1797-1864 stampless letters, selection of 38, with St. Petersburg (1797 letter via Wilno, Riga, Grodno and Warszawa), Moscow, Odessa, Kronshtadt, Kiev, Warszawa and other Polish towns, with numerous bilingual departure pmks (Mszczonow, Mlawa, Garbow, Brzesc Kujawski, Konin, Soczewska, etc.), mostly good strikes, generally fine or better, nice lot (Image)

Est.$500

1807-68 pre-philatelic, selection of 96 stampless FLs, mostly St. Petersburg, Riga, Dorpat, Narva, Odessa, Moscow, Pernow, Revel, many interesting items, mostly fine-v.f. (Image)

Est.$5,000

1848-1960 selection of 300+ covers and cards in four albums, ranging from stampless to ship mail, 1911-15 Naval correspondence, 1904-14 Volga Sea Mail (Astrakhan-Nizhniy, Nizhniy-Astrakhan, Nizhniy-Perm and Kazan-Astrakhan), military and censored mail, prisoner of war mail, picture postcards, multi-country postcards (usually Germany, Russia, Austria) diplomatic mail from USA to Russia, Soviet issues on covers, few WWII items, later Cosmonaut signatures (Valentina Tereshkova and others), Poland Mail, Esperanto label on cover, Revenues, flights and much more. An interesting and rewarding group (Image)

Est.$2,000

1850-1918 selection of 100+ covers and cards, each acquired individually and nicely presented in album, with stampless cover from New York to England, forwarded to Russia, others mostly WWI censored, regular issue and Romanov Tercentenary franking, military mail with interesting markings, Prisoner of War mail, registered covers, Revenues, Red Cross mail, incoming mail from United States, some better origins, generally fine-v.f. (Image)

Est.$750

1864-79 selection of 80 covers or FLs, plus few stamps and pieces, covering all aspects of postal history of the period (also a few later items incl. 1905 registered cover with semi-postal franking, 1922 large part of cover with pair of 10r, etc.), with rates, frankings, destinations (we note India, Bukhara), every cover is worthy of individual listing, with many three color and high value frankings, mostly fine-v.f. (Image)

Est.$5,000

1914-18 World War I military postal history, collection of 27 covers or cards, including four different items used by the Russian Troops in occupied Salonika, sent via the French Military Post Office 507 and 510A, censored and with arrival markings; also German fieldpost on Polish territory, etc., mixed condition with some stains or faults, rare (Image)

Est.$1,500

1864-1916 specialized collection of 165 covers or cards, mounted on pages, in two volumes, Alatyr-Vladikavkaz, mostly "Doplatit" (to pay) in oval, with amount filled in by hand, name of the city included, several "insufficiently paid" to foreign destinations, stamps off cover and much more. A fascinating collection, ex-Faberge (Image)

Est.$10,000