1857, 10k. dark brown/light blue, plate II, good to large margins all around, tied by framed two-line "VILNO MARCH 1858" (Dobin 05.1.12) to a small piece, fine, certificate Ceremuga (2002)

1858, 10k. brown/light blue tied by circular dotted "2" MOSCOW to a folded letter to Latvia, with adjacent arrival framed "POLUCHENO 14 AUG. 1858", on reverse departure two-line "MOSCOW AUG. 7" and transit cds. "MITAVA AUG. 12 1858"; one short perf., otherwise fine

1858 10k. brown/blue, tied by clear Polish concentric circles "282" KIBARTY, with adjacent cds. "KIBARTY 10-4" to a folded entire to St Petersburg, reverse arrival cds. "ST PETERSBURG 31 MARCH 1863 III" and blue cds. "GRANDE SOCIETE DES CHEMINS DE FER RUSSES"; the stamp was previously cancelled and later cleaned to be re-used, cover with vertical archival fold and adhesive defective, still a fine example of a Polish postal fraud in early Imperial Russia 

1899, Provisional Label, 1k., 2k., 3k., 4k, 5k. and 35k. Arms tied with cds "ROSTOV ON DON" to an international registered envelope to Germany, alongside the scarce 1899 provisional label from Rostov; attractive six colours franking and scarce label

1918, Provisional Government, 50k. imperforate, tied with cds "ELISAVETGRAD 20 08 18" to the reverse of an envelope to Novograd-Volinsk, alongside receiver handstamp 26 August, also 50k. with 7r. both imperforate and 1918 5k. Saving stamps tied with cds "BUZULUK 1 3 19" to a fragment of a money transfer (ex Fabergé); very fine and unusual usages of the 50k. Arms imperforate

1919, 1 rbl. perforated proof with black instead of brown burelage, with strongly shifted frame and center, mint never hinged, fine, certificate Dr. Leupold VÖB

1918, Chain Breaker 35 k. blue, imperforated horizontal pair, unused, bend between the stamps, gum crease through left stamp and tiny tear in the margin only, fine and scarce, certificate Dr. Leupold VÖB (2017)

1918, Chain Breaker 35 k. blue, horizontal pair without chalk security pattern, mint never hinged, fine, certificate Dr. Leupold VÖB (2017)

1922, Hunger Aid 250r. on 35k. with double surcharge in yellow and carmine, mint never hinged, some blunt perfs, two perf tips tiny toned, otherwise fine, a scarce stamp with only 100 printed, certificate Dr. Leupold AIEP (2022) (Standard 27Tr)

1923, Philately for labor 5000 rbl. with copper surcharge, with overprint variety "wide distance between 1 and 923", tied by cds. to piece, fine

1923, Philately for labor 5000 rbl. with silver surcharge, with overprint variety "wide distance between 1 and 923", tied by cds. to piece, a very rare and attractive stamp, fine

1941, Red Army and Navy 5 k.-1 r., 15 and 45k. as vertical the others as horizontal gutter pairs, mint never hinged, fine, scarce

1857/1917 and 1922-2017, in the beginning used later increasingly unused collection, from Mi.-No. 1 used, mostly good condition

1917/19, Imperforate Arms, small specialist selection starting with 1917 1r. gutter block with center misplaced, 1919 1r. bloc of ten background misplaced on horizontally laid losanges paper, and 1917 10r. four copies postally used including two with plate damaged frame at upper right corner, very fine (Mi.-Nr. 77Dy, 77Bxb, 81Bxb)

IMPERIAL FISCALS: 1880/87, 1r., 3r. and 5r. Tribunal Court in three sheetlets of 25, mint never hinged (only in sheet border), also a complete vertical strip of six of the 30k. Baku District Court, scarce thus; very fine

IMPERIAL FISCALS: 1887/1900, specialist group of 30 stamps, including 1889 Simbirsk Court Fee 10k., Piatigorsk (2), Kislovodsk (2) one, 1895 3r. and 5r. Tobacco, Peasant Tax strip of 5 different values from 2 k. to 20k., 1887 Tribunal with three values in blocs of four MNH, 1899 St Petersburg residence for men (7), also a complete undivided sheet of six stamped papers for currency transactions; condition varies with a couple with faults, still a very fine and scarce assembly (a few ex Fabergé)

IMPERIAL FISCALS: 1890s, over 100 Baku Court District fiscal stamps used, many on fragment, expertly described, also a scarce group of Transcaucasia 1923 federation fiscals (11); mostly very fine (some ex Fabergé)

IMPERIAL FISCALS: 1892/1922, a specialist group of over 50 fiscal stamps, including some used on fragments and documents, one cigarette green fiscal stamp, a mint tete-beche bloc, some 1890s Baku district court used, also five South Russia fiscals (1r. to 5r.) and a Soviet usage in 1922; mostly very fine

1797/1935, nearly 80 covers, cards and postal stationary as well as documents with fiscal stamps, from pre-philately with R-letters, transit stamps, censors and interesting frankings

1830/68, group of about fifteen stampless folded entires and early postal stationery envelopes, used in Lithuania, good range of postmarks, better items including Postal Stationery Eagle 10k. grey-black, small format envelope (143x85mm), indicium teared upon opening, used with cds. "POLOTSK 23 AUG 1868", reverse arrival red handstamp "VILNO", signed Mikulski; fair to good strikes, overall condition fine to very fine

1850/1917, excellent group of over fifty (50) covers and cards, starting with some stampless mail, unused postal stationeries, censored mail, fine postmarks such as a ship mail card from the Nizhny-Rybinsk line, money letters, parcel cards, wrappers, a couple of foreign incoming mail; fine lot

1852/1916, more than 50 postal documents, among them many postal receipts, from different post offices with interesting postmarks, mostly in good condition

1862/1917, small group of over 15 covers and cards (or front), including some MOUNT ATHOS correspondance, also 3k. Arms solo franking tied with cds "VARSAW 8 SEPT. 1889" to front of a local city envelope; condition varies from poor to very fine

1876/79, Correspondance to MOUNT ATHOS, fine group of ten money letters all addressed to ODESSA for further transmission to some monasteries on the Greek island, good range of single handstamps, also two 1894 archive halves of certificates (defect) issued by the Andreevski skete on Mount Athos and two cash requisitions (1886 and a Soviet 1936 one); fine to very fine

1878/1915, group of over sixty (60) postal stationery cards, envelopes, parcel cards and money orders, used in Lithuania, good range of postmarks including "KOVNO", "BERZHBOLOV", "PODYRODZE", etc., scarce 1914 Postal Savings Book from "BEYSAGOLANOV", also three incoming cards from France, Austria and Bavaria, mostly very fine