1910 St. Petersburg, unexploded 2r booklet, salmon covers with black inscriptions, six panes of 6x1k orange, three panes each of 6x3k carmine and 7k blue, each separated by glassine interleaving, post office fresh and v.f. (Liapine PB2) -
Estimate price: $7500-7000
Specialized Russia
By: Cherrystone Auctions
Cherrystone Auctions Specialized Russia
We are pleased to present our annual RUSSIA Specialized sale, consisting of 594 lots, with exceptional Russian Empire, RSFSR, Soviet Union, plus related areas including Siberia.
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Lot #4176 - Russia 1909-17 issues
Lot #4177 - Russia 1909-17 issues
1910 St. Petersburg, unexploded 2r booklet, salmon covers with black inscriptions, six panes of 6x1k orange, three panes each of 6x3k carmine and 7k blue, each separated by glassine interleaving, minor cover creasing, with tiny paper splits, fine example of this rarity (Liapine PB2) -
Estimate price: $5000-4500
Lot #4178 - Russia 1909-17 issues
1910 St. Petersburg, unexploded 2r booklet, with three panes of 6x1k, 3k and 7k, separated by glassine interleaves, yellow covers with black inscriptions, usual staple rust, small part of the staple missing on back, unusually fresh and v.f. high value booklet (Liapine PB2) -
Estimate price: $5000-5000
Lot #4179 - Russia 1909-17 issues
1910 (9.2) registered money parcel card (for 150r), with "Valeur Declaree" bilingual label, franked with 1k, 2k, 20k and 3x25k, all cancelled by perfin "Kiev 2 GR" in Cyrillic, sent via Odessa to Jerusalem, with 31 Dec.1910 docketing at upper left, wax seal removed from top, with filing folds affecting franking. This is stated to be the only recorded example of this type of Kiev perfin on Russian stamps (written up in volume 49, pages 32-33...
Lot #4180 - Russia 1909-17 issues
1914 Coat of Arms, auxiliary issue for Petrograd, unexploded 1p98k (2r) booklet, with three panes of 6x1k, 3k and 7k, separated by glassine interleaves, yellow covers with black inscriptions, handstamped "Petrograd" over "St. Petersburg", unusually fresh and free of the usual staple rust, minute surface abrasion (Liapine PB12) -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #4181 - Russia 1913 romanov tercentenary issue
1913 (28.2) registered (money letter) cover from St. Petersburg to Moscow, franked on back with 1k, 15k (2), 2r, 3r and 5r, used in combination with 5r Arms Issue, with intact wax seals and arrival pmk, fine commercial usage -
Estimate price: $2000-1900
Lot #4182 - Russia 1913 romanov tercentenary issue
1913 3k rose, double impression, one inverted, h.r., v.f., signed Rosselevitch, -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4183 - Russia 1913 romanov tercentenary issue
1913 Portrait of Tsar Nicholas II, imperf. 1r essay in gray blue, with sheet margin at top (folded), fine -
Estimate price: $1000-900
Lot #4184 - Russia 1913 romanov tercentenary issue
1913 Tsar Nicholas II, imperf. 1r essay in black, upper right sheet margin copy, fine -
Estimate price: $1000-900
Lot #4185 - Russia 1914-17 issues
1915 5r perf. 12 1/2, re-drawn "A" in "Pochtowaya" (No.13 in sheet), used in combination with additional franking on piece, cancelled Lubino-Petrograd (16.1.21), fine -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4186 - Russia 1914-17 issues
1915 5r perf. 13 1/2, re-drawn "A" in "Pochtowaya" (position 13 in sheet), used in combination with additional franking (total of 10x5r and 2x2k green, counted at ten time face value during the first Soviet revaluation) on both sides of the parcel card from Podobino Tver (6.8.20) to Petrograd, some creases, otherwise fine, with (9.8) arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $1000-900
Lot #4187 - Russia 1914-17 issues
1917 Revolution, selection of 12 different original black and white photographs incl. Kerensky with ministers, various funeral processions (burial of Cossacks etc.), May 1 Holiday, First Days of the Revolution, various volunteers, also an additional photograph (same source) from Christiania, Norway, fine-v.f. and rare -
Estimate price: $5000-4500
Lot #4188 - Russia 1914-17 issues
1919 1r imperforate and gummed trial colors, three diff. proofs, one with black (instead of brown) background, other two with green background, one double, v.f. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4189 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k blue, 70k brown, blocks of four, the former lozenges omitted, the latter with lozenges on both sides, with small faults affecting top stamps, otherwise fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4190 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k and 70k varieties, each imperf. at top, n.h., v.f., signed Rosselevitch (Standart 1-2Pb) -
Estimate price: $1000-900
Lot #4191 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 15k brown, unissued value in color of 70k, imperforate and gummed proof sheetlet, v.f. and extremely rare -
Estimate price: $10000-9500
Lot #4192 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k dark blue, imperf. sheet corner margin single, h.r, v.f. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4193 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 Chainbreakers, 35k dark blue, imperf. single, n.h., v.f. -
Estimate price: $300-280
Lot #4194 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k blue, imperf. horizontal pair, used, right stamp with small thin, otherwise v.f., rare -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4195 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k dark blue, imperf. vertical pair, used, cut close but just clear at top, fine-v.f., signed Mikulski -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4196 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k dark blue, imperf. vertical pair, used, v.f., with Hovest cert. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4197 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1919 35k blue, vertical pair, lozenges virtually completely omitted from the top stamp, also two singles, one with lozenges on both sides, the other lozenges omitted, h.r., some perf. stains, otherwise fine -
Estimate price: $150-150
Lot #4198 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 35k blue, part imperf. horizontal pair, double vertical and horizontal perfs, the latter shifted to top center of the pair, reinforced with paper on back, most unusual -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4199 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (5 Mar) registered cover (opened for display) from Kaluga to Moscow, franked with single 35k on front, used in combination with two blocks of 4x5k Postal Saving stamps on back, paying 75k (the actual registration fee was 50k, in effect from Jan 1 until November 1, 1919), boxed Kaluga registration hs, with number (201) filled in by hand, faint Moscow arrival pmks, fine and rare combination cover -
Estimate price: $1500-1400
Lot #4200 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (20 Mar) registered cover (opened for display) from Petrograd to Libava, properly franked on back with 35k dark blue and 15k Arms (paying the actual registration fee of 50k, in effect from Jan 1 until November 1, 1919), with arrival (10.6) and redirection endorsements, cover reduced at sides, but with all markings intact, fine and very rare -
Estimate price: $1500-1400
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