Europe continued... Romania continued... Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1940 cover 1869: 15 b. bright rose-red, a single example with large margins on three sides and just shaved at left, used on 1870 entire letter from Jassy to Itzkhany, Zucker correspondence, carried at the scarce reduced border rate, tied by "JASSY / SERA" circular datestamp (Aug 6) in black (Kiriac fig. 468). Reverse with "Itzkhany / Bahnhof" cds applied over flap. Slight stain at base of entire but a scarce usage (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 23] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1941 cover 1869: 25 b. orange & blue, a fine example with large margins all round, used on cover to Dresden. Saxony tied by "GIURGIU / DIM" circular datestamp (Dec 12) in black with framed "P.D." below; arrival cds on reverse (Dec 19) in black. File fold well away from the adhesive, an attractive cover to an unusual destination (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 24] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1942 cover Romanian Post after the Treaty with Austria, 1870 (Sept): Cover from Ibraila to Naples with manuscript "Jbraila" at upper left and travelling on the DDSG Steamer (note the “P.D.“ in black), bearing 1869 Carol 50 bani blue & red which remained uncancelled until arrival at the Hungarian Railway Station where it was tied by indistinct double ringed "MOZGO POSTA / 3 / BAZIAS - PEST" T.P.O. in black. WIEN and VERONA transit as well as NAPOLI arrival (Sept 9) backstamps with corresponding postman's markings. The adhesive touched at base, the cover torn when opened but skillfully repaired, nevertheless a rare destination from the collection of Prof. Vodrazka. Rarity: Two other covers from the Petriccione correspondence to Naples were offered by Corinphila in the famous Cornelia collection and in the collection formed by John Simon (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 25] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1943 cover Romanian Post after the Treaty with Austria, 1871 (Aug 21): Entire letter from Calafat to Pest and travelling on the DDSG Steamer, bearing 1871 Carol with Beard 25 bani brown, tied by crisp strike of "CALAFAT SERA" cds (similar to Kiriac fig 447) in bluish black, an information strike and framed "P.D." in the same ink alongside as well as "BAZIASCH 25/8" cds in black when the cover was transfered from the vessel to the railway line Bazias - Budapest. From Calafat a rare destination as the overwhelming majority known today is from the Faranga correspondence to Ibraila, from the collection of Prof. Vodrazka. Provenance: Heinrich Köhler sale 238 (February 1983), lot 3132 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 28] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 250.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1944 cover Romanian Post, 1878 (July 5): Cover from Ismail in Southern Bessarabia to Constantinople, bearing 1872 Paris Print Carol 5 bani yellowish brown and 25 bani oarnge (corner fault), the latter added on top of a framed FRANCO handstamp in blue (Kriac fig 1603), both adhesives tied by single-circle "JSMAILU" cds in blue, this ornamental type unlisted in Kiriac (others figs 601-652), the cover struck by French framed "MER NOIRE" handstamp in black. Minor toning just mentioned for accuracy, nevertheless a most interesting cover from the collection of Prof. Vodrazka. Note: Despatched only days before the Treaty of Berlin was signed on 13 July 1878 which included the transfer of Southern Bessarabia including Bessarabia back to Russia. Ismail was under Romanian control for just 22 years, from the Treaty of Paris in 1856 until restored to Russia under the Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin in 1878 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 38+41] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1945 1926: King Ferdinand's 60th Birthday issue, Essay of proposed 10 lei design on thick card (210 x 158 mm.), beautifully realised entirely in black ink and Chinese white, with some small corrections on "L" of LEI at lower right and the central vignette drawn in wonderful detail. An extraordinary Essay, possibly by Gh. Ioanitiu or more presumably by Ludovic Bassarab the eventual designer of the entire issue (Image 1) Get Market Data for [Romania 293 Essay] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1946 ** 1942: Prisoner-of-war relief organised by the International Bureau of Education in Geneva: ‘Titu Maiorescu’, 200 sets in original sheets and 100 examples of the issued souvenir sheet featuring the same design. Mi = € 2'300 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania 743A-745A, Block 19] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 100.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1947 */o/cover Lots & Collections 1880/1930 (ca.): Lot comprising over 140 covers and cards, primarily pre-war and predominantly foreign mail to Italy and mainly directed from Liteni to the Conte Giuseppe Panciera di Zoppola, Lombardy, originating also from the Romanian Royal household in Castel Peles, many bearing Carol and Ferdinand definitives. Noteworthy is registered mail, mail from railway lines & stations, in addition few post-war New Romania usages from Cernauti, together with fine group of postal stationeries mostly uprated with additional frankings. In addition, a small selection of unused and used from the 1866/68 Prince Carl issues, neatly mounted on album pages. Overall fresh and clear usages and strikes, a lot of interest for the Romanian postal historian as well as the Italian historian (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (Image 27) (Image 28) (Image 29) (Image 30) (Image 31) (Image 32) (Image 33) (Image 34) (Image 35) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 900.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Romania Turkish Post Offices Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1922 cover Turkish Post, Galatz 1844c: Tartar Post document sent with the mail on the Kalas / Galatz - Varna - Edirne - Istanbul route (17 days) listing the 29 letters of this sending incl. weight and rate summing up to a total postage of 117 piastres and 30 para, struck on despatch with pristine all Arabic negative Kalas / Galatz handstamp in greenish black (Coles & Walker fig 97), on top of the list all Arabic negative "An Janib 260" Deraliye arrival handstamp in the same shade (Coles & Walker fig 4). The lot includes also a Tartar Post document sent on the side branch from Shumnu / Shumen to Varna and then further to Galatz, the Kalas handstamp less clear than in the first case. An exceptional Kalas strike duo, from the collection of Prof. Vodrazka (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1923 cover Turkish Post, Ibraila 1844 (March 9): Entire letter from the Ottoman Postal Relay station in Ibraila to Constantinople, Zafiropulo & Zarifi correspondence, on arrival in Constantinople struck with all Arabic negative 'An Janib postai Der Aliye 257' greenish handstamp (Coles & Walker fig 7), internally dated with 20 March 1844 as date of arrival. Arabic manuscript gives a weight of '5' Dirhem and postal charge '8' piastre in black crayon at top left, the place of despatch 'Ibrail' noted in black ink at top right and in red ink is given the registration number '99'. Scarce and of well balanced beauty, one of the very few recorded covers from this Office. A remarkable and very rare item from the collection of Prof. Vodrazka. Provenance: Collection Orhan Brandt; Collection Pouille, Heinrich Köhler sale 239 (June 1983), lot 6100 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Romania Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 1,500.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Russia Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1974 cover 1901/1923: Interesting group of covers and cards (300 items), comprising a large group of WWI prisoner-of-war cards, predominantly incoming mail to German POW in Siberia or Samara Provinces, together with a selection of outgoing POW mail from Asthrakhan, Irkutsk, Tomsk or Tambov camps; in addition, an eclectic selection including 1910 envelope bearing scarce "KARS VOKZAL" oval train station datestamp; 1911 card bearing Arms 3 k. used with "PARAKHOD NIZHNY-RYBINSK" steampship datestamp; 1919 card written in Murmansk with cachet of the small Italian Expedition-Corps "CORPO DI SPEDIZIONE RUSSIA SETTENTRIONALE / COMANDO" along with single line censor "VERIFICATO PER CENSURA", sent to Dolo in Italy; 1923 registered envelope to Berlin, bearing Transcaucasia "Stars" surcharge 3,50 rubles franking, tied by "BAKU -6 6 23" datestamp (minor faults), and more. A useful lot (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 400.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1979 cover 1852/1917: Lot 12 items including 1869 printed entire from Novgorod addressed to the Skete of St. Andrew on Mount Athos, 1884 usage of 20 kop. stationery envelope uprated with 7 kop.(2) and 1 kop. for registered use from Moscow to St. Petersburg, 20 kop. frankings (2) from Mariupol to Genova, 1917 picture postcard from Narva (Estonia) franked with largely legible Zemstvo cachet in violet overstruck with Odessa 2 6 17 arrival postmark as well as a 2 kop usage on intact banderole from St. Petersburg to Dresden, Germany (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (All Images) Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1980 cover 1871/1916: Group 40 covers, 18 of them directed abroad, a good mixture of usages incl. pre-UPU mail to Italy, mail directed to Odessa to be forwarded to Mount Athos, partially using the Ottoman postal service for the last part of the journey, also inland mail incl. 1878 registered three-colour franking and 1882 Iskrovka Pochta Stanzija registered cover from a small railway station, also 17 part covers with interesting frankings and cancellations. An interesting lot in mixed quality (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (All Images) Currently...CHF 350.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 1981 cover Russia 1873/1934: Selection 30 covers / postcards / stationery from Russia to Switzerland incl. 1873 cover from the St. Perterburg kantselariya to Brugg, 1878 Moscow to Niedersimmenthal, 1881 postcard of the young Ferdinand Thormeyer, the later educator of the later Czar Nicholas, back home to his mother in Carouge, 1900 cover from Grand Duke Mikhail to Thormayer in Carouge, forwarded, 1881 cover from St. Petersburg to the Federal Councillor Mr. Carteret in Geneva, 1909 registered cover from Prince Jussupov to Nyon, 1913 postcard from the Swiss colony in Moscow, 1913 parcel card from Karasubasar Tauridia to Davos, also covers sent after the war, for example to Swiss care organizations, but also to the organization of Swiss citizens formerly living in Russia. An interesting assembly (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM 7109 cover 1906/10: Group 16 Parcel cards, ingoing to the Holy Land from Russia, in detail from Tiflis, Kiev, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Bielostok, Odessa, Nishgorod Yarmaka, Vilna, Vilna Train Station, and Polangen, two with arrival datestamps from Jerusalem, 14 with arrival datestamps from Jaffa. As to be expected of differing quality, nevertheless an interesting group with high frankings (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (All Images) Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM Russia Cancellation and Saving Stamps Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1973 bof 1896/1914: Russian Imperial Revenues - Group of 45+ mainly better values used/unused, including Peasant Tax, Nikolsk Railway and Danilov Zemstvo, all above average condition with over half unmounted og., further Russian Russian Occupation of Crete group of twelve values with cancellation interest of Agios Galini (2), Amari, Sellia and Rethymnon block of six (SG R4) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Currently...CHF 300.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Russia Imperial 1857-58 First Issues Arms 10k brow Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1967 */o/pencancel 1857/65: Lot 20 stamps used / unused incl. 1857 brown & blue imperforate, four examples from plate II, three obliterated with pen cross, on one washed away and regummed, also one stamp with narrow margins cancelled by part strike of boxed Tauroggen datestamp; further later issues with dotted numeral cancels, Polish four-ring cancels, 1864 definitives perf. 12¼ x 12½, 1 kop. & 3 kop. unused, and 5 kop. used (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Currently...CHF 200.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Russia Imperial 1858 Second Issues Arms perf. 12 1 Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 7083 cover Russian P.O. in Beirut 1863 (Sept 27): Entire letter from Beirut to Constantinople, bearing fresh horizontal pair of Russia Imperial Arms 1858 10 kop. brown & blue perf. 12½, tied by rhomboid numeral ‘783’ of Beirut (Tchilinghirian fig 216) with matching crisp "PORT BEIRUT" cds in black (Tchilinghirian fig. 217) on reverse. A spectacular and extremely attractive full-Arabic entire showing the Port-to-Port rate, rare due to the usage of Russian Imperial adhesives outside Constantinople, unrecorded in Tchilinghirian, one cover of three recorded. Cert. Buchsbayew (2024). Note: Russian Imperial stamps were used from November 1862 until they were replaced by the 'Ship & Eagle' adhesives of the ROPiT in 1865. Provenance: DF sale (May 2004), lot 30202 (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia Russia 5] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 3,000.00 Closing..Nov-24, 11:59 PM Russia Imperial 1865 Fourth Issue Arms perf 12 ? : Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1953 cover 1865: Coat of Arms 1 k. black and yellow, 3 k. black and green, and 10 k. reddish-brown and blue, on wove paper, all tied by truncated square "1" cancellation, with matching red "VARSZAW" despatch alongside, to an envelope to Dresden; two of the adhesives additionally tied by framed transit postmark, with arrival backstamp on reverse. In addition, an entire letter from the same correspondence, dated August 1866, bearing a similar franking and cancellations; the 10 k. with tiny fault. A fine duo (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia 12, 13, 15] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 150.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Russia Imperial 1866 Fifth Issue Arms on horiz. la Lot Symbol Lot Description CV or Estimate 1872 cover Russian Consular Post Offices in Romania, Galatz 1867 (July 17, julian): Double rate Entire letter from the Nadeshda Company in Odessa, internally dated "Odessa 17/29 Juli 1867" and directed to Vienna, bearing pair Russia Arms 1866 10 kop. brown & blue on horizontally laid paper, cancelled by pen with manuscript "Galatz" and "GALATS 18 ... 1867" cds (Tchilinghirian fig 49 / Gmach rGal7) of the Russian Consular PO in blue alongside. Oval WIEN arrival backstamp (July 30). The Russian franking neglected by the Austrian postal administration and the cover charged '30' kreuzer in red crayon. Note 1: The cover was presumably transfered from the Russian to the former Austrian Post office in Galatz (which came under Hungarian administration in May 1867) and then sent with the DDSG up to Baziasch, and further with railway to Vienna. As a double rate cover the due was calculated as twice 10 kreuzer missing postage in the October 1866 rate plus twice 5 kreuzer Zutaxe (Penalty fee), a fee which was reduced only in October 1867 to 3 kreuzer. Note 2: The interesting question is why the sender in Odessa used this way to send a letter to Vienna. The short travel time from Odessa to Galatz suggests that he know that a ROPiT vessel to Galatz was departing at the day he wrote the letter. However, why he used a franking with Imperial Russian adhesives is not clear to the describer, maybe also not to the sender. Reference: Displayed and discussed in Gmach, vol IV on page 130. Provenance: Collection Pavlovsk, Corinphila sale 92 (March 1996), lot 4739 (Image 1) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia Russia 21x] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census Currently...CHF 750.00 Closing..Nov-25, 11:59 PM Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

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