THE SECOND AND THIRD DEFINITIVE ISSUES - BALANCE OF THE VADIM USTINOVSKY COLLECTION: 1927-32, over 400 mint or used stamps and 21 postal history items, nice range of different plate varieties, cover from Aleksandrovsk on Sakhalin, imperforated set of the third issue, ''Tulinovka'', some scarce cancellations and more, minor flaws should be expected on used material and postal history items, fresh quality unit on original Ustinovsky's pages, F/VF (Image)

GROUP OF BETTER ITEMS IN MULTIPLES: 1937-41, Lenin of 1939, Dzerzhinsky, Saltykov-Schedrin, Chekhov, Zhukovski, Karelian Finnish Republic, the total is six sets in blocks of four (two slightly folded along perforation) and 10 souvenir sheets - Pushkin (4), Architecture (4) and Aviation (2), nice quality unit, full OG, NH, VF, Standard C.v. 210,000P=US$3,230 (Image)

POSITIONAL PIECES PRACTICALLY COMPLETE COLLECTION OF 1961-91, about 3800 mint stamps and 190 souvenir sheets, all stamps with corner (absolute majority) or sheet margins, no exceptions, missing only Tokyo Olympics souvenir sheets, perfect quality collection in two stockbooks, full OG, NH (all stamps hinged on margins), VF and very unusual unit (not all scans are provided) (Image)

FIRST DAY COVERS AND SPECIAL CANCELLATIONS - COLLECTION: 1961-91, 280 covers or postcards, bearing various commemorative or first day markings, including set on aluminum foil of 1961, Space sheets of 1962, Green Tokyo souvenir sheet, three covers with Lenin Exhibition (type I) and many others, in addition about 200 pieces bearing different postal markings from the period, nice and clean collection, mainly VF (Image)

COLLECTION BALANCE OF MULTIPLES: 1933-51, 57 mint or used items, representing blocks of four or six, and two irregular blocks of 37 (Ethnographic 9k and 14k), mint included - 1st and 2nd Sports of 1949,Albania, Kirov Machine Works and Stratosphere Disaster of 1944 (toned and not counted in value), otherwise fresh quality unit, full OG or used, F/VF, Standard C.v. is about 100,000P (Image)

GROUP OF ERRORS: 1956-71, seven errors in pairs or in blocks of four with common stamps, including ''Broken Balcony'', ''Rudchev'', ''Falling-Down Leaves'', ''Four-Star Epaulet'', ''LSSR'' and etc., neatly described on a stockpage, nice quality, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

PROOFS AND ESSAYS OF THE 13TH DEFINITIVE ISSUE BY THE ARTIST VLADISLAV KOVAL: 1988-91, 1k-1r, 12 imperforated artist's proofs, including two single dies (one is large of 7k), two (1r and 20k) and eight (1k x4, 35k x4) dies on two pieces, in addition enlarged format water-color essay of 7k in indigo, size 99x120mm, as well as issued stamps, stationery items and etc. with artist's signs and facsimile, all arranged on four exhibition style pages, VF and extremely rare unit (Image)