Auction 333-341 Europe & Overseas - Day 6

Russia in the Levant 1863 (Jan 1): 6 kop. deep blue on smooth glazed paper, imperforate, an unused sheetlet of four, fresh and fine, unmounted og. An exceptional and most attractive full sheet Mi = € 880+.

1860/1960ca: A collection Russia from number 1 on with particularly better sets in the 1930ies, with 'construcions' of 'dirigibles' perforated and imperforated unmounted, with 'all-union stamp exposition' 1933 2x used, etc. to the 1940ies mostly used, from 1946 to 1948 many complete sets unmounted, there is a stock-book apart, that has these stamps 1946-48 repeated in unmounted blocks of 4 (just these catalogue value around € 2000 alone)....

1904/70ca: Lot Russia, RSFSR & Soviet Union with commemorative issues from the 1930s, lot hundreds stamps used / unused, multiples & part sheets, varieties, special emphasis on perforations, czarist money stamps, varieties such as 1904 Orphans charity issue 3 kop. imperforated between adhesive and sheet margin, cancellations such as oval railway datestamps, civil was issues such as Wrangl, Southern Russia, Far East, Russian Levant, ...

1815/1918ca: Lot 200 covers / postcards starting with prephilatelic and stampless covers, early stamped mail to the Netherlands, Austria & France, formular postcards, 1891/93 covers to Tabriz Persia, 1899 registered cover Kazatin to Basel with provisional white label, 1900 value letter to France, 1903 Valdivostok to Spain via London in the pre-Transsib period, 1905 picture postcard from the Russo-Japanese war ex Dr. Casey, 1914 two covers...

1865/1918ca: Lot 600 primarily used stationery envelopes, wrappers, money transfer forms, and postcards sent primarily within Russia but also to better destinations such as 1885 Monte Carlo, 1903 to Guatemala, or 1906 to Japan, better provenances such as, Shanghai, Port Arthur, Arkhangelsk, or Solomba in the Far North, some focus on Poland incl. 1902/06 registered covers from Kolo and Ostrovets, incl. also 1888 early telegraph office...

1873/1934: Selection 30 covers / postcards / stationery, all from Russia to Switzerland incl. 1873 cover from the St. Petersburg kantselariya to Brugg, 1878 Moscow to Niedersimmenthal, 1881 postcard of the young Ferdinand Thormeyer, the later educator of the later czar Nicholas, back home to his mother in Carouge, 1900 cover from Grand Duke Mikhail to Thormayer in Carouge, forwarded, 1881 cover from St. Petersburg to the Federal Councillor ...

1900/50ca: Lot 190 covers / postcards / stationeries incl. covers from and to Vladivostok, Russian Levant with mail to Mount Athos, one registered cover arriving there with the Turkish post, several 1916/17 postcards from Austrian POW's in Russia, eleven with illustrations / photos, 1940/41 eight covers from the Soviet Union to Germany prior to the German attack in June 1941 with Soviet and German censorship, four 1949/55 cover from...

"Stamps of the Russian Empire Used Abroad" by S.D. Tchilinghirian & W.E. Stephen, Parts 1-6, used but relatively fine and spines good, an elusive set.

1943: Revolutionary Anniversary, 30 kop. brown, a used vertical pair (cancelled to order with gum), marginal from base of sheet, lower stamp showing "Partial Print" variety with over half the stamp blank. Unusual and scarce.

1960/90ca. Dealer's stock thousands stamps primarily CTO, often in multitude, in 15 stockbooks, also hundreds miniature sheets / souvenir and parts sheets used / unused in five albums, in addition album with 100 picture postcards from 1899/1940ca, primarily topography.

1918/40: Selection 84 covers, postcards & stationery USSR & RSFSR incl. 51 RSFSR covers with 1919/20 two postage-free postcards, 1921 registered cover Lyady Mogilev via Moscow to New York and retour with corresponding ‘Return to sender’ label, 1921 registered cover MOSCOW to PFORZHEIM, 2nd day of new 1'250 rub rate abroad, 1922 receipt postcard to Germany with two 1 kop postal savings stamps used as definitives, and 1922 & 1923...

1869/70: Milan 40 p. mauve, perf. 12, thin paper, an unused example of good colour and centering for this issue, slight adherence on gum, small part og. A scarce stamp. Cert. E. Diena (1990) Yvert 23A = € 1'100 / Mi = € 2'200.