1778, "ST PETERSBOVRG" clear black straight-line on dated folded letter, fine, signed Mikulski   (Image)

1820, "SPBurg" red cyrillic straight-line on small folded letter to Narva, scarce, fine   (Image)

1866, Coat of arms 30k. rose/green on horizontally laid paper, block of four, fresh colour, unused one stamp mint never hinged, few minor perf seperations, otherwise fine (Image)

1917, 1k. orange block of nine and single tied by cds. "PETROGRAD 1. APR. 17" to reverse of neat typed ordinary letter to Abo with part of red Finnish censor mark on front, the earliest recorded postal use of any 1917 imperforate, fine Provenance: Trevor Pateman Collection (Image)

1920 October, Ordinary private letter sent on the TPO "RYAZHSK 61 VYAZMA" to Brussels via Moscow with three triangle censor mark. Franked correctly with a 5 kop imperforate stamp revalued x 100 (Tariff of 30 September 1920). According to Alexander Epstein, very few examples of this 5 rub tariff are known; after the resumption of foreign mail services in June 1920, most letters were sent registered, minor stains, otherwise fine (Image)

1910, Coat of arms 1rbl. light-brown/siena/red-orange, complete sheet with heavily shifted and slanting center and numeral, mint never hinged, diagonal crease affecting 7 stamps, otherwise a fine and attractive item (Image)

1910, Coat of arms 1rbl. light-brown/siena/red-orange, complete sheet with heavily shifted and slanting center and numeral, mint never hinged, upper right empty space faults, crease in margin only, otherwise a fine and attractive item (Image)

1921 May, Private Esperanto correspondence, ordinary postcard sent from OMSK 24 5 21 to Bamberg with weak Three Triangle Censor on the reverse. This card is correctly charged at 2 roubles in accord with the RSFSR Foreign tariff of 30 September 1920, which abolished the Free Post for ordinary mail sent abroad. The Kerensky card is used as a Blank in accordance with the invalidation of 1 January 1919. A German Postage Due mark PORTO KONTROLLE has been applied and "80" inserted manually and repeated in blue on the card. However, the card is correctly franked and both the cachet and the "80" in blue have been crossed through with red crayon. Alexander Epstein records only a few known examples of the 2 rouble postcard rate, most mail abroad in 1920 - 21 was sent registered   (Image)

1918, Postal saving stamps 50k. - 100r. with additional franking tied by cds. "ODESSA 14 3 23" to front and reverse of cover to Dessau with arrival mark, some stamps tears, creases etc., but a scarce and attractive entire   (Image)

1918, Postal saving stamps 100r. in combination with two fiscal stamps 40r. tied by cds. "TASHKENT 27 9 21" to registered cover to Petrograd, scarce, fine (Image)

December 1920, Revaluations x 100, registered cover from KROLEVETS with Moscow receiver, franked four Kyiv Il Tridents on Imperial stamps, revalued x 100 to give the correct 10 rubel RSFSR tariff , unusual late Soviet use of Trident stamps   (Image)

1921, Liberation of labour 250r. violet, two vertical strips of four tied by cds. "???????-????? 28 11 21" (DSCHALAL-ABAD) to complete money transfer form, in addition 1000r. tied by mute cancel to money transfer from Petrograd, some minor wear and small tears, scarce Provenance: Lipschutz (Harmers Auctions SA, 1994) (Image)

1922, Child support 2-10k tied by special first day cds. "MOSCOW 19-VIII-1922" to special envelope, in addition specially overprinted postal stationery card, unused, fine (Image)

1922, Child support 2-10k tied by special first day cds. "MOSCOW 19-VIII-1922" to special registered local envelope, fine, scarce Provenance: Lipschutz (Harmers Auctions SA, 1994) (Image)

1922, Airmail 45r. block of seven from the upper right sheet corner with additional franking tied by cds. "MOSCOW 23 11 22" to reverse of correctly franked registered cover, intended to be sent by airmail but due to winter break transported by railway to Wiesbaden, vertical fold, not affecting stamps, a very fine and rare cover, certificate Ebnet BPP (1992) (Image)

ST. PETERSBURG: 1889. Issue for Women 1r. 8k. blue, 2nd class, used, small thin otherwise a very fine and clean copy with well above average perforations (Image)

USED ABROAD: "STARAYA BUKHARA a 23.10.12" on 1908/18, 1 k. and 3 k. (3) on reverse of commercial cover to Peshawar, India (Image)

1857/1913 (ca.), gestempelte Sammlung mit u.a. Mi.-Nr. 1 mit Nummernstempel, Mi.-Nr. 38/39y und spätere Ausgaben mit einigen Einheiten inkl. Paaren, dazu etwas Levante (Image)

1858/1923, ungebrauchte/postfrische Sammlung mit vielen besseren werten und schönem Teil Bürgerkriegsgebiete und Nachfolgestaaten, dabei u.a. Mi.-Nr. 214c (Image)

1868/1919, interessante Partie von 20 vorbereiteten Auktionslosen, dabei ein guter Teil Post in der Levante aber auch Bürgerkriegsausgaben, meist gute Erhaltung

1918/23, schöne postfrische Sammlung, dabei Zwischenstegpaare, Herzstücke, Plattenfehler sowie Fälschungen, außerdem viele bessere Werte wie Mi.-Nr. 149Uo, 150Uo(2), 157xb HT, 159xa Hz, 168y(2), 169aII, 175aII, außerdem Mi.-Nr. 185IB, 185IIa, 185IIB, 186IIK, 185IIA, 195F1, 200ZS (4er-Block), 210AF, 211AI im Viertelbogen, 212-14a, 214c, 214aI und 219B, sauber in zwei Alben, vieles sign. bzw. mit Befund/Fotoattest Mikulski/Waßmann (Image)

1918/24, interessante postfrische Partie mit 41 Bogen und 20 Viertelbogen, dabei Zwischenstegpaare, Herzstücke, Plattenfehler, dabei je ein Bogen Mi.-Nr. 149 (PF II+III), Mi.-Nr. 150 (PF III+IV), Mi.-Nr. 170a (PF I), Mi.-Nr. 211A (PF I) sowie Republik des Fernen Ostens Mi.-Nr. 43 (PF I), sauber in drei Bogenmappen, gute Erhaltung

1862/1917, 12 Briefe, Karten und Ganzsachen mit polnischen Stempeln, überwiegend Warschau (Image)

1880/1910 (ca.), 3 Briefe, 1 Ganzsache und eine Rückseite von Mont Athos, dabei Papiersiegel (Image)

1891/1915, Partie von 9 Retour-Recepissen, dabei verschiedene Formulare (Image)