**Russia continued...**
LotNo.	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description
961			RUSSIA Air Post (C68b) 1935 Moscow-San Francisco, surcharged 1r on 10k, lower case Cyrillic "f" (in San Francisco), used on registered and flown cover from Moscow (August 2), with letter ("I send you with this letter our rarest stamp - with flight of Levanevsky through the North Pole to S.Francisco. Now every man here could buy only one stamp, but I get for you one on the envelope") addressed to Mr. W.C.Steiger in New York, with bilingual "Special Air Flight Moscow-San Francisco through the North Pole" cachet, v.f., signed Mikulski and Diena. (Three Soviet fliers, Sigismund Levanevsky, George Baidukov and Victor Levchenko, took off from Schlovsky Military Airport near Moscow in the red-winged Soviet monoplane "O 25" at 6:30 A.M. on a 6,000 mile non-stop flight to San Francisco, via the North Pole. Flying over Siberia and 700 miles across the Arctic Ocean, the plane developed problems, and on radio instructions, the fliers returned to their base. This cover was actually carried by Levanevsky on this ill-fated flight and returned to Moscow.) A 1985 Mikulski certificate states that "this cover is a great Air Post and Russian rarity" (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia C68b] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$19,000.00 Will close during Public Auction
962			RUSSIA Air Post Officials (CO1/CO7) 1922 surcharges, selection with various types, 12m on 2.25r (3), 24m on 3r (1), 120m on 2.25r (2), 600m on 3r (1), 1,200m on 2.25r (1), l.h. or h.r., all signed Goznak, etc., fine-v.f., cat. value $3225 (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$900.00 Will close during Public Auction
963			RUSSIA Flight Covers 1927 (13 Aug) registered and flown cover from Moscow to Goteborg, Sweden, franked with 10k and 15k surcharges, also a block of 4x5k on 3r, with Soviet Philatelic Exchange 5k surcharge on back, also Berlin transit and Malmo arrival pmks (Image) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia 13 Aug] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$140.00 Will close during Public Auction
964			RUSSIA Military Mail 1917 two picture postcards used in France, one with "Mission Militaire Francaise en Russie - Hospital de Kiev - Le Medecin Chef", the other with red "Commission Interalie des Regions Baltiques", fine (Image)	Current Opening Price...$230.00 Will close during Public Auction
965			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1869 (25 July) outer FL to St. Petersburg, posted in ship's letter-box and franked with 10k brown & blue, canceled by "Nizhnii-Rybinsk" pmk, repeated on reverse, with Yaroslavl (28 July) and St. Petersburg (31 July) arrival pmks on back, fine cover, displayed on page with Dr.Casey's description stating "earliest recorded example of Volga River ship cancelation, four years earlier than general introduction of ship's post offices and cancelers on this waterway; probably given priority to this route to meet the needs of the great annual Nizhniy-Novgorod Fair" (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 25 July] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$650.00 Will close during Public Auction
966			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1877-78 5k stationery card and cover franked with 8k Arms, each with "Kazan-Nizhniy" pmks, placed on ships to England and to Moscow, showing Nizhniy-Novgorod Railway station and St. Petersburg-Warszawa Railway transit pmks, ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (Image)	Current Opening Price...$600.00 Will close during Public Auction
967			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1898 (12 Sep) cover originating from Vladivostok to Denmark, dropped in ship's letter-box, with 10k dark blue added and tied by "NIIGAGA JAPAN" (a small port on the west coast of Honshu, Japan) cds, framed "Paquebot" in red alongside (Hosking Type 3268), Tokyo (15 Sep) and San Francisco transits, Copenhagen arrival (1 Nov 98) on back, fine, ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (ex-Roger Hosking, "the only recorded example of the Niigata Paquebot mark") (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 12 Sep] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$2,800.00 Will close during Public Auction
968			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1899 cover originating from Vladivostok to Germany, franked with strip of 3x10k dark blue, tied in transit by two strikes of Japanese Nagasaki cds, matching framed "Paquebot" hs below, octagonal French maritime "Ligne N. Paq. Fr. No.4" (1 Apr 99) and "Curau" (8 Apr) arrival markings on back, some cover ageing, otherwise fine (Image)	Current Opening Price...$350.00 Will close during Public Auction
969			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1899 (24 Mar) Finnish picture postcard to Switzerland, franked with 1k and 3k Arms, the latter tied by framed "Fran Rysland" (from Russia), the former by "Stockholm" (26.3.99) cds, arriving at Chaux-de-Fonds on 23 Mar 99, fine and scarce usage (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia Collection] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$350.00 Will close during Public Auction
970			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1914 (18 July) picture postcard (St. Petersburg's Kazan Cathedral) franked with 2x2k Romanov, canceled by two oval "Belomorskoe Parakh. a" (White Sea Steamship "a") datestamps, repeated alongside, addressed to Belgium, with Anvers (8 Aug 1914) arrival pmk, fine and scarce usage (World War I already began), ex-Dr.Casey (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 18 July] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$350.00 Will close during Public Auction
971			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1918 (17 May) 7k stationery entire envelope, additionally franked with 1k, 2k and 15k Arms, tied by oval "Zherichka" 16.4.18 datestamps and addressed to Budapest, endorsed "Feldpost", with "K.u.K. Feldpostampt 332" 17.V.18 cds alongside, with "S.M.S. Archimede" hs, confirmed on reverse as sent by machine engineer aboard the S.M.S. Archimede (Italian Gunboat launched in 1892 was anchored at Odessa harbor and taken into possession by naval inspectors of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, placed with the Wulff Flotilla on its way from Odessa to the Danube estuary) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 17 May] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$2,300.00 Will close during Public Auction
972			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1918 (11 Sep) picture postcard from Odessa to Vienna, with violet "S.M.S. Dunaj" (Austrian minelayer) hs, v.f. and scarce usage during Austrian presence in Odessa (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 11 Sep] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
973			RUSSIA Ship Mail 1918 cover addressed to the Admiralty of K.u.K. Navy East Army "Feldpost 240", with corresponding "K.u.K. Marinedetachement Odessa" and red violet "Dunavska Flotilla" (Danube Flotilla), with additional fieldpost hs on back, v.f., rare (after the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918 opened the way for ships to the Black Sea, the Austro-Hungarian flotilla crossed the Black Sea to provide artillery support to the Central Powers' troops advancing into Ukraine. Later, the ships secured the routes of grain ships from Ukraine to the Central Empires, both in the Black Sea and on the Ukrainian inland waters. In October 1918, following Bulgaria's withdrawal from the war, the flotilla covered the withdrawal of German troops from Bulgarian territory and Austro-Hungarian troops from Albanian and Serbian territory) (Image)	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
974			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1910 (22 June) picture postcard (Arkhangelsk) to Volokolamsk, franked with 3k red, tied by oval "3-e Belomorskoe Parakh. A" (3rd White Sea Steamship "a") datestamp, repeated alongside, with arrival (26 June) pmk, message indicates card was posted on board S.S. "Koroleva Olga Constantinovna", a ship owned by Arkhangelsk-Murman Steam Navigation Co, fine, ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 22 June] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$600.00 Will close during Public Auction
975			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1911 (16 July) 3k stationery card from Aleksandrovsk to Villmanstrand, Finland, showing two strikes of oval "2-e Murmanskoe Parakh.e" (2nd Murmansk Steamship), trilingual (Finnish, Swedish, Russian) "Villmanstrand" arrival pmk alongside, fine and scarce usage from Aleksandrovsk (situated within a fjord on the Murman coast) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 16 July] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$350.00 Will close during Public Auction
976			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1911 (3 July) picture postcard franked with 3k red, canceled by oval "Belomorskoe Parakh. a" (White Sea Steamship "a") datestamp, repeated alongside, addressed to Karlstad, via Assern (Lifland), with arrival "Assern" 8.7.11 pmk, message reading "I send greetings from the White Sea D.Mikhail Kazi" ("Mikhail Kazi" is listed in Lloyd's Registry of Shipping as belonging to Archangel-Murman Steamship Navigation Company) (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 3 July] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$350.00 Will close during Public Auction
977			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1911-13 3k stationery card and cover with 7k Romanov franking, each with oval "2-e Murmanskoe Parakh.e" (2nd Murmansk Steamship) datestamps, applied twice, addressed to Voskresenskoe and Ievve (Estonia), fine-v.f., ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (2nd Murmansk Steamship operated a maritime postal service during the summer months from Arkhangelsk along the Murman coast, north of the Arctic Circle) (Image)	Current Opening Price...$700.00 Will close during Public Auction
978			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1914 (23 Sep) cover to Turku (Abo), Finland, franked with 7k Romanov, tied by oval "3-e Belomorskoe Parakh. A" (3rd White Sea Steamship "a") datestamp, repeated alongside, with Helsinki transit and Turku arrival pmks on back. This oval datestamp was used on board S.S. "Koroleva Olga Constantinovna", a ship owned by Arkhangelsk-Murman Steam Navigation Co, fine, ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 23 Sep] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$450.00 Will close during Public Auction
979			RUSSIA Ship Mail in the Antarctic 1912 (12 June) 4k stationery card from a timber merchant in Kovda, on the Whiter Sea Coast to London, England, canceled by two oval "2-e Belomorskoe Parakh. "a" (2nd White Sea Steamship "a") datestamps; also pair of 20k Arms and block of 8x7k Romanov canceled by "1-e Belomorskoe Parakh "a" (1st White Sea Steamship "a") datestamps, ex-Dr.Casey, displayed on page with his description (Image) Get Market Data for [Russia 12 June] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$600.00 Will close during Public Auction
980			RUSSIA Russian Provisional Locals - Kiev 1922 (24 Mar) from Fastov/Kiev to Vasilkov, franked on both sides with a combination of 7,500r (surcharge reading down) on 5k and 2x250r, paying the total of 8,000r, instead of the required 10,000r postage, charged 4,000r (double) penalty rate on arrival, fine and rare cover, signed Mikulski (Image) (Image 2) (All Images) Get Market Data for [Russia 24 Mar] View Visual Pricing Guide Make Sample Census	Current Opening Price...$700.00 Will close during Public Auction

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