386th Auction

1865/1919 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used group, incl. Russian Offices Abroad and Zemstvo, ecclectic selection with some multiples and printed varieties, misplaced centres and oddities, noted 1899 Russian Occupation of Crete (5) with Mi.-Nr. 3 (2, one with handstamped “RETHYMON”), Zemstvo Borisoglyevsk Schmidt 3 (4, including one printed on rejoined paper), Russia Mi.-Nr. 53x bloc of four mint never hinged, Court Justice Mi.-Nr. 2 used on piece, etc., some occasional faults, overall in good condition, neatly housed in a booklet

1866/1944, mainly used collection including Territories ,in 2 ring binders in cassette

1878/1916, Imperial Russia Red Cross, delightful collection of 39 stationeries and cards, including the Odessa District Board visiting card envelopes series, Sisters of Mercy of the Red Cross visiting card envelope, scarce Izmail Town Council charity envelopes (circa 1880), etc., together with a fine group of vignettes from the Vyborg Red Cross, some occasional toning, mostly fine. A rare group

1879/1914, Imperial Russia Regional Exhibitions, large specialized collection of vignettes, cinderellas and cards with a wealth of material, noted circular orange vignette from the 1879 Baltic Agricultural management Exhibition, very rare special cds. “RIGA-EXHIBITION 2 VII 1901” tying a 3 k. to postcard to St Petersburg and repeated alongside, together with several commemorative vignettes, rare special cds. “EKATERINOSLAV EXHIBITION 18 9 10” on 3 k. postal stationery card with red commemorative added, Odessa 1910 Art and Industry Exhibition with rare special cds. “ODESSA EXHIBITION 30 8 11” tying a 4 k. adhesive to postcard to Austria, etc., among many other some unusual material from the 1912 Astrakhan Provincial Agriculture and Gardening exhibition, 1913 Khabarovsk Amur Territory exhibition, along with a selection of vignettes in Russian language from foreign exhibitions and events including 1913 Barcelona International exhibition, 1912 Stockholm Olympic Games, 1913 100th Anniversary of the Battle of Leipzig, etc. Mostly in very good condition, a unique and fascinating holding, neatly housed in one album

1881/1914, Imperial Post Offices in Transcaucasia, interesting collection of 69 covers and cards, including postal stations on the Georgian Military road, some better items with 1917 registered envelope from the anti-plague station “ZURNABAK YELIZAV. PROTIVOCHUM STAN.”, 1909 postcard from “NOVYI-AFON SUKHUM.”, 1914 free frank envelope from “AKHMETY TIFL.”, 1904 postcard with blue cds. “ANANUR TIFL.”, 1904 postcard from “BYELI KLYOUTSK TIFL. G.”, also mail from Dishet, Kazbek, Kobi, the meteorological station Mleti, etc., together with two envelopes with different types of the 1899 provisional violet registration label from Tiflis. Slightly mixed condition, neatly housed on expertly described album pages

1886/1917 (ca.), Imperial Russia Revenues, excellent accumulation of circa 200 in two booklets, mostly used with some multiples, many interesting and scarcer issues throughout, noted 1890s Baku District Court, 1895 St Petersburg Residence Permit for Women 4r 29k used, 1889 Simbirsk Court Fee, together with two Zemstvo stamps, overall in good condition. A very attractive lot

1889/1919, Roubles Values Only, attractive cancellation collection with several hundreds used, some mutliples including large blocs, many clear strikes, noted Ferghana Oblast, Field Post Office, Offices in China with Kharbin, strong group of the 10 roubles imperforated Mi.-Nr. 81Bxb (x11), etc., overall in very good and fresh condition, expertly described and neatly housed in one album (ex Mi.-Nr. 44xA-81Bxb)

1894/1914 (ca.), Imperial Russia Advertising Cards, group of 22 illustrated used and unused postcards, noted Russian American Ship Line, Bavaria restaurant in Odessa, Vetenary products “Urpin”, singer sewing machines, some hotel advertising cards with scarce 3 k. stationery card with additionally printed “Hotel Billo Moscou”, some early lithographed cards, etc., together with some vignettes of the Russian American Line, overall in good condition

1900/1917 (ca.), Imperial Russia Charity and WWI Labels and Postcards, magnificent collection of many hundreds, including some large multiples, noted Aid Society for Victims of War, Moscow Section of the Siberia Aid Society for the Sick & Wounded, “Flag Days” vignettes, very rare group of 12 sheetlets of the Fellin 1916 “For the Victims of the War” (possibly unique), 1912 Anti-Tubercolisis Association vignettes and card, Tiflis Commission for the Provision of Tobacco to Soldiers, Poltava Town Council decorative envelopes “For the Soldiers”, fine group of the Skobelev Committee, Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolayevna´s Committtee, and much more, except for the occasional fault in overall in good condition, expertly described and neatly housed in 4 albums. A quite extraordinary assembly

1905/17 (ca.), Russian Revolutions History, magnificent collection of 72 postcards and one cover depicting the roots and unfolding of the 1905 uprising, starting from the Russo-Japanese War, fine selection of caricatures, scenes of the uprising with barricades and their consequences, the Yalta furnished rooms after shelling, etc., the collection follows with the creation of the 1st then 2nd Duma with all members, including chairman Golovin illustrated postcard and an envelope addressed to State Duma member Nikolai Khomyakov, March 1917 provisional government public funeral illustrated postcards, etc., together with a delightful range of vignettes (private or from trade unions), 1912 Social Democratic Party propaganda label, etc., mostly in very good condition, neatly housed in one album. A most appealing and moving lot

1913, Romanov Cancellation collection with many hundreds used, many clear strikes, some large multiples up to the Rouble value includin 5 r. Mi.-Nr. 98 bloc of 20, 1 r. Mi.-Nr. 95 bloc of 16, noted some better postmarks with “CHARDZHUI”, “MERV”, etc., also some perfins, overall in very good condition, finely described and neatly housed in one album

1919 Northern Army OKCA set of 5 in strips showing the tete beche arrangement of the two panes of the printer’s sheet (see Michel), four sets all fresh MNH

1917, Russian Provisory Government and Bolshevik Propaganda, attractive collection with postcards and vignettes, including for the “Loan of Freedom”, early Soviet decorative propaganda cards with “Workers of the World Unite!” and “for the Safeguard of Freedom”, Kazan vignette with “Committee for the Organisation of a schock battalion”, together with some scarce 1917 Bearer Bonds, overall in excellent condition, a rare group

1918/23, Civil War Issues, fine group of circa 140 mint never hinged/unused and used, including Revenues and Areas, some scarcer items throughout with some gutter strips and inverted overprints, noted Siberia, Chita, Armenia, Kharkov provisional overprints, etc., overall in good condition, neatly housed in one booklet

1918/23, Civil War Armies, unused and used accumulation with duplicates and multiples, including Don Region, Denikin, Kuban and Far Eastern Republic, mixed condition

1920/23, Russian Civil War Post in Siberia, 15 covers and one front, some better items with Kolchak regime registered cover from “VLADIVOSTOK 23 1 20” to France with 1 rouble bloc of four paying the 4 r. rate (signed Mikulski), fine choice of Chita and Vladivostok printing frankings, DVR with 10 k. on 3,5 r. Mi.-Nr. 16A as single franking with “VLADIVOSTOK 10 2 21” to envelope to Stockholm with arrival cds, also Postal Wagon “KHABAROVSK 153 NIKOLSK USSURIISK 26 3 21” on DVR Mi.-Nr. 4, 7, 14, 15A, 17 and 20A-21 to envelope to Ussurrisk station (signed Mikulski), etc., slightly mixed condition as usual. A most interesting group, neatly mounted and expertly described on exhibition pages

1930-1969 used collection with some better items in 3 Lindner albums

1933/34, 2 better unused airmails sets and posterstamps Umberto Nobile Spedizione Polare 1928 (4 ex.)

1846/1922, Volost Mail in Imperial Russia, collection of 63 covers with a fine range of usages, registration labels and attractive Romanov frankings, some better items with 1846 money letter with boxed “TAMBOV”, scarce oval “BAUSK VOLOST ADMINSTRATION BAUSK COUNTY” as incoming mail receipt mark on registered 7 k. postal stationery envelope from “MITAVA -5 9 14”, some short-lived offices with “CHUDINOVSKOE OREN. VOL. PRAV. -3 12.15”, late Volost postmark usage with “BEREZANSKOE KHERS. VOL. PRAV. 31.7.22”, most unusual usage during the Free Frank Period with circular seal “TOPILOSKOE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL” and “MACHKOVO-SURENSKOE 12 2 19”, together with a small but impressive range of fiscal documents and passports including one issued in 1906 at “KAPINSKI VOLOST” for a single woman of the ´Old Believers` sect, etc., except for the occasional fault overall in fine condition. An fine assembly of those rural postmarks, expertly described in one album

1862/1908 (ca.), Russian Ship Mail, group of 3 envelopes and 2 cards, including ship mail in the Amur region and in the Far East, noted “BLAGOVESHCH(ENSK)-NIKOLAEV PARAKHOD 25 6 08 b” (type 1, small format) on 14 k. postal stationery envelope to Germany, “TSURUGA JAPAN ” as arrival cds on 3 k. stationery card and additional 1 k. with adjacent framed “PAQUEBOT”, stampless mail with reverse label of the ROPIT Head Office in Odessa, etc., mostly fine. A useful specialist lot

1863/80 (ca.), Group of 8 covers and postal stationeries, with some better frankings like Mi.-Nr. 19F, 20xb and 22x with oval dotted “S.P.B” to entire letter from “S. PETERBURG 29 MARCH 1870” to Paris (early use of the "V instead of 3 background error), signed Maslowski, Mi.-Nr. 18x 1 k. as single franking on printed matter, etc., together with four unused Zemstvo postal stationeries from Bogorodsk (2) and Fatezh (2), mixed condition

1870/1922, more than 80 cards and covers including some cover fronts, with many interestesting items, registered covers, censor mark etc., somewhat mixed condition