386th Auction

ARENSBURG (Island Saaremaa, Estonia): 10 kopeck brown and blue, ample to good margins, used with pen cross on envelope with reverse side bilingual dispatch mark, to Mitau (Latvia), with arrival mark. This stamp additionally cancelled and tied in transit by clear dotted circle "38" RIGA. Very fine. A very interesting and rare cover; the only recorded entire from Arensburg. 

 

Provenance: Mehrtens 

BALTISCH-PORT (Paldiski, Estonia): 10 kopeck brown and blue, clear to ample margins, used on lettersheet with reverse side white label "BALTISCH-PORT" with manuscript "10/22 April 1858", to Borga, Finland. The stamp cancelled by faint straight-line "REVAL" and additionally tied by clear boxed "REVAL 12 APRIL 1858". A fine and rare entire; the only recorded from Baltisch Port. Certificate Buchsbayew 2022)

Note: This method of using a label instead of dispatch handstamp is unique in the entire Russian Empire

PERNAU (Estonia): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, tied by pen cross and additional arrival mark "POLUCHENO 26 JAN. 1858" to lettersheet with reverse side dispatch mark "PERNAU 1858 JAN 25", to Reval. Very fine and fresh. A rare early entire. Certificate Buchsbayew (2014)

Provenance: Liphschutz (Craveri 1994)

REVAL (Estonia): 10 kopeck brown and blue, ample at base, otherwise large margins, tied by pen cross and additional boxed "REVAL 26 MAR. 1858" to entire letter to Helsingfors, Finland, with arrival mark. Very fine and fresh. Certificate Buchsbayew (2016)

REVAL (Estonia): 10 kopeck brown and blue, ample to large margins, used with pen cross (slightly reduced) and tied by additional boxed "REVAL 21 MAI 1858" to letter sheet to Port Kunda. A fine entire. Certificate Buchsbayew (2017)

5 k. black/lilac, fresh colours, neatly tied by cds “REVAL 2 JUNE 1872" repeated alongside to formula card (first issue) addressed to Gapsal with adjacent arrival cds, one perf tip with a tiny tone spot, the card with some minor water stains on reverse, still fine. An extremely scarce usage of the 5 k. on vertically laid paper showing the inland formula card rate in force from 1st January 1872