2k Arms on horiz. laid paper tied to 1872 5k red City Post ps entire (imprint top right, size 140 x 58mm) by MOSKVA 14.11.82 cds to Mönchengladbach, GERMANY, scarce envelope and rare usage, superb quality, ex O. Agathon Fabergé (with his purchase annotation at back), cert. Mikulski (Image)

2k Arms, horiz. laid paper, tied to 1875 5k violet ps entire (smaller size 145 x 81mm) by oval dotted mute postmark of Moscow with MOSKVA 28.10.82 cds below, superb quality, scarce, ex K. Helman auctions, Helsinki (Image)

Three 2k Arms values on horiz. laid paper (incl. pair with slightly shifted background) 1k Arms on horiz. laid paper (1866) in MIXED ISSUES franking with tied to folded letter by numeral “6” of S. PETERBURG City Post, at back red dispatch and black S. PETERBURG 4.6.83 cds and Dresden, GERMANY bs, very fine (Image)

2k Arms on vert. laid paper, mint hinged, one of the niciest examples in existence, signed Köhler (Berlin era), Richter and cert. Mikulski, in this quality one of the great rarities of Russian Imperial Philately and a beautiful exhibition item (Image)

8k Arms on horiz. laid paper, showing damaged M of MARKA (due to slight overinking),lh, very fine and beautifully fresh (Image)

DUPLICATED LOT 8k Arms, horiz. laid paper in block of 4 tied to reg’d envelope from German Embassy (seal at back) by S.PETERBURG 10.1.78 cps, sent to Tarnowitz (Prussia, Upper Silesia, today Poland) with German incoming registered label, “Vom Ausland über Bahnpost 11 Eydtkuhnen-Dirschau,” envelope opened at sides otherwise very fine and fresh cover (Image)

8k Arms, horiz. laid paper in block of 4 tied to registered envelope from German Embassy (seal at back) by S. PETERBURG 10.1.78 cds to Tarnowitz (Prussia, Upper Silesia, today Poland), with German registered label : “Vom Ausland über Bahnpost 11 Eydtkuhnen-Dirschau,” envelope opened at 2 sides otherwise very fine and fresh cover

8k Arms, variety on vert. laid paper, unused with traces of gum otherwise very fine and quite rare (Image)

8k Arms, variety on vert. laid paper, regummed / redistributed gum, at top some black paper remainder, otherwise fine and a quite rare stamp, copy of Mikulski opinion (Image)

10k Arms on vert. laid paper in vertical block of 10, all except the 2nd adhesive in pristine MNH quality, a very rare block (Image)

Two 10k Arms plus 1866 3k, all on horiz. laid paper tied to envelope used within LITHUANIA by 2-line “ST GORZHDY KOV 1.12.77” ds, sent to Grodno, slight creases off the adhesives, very fine obliterations (another one at back, as well as bs), a rare MIXED ISSUES cover from a little village, signed Mikulski (Image)

10k + 20k Arms, all on horiz. laid paper also scarce 2k vertical pair with VERTICALLY LAID PAPER, plus 1866 5k, all tied to 1878 registered envelope by GAISIN 14.9.78 cds (UKRAINE) to Kamenets-Podolsk (clear arrival marking at back), archive-fresh cover, beautifully cancelled and of great rarity – exhibition item, cert. Mikulski (Image)

20k Arms, blue & orange on horiz. laid paper, mint (hinge remainder) showing PLATE ERROR “cross-shaped T in DVADTSAT KOP” and 20k dark blue & orange on horiz. laid paper, never hinged, showing variety: “broken 2 of of bottom left 20” (Image)

20k Arms on horiz. laid paper in bottom left pane of 25, all stamps pristine never hinged, hinge remainder and small faults in margin, This pane shows four of the PLATE ERROR “cross-shaped T in DVADTSAT KOP,” a beautiful addition to an advanced or exhibit collection (Image)

1875 Arms, 2k to 20k mint and used selection, incl. mint and used blocks of four, variety of shades and cancels, “fly-speck” varieties incl. 20k with “cross-shaped T” in mint block of four, etc., mixed condition, examine (167) (Image)