380th Auction
16-17 & 20-25 March 2023 in Wiesbaden
ORGEEV DISTRICT: 1887, 3k. carmine-red, horizontal pair with fresh colors, tied by the circular Star of David district cancel "16" to an envelope for the administration for agricultural affairs in Orgeev, intact wax seal on reverse, cover roughly opened at the bottom otherwise very fine (Schmidt 18)
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)