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AUCTION SALE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 AT 1:00 P.M. RUSSIA 910 P 1857 1k green and rose, plate essay on wove paper, cut octagonally, with full round margins and perfect embossing, fresh and v.f. essay, rare ................................................................................... 10,000.00 911 ` 1857 10k brown & blue, margins all around, tied by “9” in oval of dots on FL from Tauroggen (today Taurage) to Riga, with boxed 1858 departure datestamp (also on back), with boxed “Polucheno 27 Sept 1858” arrival on back, usual filing fold well away from the stamp, fine and attractive Russia Number One on cover from Lithuania, ex-Matuzas ........................................................................(1) 5,000.00 912 ` 1857 10k brown and blue, margins all around, tied by framed “Tauroggen 15 Mar 1858” datestamp on outer folded letter to St. Petersburg, usual filing folds away from the stamps, v.f. Russia Number one cover, signed Bolaffi, Diena .........................................................................................................(1) 5,000.00 913 (w) 1858 30k carmine & green, unused (regummed), good color and perforations, fine ......................(10) 250.00 -123- 916 919 913 914 915 918 917 921 922 925 928 926 924 927 929 -124 - U.S. & Worldwide September 9-10, 2014 Stamps & Covers 914 P 1866 1k black, imperforate plate essay inscribed “Proba” in Cyrillic letters, with central “Epreuve de Timbre” in French, with herringbone pattern in margins, also another similar essay, with orange background with numerals “1”, v.f., scarce pair of essays, with Mikulski certificate .............................. 750.00 915 P 1866 1k black, imperforate plate essay inscribed “Proba” in Cyrillic letters, with central “Epreuve de Timbre” in French, with herringbone pattern in margins, incomplete at right, also another similar essay, with orange background with numerals “1”, v.f., scarce pair of essays ....................................... 750.00 916 ww 1875 20k blue & orange, horizontal pair, right stamp crossed “T” variety, n.h., v.f. (Zagorsky 32,32Ka) cat. $720 ..............................................................................................................................(30,30a) 250.00 917 ` 1876 (10 Apr) postal card from Reval to Chemnitz, franked with two examples of 2k vertically laid paper, tied by cds, with departure postmark on back, arrival on front, fine and rare usage ........(26a) 500.00 918 ` 1880 (Oct) outer FL from Riga to Amsterdam, paying 42k with 6x7k (horizontally laid paper), filing folds through one, otherwise fine, with arrival pmk ..............................................................................(27) 150.00 919 w 1884 7k blue, imperforate single, good color and margins, h.r., thin, otherwise fine, signed Mikulski (Zagorsky 35Pa) cat. $1,200 ...................................................................................................................(35a) 250.00 920 P 1887 1r gray blue & brown, imperforate die essay on thin card, large central oval with blue network, center embossed, fresh and v.f., rare, signed Mikulski .............................................................................. 5,000.00 921 wwa 1906 (vertically laid paper) 5r green and blue, sheet corner margin block of four, perf. separations, stamps n.h., v.f. .........................................................................................................................................(71) 150.00 922 P 1909 15k blue, trial color proof, horizontal pair, n.h., right stamp creased, otherwise v.f., with Mikulski certificate ............................................................................................................................................ 750.00 923 ` 1917 (25.10) registered bank business cover from Moscow to Gomel (today second-largest city in Belarus), correctly franked with 35k, tied by cds, with additional Moscow (26.10) departure and Gomel (Mog.) arrival on 28th October, fine-v.f. A significant historical item used on the day of the Great October Revolution (on 7 November 1917, Vladimir Lenin led his revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government), Russia was still using the Julian Calendar at the time, so period references show a 25 October date. The October revolution ended the phase of the revolution instigated in February, replacing Russia’s short-lived provisional parliamentary government with government by Soviets, local councils elected by bodies of workers and peasants) 1,500.00 -125 - 931 930 932 933 934 935 939 940 937 949 942 946 941 945 952 955 947 948 950 954 -126 - U.S. & Worldwide September 9-10, 2014 Stamps & Covers 924 (w)a 1917 Currency stamps, 1k orange and 2k green, panes of 25, unused without gum as issued, v.f., cat. $1,500 .........................................................................................................................................(114-115) 500.00 925 ` 1918 (19 Sep) home-made cover registered in Verny (today Almaty in Kazakhstan) franked on back with Postal Fiscals 5k, 20k and 75k, paying the proper 1r, side flaps opened, fine-v.f., rare .............. 1,000.00 926 ww 1918 35k dark blue, upper left sheet corner margin single, variety imperf. at top, n.h., natural gum wrinkles, v.f. ........................................................................................................................................(149var) 500.00 927 ` 1918 35k dark blue (100), apparently a complete sheet, used in combination with additional franking incl. Imperial Arms multiples, paying 63.50r on parcel card from Lyubintzy Novgorod Gouv. (23.11.19) to Petrograd, with invalidating punch holes applied to stamps and card, rare and unusual item ......................................................................................................................................................(149var) 750.00 928 ` 1918 70k red brown (40) including vertical strip of four on front, also panes of 16 and 20 on back, used in combination with imperf. 50k Imperial Arms, paying 28.50r on parcel card from Borovichi Novgorod Gouv. (22.11.19) to Petrograd, with arrival pmk (25.11), fine and rare ........................(150) 1,000.00 929 ` 1918-19 selection of eight money transfer cards, franked with different combinations of postal fiscals 1k, 5k, 10k, also 50k, 5r,10r, 25r and 100r, used from Russian Central Asia incl. Novaya Bukhara, Chardzhui (Turkmenistan), Merke (Turkestan), Tomkak to Tashkent, Kokand (Fergana), also one from Kandalaksha to Petrozavodsk, etc., five are registered, some normal flaws, mostly fine-v.f., very rare group .................................................................................................................................. 1,500.00 930 ` 1921 (5 Sep) registered cover sent without stamps from Odessa to the United States, bearing the rare provisional 3-line handstamp “Oplacheno Diengami”, with postmaster’s signature at bottom (“Paid in Cash” amount of 3,125rub filled in by hand), New York (6 Nov) arrival pmks on back, usual cover wear, fine example of pre-payment of postage in cash, during the uncertainty of post- revolutionary inflation era ................................................................................................................................ 500.00 931 ` 1921 (27 Oct) small registered cover sent without stamps from Saratov to Leipzig, bearing “Von Ausland uber Berlin” registration label, Moscow transit and Leipzig (9.11) arrival pmks, framed “Pochtovyj Zbor” handstamp on back relative to the rate collected, with postmaster’s signature ........ 350.00 932 ` 1921 (16 Jan) registered cover sent without stamps from Gaisin to Germany, with “Von Ausland uber Berlin” registration label, Moscow transit and Berlin (3.2) arrival pmks, manuscript “Collected 10,000r” (correct rate) and postmaster’s signature (due to constantly changing postal rates, shortages of stamps resulted in manuscript notations “collected in cash”, “paid cash” etc. These envelopes were not normally saved by collectors and are considerably rare) ........................................ 250.00 933 w 1921 2r brown and 200r dark brown, each double impression, l.h. or n.h., v.f. ................(178,182var) 150.00 934 ww 1921 250r violet, horizontal pair, double impression, creases and offsets on back, fine ........(183var) 150.00 935 ww 1921 250r violet, pelure (cigarette) paper, double impression, horizontal pair, n.h., v.f. .......(183var) 150.00 936 wwa 1921 250r violet, double impression, pane of 20 (!), n.h., few minor gum inclusions or disturbances, v.f. and impressive multiple ..............................................................................................................(183var) 1,000.00 937 wwa 1921 300r green, block of six, double impression, additional diagonal fold-over variety resulting in partial printing on gum, n.h., v.f., rare ............................................................................................(184var) 750.00 -127 - September 9-10, 2014 Cherrystone Auctions 938 E 1922 2,000r red, unissued design, imperf. vertical pair, proof on thick, cream paper, natural inclusion back, v.f., with 1998 Mandrovski certificate, only 50 printed (two panes of 25) (Liapine NP1) ................................................................................................................................................................... 3,500.00 939 w 1922 5,000r on 1r orange, horizontal pair, left stamp without surcharge, l.h., v.f.