386th Auction

2005, Post from Father Frost 5 r. as imperforated souvenir sheet on cardboard paper without gum, fine

2006, 100th birthday of Oleg Antanow 5.60 r. as imperforated souvenir sheet on cardboard paper without gum, fine

2006, 100 years of the Russian submarine fleet 3-7 r. as imperforated Proof miniature sheet set on cardboard paper without gum, fine

1878, Russo-Turkish war, "POLEVOE POCHTTOVOE OTDELENIE 26 MAR 1867", clear strike on lettersheet with reverse side paper seal of the 45th Infantry Battalion. Very fine and scarce. Opinion Todd AIEP (2016) 

1899, Empress Maria advertising postal stationery lettersheet 7 k. blue, Issue # 67 (dated 26 March 1899), used with additional franking with “S. PETERBURG 23 VII 1899” and provisional red label alongside, sent to Hungaria with reverse arrival cds. “VERBO”, minor tear at top and light vertical bend, still fine and most unusual usage with the provisional label

1899, Empress Maria advertising postal stationery lettersheet 5 k. light lilac, Serie # 5, used with additional franking on reverse with “MOSCOW TELEGRAPH 8 MAY 1900” and alongside registration label, sent to Apolda, Germany, reverse arrival mark, very fine and scarce usage

“FRAUENBURG” cds in blue, fair strike on 1868 10 k. brown/blue to envelope to Moscow, blue dispatch cds repeated on reverse with arrival cds “MOSCOW 15 JUNE 1872”, very fine

1863, Coat of Arms 5 k. black/blue together with Russia 1866 1 k. black/yellow horizontal pair, fresh colours, tied by cds “S. PETERBURG 1 AOUT 1881” to 7 k. on 10 k. brown postal stationery envelope to London, reverse departure repeated and arrival faint oval mark “REGISTERED …”, the franking paying the correct 14 kopek rate (tariff of 20 March 1879). The envelope roughly opened, slight peripheral toning and back flap missing, otherwise very fine. A very scarce usage, from the famous Breitfuss correspondence, certificate Citerne BPP (2025)

1919, OKCA 5 k., printed on creamy paper with text on reverse, wihtout gum, possibly a printer´s trial, very fine and unusual

1921, 10 k. blue/red/black and two single stamps 15 k. red tied by cds. “BLAGOVESCENSK 20.2.23” reverse on registered commercial cover to Hamburg with arrival mark. The cover with transportation creased, otherwise fine

“SHANGHAI POST OFFICE 15 I 1900” large cds (T&S type 1), two fine strikes on “KITAI” 1 k., 2 k., 7 k. and 10 k. to reverse of registered envelope to Germany with transit cds “HONG KONG” and arrival cds “HAGEN 17. 2. 00”, repeated on front with red registration label in English language “I(mperial).R(ussian).P(ost).O(ffice) / Shanghai, China. N°4 R”, trace of one adhesive taken off probably before sending (as the franking pays the correct rate), very fine. A rare use of the registration label and attractive early mail from the Russian Post Office at Treaty Port of Shanghai

“CHEEFOO 20 IX (18)99” large cds (T&S Type 1, Gregorian calendar), superb strike on “KITAI” 10 k. horizontal pair with adjacent framed “R Tchéfou, Chine N°. 254” to registered envelope to Austria, re-addressed to Bohemia, reverse transit Russian cds “SHANGHAI 10 SEP. 1899” (T&S Type 2, Julian calendar), “HONG KONG SP 29 99” and arrival cds, endorsed on back flap “Imperial Russian Post Master”, very fine. A remarkable cover, probably the earliest registered mail from the Russian Post Office at the Treaty Port of Cheefoo (opened 1896) and an extremely scarce registration mark 

1889, Russia Coat of Arms 1 kop. yellow-orange tied by cds. “OSCH FERGHANA OBL. 2 XI 19-02” to 3 kop. postal stationery card to Freiburg, transit “MOSCOW 11 XI 19-02” and arrival cds. “FREIBURG 27.11.02”, the card written in Kashgar (Sinkiang) and in all probability transmitted from the Russian Consular Post Office via Pamir to the border, very fine. An appealing and rare item, being one of the earliest outgoing Russian mail sent from Sinkiang 

1865, 10 pa. brown/blue, fresh colour and good margins all around, 1845, Sperati forgery, fine, signed A. Diena and certificate Mikulski (1998)

1872, 5 kop. blue on horizontally laid paper and 1879 1 kop. black on orange on vertically laid paper, tied by light ALEKSANDRETA c.d.s. (Tchilinghirian fig. 200) in violet, an information strike alongside. On reverse Turkey Duloz 1 pi. yellow and Due 2 pi. brown misperforated at foot paying the journey to Aleppo, tied by all Latin "ALEP TURQUIE" c.d.s. in black. A fine combination cover

Provenienz: Collection Cihangir, Corinphila sale 121 (May 2000)

1882 (May 6), 7k. carmine & green, tied by framed oval "R.O.P.I.T. / BURGAS" datestamp in blue (Tchilinghirian = fig. 729) to cover to Constantinople, reverse with next-day "R.O.P.i.T. / CONSTANTINOPLE" arrival datestamp, a remarkably fresh cover of great rarity, very fine

Provenance: CIHANGIR (121. Corinphila Auktion, 2000)

Lipschutz (Harmers SA, 1994)

Hitzler (Private Treaty)

1900, 1 k.- 10 k., complete set including 2 k. pair and 1 k. strip of three, fresh colours, neatly tied by cds “R.O.P.I.T. KONSTANTINOPOL 29 DEC. 00” with adjacent red framed register handstamp “R Konstantinopol N°”  to envelope to Germany with reverse transit Odessa and arival cds. One 2 k. adhesive has a trivial corner bend of no importance, very fine and scarce

ORGHEEV: 1887, 3 k. rose-carmine, two singles neatly tied by bluish-green Star cds to envelope (petition to a court) to Orgheev with adjacent cds “ZEMSKAYA POCHTOV. KONT. 17 MAR. 88”, light central archival crease, fine and scarce (Schmidt-Nr. 18)

“TRANSPORT RECEIPT 1856 March 5th”, large format document (211x273mm) for the ackowledgment of receipt of a parcel available for collection at Simferopol, minor imperfection and peripheral wear, still fine and most unusual 

1858, Coat of Arms 10 k. brown/blue, fresh colours, neatly tied by dotted rectangular “270” to entire letter to Saratov with reverse departure two-line “ARZAMAS SEPT. 29 1858”,  and front arrival large cds “SARATOV 18(58) OCT. 3”, very fine. A very scarce usage

1858, 10 k. brown/blue, fresh colours, neatly tied by dotted rectangular “130” LUTSK to envelope to Helsingfors with reverse arrival boxed “ANK 3 10”, on back flap superb departure two-line “FROM LUTSK OTPRAB. (LIENE) 7 SEPTEMBER 1859”, extremely fine

1 k. black/yellow, 3 k. black/green and 5 k. black/deep lilac (2), fresh colours, tied by small posthorn cds. “SMOLENSK JAN. 1882” to reverse of small registered envelope to Groß Basel, Switzerland, on front German label for foreign registered mail “Vom Ausland über Eydtkuhnen-Dirschau Eingeschrieben” and Russian framed “ZAKAZNOE”, reverse transit via travelling post office and arrival cds. “BASEL 23 I 82”, very fine 

3 k. black/green and 10 k. brown/blue, tied by cds. “ODESSA 11 JAN. 1874” to fully paid first weight step lettersheet to Messina, framed “FRANKIROVANO” and oval “OPLATCHENO”, reverse transit via Travelling Post Office 47-48 (line Zhmerinka-Volochisk) and arrival, very fine, together with 10 k. brown/blue tied by cds. “BERDIANSK 15 MAR. 1875” to underfranked first weight step to Nice, France, endorsed “via Varsawa” and marked with red two-line “AFFR. INSUFF. ETR” and Russian boxed NEVNOLN OPLATCHENO", transit via Varsawa and Erquelines, reverse arrival, very fine. A scarce and most interesting duo displaying both correct and underfranked rate from the Black Sea and Azov Sea regions via Odessa and the Polish route 

1868, 3 k. black/green, vivd colours, neatly tied by red cds “S. PETERBURG CITY POST 19 MAY 1872” repeated alongside to formula card (first issue), fine text in French on reverse “Please be kind enough to come at my place to finish our negociations…”, superb and very scarce usage

5 k. black/lilac and 1875 2 k. black/red, each of vivid colours, neatly tied by cds. “BOROSSENSKAYA P. S BESSARABIA 28 AOU. 1882” to registered 7 k. grey postal stationery envelope to Corsier sur Vevy, Switzerland, endorsed on front “via Novoselitz” with framed “ZAKAZNOE” alongside, reverse Russian transit cds. “NOVOSSELITZ 31 AOU. 1882” and Austrian “OESTERR. NOWOSIELITZA 12 982, arrival cds. ”VEVEY 15 IX 82", extremely fine. A scarce registered outgoing mail from Russian Bessarabia 

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

1868, 20 k. blue/orange, fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “POSTAL WAGON N° 21-22 6 JAN. 1873” (Odessa-Kazatin line) to folded entire to Montpellier, France, framed “FRANKIROVANO” (franked), red “P.D.”, reverse Russian TPO 47-48 and TPO Breslau-ODERBERG, blue entry cds. “ALLEMAGNE ERQ. PARIS 22 JANV. 73”, extremely fine

7 k. grey/carmine, vertical pair of fresh colours, tied by superb two-line “ST SHUMOVSKAYA MARCH 20 1879” to double weight step envelope to Simbirsk with reverse arrival cds on the same day, slight peripheral toning of no importance, fine. An exceptionally early use of the 7 kopek value issued a few days before

1899, Empress Maria advertising postal stationery lettersheet 7 k. blue, Issue # 50 (dated 1899), complete, unused, very fine

1899, Empress Maria advertising postal stationery lettersheet 5 k. light lilac, Issue # 125 (dated 1901), complete, unused, very fine

“P(ORT)-ALEXANDROV(SK).NA SAKHAL(IN) 24 9 12 ** b”, clear strike on 1907 7 k. postal stationery envelope to Vladivostok, handstamp repeated alongside and on reverse, a further strike  four days later on mail departure and arrival cds. “VLADIVOSTOK 5 10 12”, vertical archival fold and slight horizontal bend at top, still fine. The Sakhalin Island on the Northern Pacific shore and Strait of Tatar was placed under Russian rule by the Treaty of St Petersburg in 1875, mail from the main post office at Port Alexandrovsk is extremely scarce

“DZHALIA-ABAD FERG(HANA) 28 11 21”, on money order card for the sum of 100,000 roubles with 250 roubles (x8) sent to a prisoner at Syzran´s county jail, together with “P-T KONT. PETRO. VEYMARN. 24 11 21”  and “NIKOLAEVSKA SIMB. 30 11 21” to registered money order cards, all franked with 1921 RSFSR definitives, small fault to very fine. A scarce trio showing the usage of the definitives on money transfer forms

“P(ostal) S(tation). in H(amlet) KRINKACH 14 AOU. 1881”, cds. on 1 k. black/yellow and 2 k. black/red  pair and single, franking an envelope to Novodvor, then re-addressed to “PETRIVITCH RODNIENSK 21 AOU. 1881”, one 2 k. trivial corner crease, very fine, also cds. “P.S. in VILLAGE KEMLI 4 NOV. 1880” on 5 k. violet postal stationery envelope with additional 2 k, black/red and 7 k. grey/carmine to St Petersburg with reverse arrival, light archival fold, still fine. A most unusual duo of those scarce postal station circular datestamps

“KHOLM” straighline on 10 k. brown/blue to reverse of an envelope to St Petersburg, alongsisde departure cds “KOLM 10 MAY 1869” and arrival cds “S. PETERBURG 12 MAY 1869”, very fine. A most unusual usage of a prehilatelic handstamp as an obliterator, signed Mikulski 

“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)

“SMOLNECHNOGORSK STANTS 22 JULY 1871” two-line repeated twice on 10 k. brown/blue (2) to double weight step envelope to “KROVELETS 28 JULY 1871”, on the reverse endorsement “Comtesse d´Alsoufieff” and the scarce two-line station mark repeated with departure day corrected “23”, fine and most unusual