1917 After the February Revolution, the Provisional Government sponsored a contest for best design of a postage stamp of the new country. Among the many masters of graphic arts to submit their sketches, was Rihards Zarins (a Latvian artist who created many stamp designs, including 5r and 10r Arms, 1913 Romanov series, 1914 Charity issues and others. He was a graduate of the Stieglitz Central School for Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg and...
Specialized Russia: The Igor Gorski Collection
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Feb 20, 2014 America/New_York
Cherrystone Auctions Specialized Russia: The Igor Gorski Collection
Thursday Feb 20, 2014 10:00 America/New_York
For a philatelist, the stamps of R.S.F.S.R are fascinating and challenging in many respects. During the period of five years, less than 200 stamps were issued, but postal rates changed at least 23 times. Some of the newly printed stamps were obsolete by the time they reached the post offices. Postmasters throughout the land had to contend not only with political strife, floods, epidemics and hunger, but also with staggering inflation and postal economics. Mr. Gorski assembled the most elusive varieties, errors and rarities available for each issue, along with properly used stamps on cover. Many of the items in this collection are illustrated in referenced handbooks (R.S.F.S.R, Specialized Catalogue of Postage Stamps 1918-1923, Standart Collection, 1997; Catalogue of Postage Stamps, Russia, R.S.F.S.R and U.S.S.R 1857-1940, A.V. Zverev, 2013; Postage Stamps Catalogue 1856-1991, Victor Liapine, 2010; and others). There are numerous items described as being only known examples or unique.
At Cherrystone, we have been privileged to offer many great collections of Russian Philately (including those formed by Z.Mikulski, Gordey Denisenko, Leonard Tann, Patrick Campbell, Andrew Cronin, Dr.Adolph Ackerman, Shlomo Shtern, Patrick Eppel, Alexander Sadovnikov, Dmitry Nikitin, The Aurora and Vladivostok collections). We now present the world renowned Gorski Collection. Recipient of Large Gold Medals at numerous FIP World and other Stamp Exhibitions, this monument to Russian Philately contains many iconic treasures, offered here for the first time.
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Lot #3002 - r.s.f.s.r. the russian knight (artist rihards zarins)
1917 25k green, imperforate and gummed sheetlet (50x64mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-10000
Lot #3003 - r.s.f.s.r. the russian knight (artist rihards zarins)
1917 30k magenta, imperforate and gummed sheetlet (50x64mm), h.r., v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-10000
Lot #3004 - r.s.f.s.r. the russian knight (artist rihards zarins)
1917 master die proof in black on card (49x67mm), value tablet blank, v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-10000
Lot #3005 - r.s.f.s.r. the russian knight (artist rihards zarins)
1917 The Russian Knight and Chainbreakers combination sheetlet on gummed paper, the former in dark blue, value tablet blank, the latter 15k orange brown (side ornaments not finished), printed couche, folded between stamps, h.r., v.f. An exquisite treasure of Russian Philately -
Estimate price: $25000-25000
Lot #3006 - r.s.f.s.r. 1 march 1917 - "liberation of russia" (zarins)
1917 Long Live Freedom, 5k sky blue, die essay on card (39x44mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3007 - r.s.f.s.r. 1 march 1917 - "liberation of russia" (zarins)
1917 Unity through Strength, 10k sky blue, die essay on card (40x52mm), stains, otherwise fine, very rare -
Estimate price: $5000-4500
Lot #3008 - r.s.f.s.r. 1 march 1917 - "liberation of russia" (zarins)
1917 Unity through Strength, 10k sky blue, die essay on card (43x56mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3009 - r.s.f.s.r. 1 march 1917 - "liberation of russia" (zarins)
1917 Long Live Freedom, 10k+5k sky blue, die essay on card (36x43mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3010 - r.s.f.s.r. 1 march 1917 - "liberation of russia" (zarins)
1917 St. George Slaying the Dragon, 10k sky blue, die essay on card (40x52mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3011 - r.s.f.s.r. st.george slaying the dragon (zarins)
1917 engraved die essay on gummed stamp paper (40x46mm), four sheetlets, each a different color (deep green, light brown, red, orange brown), designed by R. Zarins, dated 24.II.15 and initialed at lower left, v.f. and beautiful set of essays, prepared in 1915 (as part of the Charity issue, which also features St. George Slaying Dragon) and proposed for the first issue of the RSFSR -
Estimate price: $25000-24000
Lot #3012 - r.s.f.s.r. st.george slaying the dragon (zarins)
1917 engraved die essay on gummed stamp paper (51x67mm), sheetlet in orange brown, v.f., signed E. Franck -
Estimate price: $7500-7000
Lot #3013 - r.s.f.s.r. st.george slaying the dragon (zarins)
1917 engraved die essay on gummed stamp paper (51x67mm), sheetlet in dark green, v.f., signed E. Franck -
Estimate price: $7500-7000
Lot #3014 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 Freedom, Equality, Brotherhood, double-headed Eagle, 5k blue, large die essay on chalky, ungummed paper (121x150mm), minor peripheral flaws, otherwise v.f. essay (Sergey Chekhonin belongs to the second generation of the World of Art, the so-called artists who entered the union in the 1910s. Widely known as a graphics artist and creator of the so-called propaganda porcelain, he illustrated many Soviet publications, and even managed to...
Lot #3015 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 5k magenta, large die essay on chalky, ungummed paper (107x147mm), v.f. and rare essay, pencil notation on back dated 1923 and signed "Kirchner" and attributed to "S.V. Chekhonin" -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3016 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 5k red, large die essay on chalky, ungummed paper (121x150mm), marginal tears at top, otherwise v.f. and rare essay, pencil notation on back dated 1923 and signed "Kirchner" and "S.V. Chekhonin" -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3017 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 5k light green, large die essay on chalky, ungummed paper (121x150mm), marginal tears at bottom, otherwise v.f. and rare essay, pencil notation on back dated 1927 and signed "Kalfman" -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3018 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 5k yellow, large die essay on chalky, ungummed paper (121x150mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3019 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 5k black, large die essay on gray, ungummed paper (123x162mm), minor wrinkles, v.f., pencil notation on back -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3020 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist s.v. chekhonin)
1917 Respublika Rossiya 35k black, photo essay, allegorical design, v.f., rare -
Estimate price: $5000-4500
Lot #3021 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist n.altman)
1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm), including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in red, archival staple holes in margin, slight wrinkles, v.f., one of three known (of which one is the Popov Museum in St. Petersburg), with 1998 Mandrovski...
Lot #3022 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist n.altman)
1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm), including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in black, endorsed "not accepted" and dated "21/8" also signed A. Musatov (head of Narkompochtel in 1921), little ageing and toning, minor paper defects (having...
Lot #3023 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist n.altman)
1918 Tools of Workers and Peasants Labor, imperforate sheetlet of 12 (104x185mm) , including 50k, 1r, 2r, 3, 4r, 5r, 10r, 20r, 30r, 40r, plus two with non-denominated values, four different designs including Plough, Hammer and Anvil, Stalks and Sickle and Industrial Landscape, all in black, cut close at bottom left (10th stamp), otherwise v.f., rare RSFSR essay, one of only 3 (!) known (two are in this sale, the other is in the Popov Museum...
Lot #3024 - r.s.f.s.r. essays (artist n.altman)
1918 Industrial Landscape, large die essay (128x187mm) card mounted, design was incorporated into the third row of the Altman proof sheetlet (5r, 4r and 3r), inscribed PCFCP Pochta, value tablets blank, fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $2500-2300
Lot #3025 - r.s.f.s.r. 1917 chainbreakers - proofs and essays (zarins)
1917 ("The Hand with Sword Cutting Chains of Oppression" design, with a denomination of 15k, was approved by the Provisional Government in early 1917, immediately after the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II. The Provisional Government was however, itself overthrown by the Bolsheviks and the stamp was not released), 15k orange, imperforate die proof on white card, without lozenges, side ornaments incomplete, v.f. -
Estimate price: $...
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