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Lot Description

2021

1873 (2 Aug) FL from St. Petersburg to Paris, franked with 2x20k blue orange & blue (horizontally laid paper), tied by cds, with blue French entry pmk alongside, red and black departure markings on back, filing fold away from the stamps, fine cover (Image)

SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction

2022

1875 (15 Feb) Finnish 8p stationery postcard addressed to St. Petersburg, framed "Bezplat." ("Free") in red, clear arrival pmk, fine and interesting text regarding missing payment, etc., unusual item (Image)

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction

2023

1903 registered cover from Vesyolaya Lopan to Switzerland, franked on back with 1k, 3x3k and 2x7k, paying 21k and tied by cds, with registry label "Vesyolaya Lopan" Railroad Registry label, Ermatingen arrival, fine usage from a small municipality (a selo) in the Belgorod district (Image)

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction

2024

1918 3k stationery lettersheet additionally franked with Romanov 4k, 7k and 20k/14k surcharge, all with partial red "Abdication of the Tsar" overprints, registered locally in Ekaterina; also included is a small cover franked with 1k, 5k and 10k Postal Savings stamps, used from Kamenetz Pod. to Vilnius (Image)

CLOSED
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2025

135

1918 10r scarlet, yellow & gray, imperforate block of four, n.h., v.f., cat. $400 (Cat No. 135) (Image)

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2026

1918 (23 Oct) registered money envelope used locally in Simferopol, franked on back with vertical pair of 4k and single 70k Arms, containing 2 rubles, with intact (slightly toned) Registry label, possibly the only preserved money letter from Civil War Crimea (Image) (image 2026a)

CLOSED
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2027

268

1924 (7 May) registered cover from Kharkov to Canada, franked with imperf. pair of 20k Lenin Mourning Issue, Type I (narrow frame), three Philatelic Exchange surcharges added on both sides, v.f., with Montreal arrival pmk, rarer usage of Type I imperfs on cover to a foreign destination (Cat No. 268) (Image)

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2028

B18c

Semi-Postals. 1922 100p .+ p.100 variety, n.h., usual perforations, fine, signed Goznak, cat. $600 (Cat No. B18c) (Image)

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SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction

2029

Officials. 1909 (6 Nov) registered cover from Livenhoff to Dwinsk, franked on back with 3x7k blue, also with 15k Official added on arrival and tied by 7.11.09 Dwinsk pmk, minor toning and cover defects, still a fine and rare combination, with 2013 Hovest certificate (Image) (image 2029a)

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2030

Ship Mail. 1909 picture postcard from England to Russia, with Wenden 9.8.09 arrival pmk at top, interesting handstamp in Cyrillic letters "Russo-American Line - Libawa-New York-Halifax" (The Russian American Line was a subsidiary steamship line of the East Asiatic Company that was in business from 1900 until the time of the Russian Revolution in 1917. In 1906 it began passenger service from Libau to New York after the Hamburg America Line acquired a controlling interest in the line)

SOLD for $220.00
Will close during Public Auction

RUSSIA - ZEMSTVO RYAZAN

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Lot Description

2031

1876 2r bronze/gold, silver, two different, partly reconstructed (rejoined in the middle) settings of six, fresh colors, v.f. (Chuchin 21-22) (Image)

CLOSED
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RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Reg

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Lot Description

2032

1919 (22 Mar) registered cover from Vladivostok to Simferopol, Crimea, transported using a shorted connection via ship, paid in cash (markings on reverse) and "Opened by Censor" label applied by the British in Vladivostok, arriving Crimea after a six month voyage, some peripheral toning, rare communication by mail between two "white" entities, described in BJRP 100 (2020), p.126-127 (Image) (image 2032a)

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction

2033

1919 "Soldier's Mail" U.S. Postal Agency Siberia, 19 free frank covers to USA, various censor cachets, include "Passed by Military Censorship A.E.F. Siberia No.1" and others, mostly fine-v.f. (Image) (image 2033a) (image 2033b) (image 2033c) (image 2033d) (image 2033e) (image 2033f) (image 2033g)

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2034

1919 (15 May) cover opened for display and franked on back with 4x10 dark blue, sent by Tony Krowicki c/o 31st Inf. A.E.F. Spasskoe, tied by Khabarovsk departure datestamps, with Spasskoe and Pervaya Retchka transits, Vladivostok 16.5.19 arrival pmk, British "Opened by Censor" seals and violet Russian military censor cachet, cover faults, rare usage (over 900 officers and men of Polish 5th Rifle division were evacuated from Siberia) (Image)

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2035

1919 (16 Apr) YMCA corner cachet cover, care of American Red Cross, franked with 5k and 3x15k (imperf.), tied by Vladivostok departure pmks, addressed to Manila, Philippine Islands, British "Opened by Censor" label and four-line Vladivostok military censor 21 cachet, plus Manila arrival pmks on back, filing folds, interesting usage from member of the U.S. Red Cross, via British and Russian censors to Manila (Image)

CLOSED
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2036

1919 (4 Mar) 3k stationery card with additional 10k franking sent from Vladivostok to Antoni Krowicki c/o 31st Inf. A.E.F.S. (American Expeditionary Force Siberia) in Spasskoe, written in Polish from Khabarovsk, with framed Vladivostok military censor cachet and Spasskoe (6.3.19) arrival (Image)

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2037

1920 (3 Feb) Japanese YMCA corner cachet registered cover from Pervaiz Retchka to New York, with "Vladivostok Pervaja Recka Siberie, Russie d'Asie" registry label, franked on back with four imperf. 1r adhesives (some faults), tied by departure pmks, with Seattle transits and New York (Mar 12) arrival pmks, cover faults, unusual usage of a Japanese YMCA cover (Image) (image 2037a)

CLOSED
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2038

1920 (Jan) YMCA "With the Colors" corner cachet cover to Germany, franked with 6x15k Arms (two defective), tied by Vladivostok four-line censor handstamps, no departure pmks, but with Asendorf (8.1.20) arrival on back, unusual (Image)

CLOSED
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RUSSIA Chinese Eastern Railway

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Lot Description

2039

1907 (24 Nov) picture postcard (Buryat woman) to Paris, franked with 1k and 3k Arms, tied by oval Manchuria 261 Harbin railway pmks, v.f., with arrival cds, fine card, ex-Liphschutz, with Holcombe 1992 certificate (Image)

CLOSED
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2040

1909 (8 Oct) picture postcard (view of the border) to Kobe, Japan, franked with 1k and 2k (2), tied by oval Harbin 263 Vladivostok railway pmks, fine (Image)

CLOSED
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