386th Auction

BELOSTOK (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, used with pen cross and tied by boxed "BIALYSTOK 1858…", to blue piece. A very fine and rare usage on Polish soil. Signed Buchsbayew with certificate (2014)

BELOSTOK (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, used on lettersheet with reverse side dispatch mark"BIALYSTOK 8 AUG.1858", to Warzaw; the stamp cancelled upon arrival twice by red c.d.s. "WARRSZAWA 21/8). Usual filing fold, not affecting the stamps. A fine and very rare entire; just few No.1-entires have been recorded from todays Polish soil. Certificate Buchsbayew 2014)
 

SUPRASL (Poland): 10 kopeck brown and blue, good to large margins, with sheet margin at right, tied by merchants handstamp "…SUPRASL" and in transit by boxed "BELOSTOK …", to lettersheet to Warsaw. The name in the address cut out, otherwise fine. The only recorded No.1-cover from this small village  one of very few entires recorded from todays Polish soil. Certificate Buchsbayew (2018)

Provenance: H.C. Goss (Robson Lowe 1958)

1866, 1 k. black/yellow horizontal pair, 3 k. black/green, 10 k. brown/blue and 1875 8 k. grey/carmine-rose, fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “SUVALK 17 SEP. 1875” to reverse of registered envelope to Bozen, Tyrol, transit cds. “VARSAVAW 23 SEP. 1875” and arrival “BOZEN 7 10 75”, slight transportation wrinkles of no importance, a fine and most unusual four-colour franking to an elusive destination

“MOGILNICA WAR(SAWA). 20 OCTOBER 1877” two-line cancellation on 1866 1 k. black/yellow, 3 k. black/green vertical pair and 1875 8 k. grey/carmine-rose as additional franking to registered 8 k. grey postal stationery envelope with arrival cds. “KOVEL 23 OCT. 1877” alongside, very fine and very scarce, certificate Mikulski (1994)

“1179” LAPI, dotted Triangular, two very fine strikes on 7 k. grey/carmine-rose bloc of four paying the quadruple weight step rate to a large envelope to the Nobility Trustees in St Petersburg, with its reverse matching departure two-line “LAPI LOMZHI GUB 23 AUGUST 1875” and arrival cds “S. PETERBURG 24 AOU. 1875”. The envelope with a light diagonal crease at lower right affecting one adhesive and one archival fold at left, still fine. A rare postmark, part of an obliterator group assigned in November 1870 to Polish stations (Nr. 993-1208)