Lot 1504
10 k. brown/light-blue, fresh colour, close at bottom, otherwise wide margins with large sheet margin at left, tied by pen cross to cover sent on January 4th 1858 from Chern to Moscow with despatch- and arrival marks on reverse; a very rare and attractive cover from the 3rd. day of usage, one of the earliest known covers of Russia No. 1, signed Mikulski and Zagorsky certificate
