1918 (12.3) registered cover (opened for display) from a Red Army Latvian soldier, stationed somewhere in the region of Latvia occupied by the Red Army, written to his wife in Tambov Porohovoi Zavod (gun powder factory in Tambov), properly franked with 35k dark blue and 15k Arms (paying the actual registration fee of 50k, in effect from Jan 1 until November 1, 1919), both cancelled by pen, with arrival pmk and redirection endorsements...
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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 #4202 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (26.11) registered cover from Hovrino (Simbirsk province) to Moscow, provisional registration marking by hand, also violet datestamp, again with departure be pen, properly franked on reverse with 11x35k dark blue (single, blocks of 4 and 6), used in combination with imperf. 15k (paying the proper rate of 4r, in effect from November 1, 1919 to 10 March, 1920), vertical filing fold just slightly through two center stamps, fine and rare...
Lot #4203 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (26 Nov) registered coverfront used in Moscow (Poste Restante), franked with block of 4x35k dark blue, used in combination with imperf. pair of Imperial 70k and block of 4x35k Arms (overpaying the proper rate of 4r by 20k), all on the front (unusual), interesting item -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4204 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 70k red brown, imperforate single, large even margins all around, lightly hinged and post office fresh, v.f., signed Goznak, with 2003 Melnikov certificate. A rare stamp, only one sheet printed -
Estimate price: $5000-4500
Lot #4205 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 70k red brown, vertical pair, variety imperf. at top, n.h., also perf. single with a strong offset on back, h.r., fine-v.f. -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4206 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (7 Dec) small registered cover from Urensko-Karlinskoye to a soldier stationed in the Petrograd region, properly franked with 5x70k red brown (vertical pair and strip of three), used in combination with imperf. pair of 15k and single 20k/14k, (paying the proper rate of 4r (in effect from November 1, 1919 to 10 March, 1920), fine and probably unique usage -
Estimate price: $2500-2300
Lot #4207 - r.s.f.s.r. 1918 chainbreakers
1918 (24 Dec) registered cover from Bogorodsk, with endorsement "field post office of the Red Army", addressed to a red army solder and franked on reverse with strip of 5x70k red brown, used together with 50k Imperial Arms and paying 4r registration rate (in effect from Nov.1, 1919 until March 10, 1920), with 28.12 arrival pmk, fine and rare usage -
Estimate price: $2500-2300
Lot #4208 - r.s.f.s.r. postage paid in cash - no stamps available
1918-21 suspended mail, four covers, two registered from London to Moscow, each with "Service Suspended" and boxed "undeliverable for reasons stated" and "to be returned to sender" handstamps, another from Los Angeles to Petrograd, with special postal label ("mail for Roumania and Russia, except Finland. Return to sender, plus 1921 registered cover from Starodoube to Chicago, with erroneous application of "returned to sender for the reason...
Lot #4209 - r.s.f.s.r. postage paid in cash - no stamps available
1922 inflation, study of the manuscript cash payment provisional markings, selection of 10 covers, used in different Ukrainian towns paying 40r-30,000r, official notations by the local postmasters including "no stamps available, 10,000r paid in cash" (used from Ladyshin), others from Kamenka, Priluki, Rybnica, Dubossary, Ternowka etc., mostly sent via Moscow to Germany, with appropriate markings, fine and interesting lot, ex-Cronin -
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Lot #4210 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 (Aug 12) large registered, value declared (7,500r) cover used locally in Moscow, paying 180r with 20r (pelure paper) and lower left sheet corner margin block of 4x40r (marginal creases), with Moscow Ekspeditsya (three solid triangles) in oval and arrival pmks (Aug 13), five virtually intact Moscow post office wax seals with Imperial eagles on back. These definitive stamps were issued only two days earlier on August 10th and on August...
Lot #4211 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 20r light blue, extremely light color variety, sheet margin block of four, n.h., all stamps more or less creased, especially at bottom right, ending in a tear at bottom, still a fine multiple of this rare shade, with 2013 Liapine cert. (Standart 6d; catalogue value for singles) -
Estimate price: $750-700
Lot #4212 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 250r black, plate proof on thick glazed card, v.f., signed Rosselevitch -
Estimate price: $250-230
Lot #4213 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 250r gray violet, ordinary paper (typographed), block of four, n.h., v.f. (Standart 10I, catalogue value for singles) -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4214 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 300r green, printed on both sides, v.f. -
Estimate price: $250-230
Lot #4215 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 1,000r red brown, proof on thick cream paper, block of four, also 1,000r rose, light rose, two distinct shades, n.h., v.f., rare -
Estimate price: $1000-950
Lot #4216 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 1,000r carmine, double impression, one inverted, block of four, natural gum crease at top, l.h. at top, bottom stamps n.h., v.f., with 2007 Buchsbayew cert. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4217 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 40r red violet, type II, trial color proof on stamp paper, single (without gum), plus a horizontal pair (with full original gum, n.h.), v.f. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4218 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 first definitives
1921 definitives, 40k gray black, also 40k gray lilac, imperf. trial color proofs with gum, two of last, one with sheet margin, different positions of the watermark, v.f. -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4219 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1921 200r red brown, unissued value, sheet of 25, never hinged, one stamp with disturbed gum, also couple of natural inclusions and gum wrinkles, v.f. and post office fresh, rare sheet (Standart O15) -
Estimate price: $2000-1900
Lot #4220 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (16 Feb) registered cover from Golyj Karamysch (in the province of the Volga Germans), franked on back with gutter pane of 40x250r (paying 10,000r: 5,000r foreign letter, plus 5,000r registry fee), used via New York to Akron Ohio, with 28.3.22 arrival pmk, usual weak, otherwise fine and impressive letter, ex-Cronin (see article in "The Postrider", No.8, pages 50-61) -
Estimate price: $500-450
Lot #4221 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (13 May) registered cover (opened for display) from Solombala-Archangel to Lithuania, franked on both sides with combination Imperial and R.S.F.S.R. adhesives, fine and colorful cover, with Kaunas 22.5.22 arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4222 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (3 Apr) registered cover (opened for display) from Solombala-Archangel to Lithuania, franked on both sides with combination Imperial and R.S.F.S.R. adhesives, fine and colorful cover, with Kaunas 18.4.22 arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4223 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (16 May) registered cover (opened for display) from Solombala-Archangel to Lithuania, franked on both sides with combination Imperial and R.S.F.S.R. adhesives, fine and colorful cover, with Petrograd transit and Kaunas 23.5.22 arrival pmk -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4224 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (16 Mar) registered cover from Okna-Pod (Ukraine) to Berlin, franked on back with block of 10x1000r red and block of 4x5000r on 2r, cover roughly opened at bottom, otherwise fine item from Dr.Brender correspondence -
Estimate price: $250-250
Lot #4225 - r.s.f.s.r. 1921 fourth anniversary of the revolution
1922 (10 May) registered mourning cover from Uman to Austria, franked on back with top or bottom portions of stamps adding to a total of 300,000r, hence short paid 100,000r for a registered surface letter, with Moscow (7.6) transit pmk, Uman registration filled in by hand, fine and interesting item -
Estimate price: $250-230
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