1857 10k brown & blue, boxed "KA.PODO" cancel, margins all around, v.f., signed Pfenninger, etc., rare (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.$500

1857 10k brown & blue, three singles, one with portion of adjoining stamp at left, but cut in at right, canceled on piece by Odessa datestamp, other canceled "354" (Olgopol) in rectangle of dots; last one with straight line and manuscript cancels, creases and other minor flaws, otherwise fine (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.$500

1857 10k brown & blue, canceled by "6" (Narva) in rectangle of dots, also another with boxed "Odessa" datestamps, each with margins all around, minute flaws, fine-v.f., cat. $1700 (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Cat. $1700, Est.$400

1857 10k brown & blue, large and even margins all around, canceled on piece, fresh and v.f. (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.$250

1857 10k brown & blue, large and even margins all around, fresh color, v.f., signed Matl, with his 1973 certificate (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.$250

1858 10k brown & blue, deep intense colors, margins all around, faint town cancel, v.f., signed Brun (Cat No. 1) (Image)

Est.$250

1858 20k blue & orange, unused with original gum, h.r., beautiful and fresh colors, v.f., cat. $1000 (Cat No. 9) (Image)

Cat. $1000, Est.$500

1917-23 Inflation in Soviet Russia, the award-winning collection formed by Helmuth Hiessbock, seven 12-page frames, written up on 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 Lindner pages, 129 covers, cards, parcel cards, Money Orders and other forms, beginning with a registered cover used 25.10.17 from Petrograd to Tolstye (Tula), correctly franked with 35k, tied by cds, with 27th October arrival, a significant historical item used on the day of the Great October Revolution (on 7 November 1917, Vladimir Lenin led his revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government. Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show a 25 October date. The October revolution ended the phase of the revolution instigated in February, replacing Russia's short-lived provisional parliamentary government with government by Soviets, local councils elected by bodies of workers and peasants), Romanov card and cover with additional franking, Postal Savings stamps and Imperial issues, various rapidly changing postal rates reflecting the political situation, Chainbreakers 35k and 70k, including pane of 70x70k, with additional franking on Postal Money Order, another with 39x35k, with additional stamps on Parcel card, Provisional Local usages on cards, one from "Samytye" to Wyritza, another from "Wosnesenst" to a soldier in the 27th regiment (each with Mikulski certificate), others with local "Ryb" handstamps from Kharkov, registered Money Order from Verny to Khudaber (18x20r overprints), 1922 cover from Rostov-on-Don, with 2t (2000r) green (B30), Inverted overprints on money order, large Tete-beche multiple on parcel card, local covers from Melitopol, Smolensk and Kiev, numerous flight covers and cards, including properly franked usage with first Air Mail overprint (C1), Semi-Postals, with locally used First Day cover franked with silver surcharge (B42 etc., with Mikulski certificate), other flights and fantastic inflation frankings, manuscript postal markings implicating "cash payments" (including one from "Kalys" to Berlin, with "10R" endorsements, stamps not available), 1921 cover from Simferopol to Berlin, franked with 4x50k Postal Savings stamp (largest known franking) many accompanied by certificates (Dr.Ceresa, Mandrovsky, etc.), expertly written-up, with focus on the seven different tariff changes, mixed frankings, domestic and foreign destinations, some Postage Dues, fractional usages, mainly in fine collectable quality, difficult to duplicate, many ex-Liphshutz, Faberge and other prominent philatelists. An excellent gold-medal collection (Image)

Est.$60,000

1917-23 Inflation in Soviet Russia, Postal History, foreign destinations, collection formed by Helmuth Hiessbock, 74+ pages (10 1/2 x 11 1/2 Lindner), with 94 covers, cards, parcel cards, Money Orders and other forms, also additional 70+ covers and cards showing domestic usages with Postal Savings stamps and Imperial issues, fractional usages, various rapidly changing postal rates, numerous flight covers and cards, American Relief Administration cards, one to Messina, Italy, another to New York, Brender correspondence, some with incredible inflation franking, various combinations, Cash Prepayment endorsements on covers, postal savings and other fiscals used as regular postage on mail to USA, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Latvia, Bulgaria and others. All well described, several Mikulski and Dr. Ceresa certificates, generally fine-v.f. An excellent addition for an advanced collection or basis for expansion (Image)

Est.$10,000

1919 (15 Dec) registered cover from Cholm to Moscow, franked on back with Chainbreakers 35k dark blue, block of ten, used in combination with vertical pairs of Imperial 25k and 50k, tied by cds, with Moscow arrival pmk alongside, fine commercial usage of the first stamps of RSFSR on cover to Moscow (Image)

Est.$500

1922 (15 May) picture postcard impressively franked with nine different RSFSR stamps including Fiscal stamps used as postage, paying 16,404r and sent from Kiev to Moscow, with arrival pmk (Image)

Est.$250

1922 (12 Oct) registered cover from Omsk (opened for display) and franked on both sides with Imperial and RSFSR stamps, paying 135,400r to Germany, with Konigstein arrival pmk (Image)

Est.$250

1922 (11 June) registered cover from Moscow to Kaunas, franked on both sides with RSFSR semi-postals and Imperial stamps, with arrival pmk, some hinge remnants, fine and attractive cover (Image)

Est.$250

1922 (24 Feb) cover from Merv and franked on back with a combination of Imperial 7r and imperf. pair of 1,000r red, tied by Merv Railroad station cds and sent to Baku, with arrival pmk alongside, fine and rare usage, with 2008 Pritula certificate (Image)

Est.$500

1922 (13 Mar) registered cover from Poltava to Kaunas, franked on both sides with RSFSR and Imperial adhesives, fine and impressive cover (Image)

Est.$250

1922 20r on 15k red brown & blue, imperforate single with lithographed surcharge, l.h., v.f., with 2019 Dr.Leupold certificate, cat. $9500 (Cat No. 224) (Image)

Cat. $9500, Est.$1,500

1923 (21 Sep) registered cover (opened for display) franked on both sides with stamps of RSFSR and Soviet Union, canceled by oval Moscow Exhibition cancels and flown to Germany, with Hemelingen (24.9.23) arrival pmk, fine and rare combination RSFSR/Soviet Union franking (Image)

Est.$250

1923 (30 May) registered cover franked on both sides and paying 401,129.75r with stamps of RSFSR and Postal Savings stamps, sent from Odessa, via Moscow to Germany, where upon arrival it was stamped "T" and charged "60" postage due to be collected due to confusing nature of the franking, fine and impressive cover (Image)

Est.$250

1928 100th Anniversary of birth of Leo Tolstoy (stamps were never issued), 10k, 14k, 18k (two) and 25k black, perforated photo essays, five different, each mounted on card, four with values confirmed in red ink, two showing corrections in Chinese ink, one of 28k with corner fault, otherwise fine-v.f., probably unique, with 2019 Liapine certificates (Image)

Est.$25,000

1932 "Workers For Avtodor", unissued 20k orange, perforated essay in orange brown, affixed on gray card, with red "IIPOEKT 14 December 1931", v.f., extremely rare (Image)

Est.$2,500

1933 Nationalities (Russians), 15k orange, perforated trial color proof with trial perforations, tied by red "IIPOEKT 21 June 1933" overprint on presentation card, v.f., rare, with 2019 Liapine certificate (Cat No. 500) (Image)

Est.$1,000

1933 Nationalities (Bashkirs), 30k six different perforated trial color proofs with trial perforations, tied by red "IIPOEKT" and "10 August 1932" overprint on presentation card, v.f., rare, with 2019 Liapine certificate (Cat No. 508P) (Image)

Est.$6,000

1939 Lermontov, 15k brown and blue, brown and blue green, perforated trial color proofs, each with trial perforations, the latter with double horizontal perforations at top, both affixed on a single card with red "IIPOEKT 20 October 1939" at bottom, handwritten notations and signature at right, v.f., probably unique, with 2019 Liapine certificate (Cat No. 757P) (Image)

Est.$2,500

1944 "20 Years Without Lenin", the complete set of seven perforated trial color proofs, mounted on two cards, each with red "IIPOEKT 11 Mar 1944" and "19 May 1944" datestamps, with signatures and official handstamps on back, with Liapine certificates (Cat No. 931-37P) (Image)

Est.$5,000

1946 Military Medals (Lenin), 60k dark green, variety background double (!), bottom sheet margin single, n.h., fine, with 2017 D.I.Frenkel certificate (Zagorsky 949var) (Cat No. 1032var) (Image)

Est.$500