1918 35k blue, two imperforate singles, each cut close at right, other margins sufficiently large, used in 1919 on registered cover, addressed locally in Petrograd (16 8 19), with arrival pmk on back, considerable cover cleaning and some repairs, still fine appearing example of imperforate 35k stamps on cover -
Estimate price: $1000-900
Specialized Russia: The Igor Gorski Collection
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions Specialized Russia: The Igor Gorski Collection
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 #3051 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
Lot #3052 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 35k blue, sheet of 100, also pane of 20, used in combination with Imperial 20k (1) and 25k (16), paying 46.20r on Parcel Card (value 4,000r) sent from Kovrov (Vladimir gov.) 15 December, 1919 to the Red Army, with appropriate postmarks, stamps folded, with occasional defects, nevertheless in remarkable state of preservation (considering the size), fine -
Estimate price: $2500-2300
Lot #3053 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 70k olive brown (rare), also 70k sepia, plus a variety double perforations at right, first one diagonal crease, otherwise fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $250-230
Lot #3054 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 70k brown, lower left sheet corner margin single, impressive double paper/fold-over variety -
Estimate price: $250-230
Lot #3055 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 70k brown, variety imperf. at top, hinged in margin, stamp n.h., v.f. -
Estimate price: $150-140
Lot #3056 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 70k brown, imperforate right sheet margin block of four, h.r., fresh and v.f., signed Goznak in margin. Only one sheet of 100 imperforate stamps were printed. This imperf. block is one of three known. An iconic Russian rarity (Zverev $120,000) -
Estimate price: $50000-50000
Lot #3057 - r.s.f.s.r. first postage stamps of the rsfsr
1918 70k brown, vertical strip of five, used in combination with Imperial 2x25k green & violet (one defective), all cancelled by crayon on 5k stationery postal card, registered from "Votkinskaya" (Vyatka gov.) to Petrograd, with 20 February 1920 departure docketing, faint Petrograd arrival pmk (just tying two stamps), fine and extraordinary usage on a registered postal card -
Estimate price: $1500-1400
Lot #3058 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 1r black & orange, misperforated variety (proof), also an issued stamp with shifted perforations, plus 7r green & rose lilac, three varieties including dated center and overinked background -
Estimate price: $250-230
Lot #3059 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 1r imperforate, selection of seven items, including three trial color proofs (various backgrounds), varieties without center, double impression, inverted and double center, v.f. lot -
Estimate price: $500-500
Lot #3060 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 1r imperforate, center inverted (2), used in combination with perforated 7r green & rose lilac (single and strip of four), also imperforate 4k and 2x100r+100r on 70k in back of cover from Kaluga (3 7 22) to Paris, filing folds thought some of the stamps, still fine and extraordinary, late usage of Inverted Centers on cover (illustrated in R.S.F.S.R, Specialized Catalogue of Postage Stamps 1918-1923. Standart Collection, 1997) -...
Lot #3061 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 1r brown & orange, right half, used in combination with 3.50r on back of Parcel Card franked with imperforate block of 10x15k, paying 154 rubles from "Podosyanovets" (Vologda gov.) 1 Nov 20 to Kronshtadt, with arrival pmk (9 Nov), filing folds through the stamps, otherwise fine and unusual usage of a bisected 1r stamp (as 50k), apparently due to shortage of lower value postage. A rarity (stated to be one of only two known), ex-...
Lot #3062 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 7r green & rose lilac (twelve, including a block of nine), used in combination with imperf. pair of 3k red on back of a registered cover, paying 90r (effective rate 1 July 22) from Petrograd (30 Sep 22) to Berlin, with arrival (9 Oct). On front there is a "S.-Petersbourg gare Nicolas" registry label, fine -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #3063 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 (horizontal lozenges) 3.50r and 7r imperforate upper right sheet corner blocks of four, n.h. and post office fresh, v.f., 7r with 1998 Mandrovski certificate. One of only three sets of blocks recorded (Zverev $35,000) -
Estimate price: $25000-25000
Lot #3064 - r.s.f.s.r. imperial arms - 1918-1919 reissues
1919 (horizontal lozenges) 7r imperforate horizontal pair and block of eight, used with additional franking (perforated 10k dark blue single, vertical pair and block of 10 on reverse, some faults) on Postal Money Order (for 10,000 rubles) sent from "Dobrjanka" (Chernigov gov.) on 15 June 1921 to the village of Andreevka, arriving on 23rd June. There are punched cancels affecting top and bottom stamps (also cut in), leaving a sound block of...
Lot #3065 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in yellow and purple, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of a New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3066 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs, sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky (Education Commissar) and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in magenta and green, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of an old (Imperial) New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay -
Estimate price: $...
Lot #3067 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs, sheetlet (165x102mm) containing 100r Lunacharsky (Education Commissar) and 100r Soviet Star with sickle & hammer, both in ultramarine and yellow green, inscriptions read "Workers of the world unite," printed on back of an old (Imperial) New Year's presentation card (B.King, factory of aniline inks and lacquers in Moscow and St. Petersburg), two archival punches at left, v.f. and rare bicolor essay -
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Lot #3068 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs for the first definitive issue,"Pochta Marka" 5r olive, red, gray blue and violet, four different perforated essays, with and without gum, one thin, others fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $2500-2500
Lot #3069 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 unaccepted designs for the first definitive issue, "Pochta Marka" and Star, 20r olive, red, black violet, three different perforated and gummed essays, fine-v.f., rare -
Estimate price: $2500-2500
Lot #3070 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 1r-5r gray black, imperforate sheetlet of 14, showing Karl Marx (2r and 5r), Lenin (2r and 5r), New World Allegory (40r), Worker's Hand with Hammer (20r), R.S.F.S.R. (1r) and Symbols of Industry (5r), designed by the artists E.Lancerey, G.Reindorf and K.Hoppe, proposed but not accepted for general release; folded between stamps, marginal wrinkles, fine-v.f., signed Prof. Winterstein. A rarity -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #3071 - r.s.f.s.r. 1920 essays - unadapted designs
1920 1r-5r gray blue, imperforate and gummed sheetlet of 14, showing Karl Marx (2r and 5r), Lenin (2r and 5r), New World Allegory (40r), Worker's Hand with Hammer (20r), R.S.F.S.R. (1r) and Symbols of Industry (5r), designed by the artists E.Lancerey, G.Reindorf and K.Hoppe, proposed but not accepted for general release; folded between stamps, marginal thin, v.f. -
Estimate price: $15000-14000
Lot #3072 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 proofs and essays
1921 Workers of the World Unite, rejected design, 100r olive and 100r gray blue, imperforate plate proofs on thin and thick cards, v.f. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #3073 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 proofs and essays
1921 Workers of the World Unite, 100r gray blue, engraved die proof (62x41mm), die sunk on white card (131x98mm), v.f. -
Estimate price: $7500-6500
Lot #3074 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 proofs and essays
1921 (Artist V.Kuprianov) 1r orange, large die proof on glazed card (104x131mm), minor inclusions in margin, v.f. -
Estimate price: $7500-7000
Lot #3075 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 proofs and essays
1921 1r carmine rose, large die trial color proof reduced to stamp size, glazed card, v.f., rare -
Estimate price: $1500-1500
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