377th Auction

40 par. blue on yellowish paper, horizontal pair, just touched at left, otherwise good margins, tied by clear blue "FRANCO FOKSCHANY" to small piece, very fine, sign. Heimbüchler

40 par. greenish blue on yellowish paper, good margins all round, tied by fancy "FRANCO KAHUL" to large piece with adjacent "KAHUL MOLDOVA", fine and scarce, opinion Dr. Gmach BPP

40 par. greenish-blue on yellow-white paper with good margins, tied by oval "FRANCO VASLUI" to small entire letter to Jassy with adjacent double circle "WASLUI MOLDOVA" with manuscript date "28/9". A very fine entire with scarce cancellation. Opinion Heimbüchler (2015)

80 par. vermilion on white paper, good to very large margins, tied by clear "FRANCO TEKOUTCI" to piece, small corner crease not affecting the design, very fine, sign. Heimbüchler and opinion Dr. Gmach BPP (2012)

80 par. vermilion, 2 copies, one with small but clear margins, the other one with good to large margins, tied by clear green oval "FRANCO JASSY" to small piece. Small thin in the piece only, stamps very fine, sign. Heimbüchler BPP

80 par. vermilion on white paper, horizontal pair with clear to mostly large margins, tied by greenish blue "FRANCO DOROEHOI" to piece with adjacent "DOROEHOI MOLDOVA 12/5" and "RECEPISSE"; vertical folds not affecting the pair, very fine, sign. Heimbüchler BPP

1778, "ST PETERSBOVRG" clear black straight-line on dated folded letter, fine, signed Mikulski  

1820, "SPBurg" red cyrillic straight-line on small folded letter to Narva, scarce, fine  

1866, Coat of arms 30k. rose/green on horizontally laid paper, block of four, fresh colour, unused one stamp mint never hinged, few minor perf seperations, otherwise fine

1917, 1k. orange block of nine and single tied by cds. "PETROGRAD 1. APR. 17" to reverse of neat typed ordinary letter to Abo with part of red Finnish censor mark on front, the earliest recorded postal use of any 1917 imperforate, fine Provenance: Trevor Pateman Collection

1920 October, Ordinary private letter sent on the TPO "RYAZHSK 61 VYAZMA" to Brussels via Moscow with three triangle censor mark. Franked correctly with a 5 kop imperforate stamp revalued x 100 (Tariff of 30 September 1920). According to Alexander Epstein, very few examples of this 5 rub tariff are known; after the resumption of foreign mail services in June 1920, most letters were sent registered, minor stains, otherwise fine

1910, Coat of arms 1rbl. light-brown/siena/red-orange, complete sheet with heavily shifted and slanting center and numeral, mint never hinged, diagonal crease affecting 7 stamps, otherwise a fine and attractive item

1910, Coat of arms 1rbl. light-brown/siena/red-orange, complete sheet with heavily shifted and slanting center and numeral, mint never hinged, upper right empty space faults, crease in margin only, otherwise a fine and attractive item

1921 May, Private Esperanto correspondence, ordinary postcard sent from OMSK 24 5 21 to Bamberg with weak Three Triangle Censor on the reverse. This card is correctly charged at 2 roubles in accord with the RSFSR Foreign tariff of 30 September 1920, which abolished the Free Post for ordinary mail sent abroad. The Kerensky card is used as a Blank in accordance with the invalidation of 1 January 1919. A German Postage Due mark PORTO KONTROLLE has been applied and "80" inserted manually and repeated in blue on the card. However, the card is correctly franked and both the cachet and the "80" in blue have been crossed through with red crayon. Alexander Epstein records only a few known examples of the 2 rouble postcard rate, most mail abroad in 1920 - 21 was sent registered  

1918, Postal saving stamps 50k. - 100r. with additional franking tied by cds. "ODESSA 14 3 23" to front and reverse of cover to Dessau with arrival mark, some stamps tears, creases etc., but a scarce and attractive entire  

1918, Postal saving stamps 100r. in combination with two fiscal stamps 40r. tied by cds. "TASHKENT 27 9 21" to registered cover to Petrograd, scarce, fine

December 1920, Revaluations x 100, registered cover from KROLEVETS with Moscow receiver, franked four Kyiv Il Tridents on Imperial stamps, revalued x 100 to give the correct 10 rubel RSFSR tariff , unusual late Soviet use of Trident stamps  

1921, Liberation of labour 250r. violet, two vertical strips of four tied by cds. "ДЖАЛЯЛЬ-АБАДЪ 28 11 21" (DSCHALAL-ABAD) to complete money transfer form, in addition 1000r. tied by mute cancel to money transfer from Petrograd, some minor wear and small tears, scarce Provenance: Lipschutz (Harmers Auctions SA, 1994)

1922, Child support 2-10k tied by special first day cds. "MOSCOW 19-VIII-1922" to special envelope, in addition specially overprinted postal stationery card, unused, fine

1922, Child support 2-10k tied by special first day cds. "MOSCOW 19-VIII-1922" to special registered local envelope, fine, scarce Provenance: Lipschutz (Harmers Auctions SA, 1994)

1922, Airmail 45r. block of seven from the upper right sheet corner with additional franking tied by cds. "MOSCOW 23 11 22" to reverse of correctly franked registered cover, intended to be sent by airmail but due to winter break transported by railway to Wiesbaden, vertical fold, not affecting stamps, a very fine and rare cover, certificate Ebnet BPP (1992)

ST. PETERSBURG: 1889. Issue for Women 1r. 8k. blue, 2nd class, used, small thin otherwise a very fine and clean copy with well above average perforations

USED ABROAD: "STARAYA BUKHARA a 23.10.12" on 1908/18, 1 k. and 3 k. (3) on reverse of commercial cover to Peshawar, India

1842, small envelope with contents (long letter in Greek), addressed in French to Kicheneff [Kishinev], on reverse Cyrillic double ring KONSTANTINOPOL in red, fine

1851, cyrillic cds. "KONSTANTINOPEL 1851 MAY 14" on reverse of long entire letter written in Italian, sent from Constantinople to Odessa showing many disinfection slits, scarce, fine

SOLOTONOSCHA: 1890, 2k. black/green/yellow, block of 19 with eight "tête-bêche" pairs, mostly mint never hinged, few stamps minor thins, the left block of four showing dry seal with coat of arms and wording "Дитятковскаго товарищества № 4.", very attractive and most likely unique, fine (Schmidt.-Nr. 4)

URSHUM: 1901, 2k. rose, perforated 11½, used, small thin, otherwise fine, scarce

1937, Workers 30k., typographed, line perforation 12½, block of 9 resp 4 from the lower left resp upper right sheet corner, mint never hinged, fine

60k. rotogravure, two marginal blocks of four, horizontal and vertical diamond shaped grid, mint never hinged, fine

1950, Victory Day 40k., block of four with inverted watermark, CTO "RIGA" as all known examples, a very rare multiple, only one sheet of 100 known, fine (Zagorsky 1438Ta)

1953, Volga-Don Canal 40k. with upper sheet margin, imperforated at top, used with light corner cancel, very fine (Zagorsky 1635Pa)

1955, Northpole 5 2r., horizontal pair with overprint type II, the left stamp with missing hyphen, mint never hinged, fine (Zagorsky 1756Ka+1756)

1958, X. Congress of the International astronomical union in Moscow 60k., horizontal pair the right stamp with plate flaw "UAU instead of UAJ", mint never hinged, fine, scarce

1960, Flora of the USSR 1rbl., line perforated 12½, mint never hinged, fine, scarce (Zagorsky 2416A)

1961, First manned Space flight 6k. with multicoloured label from the upper right sheet corner, line perforated 12½, mint never hinged, fine (Zagorsky 2469A)

1961, First manned Space flight 6k. with multicolored label from the upper right sheet corner, type II with dot after "1961"., mint never hinged, fine