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CatNo.

Lot Description

2920

1910 (6 July) cover franked with 10k dark blue, sent from Nikolsk-Ussurisk to Bremen, Germany, then returned to sender. Postmarked in Nikolsk-Ussurisk (6.7.10 and 8.8), stationery of the Nikolsk branch of the Johann Langelutje chain of general stores which specialized in machinery and furniture. With handstamp "Return" dated 5.8 and adhesive label "Unknown", filing fold away from the stamp, fine (Image)

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2921

1913 (25 Oct) cover from Nizhneudinsk (Irkutsk Province) to political prisoner Vasily Konstantinovich Vorobyev in cell 153 of the Preliminary Detention Facility in St. Petersburg, franked on back with 7k Romanov, tied by Nizhneudinsk cds, with St. Petersburg (2.11) arrival, with oval censor mark reading "Examined in the Office of the Prosecutor of the St. Petersburg Superior Court," and manuscript notation "for the prosecutor of the St. Petersburg circuit court." Vorobyev (1885-1956) was a member of the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested in St. Petersburg in 1907 and sentenced to four years hard labor in Irkutsk province. In 1911 he escaped and fled to St. Petersburg, where he was later arrested and sentenced by the St. Petersburg circuit court to an additional three years hard labor. He was exiled to Yakutsk territory in 1915 and remained there until 1917 (Image) (image 2921a)

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2922

1913 (24 Dec) registered cover franked on back with pair of 7k, sent from Nikolsk-Ussurisk to Borga, Finland, then forwarded to Hango. Postmarked in Nikolsk-Ussurisk (24.12.13), Borga (18.1.14 and 19.1), and Hango. Sent by a soldier in the Second Siberian Rifle Regiment, with rare handstamp "Vynuto iz pochtovavo Yaschika P.T. Chinovnik" (Taken out of a mailbox by post and telegraph clerk), with clerk's signature (Image)

SOLD for $150.00
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2923

1913 (22 Aug) picture postcard franked with 3k red, sent from Abas-Tuman to Tiflis. Postmarked in Abas-Tuman (22.8.13) and at the 3rd city postal branch office in the Navtlug suburb of Tiflis (24.8). Sent to Staff Captain V. V. Babenchikov, regimental adjutant of the 202nd Gori infantry regiment in camp at Vake, a plain on the western edge of Tiflis. In 1909 Babenchikov was a lieutenant in the Kerch fortress infantry battalion, and during the civil war he was a colonel in the Volunteer Army on the Caucasian front (Image)

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2924

1913 10k deep blue, canceled "Tsuruga Japan" in violet, fine, with Hovest certificate (Cat No. 93) (Image)

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SOLD for $95.00
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2925

1917 (8 Mar) 3k stationery card sent from Tiflis to Helsinki, postmarked at the 3rd city postal branch office in the Navtlug suburb of Tiflis, with Helsinki (31.3) arrival, censored Helsinki 1 April 1917 in red. The sender was a patient at the military hospital in Navtlug (Image)

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2926

149a

1918 35k blue, imperforate horizontal pair, n.h., v.f., signed Goznak, cat. $2250 (Cat No. 149a) (Image)

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SOLD for $525.00
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2927

1922-25 selection of five imperforate horizontal pairs, including unissued 3r dark blue, white and gray paper, also 25r violet and red brown, plus Soviet Union 8k green trial color, all n.h., v.f. (Image)

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SOLD for $375.00
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2928

311var

1926 8k brown olive, variety "small head", l.h. (if at all), minute natural inclusions as always, v.f. (Zverev 121w, $3,000) (Zagorsky 119Ta) (Cat No. 311var) (Image)

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SOLD for $900.00
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2929

487-88

1933 Leningrad Exhibition, two sets of two, one 70k on 35k n.h., others l.h. or h.r., fine-v.f., cat. $832 (Cat No. 487-88) (Image)

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SOLD for $200.00
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2930

1937 Trans-Polar Flight, complete Menu dated June 30, 1937 "In Honor of the Soviet Trans-Polar Fliers" (Valeri Chkalov, Georgy Baidukov and Alexander Belyakov), The Waldorf-Astoria, New York, fine (Image)

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2931

635

1938 Chapayev, 1r black & carmine, thick paper, horizontal gutter block of eight, n.h., fine-v.f. (Cat No. 635) (Image)

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SOLD for $260.00
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2932

1964 test stamp, sheet of 100, value and name of country omitted, n.h., v.f. (Image)

SOLD for $270.00
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2933

B24-29

Semi-Postals. 1922 Philately for the Children, complete set of six, l.h., v.f., 1k orange perf. and imperf. each signed Romeko, Paris, cat. $1065 (Cat No. B24-29) (Image)

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SOLD for $525.00
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2934

B24a

1922 Philately for the Children, 1k orange sheet margin single, overprint inverted (reading up), l.h., v.f., with Hovest certificate, cat. $825 (Cat No. B24a) (Image)

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SOLD for $290.00
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2935

B38-42,40a

1923 Philately for Labor, complete set of five, also surcharged on 250r pelure paper, all n.h., large margins and fresh, first five signed Mikulski, last one Diena and others, with Sorani certificate. A splendid set, cat. $2725 (Cat No. B38-42,40a) (Image)

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SOLD for $1,500.00
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2936

B38-42

1923 Philately for Labor, complete set of five, each canceled on piece, v.f., pencil signed, with Raybaudi and Diena certificates, cat. $1325 (Cat No. B38-42) (Image)

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2937

B40b

1923 Philately for Labor, 2r+2r on 250r, surcharge inverted, used on piece, v.f., pencil signed, with Raybaudi certificate, cat. $200 (Cat No. B40b) (Image)

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SOLD for $180.00
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RUSSIA Russian Provisional Locals - Kiev

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CatNo.

Lot Description

2938

Mi.1-3

1922 surcharges on Russian Postal Savings Stamps, "7500", "8000" and "15000", reading up or down, fine-v.f., scarce (Cat No. Mi.1-3) (Image)

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2939

Mi.1-3I,II

1922 7,500r on 5k (18), 8,000r on 5k (17) and 15,000r on 10k (2), selection of used and unused, upright and inverted surcharges, few pairs (including two tete-beche), strips of three and a block of four, mostly fine-v.f., cat. €5675 (Cat No. Mi.1-3I,II) (Image) (image 2939a) (image 2939b)

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SOLD for $650.00
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