1778, "ST PETERSBOVRG" clear black straight-line on dated folded letter, fine, signed Mikulski (Image)

1820, "SPBurg" red cyrillic straight-line on small folded letter to Narva, scarce, fine (Image)

1857, 10 k. blue and brown, good margins allround, used, fine, signed Richter and Ebnet BPP (Mi. 1.000,-) (Image)

1857, 10 k. blue and brown, good margins allround, used, fine, multiple signed and opinion Ferchenbauer (Mi. 1.000,-) (Image)

1884, 2k. green and 5k. lilac tied by cds. "DZHULFA 1" resp. "DZHULFA 2" to reverse of two covers to Tabriz, fine, scarce Provenance: Peter Ashford Collection (Image)

1884, Coat of arms 3k. red imperforated horizontal pair, fresh color, the left stamp just touched at left, 3mm tear between stamps at base, right stamp margin into design on 2 sides, with strip of paper added at top, used with clear cds. "LAGODEKHI 6 FEB 1887", of very fine appearance, with only one other copy known, that being unused, one of the great rarities of classical Russian philately, certificate Ceremuga (2019) Provenance: Zbigniew Mikulski (Private Treaty) (Image)

1903, Free Frank privilege asserted with red wax seal and violet numbered cachet to send ordinary letter from SARAPUL to Mont Athos. On reverse clear Kazan and Odessa transits and arrival mark of ROPIT AFON. The letter must have travelled directly by ship from Odessa to Athos ; if it had gone via Constantinople and then overland, the Free Frank privilege would not have extended into Ottoman territory. Very unusual item of Black Sea / Mediterranean ship mail (Image)

1905, Free Frank postcard to the Maria Feodorovna charities in St Petersburg with rare cancel of KHARBIN GOSPIT. GORODOK [Town Hospital], message in Farsi script. (Image)

1906, Coat of arms 3k. tied by oval "BLAGOVESCHENSK-STRETINK PAROKHOD 16 7 06" to picture postcard, showing river steam boat, sent to Rig, scarce, fine (Image)

1917, 1k. orange block of nine and single tied by cds. "PETROGRAD 1. APR. 17" to reverse of neat typed ordinary letter to Abo with part of red Finnish censor mark on front, the earliest recorded postal use of any 1917 imperforate, fine Provenance: Trevor Pateman Collection (Image)

1918 February, examples of the local reduced rate of 30 kop for ordinary letters and 1 rub for Registered, both used within Petrograd. Rarely seen rates with the 30 kop letter notable for printed label “ People's Bank, Russian Republic ", some minor imperfections, scarce (Image)

1918 August, Commercial registered letter from Petrograd to Warsaw, correctly franked at 60 kop with dual censorship and German receiver cancel on reverse, one stamp with corner fault, but a nice example of mail enabled by the Treaty of Brest Litovsk (Image)

1919, 1rbl. block of four with cds. "OPOCHKA 2 1 20" on reverse of registered cover addressed wo what looks like a suppy commissariat for the XIth rifles in Luga, no receiver cds. but paper adhering to front that may be related to delivery, only sent one month after or so after the defeat of the North West Army approaching Petrograd through Pskov guberniya, fine (Image)

1919, Private correspondence, long letter still intact, Registered letter sent from within the RSFSR with Imperial Registration label and cancellations of KOSLOVKA SIMB . [ irsk ] “ b ” 27 11 19 and a 4 rouble franking ( made up with 22 stamps ), correct according to the RSFSR Tariff of 5 November 1919 . Endorsed " Active Army " at top and addressed to a soldier in a Latvian regiment. No transit or arrival markings but possibly destined for the Latvian front (Image)

1920 October, Ordinary private letter sent on the TPO "RYAZHSK 61 VYAZMA" to Brussels via Moscow with three triangle censor mark. Franked correctly with a 5 kop imperforate stamp revalued x 100 (Tariff of 30 September 1920). According to Alexander Epstein, very few examples of this 5 rub tariff are known; after the resumption of foreign mail services in June 1920, most letters were sent registered, minor stains, otherwise fine (Image)

December 1920, Revaluations x 100, registered cover from KROLEVETS with Moscow receiver, franked four Kyiv Il Tridents on Imperial stamps, revalued x 100 to give the correct 10 rubel RSFSR tariff . Unusual late Soviet use of Trident stamps (Image)

1921 May, Private Esperanto correspondence, ordinary postcard sent from OMSK 24 5 21 to Bamberg with weak Three Triangle Censor on the reverse. This card is correctly charged at 2 roubles in accord with the RSFSR Foreign tariff of 30 September 1920, which abolished the Free Post for ordinary mail sent abroad. The Kerensky card is used as a Blank in accordance with the invalidation of 1 January 1919 . A German Postage Due mark PORTO KONTROLLE has been applied and " 80 " inserted by hand and repeated in blue on the card. However, the card is correctly franked and both the cachet and the " 80 " in blue have been crossed through with red crayon . Alexander Epstein records only a few known examples of the 2 rouble postcard rate, most mail abroad in 1920 - 21 was sent registered (Image)

1921 October & November, two Kerensky postcards used as blanks and each franked with 7 x 15 kop Imperial Arms stamps, locally sent in Petrograd by a prisoner N N Kholodilin in pre-trial custody. The long messages include valuable historical details of prison arrangements for payment and sending of mail and reception of parcels (Image)

ST. PETERSBURG: 1889. Issue for Women 1r. 8k. blue, 2nd class, used, small thin otherwise a very fine and clean copy with well above average perforations (Image)

1900, complete undivided sheet of six stamped papers for curreny transactions, spectacular watermarks make this ideal for lightbox framing and display, few folds, otherwise fine (Image)

1865, a single finished reproduction of 1865 2k, "Copie" backstamp of Chambery Court and signed Sperati in pencil, ex Sperati archive and Carl Walske (Image)

1857/1918, postfrischer, ungebrauchter und gestempelter Bestand mit einer Vielzahl guter Ausgaben, hoher Katalogwert

1858/1923, postfrische, ungebrauchte und gestempelte Partie mit Doubletten und etwas Gebieten im Einsteckbuch (Image)

1858/1917, postfrische, ungebrauchte und gestempelte Sammlung mit Doubletten, einigen Briefen und Karten etc. (Image)

FISKALMARKEN: 1860/88, Gebührenmarken der Moskauer Polizei, dabei die seltene 25 kop. von 1860 vollrandig und gut erhalten, dazu 30 Marken der 2. Ausgabe sowie 2 Halbierungen auf Briefstücken (Image)