358 / September 2014
358. Heinrich Koehler Auction
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Pages
1899 BALTICS group of 10 provisional Registration labels and cachets from Riga (including Riga Zh D), Libau and Mitau, an interesting and scarce group of covers some illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt between pages 56 and 60
1899 / 1900 GEORGIA Two covers illustrating that the earliest Registration labels for Georgia were perforated and coloured lilac (rather than white), the cover from Tiflis (which is somehat toned) also notable for the destination Buenos Aires with one unclear transit cancel on the reverse - this cover is illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 61
1907 REGISTERED MAIL Cover registered to St Petersburg, franking on reverse, with clear cancellation and corresponding Registration label of KAZAN BOURSE, very rarely seen
1909 ARMENIA Registered cover sent to St Petersburg from Kars, with inland registration label of KARS tied by the Kars datestamp, franked on the reverse 2 x 7 kop and with St Petersburg receiver cancel
1891 / 1916 REGISTERED MAIL The collection of Registered Mail sent from Telegraph Offices other than St Petersburg and Moscow with strong representation of Riga, Kiev and Odessa, a total of 21 covers and cards several of which are illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt between pages 157 - 166
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1901 / 1917 The splendid three volume collection of Registered mail in the final Imperial period, with one volume devoted to St Petersburg and Moscow and two to all Russia, in total over 250 selected covers and cards in good to fine condition with very diverse origins and destinations, frankings and cancellations. A great opportunity to acquire in one Lot a large section of the Harry von Hofmann collection assembled over many years
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1908 / 1917 REGISTERED MAIL The written up collection of 27 covers illustrating Registration labels in use in the later Tsarist period with notable examples from Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Kishinev with several illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt between pages 85 - 92
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1912 / 1917 The remarkable assembly of Numbering Machine (Numerator Stempel) Registration cachets, with 50 covers including Romanov and War Charity frankings and censor cachets, a visually appealing collection with several items illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt at pages 106 - 117
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1917 / 1935 REGISTERED MAIL Accumulation of registered mail and other items used after the Bolshevik Revolution including mail abroad, a total of 27 items with several illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt pages 306 - 315
1909 / 1918 DOUBLE REGISTRATION LABELLING. An interesting collection of 20 covers with combined use of Inland (Cyrillic) and Foreign (French) Registration labels with notable examples from Khabarovsk (3), Vladivostok (3) and Rostov on Don (3) with several illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt between pages 93 - 100
1912 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from St Petersburg to Bavaria (transits and receiver on reverse) with Cyrillic machine registration mark of St Petersburg (inverted) and dotted R to indicate the International destination, illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 232
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover, somewhat creased, sent from Moscow to Stockholm with clear Moscow machine registration mark (sideways) and also a clear violet cachet indicating that the letter has been handled by the Automat, illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 229
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Pre-printed commercial cover sent from Moscow to Zürich with smudged Moscow machine registration mark and also a violet cachet to right of cover indicating that the letter has been handled by the Automat
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Riga to Switzerland with International Registration label of RIGA GARE and in addition Cyrillic machine registration mark of RIGA VOKSAL (inverted), all on front of cover
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Picture postcard from Riga to Germany with International registration label of RIGA GARE on address side and Cyrillic machine registration mark of RIGA VOKSAL on picture side
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Commercial cover (Chemical Factory cachet on reverse) using 20 kop Romanov stationery envelope sent from St Petersburg to Heidelberg with clear strike (inverted) of St Petersburg 3 machine registration mark, an attractive item
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from St Petersburg Vitebsk Railway Station to Kazan with clear strike St Petersburg H.B. (Hauptbahnhof) machine registration, on the reverse Cyrillic cachet indicating that the letter was Handled by Automat, a very fine item illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt pages 240 - 241
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Uprated Romanov 20 kop postal stationery envelope sent from St Petersburg to Frankfurt with St Petersburg machine registraton mark overlapping the 3 kop Romanov adhesives on the reverse, a colourful item
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Attractive commercial cover, central crease, from St Petersburg to Germany, on the reverse a clear strike of St Petersburg 4 machine registration mark, illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´ s Zakaznoe Recommandirt pages 234 - 235
1913 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from St Petersburg Warsaw Railway Station to Lublin, franked on reverse with receiver cancel and also readable strike of Machine Registration mark which just touches the stamps illustrating that these were applied first in the Machine registration procedure
1913 /1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten). Three larger format items with red machine Registration of Mogilev, St Petersburg and St Petersburg Nicholas railway station (this item illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 242)
1914 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Mogilev to Switzerland, franked on reverse with fine strike Mogilev machine registration mark overlapping the stamps and also part strike of violet cachet indicating that the letter has been handled by the Automat.
1914 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Saratov to Amsterdam, franking on front, with exceptionally fine and clear Saratov Registration Machine mark on reverse
1914 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from St Petersburg Warsaw Railway Station to Riga, attractively franked and with weak strike of Machine registration mark at top left
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Minsk to Denmark, folded over with censor seal, with both Minsk registration machine mark overlapping the 14 kop Romanov stamp and an international Registration label for Minsk, a colourful cover from a scarce Automat
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Mogilev to New York with fine strike of Mogilev machine registration mark on front, and receiver cancels on reverse
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Vilnius to Switzerland, wax seal and franking on reverse, with Registration Machine mark of Vilnius Centre (in French) top left
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Vilnius to Switzerland, wax seal and 20 kop franking on reverse, top left on front is the Registration Machine mark of Vilnius Railway Station (in French)
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Mogilev to Petrograd with three-colour War Charity franking on reverse and on front clear strike of Mogilev machine registration mark (inverted), illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 228
1915 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Petrograd to Yalta, some water damage, colourful franking with on the reverse fair strike of St Petersburg 2 machine registration mark illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 233
1916 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Essentuki to Petrograd with very rare strike of the Essentuki machine registration mark
1916 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Petrograd to Copenhagen (receiver cancel on reverse) with machine registration mark of Petrograd (inverted) on front of cover
1916 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover, some creasing, with wax seal and adhesives on reverse sent from Petrograd to the London stamp dealers Bridger and Kay with weak strike (inverted) of Petrograd machine registration mark
1917 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Cover from Kislovodsk to Holland, with both Russian and British censorship and Dutch arrival cancellation, with legible strike of the exceptionally rare Kislovodsk machine registration mark, inverted and in violet at bottom of cover front, a desirable item
1917 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Stationery card uprated and Registered from Saratov to Rotterdam with very clear strike of the Saratov machine registration mark, illustrated in Harry von Hofmann´s Zakaznoe - Recommandirt page 231 and the only example of a machine mark on a postcard illustrated in his book
1917 MACHINE REGISTRATION (Automaten) Censored cover from Saratov to Helsinki (receiver cancellations on reverse) with over-inked use of Saratov machine registration mark on front (inverted in relation to the address and franking)