Imperial Russia, RSFSR and Soviet Union Collection on Scott Album Pages: 1863-1950, about 1350 mint or used (20%) stamps and 7 souvenir sheets, starting with mint 5k City Post stamp, then early material mainly cancelled, continues with unused RSFSR inexpensive items and very nice mainly mint early Soviet Union, including perf and imperf first definitive sets on watermarked paper, Moscow and Leningrad Philatelic Exhibitions, Ethnographic set, Baku Commissars, 10th Anniversary of the Death of Lenin, Anti-War Propaganda, Moscow Subway, Spartacist Games all later sets from the end of 1930's and all 1940's, very well completed Air Post issues, including Airship in gray blue, Moscow – San Francisco Flight surcharge and all other items of the period, in addition North West Army genuine and forged stamps (identified), apparently fresh neatly mounted stamps or CTO with full OG, F/VF, Standard C.v. is close to 1,000,000P, Est. $2,500-$3,000 (website photo) (Image)

Selection of Better Issues: 1927-40, 65 mint stamps, representing 19 different complete issues, starting with surcharge 8k on commemorative stamps of 1927, including Kalinin, Revolutionary Heroes (perf 11), Tolstoy (perf 11), Dzerzhinsky, North Pole Flight, Papanin, Flight to Far East, Tchaikovsky and etc., nice quality unit, full OG, NH, mostly VF, C.v. is close to $1,250, Est. $500-$600 (website photo) (Image)

Group of 1930's: 1930-37, 16 mint stamps and one souvenir sheet, including M. Gorky, 15th Anniversary of Revolution (35k is absolutely perfect), Architecture s.s., Zeppelin issue of 1930, Airship of Dnieper Dam (perf 12½) and perf Ice-Breaker ''Malygin'' set, all with full OG, NH or LH, F/VF, Est. $120-$150 (website photo) (Image)

Multiples of Definitive stamps with Marginal Inscriptions: 1936-39, 5k-50k, 22 items, including 8 large blocks of 14, 25, 40, 50 or 70 stamps and 14 complete sheets of 100, representing various control text, different type of control lines and other printer's signs on selvages, representing different issues of these stamps, occasional folds, but generally nice and fresh unit, full OG, NH, VF and great lot for a specialist, Est. $400-$500 (website photo) (Image)

Collection of the New Currency Definitive Issue: 1961, about 700 stamps (approximately 250 postally used), 30 postal history items really went through the mail and 24 unused stationery cards and envelopes, neatly arranged on meticulously inscribed album pages, representing all existing issues of 1k and 3k, 4k and 6k, 12k and others, differ by color, type of printing, paper, gum and raster, showing various selvage inscriptions and in addition used Lenin definitives and Taras Shevchenko in used multiples, nice quality unit, full OG, mainly NH or used, F/VF, ex-V. Ustinovsky, great lot for a specialist, Est. $500-$600 (website photo) (Image)

31-Year Complete Collection in Two Large Stockbooks: 1961-91, about 4000 mint stamps and close to 250 souvenir and miniature sheets, apparently all stamps are presented with numerous extras, such as imperforated stamps of 1960's, Space and North Pole sheets of 1962, Lenin sheet of type I (1970), nice and flawless unit, full OG, NH, VF, Est. $600-$750 (website photo) (Image)

Positional and Miniature Sheets - Collection on Pages: 1974-91, about 150 various items, including 102 miniature sheets of 8, 16 or 20, apparently 50 of those were printed in limited quantity, starting with Winter Olympics of 1980, Soccer and Olympic Games, Flora and Fauna, including WWF, Space, Locomotive, Truck and many others, in addition 49 sheets (mainly Paintings of 1974-90) with one, two, four or five labels, including Vasilyev, Rembrandt, Hermitage paintings in large sheets and etc., apparently great quality unit, full OG, NH, VF, SC. v. is about $3,000, Est. $750-$1,000 (website photo) (Image)

New Year Miniature Sheets - Group: 1978-83, six different miniature sheets of 16, including Olympic Misha of 1980, all are in post office fresh quality, one with original folder, full OG, NH, VF, Est. $150-$200 (Image)

New Year Miniature Sheets - Wholesale Unit: 1978-83, six different miniature sheets of 16, including Olympic Misha of 1980, five of each, the total is 30 sheetlets, all except 1978 are in original folders, full OG, NH, VF, Est. $750- $850 (website photo) (Image)

Russian Area Starting Collection in Scott Specialty Album: 1918-40, several hundred mint and used stamps, representing issues of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, some Estonia, powerful Latvia, Lithuania and Central Lithuania, Wrangel's Army and Tannu Tuva material, a lot of empty space for further expansion, clean unit, full OG or no gum as produced, F/VF, Est. $200-$250 (website photo) (Image)