardatov Chuchin #13, mint, rank "RRR",
Rzhev #8, manuscript cancellation, rank ''RR'', Starobyelsk,
Schmidt #18, mint, rank ''RRR'' and many more;
In this section we additionally offer The Stage-Coach Collection
of Zemstvo (Rural Post), Part I, which contains over 150 various
single and collective lots of Zemstvo Districts from ''A'' to ''L'';