386th Auction
18–27 September 2025 in Wiesbaden
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1858/1923 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation, some better values throughout with Mi.-Nr. 2, 5-7 and 22y-23y used, a few forgeries and dubius postmarks noted, slightly mixed condition, a useful lot, neatly housed in one stockbook
1858/1991, mostly used collection, nicely arranged with better items, some back of the book in 9 Lindner albums in 2 large boxes
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6 5Catalogue no.
1859/83 (ca.), collection of over 70 covers and cards, encompassing many rates and franking combinations, starting with a fine group of early numeral cancels with rectangular dotted “235” VINDAVA", “243” FRIEDRICHSTADT", “390” WENDEN, circular dotted “1” ST PETERSBURG", “2” MOSCOW, “24” MITAVA, “38” RIGA, oval dotted “9” TAUROGGEN, Polish four-ring cancel “182” LODZ, etc. many better items with Mi.-Nr. 6 tied by dotted circular “2” MOSCOW on double weight step lettersheet to St Petersburg, Mi.-Nr. 19xF as additional franking tied by cds. “LIBAVA 9 JUIL. 1870” to lettersheet to Amsterdam, postal station cancellations with 8 kopek stationery envelope used with scarce framed three-line “St: KLOMNITSY CENTR. G. 1878”, Mi.-Nr. 18x and 23x tied by cds “SLONIM 19 FEV. 1876” to registered envelope to Grodno (certificate Mikulski), some multiple rates to foreign destinations including 43 kopek (1869 lettersheet to Genova), 18 kopek (1871 lettersheet to Switzerland), 35 kopek (1870 lettersheet to Genova with the 5 kopek scarcer greyish-blue shade Mi.-Nr. 20xb), 7 kopek (1879 envelope to Heidelberg), 2 kopek (1883 international printed matter rate to Württemberg), local rates with1 kopek and 5 kopek (Mi.-Nr. 18x five times used with geometrical numeral “4” ST PETERSBURG), 63 kopek (1878 6th weight steps registered cover), some attractive three- and four-colour frankings including 39 kopek franking tied by two-line “SOSTRORITZ SPB GOV. MAY 30 1877” to registered envelope to St Petersburg, etc. Some occasional faults as to be expected, overall in good condition, a stunning assembly
1860/1990 (ca.), used, unused and mint never hinged lot in 10 albums/stockbooks and small box with glassines
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0 1 2 3 6 (6) 5 4Catalogue no.
1861/2001 (ca.), balance of the collection with covers, strength before 1918 with many better items with Zemstvo Cherdyn 1906 cover, Sakhalin with “RUKOVSKOE NA OSTR. SAKH. 18 12 12 ” on envelope from the Herzog correspondence, Chinese Eastern railway with “SHANGHAIKWAN 1902”, etc., together with some Imperial private vignettes and tickets, etc., mixed condition as to be expected, a most interesting and ecclectic specialist lot
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
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2 6Catalogue no.
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
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1 2 6Catalogue no.
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
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6 5Catalogue no.
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
Condition
3 5 4Catalogue no.
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)
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2 6Catalogue no.
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
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1 2 6 4Catalogue no.
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
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1 2 3 6 4Catalogue no.
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
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3 5 4Catalogue no.
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
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2 6Catalogue no.
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
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1 2 3 5 4Catalogue no.
1918/23, Civil War Armies, unused and used accumulation with duplicates and multiples, including Don Region, Denikin, Kuban and Far Eastern Republic, mixed condition
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6 (6) 5Catalogue no.
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
1933/34, 2 better unused airmails sets and posterstamps Umberto Nobile Spedizione Polare 1928 (4 ex.)
Condition
6Catalogue no.
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
Condition
6Catalogue no.
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
Condition
6Catalogue no.
1872/1918 (ca.), Imperial Russia Travelling Post Offices, magnificent collection of well over 475 covers and postcards, expertly arranged by line numbers, many clear strikes with an abundance of scarce postmarks rated E-G by Kiryushkin & Robinson, plenty of better items with “POCHTOVYI WAGON N°265 16 XI 1902” PORT ARTHUR-KHARBIN tying a 10 k. on reverse of envelope to France with heading from wine merchants in Port Arthur, “69” SAMARA-TASHKENT (in 1916), “195” VERKOVYE-MARMIZHI (in 1899), “220” VYATKA-KOTLAS (in 1906), “259” CHITA-MANCHULI (in 1910), scarce “261” MANCHULI-KHARBIN (x3), “262” KHARBIN-MANCHULI (x2), “263” KHARBIN-VLADIVOSTOK", “266” KWANCHETSY-KHARBIN, a fine group of the Chardjuy line, provisional type cds. “153” KHABAROVSK-KETRITSEVO (unrecorded in K&R), the collection follows with unnumbered travelling post offices with “BORZHOM-MIKHAILOVO (x2), ”MOSCOW-GOLITSINO", “NIKOLO KOZELSK-APOSTOLOVO”, rare “SAMARKAND-CHARDJUY” (in 1895), etc., mail from the Tsarskoe Selo line, together with a selection of Finnish mail. Some occasional as to be expected, overall in good condition, an overwhelming specialist assembly that would be difficult to duplicate, in three albums
1875/89, Russian Mail to Foreign Destinations, group of 40 registered covers sent in the early UPU years, some better destinations with Levant and Bulgaria, transatlantic mail with USA and Argentina, also some attractive multiple and three-colour frankings, readdressed mail, etc., slightly mixed condition. A useful lot
Condition
6Catalogue no.
1877/1914 (ca.), Imperial Russian Temporary Post Offices, the impressive collection of over 80 covers and cards, including seasonal offices, exhibition and military camps, strong section of civilian trade and vacation resorts, many better items noted with “KORF ESTL.”, “KAZAN PRIVOLZHSKOE”, registered envelope from “KUYALNITSKI LIMAN”, also “KOSTROMA-VISTAVKA” (EXHIBITION) 1913, “SKOBELEVSKI LAGER”, “VLADIMIRSKI LAGER”, a strong group of the Nizhny Fair postmarks including a scarce usage of the cds. “NIZHNI GOROD YAR MOR.” on parcel card in 1905 (minor soiling), etc., somewhat mixed condition as to be expected, an engaging specialist assembly, expertly described on album pages
Condition
6 (6)Catalogue no.
1878/1917, Imperial Post Offices in Siberia and Transbaikal, collection of over 140 covers and cards, highly specialized with postmarks and cancellations, many clear strikes, some better items with 1910 registered postal stationery envelope from “BORZYA ZAB.”, 1915 censored envelope from “DARASUN ZABA. OBL.” to France, 1903 postcard from the small office “KABANSKOE ZABAIK. OB.”, 1917 postcard with scarce red oval “DOPLATIT NERCHINSK” (postage due Nerchinsk), 1910 postal stationery card with framed straightline “ST. ZAIGRAEVO”, also Dzhalinda Amour, Innokentievska Amour, Post Saint Olga, etc., together with some scenic view postcards, parcel cards, etc., slightly mixed condition, neatly housed and expertly described in one album
Condition
6Catalogue no.
1880/1918 (ca.), Imperial Russia Railway Post Offices, splendid collection of circa 400 covers and cards, expertly arranged with many clear strikes and fine usages including from small railway offices, noted strong section of the Moscow stations postmarks, an abundance of better items with “ST. MONASTIRISHE KAZATIN UMAN 19 8 14" ” 4 k. registered postal stationery card with additional franking to Liverpool, “RAZYEZD N°22 MOSC. KIEV. ST. -5. 5. 16” on franked registered parcel card to a soldier of the 115th Artillery Division, forwarded via “FIELD POST OFFICE N°46 14 5 16”, “ST. MOLODNIKI” (in 1916), “MOSCOW RYAZAN-URALSK ST.” (in 1906), “PLF.NEMME CEV.ZAP.” (in 1913), “PETROZAVODSK STATION” (in 1918), “ST. RABSHTYN” (in 1907), “ANDIZHAN STATION” (in 1912), “ARIS STATION” (in 1916), scarce “ST. BILIMBAI PERM” (in 1917), “ST. DUBENALKEN LIBAVO GAZENP P” (in 1914), “ST DUBITSA PRIVISL.” (in 1913), Chinese Eastern Railway with rare “ST. KHANDAOSKENTSY KIT.-VOST. ZH.” (in 1913) and “KHARBIN PIER STATION”, “KHARBIN” (x 4), etc., together with some registered mail, some occasional fault, overall in very good condition. An outstanding holding, expertly described and neatly housed in three albums
1889/1900, Russian Mail to Foreign Destinations, excellent group of over 160 mostly registered covers, many uncommon destinations with Serbia, Canada, Australia, Saint Thomas West Indies, India with Bombay and Peshawar, Cape of Good Hope, Transvaal, San Marino, etc., with an abundance of attractive multicolour frankings, postal stationeries, together with some wrappers and some mail from Finland, etc., slightly mixed condition, a dazzling specialist assembly
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6Catalogue no.
1890/1918, Factory Post Offices in Imperial Russia, attractive collection of 28 covers and cards, some better items with clear postmarks including franked registered envelope from “PESSOCHENSKI ZAVOD 15 1 12” to Germany with very scarce factory registration label, also 1914 postcard from “RUBEZHANSKI ZAVOD KHAR.”, 1915 card from “ARCHANGELO-LASHINSK. ZAV. PERM”, 1914 parcel card from “CHUSOVSKOI ZAV. PERM”, 1908 postcard from “GUS ZAVOD RYAZANSK”, 1916 envelope from “ASHA-BALASHOVSKI ZAV. UFIM.”, 1905 postcard from “YUREZANSKI Z. UFIM. G.”, 1911 money order form “IZHEVSK ZAV.”, etc., mixed condition. An impressive specialist lot