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| 2880 |
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 1851 (10
Dec) 10k stationery entire envelope, with indicia on back, canceled by pen, sent from Omsk, with red double-circle departure postmark (year filled-in by hand), addressed to the "administration of the class lottery of the Polish Kingdom" in Warsaw,
with small "Warszawa 24.1." (1852) arrival pmk, minor toning and filing fold, fine usage from Omsk to uncommon destination (Image) (image 2880a)
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| 2881 |
E |
1 |
 1857 10k
brown & blue, margins all around, tied by boxed "Revel 29 Apr 1858" datestamp on outer FL addressed to Riga, v.f., with framed "Polucheno 2 May 1858" arrival handstamp on back (Cat No. 1) (Image)
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SOLD for $2,400.00
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| 2882 |
E |
2 |
 1858 cover
(opened for display), franked with 10k brown & blue, canceled by pen and addressed to Tomsk, with red "TOMSK POLUCHENO (6.7.58)" arrival datestamp on back, minor overall toning, scarce usage (Cat No. 2) (Image)
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| 2883 |
E |
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 1858 (4
Aug) outer FL sent from Tomsk to the Tambov provincial administration, red "TOMSK OTPRAVLENO (4.8.58)" departure, with the paper seal (torn on opening) of the Tomsk provincial administration (Image)
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| 2884 |
E |
2 |
 1858 10k
brown & blue, vertical pair, each stamp canceled by pen cross on outer FL from St. Petersburg to Helsingfors, red 5 Feb 1858 departure and "ANK 19/2" arrival datestamp on back, v.f. (Cat No. 2) (Image)
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| 2885 |
E |
2 |
 1858 10k
brown & blue, vertical pair, each stamp canceled by Riga 15 May 1858 postmark on FL to Libau, filing fold away from the stamps, beautiful cover, signed Mikulski and Herman Toaspern (Cat No. 2) (Image)
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| 2886 |
O |
3 |
 1858 20k
blue & orange, thick paper, canceled "Verchovskyi Posadok", good colors and intact perforations, fine stamp, signed Diena, cat. $1700 (Cat No. 3) (Image)
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| 2887 |
O |
3 |
 1858 20k
blue & orange, thin paper, rounded upper right corner, canceled "Belostok 9 Jan 1873", fine appearance, late usage, cat. $1700 (Cat No. 3) (Image)
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| 2888 |
O |
3 |
 1858 20k
blue & orange, thin paper, used, well centered with intact perforations on all sides, interesting variety showing broken frame at bottom right, minor perf. correction, v.f., with Hovest certificate, cat. $1700 (Cat No. 3) (Image)
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| 2889 |
O |
3 |
 1858 20k
blue & orange, thin paper, used, canceled "2" in oval of dots, watermark "2" shifted to right, fine stamp, with Sorani certificate, cat. $1700 (Cat No. 3)
(Image)
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SOLD for $475.00
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| 2890 |
O |
8,9 |
 1858 10k
brown & blue, horizontal and vertical pairs, 20k blue & orange, single and vertical pair, each with diamond shaped postmark of Odessa, frontier post office strikes used on incoming or outgoing mail to foreign destinations, fine (Cat No. 8,9) (Image)
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SOLD for $240.00
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| 2891 |
E |
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 1861 (21
Jan) money letter sent from Omsk to the Board of Guardians in St. Petersburg. The letter contained 31.4 rubles, but since the weight fee was waived for military mail, the postage was just the 1% insurance fee rounded up to 31.5 kopecks (indicated by
manuscript), with four wax corner seals of the horse artillery brigade staff of the Siberian line Cossack troops, minor toning and cover wear (Image) (image 2891a)
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| 2892 |
E |
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 1865 (1
July) FL from Tobolsk to the Tyumen city council, with Tobolsk departure cds and a paper seal (torn on opening) of the provincial governor, A. I. Despot-Zenovich. The governor is responding to a request from the Tyumen city council, which was
petitioned by some residents to obtain fine breed horses from the government stables to improve the local horse population. The governor promises to forward the request to the Governor-General of Western Siberia (Image)
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| 2893 |
E |
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 1870 (4
July) outer FL from St. Petersburg to Helsingfors, franked with 10k brown & blue (Scott No.23), tied by oval "SPB", with red double-circle departure postmark on back, framed "ANK" on arrival, filing fold away from the stamp, fine (Image)
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| 2894 |
E |
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 1870 (24
Apr) stationery 10k entire envelope, indicia on backflap, sent from Irkutsk to Shpola, arriving 25 May, 1870. The cover was sent by Dionysus Rogalevich who was exiled after the Polish insurrection of 1863-64. The wax seal reads "Vremennoye upravlenye
Gubern. Vostoch. Sibir. Dla nadzora za politich. Prestup" (Provisional Administration of the Governor-general of Eastern Siberia for the Surveillance of Political Criminals). Exiles had to submit their mail to the authorities for censorship, some
toning (Image) (image 2894a)
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| 2895 |
E |
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 1875 (4
Mar) registered cover from Tyumen to the Ryazan circuit court, franked with single 5k and vertical pair of 20k, tied by Tyumen departure cds, with Ryazan (16.3) arrival alongside. Postage was 45 kopecks (30k for weight, 10k for registration, and 5k
for the receipt). A fine cover, illustrated in Rossica No.163 (Image)
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| 2896 |
E |
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 1876 (19
Feb) outer FL from Telminsk (Irkutsk Province) to Riga, with straight-line "Telminskaya Irk (19.2.76)" departure, Nizhneudinsk (23.2) and Moscow (30.3 and 31.3) transits, Riga (3.4) arrival pmks, part of wax seal, clear markings, fine. Sent by the
Irkutsk Salt works police to the Riga Evangelical Lutheran Consistory. The salt works, which used hard labor convicts, was a state enterprise located in Usole, five miles from Telminsk postal station (Image) (image 2896a)
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| 2897 |
E |
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 1877 (19
Oct) outer wrapper (without side flaps) from Tobolsk to the St. Petersburg Board of Guardians, with perfect departure postmark and paper seal (torn on opening) of the Tobolsk circuit court (Image)
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| 2898 |
E |
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 1881 (26
Aug) registered cover (opened for display) franked on back with 13x7k red & gray (including strip of three and block of six), sent by the British Consulate in Tiflis to England, postmarked at the Tiflis first postal branch office (26.8.81), Moscow
(31.8 and 1.9), St. Petersburg (2.9), and London and York (17.9). Postage was 91 kopecks (12 x 7 kopecks for weight and 7 kopecks for registration). The wax seal reads H.B.M. Consulate Tiflis, with little toning, otherwise fine and impressive cover.
The consulate was writing regarding the death in Tiflis of the addressee's brother, Samuel Gabb (1832-1880), a civil engineer who had worked on the Poti-Tiflis Railway. The British Consulate opened in 1876 and closed at the end of 1881 when a
consulate opened in Batum. This is the earliest known mail from the first Tiflis branch office, which had opened in the German quarter in 1879 (Image) (image 2898a)
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SOLD for $400.00
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| 2899 |
E |
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 1884 (2
Sep) registered cover franked with 6x7k red & gray, sent from Ust-Tsylma to the Arkhangelsk Criminal and Civil Court, regarding the case of Alexander Konstantinov, peasant from Solikamsk district of Perm province. Postmarked in Ust-Tsylma (2.9.84 and
5.9) and Arkhangelsk (27.9). This is the earliest known mail from Ust-Tsylma, where the postal branch office opened 1 Jan. 1867. Postage was 42 kopecks (5x7k for weight and 7k for registration). Mail was dispatched once a week. Ust-Tsylma had a
population of 1400 at this time. The mail volume here was 1% that of Arkhangelsk (Image)
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SOLD for $350.00
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