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LotNo.	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description
1161		343a	1926 Lenin, 2r black violet, perf. 12 1/2, fresh color, h.r., fine, cat. $2250 (Cat No. 343a) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 343a] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1162	E	347,348	1926 (28 Oct) registered cover from Moscow to Sofia, franked with Esperanto Congress 7k horizontal gutter pair and single 14k, paying correct 28k foreign registered letter rate, with 25k on 7k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents value "1175" rubles indicated by pen, Sofia arrival (3 Nov) cds on back, fine, possibly unique example of the rare gutter pair on cover (Cat No. 347,348) (Image) (image 1162a) Get Market Data for [Russia 347,348] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$2,300.00 Will close during Public Auction
1163			1927 8k on 3k (lithographed), 8k on 8k green (typographed), each with surcharge inverted, l.h., fine and scarce (Image)	Current Opening Price...$900.00 Will close during Public Auction
1164		634var	1938 Red Army, 80k variety imperf. at bottom, n.h., fingerprints on gum, v.f. (Zagorsky 495Pb) (Cat No. 634var) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 634var] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1165		1327a,vasr	1949 Lenin Mausoleum, imperf. souvenir sheet of four, canceled to order with bi-lingual "Riga" cancel, n.h., slight gum wrinkles and adhesions, v.f., rare, cat. $3000 (Cat No. 1327a,vasr) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 1327a,vasr] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$900.00 Will close during Public Auction
1166			1958 Mendeleyev Congress, overprint on 40k Butlerov, n.h., v.f. (Image)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1167		3966var	1972 Sobinov, 10k red brown with "Narodnyj Artist CCCP" inscription at bottom, unaccepted in this form (the stamp was released with the revised "Narodnyj Artist Respubliki") (People's artist of the Republic, rather than People's Artist of the Soviet Union), bottom sheet margin single, n.h., v.f., issued stamp included for comparison, 2001 Wassman certificate (Zagorsky 4049var) (Cat No. 3966var) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 3966var] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$1,500.00 Will close during Public Auction
1168			Semi-Postals. 1914 3k vertical pair imperf. between, n.h., also 10k variety imperf. at left, h.r., fine-v.f. (Image)	Current Opening Price...$230.00 Will close during Public Auction
1169	E		Semi-Postals. 1927 (14 Feb) registered cover from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with the unissued 20k blue ("Lenin as a child"), used in combination with 15k on 1r Air Post, with 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, v.f., with Lysin arrival pmk (Image) (image 1169a)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1170	E	C6,7var,8	Air Post. 1926 (28 Aug) registered cover from Moscow to Switzerland, franked with three different surcharges including 10k (narrow "0" variety), 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, v.f., with Lysin arrival pmk. Although airmail stamps were not officially authorized for use on non-airmail covers until September 6, 1926, this cover, processed through the Philatelic Bureau, was obviously permitted to pass a week earlier (Cat No. C6,7var,8) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia C6,7var,8] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$900.00 Will close during Public Auction
1171	E	C7	Air Post. 1926 (2 Sep) cover from Nizhny Novgorod, registered from Moscow to Austria, franked with a combination of Air Post, Definitives and Commemorative stamp, paying 38k (the correct foreign registered letter rate was 28k, hence this letter was probably overweight), with 5k on 1k Foreign Exchange tax stamp on back, contents indicated "2017" in pen, filing folds away from the stamps, fine (Cat No. C7) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia C7] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$230.00 Will close during Public Auction
1172	E	AAMC TO 1167	Flight Covers. 1932 Mattern & Griffin Round-the-World flight, cover franked with U.S., German and Russian adhesives, bearing appropriate postmarks and autographed by both fliers, some light cover stains as often, otherwise v.f. The U.S. pilot Jimmy Mattern, with Lt. Griffin attempted to beat the "round-the-world" record, held at the time by Post and Gatty. After flying from New York via Harbour Grace, they landed in Berlin and later reached Moscow. Their plane crashed on the way to Siberia. Only 10 covers were carried (Cat No. AAMC TO 1167) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia AAMC TO 1167] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$700.00 Will close during Public Auction
1173	E		Dornier Do-X Flights. 1931 (12 Sep), "Bremen", registered and flown picture postcard from Leningrad to Oakland, variously franked (3 stamps) in combination with Germany (50+50pf semi-postal), Berlin transit cachet in red, special purple cachet on picture side of the card, also framed "Vorausflug nach New York" and September 23 (Oakland) and September 24 (New York) arrival datestamps, fine and scarce card (Image)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1174	E		Dornier Do-X Flights. 1931 (19 Sep), "Europa", registered and flown cover from Leningrad to Oakland, variously franked (5 stamps) in combination with United States (5c Beacon, single on front and horizontal pair on back of the cover), cancelled "U.S. Ger Sea Post S.S. Europa" (Sep 21), Berlin transit and special red cachet (applied on both sides), fine and scarce Russia-USA Catapult combination (Image)	Current Opening Price...$650.00 Will close during Public Auction
1175	E		Zeppelin Flights. 1930 Moscow-Friedrichshafen, registered cover paying 1.15k (with ordinary franking), sent from Moscow (10 Sep), via Friedrichshafen and Bremen to Dresden, scarce usage of non-Zeppelin adhesives, ex-Taylor (Image)	Current Opening Price...$230.00 Will close during Public Auction
1176	E	C30-33	Zeppelin Flights. 1931 (25 July) card and cover addressed to Professor W.J. Wiese and Icebreaker "Malyguin", franked with the perforated set of four (scarce usage), appropriate matching "Leningrad-Nordpol" cachets, card defective and heavily taped, otherwise fine-v.f. (Cat No. C30-33) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia C30-33] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$260.00 Will close during Public Auction
1177	E		Zeppelin Flights. 1932 5th SAF from Moscow to Colombia, franked with 15k, 20k and 50k Airships, paying 85k rate, with two Colombian stamps below, Friedrichshafen transit postmark (tying one of the Colombian stamps, which indicates the stamps were added either in Russia or in Germany), arriving in Pernambuco on 1st September, with additional transit and 14 October Bogota arrival pmks, three different labels including Registry (faulty), Par Avion and Scadta, v.f. and unusual combination flight, ex-Taylor (Image)	Current Opening Price...$2,300.00 Will close during Public Auction
1178	E		Zeppelin Flights. 1932 7th SAF card to Brazil, v.f., with Berlin connecting cachet (Image)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1179	E		Zeppelin Flights. 1932 7th SAF card to Brazil, v.f., with Berlin connecting cachet (Image)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
1180	E		Zeppelin Flights. 1932 8th SAF to Brazil, fine, with Berlin connecting cachet, all cachets somewhat faint, signed Mikulski (Image)	Current Opening Price...$230.00 Will close during Public Auction