1856-1915 ISSUES, KARELIA, N. INGERMANLAND, ETC: Two binders with the collection of mint & used stamps & covers. Includes 2 sets of 'Lighthouse' & 'KaBe' printed pages with incomplete ranges of early issues, noting 5k blue imperf. used (probable 19th. C reprint), various used 1860-71 serpentine roulettes to 40p, 1875-84 used values to 1mk lilac (2, both perf. types), 1885 to 1mk, 1889 to 5mk & 10mk used or unused, then later mostly mint 'Russian Arms' types to 7r; range of N. Ingermanland types perf. & imperf. to 10mk mint, 1919 Aunus opts. to 1mk, 1941 East Karelia opts (black & green) to 10mk, 1942 & 1943 opts. to 5mk (2), etc. Also a small collection of early 'cut-outs'. (c.250) (Image)

EARLY TPOs, 1939/40 "RUSSO-FINNISH WAR" COVERS & OCCUPATION OF E. KARELIA COVERS: Binder housing collection of stamps on & off paper plus Postal Stationery cards & covers showing a variety of TPO & Station cancels. Examples of the different routes with c.45 cards/covers from 1880 to 1900s. Lot also includes a group of 7 WWII period cards/covers incl. 4 Feb. 1840 Feldpost cover with censor mark and later Dec. 1941 & Nov. 1942 cover & card. Also Nov. 1942 humorous propaganda card to Germany franked East Karelia 2m having both Finnish & German censor marks and trio of 1942 Regd. covers from Aanislanna or Aunus to Helsinki. Interesting lot. (c.50 stamps/pieces and 60 cards/covers)Cross Reference: MILITARY - WWII, TRAVELLING POST OFFICES (Image)