RUSSIAN OFFICES ABROAD SPECIALIZED COLLECTION. Excellent "collectors collection" of several hundreds of stamps, mostly mint, well written up and housed in one well filled album. Beginning with Russian Company of Shipping and Trade (R.O.P.I.T) from imperf onwards through to Russian stamps surcharged for use in the Levant including both horizontal and vertical laid papers, inverted surcharge on two kop green and four kop red (Scott #31a and Scott #32a) and clearly misplaced surcharge on pair of Scott #31 not listed as such in the catalog through to high values 70pi o/ps, to the wove papers with further errors then a comprehensive range of offices in Beirut, Constantinople (cobv mplete), Dardanelles, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Kerasund, Mount Athos (complete), Mytilene, Rizeh (complete), Salonika, Smyrna (complete), Trebizond (complete) and in most of these offices various errors throught to regular issues in the Levant to 100 piastres o/ps, 1913 Romanov issue complete etc. The next section begins with post offices in China again to high values and different papers inc. inverted surcharge Scott #55a through to $10 on 10r, followed by the Civil War issues including comprehensive Northern Army, Army of the North West, stamps prepared for use by the Western army but not issued, excellent Russian stamps surcharged for use in South Russia (Kuban Terriory) with a sweeping range of errors including singles and multiples of misplaced inverted and double surcharges, an extremely good collection of these issues with lots of scarce items present including Don Territory, as well as Crimea, on to General Denikin, again including multiples, various errors with paper and gum varieties etc. Also present General Wrangel issues inc. a very visual misplaced surcharges and double surcharge multiple format. Also present an extremely good range of Russian refugee post to both perf and imperf high values including pairs through to Far Eastern Republic, again with much scarce material page after page ending with Priamur and Maritime Provinces, Karelia complete, Olonetz, West Ukraine (Eastern Galicia) to 10kr signed. A truly wonderful collection with much not listed in the Scott catalogue. (see online scans)

CV. 4,000-6,000