COVER ADDRESSED TO SOVIET LEADER JOSEPH STALIN: 1938, registered cover from Tiflis to Moscow, appropriately franked by two values and bearing enclosures, including a letter from a Georgian Soviet administration officer, which is about drawing portraits of Soviet Leaders Lenin and Stalin, but in fact a denunciation of associates, as well as Lenin's portrait postcard and forwarding card to Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia, archival holes and paper yellowing, still F/VF and rare item of the Great Purge period (Image)

COLLECTION OF 1938 YEAR, more than 360 mostly mint stamps (three - used), representing 12 complete issues with numerous paper and plate varieties, including 35 blocks or strips, three fantails and one pair imperforatedbetween stamps, nice condition overall, mainly full OG, NH, LH or hinged, F/VF, SC. v. is over 900,000P=US $13,850 (Image)

Balloons and Airplanes Issue. 1938, 5k-1r, complete set in blocks of four, 50k with some vertical separation, full OG, NH or LH (most blocks on two top stamps), VF (Image)

Child Welfare Issue. 1938, 10k-80k, complete set of seven, blocks of four, all with sheet or corner margins, 10k with minor offset on reverse and folded once, all others are unfolded, 50k has one stamp with tiny gum wrinkle, full OG, NH, mainly VF (Image)

First Trans-Atlantic Flight Issue. 1938, 10k black and red, bottom left corner sheet margin block of four, watermark ''1'' at the bottom edge, minor marginal flaws at left, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

First Trans-Atlantic Flight Issue. 1938, 50k brownish violet and red, horizontal imperforated pair, enlarged margin at right, right stamp with slight gum wrinkle as often, full OG, LH, VF (Image)

Moscow Subway Issue. 1938, 10k-50k, complete set in unfolded blocks of four, nice and choice, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

North Polar Flight Issue. 1938, 40k green and carmine, 80k dark red and carmine, set of two in horizontal imperforated pairs, balanced margins, full OG, VLH, VF (Image)

North Polar Flight Issue. 1938, 80k dark red and carmine, enlarged margins imperforated single, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

Papanin's Polar Expedition Issue. 1938, 10k-50k, complete set in unfolded blocks of four, three with sheet margins, 30k has tiny gum wrinkle is affecting top stamps, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

Papanin's Polar Expedition Issue. 1938, 50k deep blue, left sheet margin imperforated single, nice and fresh, full OG, light trace of hinge mark, VF (Image)

Second Trans-Polar Flight Issue. 1938, 10k, 20k and two different types stamps of 50k, unfolded blocks of four, three-tip perf separation on 10k at the bottom, full OG, NH, VF (Image)

Second Trans-Polar Flight Issue. 1938, 10k claret and 20k gray black, two stamps in horizontal imperforated pairs, balanced margins, unused, expertly regummed, VF appearance (Image)

Views of Crimea and Caucasus Issue. 1938, 5k-1r, complete set of 12 in unfolded blocks of four, 10k brown with minor perf irregularities at top left stamp, nice quality unit, full OG, NH, VF (Image)