383rd Auction

1857/1925 (ca.), mint/unused and used collection beginning with the first issue, a well-margined example cancelled with postal date-stamp only and some better values of the 1866 and 1875 issues on vertically striped paper. Furthermore good sections each of local-, civil war- and early Soviet-issues as well as Russian Post Offices in China and the Levant. Condition mostly good to fine.

1889, Values in Rouble, specialized collection carefully mounted on album pages, with each rouble value in blocks of four unused, followed by a large selection of used arranged by shades and city postmarks or date of use; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine, an unusual group (Mi.-Nr. 55y-56y)

2002/19, small lot with eight scarce booklets and some sheets of self-adhesives (Mi. ca. 5400,-)

1789/1847, four folded entires from St Petersburg, various postmarks, with scarcer one-line "ST.PETERSBOVRG" to 1789 lettersheet to Riga, fine 

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 

1858/1910 (ca.), group of nine covers and cards, incl. Russian Post Offices in the Levant, with 1869 three-colour franking from Berdiansk to Austria via Odessa, a small format illustrated Red Cross envelope franked at the innercity rate, together with five cards from the Levant (one registered), etc.; mostly very fine

1865/1914, group of 22 postal stationery envelopes, cards and wrappers, incl. Zemstvo, some better usages and postmarks with boxed "KONT. ZAP. TB. MARINSKYI THEATR", "KD Feldpoststation Nr 106", etc., together with Bronnitsy Zemstvo 5 k. blue envelope; mostly fine  

1884/1913, Foreign Destinations, group of eight postal stationeries with better destinations like Guatemala, China, Egypt, South Africa, etc., mixed condition

1893/1917, fine group of 17 registered postal stationery cards and wrappers, better usages with 1907 registered card from Perm´s central Zemstvo governement library, mostly very fine condition

1883/1949, group of six unused/used postal stationery cards, incl. Mi.-Nr. P 164-165 unused (4), mostly very fine

1857/2000 (approx.), comprehensive, mostly used holding with partial collections and very large stock, including Russia with secondary areas, Soviet Union with interesting part 30s with better and complete issues, much multiple, together in almost 90 albums

1877/1934, Railway post cancellation collection, expertly described on album pages, some better and unusal Travelling Post Offices like 1932 Soviet TPO "VOLOGDA 322 ARCHANGELSK" on cover, also Nikolaev Railway, Moscow to Voronezh line, etc.; mixed condition

1914/50 (ca.), miscellaneous group with imperial red cross labels, WWII mute cancellations, civil war issues incl. 1920 Amur Mi.-Nr. 3 tête-bêche pair, etc.; mostly very fine

1856/1950, eclectic group of 15 covers and cards, some better usages like Saving Stamp Mi.-Nr. 124 as single fanking on envelope to Estonia, some inflation mail, Odessa 1858 rhomboid maritime postmark, 1929 special post label "B" on cover from Kharsisk to Moscow, etc.; some occasional faults, mostly fine

1875/1954 (ca.), eclectic group of over 50 covers and cards, strength before the 1940s, many interesting cancellations and usages with imperial Travelling Post Offices, early Soviet Express mail, provisional use of control stamps, civil war parcel cards with high frankings, etc.; mixed condition

2002, Booklets, assortment of 88 pieces: MH 7 St.Petersburg Eremitage (36), MH 8 St.Petersburg Buildings (20), MH 9 Coaches (32). Michel cat.value 10.520,- €.

1924/47, Soviet Airmails, group of 8 commercial covers to foreign destinations, various routes and postmarks, better covers like 1924 Mi.-Nr. 267-270 tied to envelope to Paris with scarcer boxed violet "CAMOLETON" and additional exchange stamp on reverse, 1934 Express registered cover from Gorki, etc., the condition varies, an interesting assembly

1929/58, 13 propaganda postal stationery cards, incl. factory and anti war depictions, together with a few cards and modern postal stationeries, mostly very fine 

1892/1927, 32 covers and cards, mostly registered with many interesting and good frankings.

1895/2011 (ca.), Sremska Mitrovica, specialized collection on album leaves mostly related to the city, spanning from the Austro-Hungarian to Yugoslavian periods, with various frankings, postal receipts and official documents, many cancellations incl. Austrian military post, etc. together with some illustrated postcards; mostly fine to very fine, an interesting group

1939/45, mint never hinged and unused collection, complete and sometimes overcomplete in the main Michel cat. numbers with Postage Due stamps with different watermarks, including Mi. 19a with overprint shifted 90 degrees to the right, 36XB, 37XC, 41XC, 64 with horizontally ribbed gum, etc., many signed Dr. Dub, Dr. Hörr, Kaufmann, etc., mostly fine

1939/2001 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation neatly housed in two stockbooks, incl. postage dues, strength in the period 1939 to 1944, many sets collected as duplicates with better items like Mi.-Nr. 22 as singles and multiple, together with some souvenir sheets; some values signed Gilbert/Kaufmann, mostly in very fine condition

1938/1945 selection of postal history covers, predominately Slovakia, with a small amount of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, contained in an album, comprising many varied frankings, single and combined, includes early Slovakia State overprints, registered, express, postal staionery uprated, cards, very rare postmarks and covers, also adhesives used on Court document, German Fieldpost cachet in red on 1940 card franked with 1 k. and 20 h., many interesting usages, in mostly fine condition, a rare selection. 

1687/1938 predominately a mint and used stamp collection, with a small selection of pre-philatelic and early covers, contained within a folder, presented upon self designed album pages, Michel 1 onwards with around ninety values of Isabella II, noted a Comex certificate for a 1851 10 r., includes six examples of the 19 c. value, partly complete sets up to 10 p., incomplete in the main, condition generally fine with many later examples very fine, catalogue value undoubtedly in the late twenty thousand, a useful and valuable assembly. 

1850/2000, large mint never hinged/unused and used collection with over 50 covers, neatly housed in 6 albums, incl. postage dues, locals, Spanish Canaries, Carlist post and war stamps, some better sets like Mi.-Nr. 351-60 unused, 336-50 unused, 361-74 unused, also Mi.-Nr. 1II very fine on 1850 lettersheet, bisected stamps on covers, miniature sheets, etc., together with a few forgeries and reprints. Condition varies greatly in the classic period, the modern area mostly fine to very fine 

1855/1940 (approx.), interesting group of many varieties, units, postal forgeries, etc.; several hundred values on stockcards

1866/1992, unused and used accumulation in two stockbooks and one binder, also some covers franked with meter stamps, souvenir sheets, large part sheets together with one book by Daniel Frances, fine to very fine

1873/1957 (ca.), unused and used collection in one album, incl. Carlist Post, Spanish Marocco and Guinea, mostly very fine

1938, unissued Fernando with "CMS" instead of "CTS", 102 imperforated copies in black, dark green or emerald green, most in multiples, unmounted mint (EDIFIL 844Aeca, Aecd,Aece; ca. 22.000,- )

1938, unissued Ibanez 45 on 2 c., 320 copies, most in multiples, unmounted mint (EDIFIL NE28a, 25.600,-;  Mi. AVII 16.000,-)

1951/2004, a decent MNH collection in four green Lighthouse hingeless albums, according to album pages from 1954 onwards complete (but without 2000 Spanish Stamp souvenir sheets Michel Block 77-83).

Two covers, one with "DAROCA ARAGON", almost complete Crowned Circular handstamp on folded entire with adjacent receiving handstamp "64 OLERON", fully dated inside "16 mars 1796" (very rare postmark and unusal destination combination), together with "ANDALUCIA BAXA", very fair strike in red on an undated lettersheet (part missing) sent to Justice Burgo de Osma, fine and scarce group

1929/45, specialized mint never hinged/unused and used collection with 9 covers in one album, incl. study of control numbers, with shades, overprints "MUESTRA", souvenir sheets, duplicates and some multiples; mostly fine to very fine, an interesting specialist´s lot

1855/1900, used collection of the classic issues including a specialized study of the different colour-shades. Beginning with a 3 Sk. green and then going on to show all the main shades of the subsequent values with fourteen 4 Sk., three 6 Sk., five 8 Sk. and two 24 Sk., while continuing to treat the following issues in at least the same detail. A valuable collection in good condition. 

1855/2004 (ca.), extensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 7 albums, incl. official stamps, many cpl. sets with better issues like Mi.-Nr. 26B used, 144W-158W unused, together with ca. 200 booklets MNH, some miniature sheets, FDCs, covers and a selection of early postal stationeries etc.; an interesting holding in mostly fine to very fine condition

1945/2008, comprehensive mint never hinged collection in 5 albums, apparently cpl., with some booklets and miniature sheets, a few used, overall in very fine condition