350 / September 2012

4 rub. with silver overprint, unused

XXX LOS ENTFÄLLT XXX 4 roubles with inverted silver overprint, unhinged mint, a very fine copy of this rare stamp, certificate Ebnet BPP

POSTAL STATIONERY: 1848/64 St. Petersburg city post  envelope 5 kop. blue with imprint at upper right, three different formats, unused, 1848 envelope with some edge wear

1875, Arms definitives envelope 7 kop. grey with two examples 7 kop. grey & carmine on reverse, all tied by cds of Libava train station (Jan 28, 1884) and sent registered to Singapore with Napoli transit (Feb 16) and red Singapore arrival mark (March 14) on reverse. Horizontal fold away from stamps and cancels

1884, Arms definitive envelope 5 kop. brown with additional 2 kop. olive-green (pair) and 5 kop. brown-lilac, all tied with St. Petersburg cds (Jan 23, 1885), sent as registered cover to London (Feb 8). Sender was Friedrich Breitfuss, a famous collector of these days

Postcard 3 kop. with additional 7 kop. blue definitive, tied by Tula cds (Oct 17, 1884), sent registered to St. Petersburg (Oct 17) and returned, rare registered use at that time

1906, Essay for Reply Letter Card, undenominated, printed in blue entirely in Cyrillic, with the reply part smaller as an enclosure. A rare item

Postcard 3 kop. red with additional franking 1 kop. (3), sent 1909 to Gertrudenberg, Holland. Postcard shows private advertisement and was sold at a reduced price of 1 kop. instead of 3 kop.

1913, Romanov Jubilee issue 14 kop. stationery envelope with "Philately for the Children" overprint with additional franking of old and new rouble values from 1922/23, all tied by Moscow cds (July 30, 1923) as registered letter to Germany

CONSULAR AIRMAIL STAMPS: 1922, 1200 m. on 10 kop., type 2,unused, Soviet export sign

1200 m. on 2.25 rub., type 2, unused, tiny corner crease ar lower right, Soviet expertization signs

1200 m. on 2.25 rub., type 3, unmounted mint

1200 m. on 3 rub., type 1, unused, certificate Mikulski

1200 m. on 3 rub., type 3, unused, corner crease, sign. Richter

TELEGRAPH STAMPS: 1866, St. Petersburg telegraph 20 kop. black & brown, imperforated 1881 reprint, unmounted mint (Zagorsky TN1 = 550.-)

1867, 10 kop. on 20 kop. black & brown perforated, unused, fine and scarce (Zagorsky T2 = 2'500.-)

CITY POST: 1863 St. Petersburg City Post 5 kop. black & blue in complete sheet of 100 stamps, fold between upper and lower part of the sheet, unhinged mint

ARMY POST: 1904, Russo-Japanese war, red band Fieldpost cover from Mukden (Dec 15, 1904) to Libava (Jan 9, 1905) with postage free cachet of the Manchurian army on reverse.

1919, Denikin army 20 kop. blue & red, RSFSR 2nd definitive series 100 rub orange, and Denikin Ednaya Rossiya issue 5 rub. and 7 rub. imperforated as well as 10 rub. perforated, tied by Odessa cds to cover 1921 to Athenes with arrival cds (Oct 5, 1921) alongside. In spite of it's philatelic franking an intersting cover

LOCAL ISSUES: Smolensk 1922, handstamp "7500 RUB." on 250 rub. dark-violett on normal and pelure paper, both signed Mikulski with opinion

1865, ROPiT issue 10 para brown & blue unused, corner crease, sign. Calves

2 pia red & blue with black retta mark, sign. Enzo Diena

1868, 3rd issue 10 para rose & blue in  block of four, unused, two stamps unhinged mint, sign. Mikulski

1879, thin handstamp "7" in black on 10 kop. carmine & green, unused, sign. Dr. Jem and others

"7" in blue on 10 kop. carmine & green, unused, sign. Dr. Jem

1884/90, definitives 10 kop. red & green and 2 kop. green (blocks of four and six), tied by blue "ROPiT Saloniki"  to reverse of  registered cover to Germany with Constantinople and Odessa transit- and Zittau arrival (Sep 18) cds's. In spite of one damaged 2 kop. stamp an attractive combination

Russia use in Levante:1858, Imperial Arms definitives 30 kop. red & green, perforated 12¼ :12½ in a vertical pair, tied with blue Constantinople "FRANCO" mark (Tchilinghirian & Stephen fig. 7) to a fragment, in addition four 10 kop. brown & blue stamps of the 1858 and 1866 issues with blue Constantinople cds's.

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1923, definitives typographed: 2 kop. green imperforated, unhinged mint, certificate Wassmann

2 kop., strip of five, punched "OBRAZETZ", sign. Mikulski

20 kop., strip of five, punched "OBRAZETZ", sign. Mikulski

1924, Lenin Mourning Issue with narrow red frame, 3 kop.- 20 kop, complete set, unused

Definitives 7 kop. brown in sheet of 25 with partial control mark of printing house, each row of five stamps punched "OBRAZETZ", unhinged mint

15 kop. yellow "Limonka", horizontal pair, postmarked "Leningrad 22 30.7.25", certificate Ebnet BPP

3 rub. with rare perforation 13½ : 10, unused