1836-1917 balance of the George Shalimoff's Imperial covers collection, 90 covers or cards in three binders, with several stampless, including Russia No.2 used from Moscow, boxed 1st Division three-line departure datestamp, another pen canceled, other Moscow town cancels, three and four-color combination frankings, 3k "V" in background on cover, St. Petersburg dot cancels, insured Wax Seal letters, registered covers, used in Finland, advertising cachets, 1899 7k advertising Empress Maria lettersheet used from Peterhof, 1851 10k stationery envelope from St. Petersburg to Vilnius, Ship mail cards "Parokhod Perm-Nizhniy" to San Francisco, two others "Batum-Odessa", one to Italy, covers franked with 1915 semi-postals, also Russian Offices in China, cover from Tientsin to London, another from Chifu to USA, Russian Levant cover from Smyrna to Aleppo, with Ottoman dues added on arrival, other registered covers from Constantinople to USA (Yaremdji correspondence), "Collect on Delivery" and "Express" labels on cards, 1918 Paquebot cover postmarked Tsuruga, Japan, plus many others, mostly written-up on pages, generally fine. A nice group of interesting Russian Imperial covers (Image)

Est.$1,500

1848-1917 Imperial picture postcards, 165 used and unused, depicting various places, regions, people and structures, with four cards from Russo-Japanese War, Singer sewing machine cards, also five early Soviet propaganda cards, mixed condition (Image)

Est.$500

1881-1917 St. Petersburg, Geometric Numeral Cancels collection in two volumes, George Shalimoff's single frame exhibits, with 47 postal stationery and covers used domestically and to foreign destinations, printed matter items, various types of numeral markings on Imperial stamps, few ex-Faberge (Image)

Est.$500

1913 Romanov Tercentenary, an interesting, mounted collection of 22 covers or postal stationery, plus various cancels and usages, registered postal card, a railroad example, a couple of mourning covers, private overprint and more, fine-v.f. (Cat No. 88/104) (Image)

Est.$200

1913 Romanov Tercentenary, the George Shalimoff five-frame Exhibit collection on pages, with 1k-5r unused, four die proofs, each individual value shown where it was used to pay a specific rate, purpose of use, letter, postcard, etc., ordinary mail, registered letters, stationery cards, printed matters, postage dues, postal money orders, telegraph money orders, domestic and foreign parcels, Collect-on-Delivery, insured declared value mail, postings at railroad stations, aboard trains, ships, special services, wartime censorship and special Mute cancelations, overpaid and underpaid, destinations, including China and Japan, registered mail from Finland, Russian Offices in Shanghai, there are three items franked with 5r, also with surcharged values, all neatly written-up, well selected and exceptional collection of the popular pictorial issue from Imperial Russia. In addition, there are three large albums which formed the basis from which exhibit items were removed and it includes used and unused sets, cancelation studies, perfins, large multiples of Romanov currency stamps, Registry markings, varieties, 150+ covers and stationery entire envelopes, used in Finland, 30 covers and dozens of stamps with mute cancels identified, parcel address cards, postal cards and wrappers, overprinted Romanov stamps for use in Levant, 20 covers with variety of frankings and ROPIT Constantinople markings, Romanov stationery cards surcharged "10kop" (1919 RSFSR Issue), annulled Romanov envelopes and cards (Soviet Philatelic Agency), overprinted for use in Ukraine and Far Eastern Republic, beautiful Romanov picture postcards, 21 Imperial Romanov Visit to France, covers and cards, plus balance of the "Abdication" overprints, with 9 Phrygian Hat overprinted stamps and covers and 6 Abdication overprinted blocks (Cat No. 88-104) (Image)

Est.$7,500

1917-23 Inflation covers, collection of 56 items, written-up exhibition style on pages, with multiple revalued and devalued frankings, many on both sides, (one with 140 stamps), rates identified, many better combinations, one with both RSFSR and Soviet adhesives, others include Imperial franking used during RSFSR, different departures and destinations, including Switzerland, Germany, USA, Latvia, Austria, Bulgaria, fascinating insight into early Soviet postal history (Image)

Est.$1,000

1923-2003 balance of George Shalimoff's collection, housed in three cartons, mostly covers and cards written-up on pages, various binders including early Soviet covers with Foreign Exchange stamps on back, flight covers, Arctic Drifting station and Ice Breaker commemoratives, two covers addressed to Krupskaya (Lenin's wife), WWII covers, some with Stalin's propaganda slogans, censor markings, 300+ Soviet Space covers 1958-1990 in five albums, various commemorative and special cancels, photo picture cards and 28 covers autographed by various Cosmonauts, 1971-91 three binders with 230 different illustrated one-sided postal cards, also illustrated envelopes (Zagorsky 1-181),1992-2003 Rossija postcards (94 used and unused), many interesting and unusual items, inspection recommended

Est.$1,500