1800s-1945, Approximate 3000 covers, very diverse from 19th century stampless through to the 1940s, very little if anything post WW2, all kinds of interesting items such as unusual transit markings, censors, postage dues, much Tsarist, Russian area, etc., great potential (Est. ? 5'000/7'000)

1858-1966, RUSSIA, SOVIET UNION, BOB: Duplication in 2 A4 home-made dealers approval books, noted much useful material with emphasis on pre 1960 material, mostly hinged or used & 2 medium size stockbooks with semi-modern to modern min.sheets and sets MNH or used, a lot from the Eastern dealer's stock (Est. ? 200/400)

1865-1919, RUSSIAN LEVANT: Attractive collection from a Parisian estate with a wide array of mint & used stamps, errors & varieties, rare cancellations, see web (Est. ? 1'000/1'500)

1872-1973ca. Group of 250 covers, stationery mint & used incl. illustrated, many registered, mostly addressed to Palestine, Berlin and England, much diversity, mixed (Est. ? 300/500)

1880-1950, Most interesting assembly incl. ERRORS, perforation varieties, various papers, LOCAL issues, misplaced centres, multiples, misplaced overprints, a few sheets incl. Chainbreaker with inverted background, vignettes, etc., a treasure trove from a 90-year old collector who gathered them for decades! (Est. ? 1'500/3'000)

1883-1925, Collection of several hundred mint and used stamps on specialised album pages, with Tsarist issues incl. varieties noted with 1902-05 3k red groundwork omitted used (Scott #57a, unpriced), extensive high values, semi-postals incl.1914s with better perf types, as well as coloured paper issues to 10k on consular mail to Japan, 1916-17 1k brown orange without surcharge single and block of four (#114), 1917 10k on 7k blue surcharge inverted mint never hinged, signed (#117a), etc. Further interesting back of the book includes 1925 exchange surcharges on semi-postals incl. 1r on 3k mint, signed, as well as useful postal savings issues, airpost special delivery 120m on 2.25r mint (#CO3), revenues and other non catalogued listed. Much more here than described, please inspect. (Est. ? 400/600)

1885-1949, Group of 36 covers/stationery/postcards 1 front, all addressed to Switzerland, much registered (Est. ? 100/150)

1899-1922, A well-filled volume of several hundred issues of White Russia and WWI era occupations, with errors and scarce stamps with signatures. Armenia with lots of inverted ovpts not listed, Batum incl. better with multiple signatures, extensive POs in China incl. horizontally laid paper 1r mnh, as well as 1904-08 10r used, signed, 1917 $1 unlisted double surcharge mint, signed, 1920 10k on 10k on 7k mint, etc. Then lots of Ukraine trident ovpts to investigate incl. the Podillia 1a type on 7r black and yellow used, Far Eastern Republic incl. 20k mint never hinged, signed, to the General Semenov surcharges complete mint, most signed more than once, followed by Army of the Northwest complete mint plus unissued imperfs to 1r with top values mnh and signed multiple times. Then Siberia with several errors on General Kolchak surcharges incl. missing ?5? in mnh pair se-tenant with normal, signed, inverted surcharges on 70k, 1r, 3r and 5r all vlh or mnh and signed, leading on to South Russia inc. surcharges on postal savings complete mint with top value never hinged, Occupation of Latvia ovpts with key imperfs 40k on 5k and 10r on 3.50r mnh and both signed, etc, etc. There is also a back of the book section with further intriguing unlisted, please inspect (Est. ? 1'000/2'000)

1916-1945 RSFSR & SOVIET UNION: Collection on 13 black A4 stockcards, nearly all MNH, noted divers better, a few varieties (raster, etc.), mostly very fine to superb (Est. ? 400/600)

1918-1922, ARMIES Collection in 4 stockbooks showing a wonderful section of WRANGEL ARMY, General Judenitsch, etc., displaying inverted ovpts, misplaced surcharges, blocks of 4 and multiples, etc., Provenance incl. Alexander & Fabergé (Est. ? 2'000/4'000)

1918 to 1923. Russia white armies, Armenia, Latvia, Ukraine, etc. Collection of many 100s of mint and used issues from the revolutionary period housed in an album, including Army of the Northwest to 5r mint, signed, Latvian cross o/ps imperf native and perf tsarist types, the former with 35k to 75k mint all signed, followed by Czech legion in Siberia, General Kolchak surcharges inc. 5r on 14k inverted o/p mnh, Priamur Govt. imperf 15k on 1r used, Far Eastern Republic Vladivostock o/ps on imperf 1k, 2k and 3k mint, all signed, and on postal savings mint both signed, leading on to General Semenov inc. 2.50k on 20k mint, Wrangels with plenty of inverted errors as well as rare missing value errors, etc, through to Armenia and Azerbaijan, etc. (Est. ? 300/400)

1930-80s, SOVIET mint nh collection haphazardly arranged in 3 albums, seemingly in complete sets incl. better commemorative sets such as 1935 Spartacist Games, airmails, mini sheets incl. 1949 Stalin (creased), etc., 1980s with three of each, plus some Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, some handling bends otherwise fine and fresh (Est. ? 1'000/1'500) (Image)

1930-80ca. LITERATURE RUSSIA / SOVIET UNION: Books, magazines & catalogues in one large box, from various periods, some in Cyrillic, mostly before 1980, mixed, interesting (Est. ? 100/200)

1934-1962, Selection of better values & sets, noted 1934 Airmail set of 5 values (both with and without wmk), 1935 San Francisco Flight (one normal & one with small f), a few min.sheets, etc. (Est. ? 1'000/1'500) (Image)

1940-1949, SOVIET UNION Large accumulation of sheets, part sheets and some loose, noted several medium better in sheets and part sheets (blocks): 1945 Aircrafts, 1948 October Revolution, 1948 Day of Artillery, 1948 Stasov, 1949 Belarus, 1949 Dezhnev's Discovery of Bering Strait, 1949 Soviet Army, 1949 1st of May, 1949 Day of Press, etc., listing included, Mi ? 140'000

1943-49, SOVIET UNION: Large stock of sheets and part sheets, mostly per 200 adhesives, noted medium better sets as 1949 Bering Street (Mi 1316-17), mostly very fine, totalling approx Euro 50'000 (Est. ? 2'000/3'000)

1944 SOVIET UNION Liberation of Leningrad miniature sheet 50 x used cto with full original gum (Mi types III/III or III/IV), Mi ? 3000 (Est. ? 150/200)

1945 SOVIET UNION Stalingrad miniature sheets (50), noted glassine (thin) paper, colour shades and different gums, used with MOSKVA, LENINGRAD and RIGA cto, Mi for cheapest ? 2'000 (Est. ? 150/200)

1945-1990s SOVIET UNION: Collection in 17 large (incl. 2 albums) and 11 medium size stockbooks, mostly never hinged and used (but majority seems MNH), noted one stockbook with 1940s/50s medium better only, but more medium better in other stockbooks as well (Est. ? 2'000/3'000)

1946-1985 SOVIET UNION: Collection in 3 ringbinder albums, apparently all never hinged, noted most of the better sets of the early years, also better Tokyo miniature sheet, mostly very fine to superb

1992 BIROBIDZHAN: Group of 17 complete surcharge sheets of 50 (including one kind of proof surcharge on blank paper) on former Soviet stamps for this Autonomous Yiddish Republic in the Russian Far East, so-called private issue, all never hinged and mostly very fine ( 2 Ukraine sheets)