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LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1141

C68b

Air Post. 1935 1r on 10k Moscow-San Francisco surcharge, lower case "f", h.r., v.f. (Cat No. C68b) (Image)

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SOLD for $375.00
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1142

Flight Covers. 1928 (18 Sep) Moscow to Irkutsk First Flight cover, registered, with appropriate violet cachet and arrival pmk on back, also 1933 (22 Feb) registered flown cover from Moscow to London, minor toning, otherwise fine (Image)

SOLD for $250.00
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1143

Flight Covers. 1937 (1 July) first flight Stockholm to Moscow, franked with 5o and 10o, little toning, with arrival pmk on back (Image)

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CLOSED
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1144

Flight Covers. 1944 (10 Jan) two unaddressed First Flight covers from Damascus to Moscow, with "France Combattante URSS Damas-Moscow" cachets, fine-v.f. (Image)

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction

RUSSIA Russian Provisional Locals - Kiev

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Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1145

Mi.1-3

1922 surcharges on Russian Postal Savings Stamps, "7500", "8000" and "15000", reading up or down, fine-v.f., scarce (Cat No. Mi.1-3) (Image)

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SOLD for $450.00
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RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Reg

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Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1146

1894 14k stationery entire envelope additionally franked with 7k Arms, used from Vladivostok to Hamburg, Nagasaki and Yokohama transits (14.III.94) (Image)

SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction

1147

1912 (17 Mar) red-band cover from a Chinese merchant in "Okino-Klyuchi" to Sanchuan, Shansi, via Peking, franked with 10k Imperial fiscal adhesive, tied by a violet departure pmk, showing "Bichura" transit and oval "Bichura Doplatit" postage due, with "10k" inserted by hand (the fiscal stamp was not valid for international mail), with Peking, Taiyuanfu, Fengchow transit and Sanchuan arrival pmks, censured at Manchuria, with type 4 cachets in red, fine and remarkable usage from a small village of Okino-Klyuchi, north of Kyachta, present day Buryatia (Image) (image 1147a)

SOLD for $1,400.00
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1148

1912 (19 Jan) red-band cover from a Chinese merchant in "Okino-Klyuchi" to Sanchuan, Shansi, via Peking, franked with 10k dark blue tied by a violet departure pmk, showing "Bichura" transit and oval "Bichura" cds, with Peking (9 Feb), Taiyuanfu, Fengchow transit and Sanchuan arrival pmks, fine and remarkable usage from a small village of Okino-Klyuchi, north of Kyachta, present day Buryatia, with clear transit and arrival pmks (Image) (image 1148a)

SOLD for $1,300.00
Will close during Public Auction

1149

Ship Mail. 1899 (28 July) cover to Germany, franked with 10k dark blue (horizontally laid paper) sent probably from Vladivostok, via Gensan, Korea, where framed "Paquebot" was applied, the stamp itself was canceled in Nagasaki, Japan, eventually reaching Leipzig on 7 September, v.f. ship letter, signed Holcombe, with his 1992 certificate, ex-Liphschutz (Image)

SOLD for $240.00
Will close during Public Auction

1150

Ship Mail. 1911 (6 Oct) picture postcard (Chinese Year of the Sheep) franked with 4k Arms, tied by oval "Blagovsh-Nikolayev Parakh", repeated alongside, addressed to Japan, with violet Tsuruga (30 Oct) transit and "Ojiya" (1 Nov) arrival pmk below. It appears that the card was transported from Blagoveshchensk, via Amur River to Nikolayev and from there by C.E.R Manchurian ship line to Vladivostok and then by ship to Japan, fine and unusual river mail usage (Image)

SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction

RUSSIA RUSSIAN OFFICES IN CHINA

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CatNo.

Lot Description

1151

1900 (15 Feb) registered cover from Port Arthur to Santa Rosa, Calif., franked on back with vertical pair of unoverprinted 10k dark blue, tied by Russian Post Office Port Arthur departure cds, with Russian "Shanghai" (22 Feb) and additional "Pochtowaya Kontora Shanghai" (6.III.00) alongside, sent via Nagasaki and Yokohama, with Santa Ana and San Francisco Registered datestamps on arrival. The fascinating feature of this cover is the incorrect (non-hyphenated) "PORTARTHUR" Registry label (instead of "Port-Arthur"), unrecorded, v.f. (Image) (image 1151a)

SOLD for $450.00
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1152

1901 (19 Dec) picture postcard (Kremlin), sent from Moscow, 4k Russian franking tied by ordinary Railway departure pmk, addressed to Austria (Ostrava), mistakenly routed via Siberia, Port Arthur, Chinese and Russian Post Offices in Chefoo and Shanghai, Victoria (Hong Kong), finally arriving in Ostrava on 26 March, 1902. A fantastic voyage around the world and across two Oceans, instead of a short direct route by railway from Moscow, via Warsaw to Vienna (Image)

SOLD for $475.00
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1153

1903 (4 Aug) cover from Vilnius to a technician Alexander Vasilecky, with the Chinese Eastern Railway south branch at Port Arthur, franked on back with previously used Russian 7k, surrounded by four strikes of "0", obviously not recognized as valid by the postal official and charged "14k" penalty postage due ("Doplatit" to pay on front), TPO transits 123 (Samara-Chelyabinsk), 167 (Chelyabinsk-Omsk), 261 (Manchuria-Harbin), 266 (Port Arthur-Harbin) and finally 28 Aug. 1903 arrival, fine incoming cover from present-day Lithuania, with plethora of postal markings (Image) (image 1153a)

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction

1154

1903 (29 Aug) cover with 10k Kitai franking sent from Chefoo to England, via Port Arthur, showing violet "Liu Kung Tan" date stamp cds, Moscow transit and Ashford Sep 28 arrival pmks on back, coverflap mending, otherwise fine (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

1155

1903 cover to Manchester, England, franked with China pair of 5c CIP Coiling Dragon, tied by framed letterbox, with 10k "Kitai" added alongside, tied by Shanghai Russian Post Office pmk, with additional transit and oval Peking on back, Moscow (17 Oct), Manchester arrival, some toning, otherwise a fine combination (Image)

SOLD for $1,300.00
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1156

1905 (19 Sep) picture postcard (view of Blagoveshchensk) to Finland with Finnish message, datelined "Post Saint Mary Magdalen. Aigun, Manchuria 19 Sept 1905", violet circular free-frank cachets around Imperial Eagle "Post Saint Mary Magdalen" and "Supervisory Administration of Post Saint Mary Magdalen" transit, following day in Blagoveshchensk, Helsinki arrival 2 XI 1905 (New Style). The Chinese fortress and town of Aigun, on the River Amur opposite Blagoveshchensk, was destroyed during the Sino-Russian conflict of 1900 by the Russians, who established a military base in the area and named it Post Saint Mary Magdalen. A FPO is said to have operated there from July 1901 to October 1903. No material known. The post was served by the Amur Steamship Company. This card shows that Post Saint Mary Magdalen continued to be manned throughout the Russo-Japanese War, when its mail was evidently handled on the Russian side of the River Amur at Blagoveshchensk (Image)

SOLD for $575.00
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1157

1913 Romanov 7k stationery entire envelope uprated with 4k red, used from Harbin 28.3.13, with three oval strikes of Railroad Station markings, addressed to Germany, fine and attractive (Image)

SOLD for $240.00
Will close during Public Auction

1158

1914 (18 Aug) 4k stationery card overprinted "Kitai", written in German and sent from Chefoo to Vienna, with Red Cross Bureau for the Prisoners of War cachet in French (St. Petersburg Red Cross Committee marking), violet three-line Censor handstamp applied in St. Petersburg, another "Zens." in Austria, interesting item sent during the first days of WWI, obviously by a foreign national, whose mail was treated as coming from a Prisoner of War, showing early St. Petersburg censor cachet, exceptional example of mail delivery between two countries at war (Image)

SOLD for $575.00
Will close during Public Auction

1159

1916 (16 Sep) unsealed cover to Tientsin, sent unpaid, with violet censor handstamp applied in Irkutsk, with "Tientsin Poste Russe" arrival pmk applied on arrival, fine and unusual (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

1160

1917 (15 Dec) Chinese style cover (opened for display) from Borzya to Peking, franked with pair of 15k unoverprinted Arms, tied by "Borzya Zabaik." departure pmk, with a preprinted address, 5k "Kitai" overprinted adhesive on back, tied by Peking (22.12.17) pmk in Cyrillic, with Chinese arrival on front, fine and unusual cover from Borzya (a town and the administrative center of Borzinsky District in Zabaykalsky Krai, 349 kilometers southeast of Chita) (Image)

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction