10k Arms perforated, thick paper, mint with hinge remainder, good centering and of fresh colour, corner crease at top left, very rare, signed Friedl and cert Buchsbayew (Image)

1857-58 10k Brown & Blue perf.14 3/4 tied to folded cover and another example tied to fragment by different boxed Nikolai line cancel of 1858: St.Petersburg & cover with Moskva cancel, very fine and scarce cancel (Image)

1857-58 10k Brown & Blue perf.14 3/4 tied to folded letter to Narva by ink cross of SPB, alongside red boxed S.P.BURG 29.1.58 – early date and only for 1 month pen cancellation was possible at SPB as from February on numeral postmark cancellation was introduced, cert. Mikulski (Image)

20k Arms green & lilac TRIAL COLOUR PROOF without watermark, thicker paper, hinge traces otherwise very fine and fresh example of this scarce adhesive (Image)

30k Arms perforated, thick paper, mint – original gum with slight hinge trace, brilliant colours, slightly irregular perforation at bottom which is normal and of no importance (confirmed precisely like this in the Buchsbayew certificate), very fine & rare in this wonderful condition, cert. Buchsbayew (Image)

30k Arms perforated, thick paper, mint – original gum with hinge traces, reperforated at top, of brilliant fresh colour, except for the perforation at top one of the niciest examples we have seen of this adhesive and very rare, cert Mikulski & ex Mikulski (Image)