383rd Auction

1789, folded entire from St Petersburg to Paris, privately transported from Russia to enter the mail stream in Europe, written by de Velly (1720-1809), painter for the Imperial Russian court, interesting text in French ".. .when you do me the honour of writing, don´t use the postal office channel but travellers to Russia..."; small tear at top, still fine and most unusal

"WALK" (Dobin 1.01), perfect strike on 1811 folded entire written in French to a Captain of the Helvetic Regiment in Lille, alongside transit two-line "PRUSSE PAR NEUSS", cursive "prusse.p.m" and "FRANCO", inside handwritten "Carolen le 3 octobre" with full correspondence, fine and scarce

1850/66, Outgoing Mail, 26 folded entires mostly from St Petersburg, Mitava, Libava or Warsaw to France or Germany, wide-ranging selection of transit and entry marks, postage annotations, etc., together with two official covers to Tiflis; fine to very fine, an excellent study group