380th Auction

1876/79, Correspondance to MOUNT ATHOS, fine group of ten money letters all addressed to ODESSA for further transmission to some monasteries on the Greek island, good range of single handstamps, also two 1894 archive halves of certificates (defect) issued by the Andreevski skete on Mount Athos and two cash requisitions (1886 and a Soviet 1936 one); fine to very fine

1878/1915, group of over sixty (60) postal stationery cards, envelopes, parcel cards and money orders, used in Lithuania, good range of postmarks including "KOVNO", "BERZHBOLOV", "PODYRODZE", etc., scarce 1914 Postal Savings Book from "BEYSAGOLANOV", also three incoming cards from France, Austria and Bavaria, mostly very fine

1888/1935, six covers and one card, including two 1880s envelopes from Dzhulfa to Tabriz Persia (ex Ashford), 1899 provisional registration label from Smolensk, 1905 postcard to Riga sent via steamship line, 1935 Soviet cover from Moscow with Philatelic Exchange stamp on reverse, also Zemstvo Zenkov a very fine pair lower sheet margin (Schmidt 36I)

1890/1932, group of 12 covers and cards, many with special features, a.o. unknown R-cards and interesting postmarks, good condition

1891/1916, interesting group of 27 postal used documents, mostly used in Moscow, many different preprints and postmarks, mostly good condition

1897/1900, four used newslettter wrappers, all sent to Riga and with censorship stamp, including newslettter wrappers from Ceylon "The times of Ceylon", mostly good condition

1899, Provisional Labels, specialist group of eight covers, all bearing the scarce provisional registration labels produced only in 1899, and including Smolensk, Berdichev, Vitebsk, Chernigov, Pskov, Velizhi, Velikie Luki and Kronstadt; very fine. 

FIELD POST OFFICES: 1904/17, 1904 card struck with the 241th Infantry cachet (Japanese War), 1916 card tied with FPO 53 handstamp and 20k. tied with superb strikes of the FPO 3 cds; very fine interesting group

1909/16, Excellent assembly of five covers and cards with special postmarks, including a scarce TELEGRAPH postmark fom Ekaterinburg, St Petersburg OFFICE FOR GOVERNMENT AND DIPLOMATIC correspondance receiver, a Romanov cover with 1914 Mute postmark, a KIZIL-ARVAT postmark from Zakasp. oblast; very fine  

1914/17 holding of over 60 used postal stationary and covers, including many better, also interesting censorship cancellations as well as camp cancellations, various condition

PROPAGANDA CARDS WWI: 1914/18 (ca.), group of 10 unused anti-German propaganda cards, interesting texts such as "Poor Wilhelm, the English have left you completely without ports!", "the Russians are advancing on all fronts...", etc.; mostly very fine

1915/16, holding of c. 40 covers and cards, including registered covers, war aid stamps, censorship mail, etc., mostly good condition

1918/21, Interesting assembly, starting with three cards and two envelopes sent during the civil war, including 1920 Free Post period registered envelope, a scarce 1918 registered postcard tied "MOSCOW" sent to Riga during the German occupation of the city, also Batum British Occupation last issue overprinted in transfer blocks of six (54), 1922 Mountain Republic (5), Far east Republic Chita 7 kopek rouletted variety imperforated between vertically (three strips mint original gum), some Russian Turkestan 1920s fiscals, also a few doubtful items identified as such 

1920, interesting group of 45 stamps mint, singles postally used and on fragments; mostly very fine (ex Mi.-Nr. 1/7)

1852/1935 (ca.), group of over 40 covers and cards, incl. early stampless folded entires, inflation mail, Soviet Esperanto and airmail, better items like Mi. 2, teared, tied by rectangular dotted postmark "239" LIBAVA, also Mi. 57-60 unused each an overprinted character from "OBRAZETS", etc.; condition poor to very fine

1857/1980 (approx.), several hundred unused/mint never hinged and used stamps with emphasis on secondary areas, Levant, China, Zemstvo etc., including better stamps, varieties and specialities, neatly on stockcards in four Hawid boxes

1858/1988, unused and used collection in four albums, many better sets and individual stamps like Levant Mi. 1 (2), incl. Civil War issues, Post Offices Abroad, souvenir sheets, etc., some duplicates and varieties; condition poor to very fine, an interesting collection

1858/2010, mint never hinged, unused and used holding with collections, part collections and duplicates in 2 large boxes.

1869/1922, Balance of a specialized group, with mint never hinged blocs (over 15 sheet parts of the early 1908 printings), 1921 printed matter, an undelivered mail with mute cancels, a few Russia post in China overprinted used, etc.; fine to very fine

1875/1973, group "plate flaws" with nearly 40 stamps/units with focus before 1950 incl. secondary areas, all with photo proofs/photo attestations Hovest

RUSSIAN LABELS AND FISCALS: 1880/1937 (ca.) collection of over 450 Russian labels and fiscals neatly arranged in one stockbook, spanning from the Imperial to the early Soviet periods, mostly charity, airmail and official labels; fine to very fine

1915/95 (approx.), box full of duplicates on stockcards and bags, colourful mixture with old material, modern overprint issues incl. successor states.

1917, Provisional Government, specialist group of seven covers and cards, all franked with a selection of the Imperforate Arms issues, including a very early use of the 15k. imperf. (1,05r. rate, tariff of 28 Febrauary 1918), two fine strips of four of the 3k. (12k. foreign rate), a three colour franking with imperf. 1k. and 1r., and more; fine to very fine.

1918, a fine selection of three cards and one envelope, showing various postal rates and frankings from the early Soviet area, with 20k., 10k. or 70k. frankings (the later an error as no 70k. tariff was in effect) and a 24k. franked card from Rostov under Bolshevik control; interesting group

1918/91, mostly unused collection with many better items throughout including Mi.-Nr. 185-189, 453-55, 457-61, 480-82, 483-87, 489-93, 494-98, 513-22, 527 and bl. 11B, good condition

1918/21, assembly of nine covers and cards, showing a range of tariffs including a 1918 Brest-Litovsk tariff, an illustrated envelope, a scarce 1920 foreign postcard from Petrograd to Germany; very fine

1918/99, Interesting group of over 50 items, mainly covers with a strong focus on the 1922/23 inflation period, multiple frankings and rates, a few later items also included; overall very fine

PROPAGANDA CARDS WWII: 1941/45, group of over 35 unused and used Great Patriotic War cards, good range of scenes and texts, such as "Hit What You Want, But Kill! A. Prokofiev"; mostly very fine

PROPAGANDA CARDS WWII: 1943, group of 8 mostly unused Great Patriotic War cards, one passed through the military post, all animal caricatures of major Axis figureheads like Himmler and Hitler, with interesting texts such as "Laval: French shamrock - Nicknamed La Valetka"; fine to very fine, a scarce assembly

1880/1990 (ca.), used and mint balance in eight albums, from some Imperial Russia and main value Soviet Union.

1926/31, 5k. on 100r. (1), 10k. on 3k. (1) and 10. on 250r. (two horizontal pairs) tied on reverse of an assembly of four different covers to Germany, France, Italy and Sweden, franked on front with a selection of Soviet Definitives or commemoratives; very fine (Mi.-Nr. 7, 15, 16)

1877/1999, collection of a few hundred stamps used and unused, neatly mounted on album leaves, starting with First Issue, better items such as 1877 30c. brown, 1890 5c. orange and 25c. carmine-brown unused, scarce 1929 15l. green/violet and 20l. blue/red unused, 1931 Airmail set unused, souvenir sheets, etc., condition mostly very fine

1877/2017, unused and used collection, in the main numbers apparently complete

Bulgarian occupation: 1915/18, exhibition-like mounted collection of 75 covers, including various partly very rare local censures, franked postal orders, telegram, Kgf.-Post, etc, etc,. some rare pieces with certificates Penev

1850/2014, in the beginning used later unused collection, in the main numbers apparently complete incl. Mi.-No. 1-11 (8 strongly repaired), city post Madrid 3c, the good miniature sheets etc., classical period usually different, otherwise good condition

1850/2015, extensive, in the beginning mostly used collection incl. officials from Mi.-No. 1 with many better and complete issues as well as specialities with i.a. Mi.-No. 250/54 U and issues with "Muestra" overprint, from c. 1920 almost only unused/mint never hinged and over long stretches complete with i.a. Mi.No. 366-350 (signed), Mi. No. 444-456, Mi. No. 598-610, Mi. No. 737-745, pp. 7-8A/B, Mi. No. VIII, pp. 9BI and once imperforated without 50 C. value and margin lettering and souvenir sheet 11-12B, neat in