1857, Coat of arms 10 k. darkbrown/blue, good to wide margins with clear strike of numeral "104" BELOSTOK, fine (Image)

1857, Coat of arms 10 k. darkbrown/blue, good to wide margins with clear strike of oval numeral "9" TAUROGGEN and small part of blue senders cachet, fine, signed Senf (Image)

1857, Coat of arms 10 k. darkbrown/blue, good to wide margins with pen cross, fine (Image)

1858, Coat of arms 30 k. rose-carmine and green on thin paper with numeral "443", fine, signed Ferchenbauer with certificate, rare (Mi. 3.500,-) (Image)

1866, Coat of arms 1-30k. on horizontally laid paper, fresh colour and nice centering, mint never hinged, fine (Image)

1884, Coat of arms 14 and 35k. as block of four with upper sheet margin resp. gutter, fresh color and good centering, mint never hinged, fine (Image)

50 k. perforated, tied by oval railway mark "URGA-242-IRKUTSK .. 7.19" to reverse of cover with additional strike on front with contents of a czechoslovakian soldier to Irkutsk (Image)

3 k. red and grey, perf. 13 1/2, imperforated at right with sheet margin, unmounted mint, fine (Image)

1922, Famine Relief 250 r. on 35 k. blue with black overprint in block of 4 and 250 r. on 35 k. blue with yellow-orange overprint in block of 4, all tied by cds. "PETROGRAD 8.2.22" to registered cover with another uncalled stamp on reverse to Khlebnikovo with arrival mark, cover slight shortened at left, otherwise fine (Image)

1890, Distillery Tax 1k.-25r., complete set with very fresh colors, without gum, very scarce like this, it is believed that mint stamps where made available to some prominent collector at the time (Image)

1890/92, Distillery Tax, 1,10 and 50k. and 1-10r. and 1892 1k., without gum, very scarce like this, it is believed that mint stamps where made available to some prominent collector at the time (Image)

1892, Maria Feodorovna Charities Playing Card Tax, Pelican and Emblems on trumps 30k., the iconic and rare label, beautifully engraved by the State Printing Works, very fine (Image)

FISCALS: 1907, General Issue 3rbl. tête-bêche block of 16 with large typographed red overprint "????????", mint never hinged, a very fine and attractive multiple (Image)

FISCALS: 1907, General Issue 5rbl. tête-bêche block of 16 with large typographed red overprint "????????", mint never hinged, a very fine and attractive multiple (Image)

MOSCOW: Orphans Court, 20k. perforated orange with Faberge pencil note and 40-60k. and 1r. imperforated plus 60k. perforated, scarce, fine (Image)

SARATOV: 1882, Court fees, undivided pair with both "KVITANSIA" and "MARKA" halfes, the left side ungummed, the right gummed, fine and scarce (Image)

CIVIAL-WAR: 1920 (June), Money Transfer from used to send 2000 rbl. from KISLOVODSK to Vologda, exactly franked front and back at 2% with 40 copies of the Kuban 1rbl. surcharge on 3k. perforated, despite fold and slight imperfections a very attractive item, ex Robert Tayler (Image)

MINSK: 1920, "250r" violet cachet on 2k. green block of eight, tied by cds. "BORISOV MINSK 2 9 21" to private registered cover addressed to Jewish Daily Forward in New York, with Mosow censor mark and New York receiver, multiple with some faults, a very rare and attractive item (Image)

SEMJONOW: 1920, "???" overprint type I on 20k. seperated block of four with appropriate cds., fine (similar offered in Lipschutz sale 1994, lot 2303) (Image)

1919, 1r. on 4k. perforated block of four with inverted overprint, mint never hinged, fine, signed Sovjet Philatelic Assoc. (Image)

VENYOV: 1k. imperforated, used, fine, ex Trevor Pateman (Image)

1857, 10 K. dunkelbraun/hellblau, 3 Stück gestempelt, dabei ein Briefstück und 4 Stück mit Federzug, alle mit italienischen Attesten (Mi.-Nr. 1)

1866/1915, meist gestempelter Doublettenposten inkl. Russische Post in der Levante und China, dabei interessante Stempel, zum Teil fehlerhafte Erhaltung (Image)

1904, kleine Sammlung der "Kriegswaisenhilfe"-Ausgabe auf vier Albenseiten, dabei fünf Werte mit Specimen-Aufdrucken (jeweils ein Buchstabe) und drei kpl. Sätze auf R-Karte von Cronstadt und zwei R-Briefen nach Deutschland, meist in guter Erhaltung (Image)

PUNKTNUMMERN- und NUMMERNSTEMPEL: Interessante Sammlung Nummern "1" bis "607" mit 80 Abschlägen auf 1858 10K., sowie St. Petersburger Nummernstempel 1-XI auf 12 Briefen und Karten und hunderten losen Marken, meist gute Erhaltung (Image)