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"An canibi posta Kalas" (Galatz), negative seal in blue,  good strike on entire letter 1844 to Constantinople, very scarce and early use

"An canibi posta Kalas" (Galatz), negative seal in blue,  good strike on entire letter 1851 to Constantinople, very scarce

1853, "JASSY 20 JUN" on entire desinfected letter via Czernowitz and Krakow to Paris, taxed "16" decimes upon arrival

1857, Coat of arms 10k. brown/blue, plate II, fresh color and good embossing, close at lower left, otherwise good to wide margins, neatly cancelled with rectangle of dots "239” LIBAVA, fine

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1857, Coat of arms 10k. brown/blue, plate II, fresh color and good embossing, wide even margins all around, used oval cancellation, fine

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1857, Coat of arms 10k. brown/blue, plate II, fresh color and good embossing,  good margins all around, used with red cds., fine

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1857, Coat of arms 10k. brown/blue, plate II, fresh color and good embossing,  good margins all around, used pen strokes, fine

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1857, Coat of arms 10k. brown/blue, plate II, fresh color and good embossing, good margins all around, used with boxed cancel and pen strokes, tiny thin in left outer margin not touching design, fine, a.o. signed Jem

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1858, Provisional Issue 10 k. imperforate brown/blue, Plate I, fresh colours and strong embossing, close at right otherwise good to wide margins, tied by framed two-line "ODESSA 18 APRIL 1858” to folded lettersheet to St Petersburg (Anderson correspondence), small part of back flap missing, of no importance, very fine and very scarce, certificate Citerne BPP (2024)

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1858, Provisional Issue 10 k. brown/blue imperforated, Plate I, engraver´s cliché "Dot Betwwen 10 and Kop”, fresh colours and good embossing, used with illegible prephilatelic boxed cancellation, the adhesive damaged at bottom left and heavily repaired, rare, certificate Citerne BPP (2024)

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10 k. brown/blue, vertical pair of fresh colours and excellent embossing, nicely centred and with good perforations, each adhesive tied by circular dotted numeral "1” (type with two additional dots on each side of the numeral) to a small piece, alongside red framed "S.P.Burg 23 May 1858”, some minor toning on a few perfs, still fine. An extremely scarce multiple, signed and certificates Hofmann BPP (1984), Citerne BPP (2024)

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1858, Coat of Arms 10 k. brown/blue, fresh colours and good embossing, tied by Polish four-ring numeral "1” with alongside red cds. "WARSZAWA 24-9” to folded entire to Zagorze, two short perfs. at left, otherwise very fine. A scarce usage of the first watermarked perforated isssue in Poland, certificate Citerne BPP (2024)

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10 k. brown/blue, fresh colours and good embossing, tied by circular dotted numeral "20” (KOSTROMA) to folded entire to Arkhangelsk, reverse arrival scarce two-line unframed "ARKHANGELSK RECEIVED 1 JULY 1859”, the adhesive with one short perf at top and a pressed crease, scarce usage, certificate Mikulski (1988) and Citerne BPP (2024)

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1858, Coat of Arms 20 k. blue/yellow orange, fresh colours, good embossing and usual perforations, used with circular dotted "1” (ST PETERSBURG, with additional dots on the numeral´s sides), fine and scarce, certificate Citerne BPP (2025)

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1858, 20 k. blue/yellow orange, fresh colours, good embossing and perforations, used with illegible numeral dotted cancellation, one corner perf. slightly shortened, still very fine and scarce, certificate Citerne BPP (2024)

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1858, Coat of Amrs 30 k. carmine/yellow green, fresh colours and good embossing, usual perforations, used with black cds., a few minor corner perforation bends, still fine. A very scarce stamp, certificate Citerne BPP (2024)

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1858, Coat of Arms 10 k. brown/blue, tied by circular numeral dotted "2” (MOSCOW) on commercial entire to St Petersburg, initially written in Reustadt bei Coburg, Bavaria and transmitted privately to Moscow where it finally entered the mail stream, one tiny upper right perforation crease, of no importance, still fine. Extremely rare usage of an early Russian adhesive on a foreign incoming mail, signed Mikulski and certificate Citerne BPP (2025)

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1866, 1 k. black/yellow, with additional 2 k. black/red and 20 k. blue/orange, all with fresh colours, tied by cds. "KUBEYINSKOE PO BESSARABSK 19 JAN. 1879” to reverse of a registered envelope to Moscow with arrival postmarks, a lovely and scarce usage from Bessarabia, signed Mikulsiki

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1866, 5 k. black/lilac, four vertical pairs, fresh colours, each neatly tied by cds. "ODESSA 26 MAY 1874” to a double weight step envelope to Marseilles, travelling post office and Warsaw transit postmark on reverse, one stamp with a defective corner, otherwise a very fine and scarce 40 kopek franking, signed Mikulski

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1875, 20 k. blue/orange with additional 8 k. grey/carmine(2), 2 k. black/red and 1866 1 k. black/yellow, all on horizontally  laid watermarked paper, fresh colours and except for one 8 kopek with a corner crease, in very fine condition, tied by cds. "SMOLENSK 19 JUNE 1878” to registered envelope to Moscow, correct 39 kopek tariff, with reverse arrival cds. Some minor folds on the envelope, still very fine and attractive four-values and two-issues combination franking, opinion Citerne BPP (2024)

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