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Auction 56

Russian Picture Postcards, Covers & Bills of Exchange

An extensive collection of Russian picture postcards featuring Floods, Revolution, Views of Moscow, Charity, Advertising and Exhibition Postcards, Soviet Propaganda, and Bills of Exchange

July 29 - 30, 2026

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Auction 56

George Werbizky's Zemstvo Collection

Outstanding selection of rare Zemstvo stamps, postal history, and classic philatelic rarities, assembled over decades. The auction is currently being prepared, with new lots added weekly.

September, 2026

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1931 'The Leading Link of Reconstruction of Railway Transport Is Electrification' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$25

1930 'Gas is not Scary, if There is a Gas Mask! Learn to Use a Gas Mask. Purchase Gas Masks in the Organizations of Osoaviakhim!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$25

1901-52 Russian Empire, Soviet Union, Russia, Small Collection of Steamship mail Covers with Readable Postmarks

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$40

1930 'See Crimea the Pearl of USSR' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1932 'Strengthen the Fire Protection of the USSR! Join the Ranks of the Voluntary Fire Society! Study the Technology of Fighting Fires!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$30

1929-33 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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1913 (22 Aug) 'Odessa - Nikolaev Parohod' steamship mail postcard PPC (Woman and Child in Veil) to Nikolaev (Mykolaiv) franked with 3k Romanovs Issue

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1882-87 70k Bills of Exchange, Russia, Denisov В-12а.6 CV 60$

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1931 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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1930 'Every Factory, Workshop, Brigade — into the Ranks of the Builders of the Airship 'Klim Voroshilov!'' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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1932 'Strengthen the Sanitary Defense of the USSR! Join the Ranks of the ROKK!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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1930 'Join the Ranks of MOPR!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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1923-35 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers

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$150

1927-35 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers and Postcard

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$120

1932 'Shock Task of the ROKK — Improve the Life of Workers at New Construction Sites, Mines, Factories, and Transport! We Will Vigorously Implement the 6 Conditions of Comrade Stalin!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1911 'Crimea - Caucasus Parohod' steamship mail postcard PPC (Alupka. Palace. Crimea) to Putivl, Kursk Province

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$85

1932 'International and Anti-Religious Education — the Main Links of Communist Education! 'Friend of Children', Be a Leader in This Matter!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$20

1929 'By Setting aside a Few Kopecks a Day for Life Insurance You Provide for Yourself and Your Family' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$30

1932 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$50

1931-32 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$30

1927-34 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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1932 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$50

1932 'For 3100 MTS. Such Is the Path from the Plow to the Tractor, Traversed by the Peasantry of Our Country. — Stalin' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$25

1934-35 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers

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$150

1916 (14 July) 'Odessa - Batumi Parohod' steamship mail postcard PPC (Odessa. Medium Fountain) to Poltava with Postage Due Stamp

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$325

1931 'Everyone Must Participate in the Construction of Soviet Airships' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$25

1931-32 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$85

1931 'Down with Lynch Law! Long Live Black Workers!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$45

1910 Industrial Arts Exhibition in Odessa, Russian Empire, Picture Postcard

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$25

Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers

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$120

1929 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$40

1935 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers

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$150

1929 'State Mail-Order Enterprise 'Univerpocht'... sends by Post in the Shortest Time beds of English Higher Grades...' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$40

1900 'Rybinsk - Nizhny' steamship mail postcard PPC (Kazan University) to Dinant (Begium) via Yaroslavl franked with pair 2k

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$30

1929 'Subscribe to the Newspapers: 'Rabochaya Moskva', 'Moskovsky Komsomolets', 'Vechernyaya Moskva' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$30

1910 Russian Sea Mail in China, 4s Postal Stationery Postcard (Emperor Tenji Festival) from Japan franked with 2s Japanese stamp, Chifu Post Office Postmark

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$30

1898 'Batumi - Odessa Parohod' steamship mail postcard to Genoa (Italy)

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$200

1931 'Beet Growers — Collective Farmers and Individual Peasants! Do Not Let Piled Beets Wither! Pile Cleaned Beets into Heaps, Cover with Soil' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1930 'Travel on the Volga. The Cradle of Russian Song!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1941-43 Soviet Union, Group of Military Postcards

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$10

1943-45 Soviet Union, Group of Military Field Post Feldpost Censored Postcards

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$12

1929-30 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$40

1916 (4 Aug) 'Odessa - Alexandrovsk Parohod' steamship mail postcard PPC (T. V. Popieska. Merchants Garden) to Maykop (Kuban Region) franked with 3k Russian Empire Issue

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$210

1916 (21 Oct) 'Baku - Enzel Parohod' Steamship Mail WWI Registered Censored Cover from Baku (Azerbaijan) to Stocckholm (Sweden) franked with pair 10k of Russian Empire issue, violet postmark 'Opened by military censorship. Caucasian Military Censor No. 43'

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$100

1876 'Taganrog - Kerch' steamship mail Cover to Genoa (Italy) franked with 8k, Berdiansk Postmark

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$850

1914 Russian Empire, WWI Correspondence of the Armies of the Republic Postcard franked with Propaganda Issue on the Occasion of the Peace Manifesto of Nicholas II

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$20

1943-45 Soviet Union, WWII, Military, Collection of Mint Postcards

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$90

1938-56 Soviet Union, WWII, Military, Collection of Mint Picture Postcards

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$95

1932 'Timely Payment of Rent and Share in Housing Cooperation — A Guarantee of Strengthening the Housing Economy' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$25

1930 'Fertilize Fields with Peat — You will Increase the Yield' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1932 'By 100% Realization of the Sixth Osoaviakhim Lottery, We Will Strengthen the Technical Might of the Red Army and the Technical Base of Osoaviakhim! Technology in the Period of Reconstruction Decides Everything — (Stalin)!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Covers

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$130

1942-45 Soviet Union, Group of Military Postcards

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$10

S.A. Levanevsky - Hero of the Soviet Union. The Pride of Civil Air Fleet. The Heroic Struggle for the Development of the Soviet Arctic. 'Let's build the Odesa (Odessa)-Kyiv-Chernihiv-Moscow highway', Soviet Union, USSR, Russia, Civil Aviation Promotion Committee Picture Postcard

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$85

Head of the Chelyuskin Expedition and Camp, member of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences O. Y. Shmidt. The Heroic Struggle for the Development of the Soviet Arctic. 'Let's build the Odesa (Odessa)-Kyiv-Chernihiv-Moscow highway', Soviet Union, USSR, Russia, Civil Aviation Promotion Committee Picture Postcard

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$65

1930 Soviet Union, Group of Advertising and Propaganda Postcards

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$40

1932 'Working Woman! Prepare to Repel the Interveners, Master Military Technology of the Defense of the USSR!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$35

1930 'See Crimea the Pearl of USSR!' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$20

1942-46 Soviet Union, WWII, Military, Collection of Used Postcards

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$70

1929 'Do not Keep Money at Home, but Keep it in a Savings Bank' Soviet Union Advertising and Propaganda Postcard

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$30

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1924 3r Gold Definitive issue 'Gold Standard', Russia, USSR (Perf. 13.5:10:13.5:13.5, Sc. 292 var, Margin from the right side, Certificate, Rare)

$1,800

1922 RSFSR 1200 Germ Mark Consular Fee Stamp Airmail (Type III, CV $5400, MNH, Signed)

$1,600

1866 5k Plate Proof in black and lavender prepared for the Paris Exhibition, Horizontal watermark, Russian Empire, Russia (Scott 22P, Proof, Certificate, Rare)

$1,600

1863 (24 Apr) Russian Empire Cover with letter, franked with 10k Poland Kingdom First Issue (1860) (Warsaw Postmark '1', red Cancellation 'WARSZAWA 24/4', Certificate)

$3,500

1858 20 kop Russian Empire, Watermark ‘2’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 3, Zv. 3, CV $22,500)

$3,250

1958 'VIII Mendeleev Congress in Moscow'. Unissued set of two due to postponing the Congress. Liapin Catalog #H71-72. MNH OG VF Cv 3000 euros. Two Mandrovskiy Certificates.

$1,800

1922 (2 Jul) Russia, Civil War, 2k Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (DVR), Romanovs Issue Registered Postal Stationery Wrapper from Vladivostok to Suresnes (France) via London with two Cyrillic registration labels overlaid by a Latin-script registration label 'Vladivostok. Siberia. Asian Russia', red London transit cds and violet private handstamp, additionally franked with 2x35k on 2k (total franking 72k)

$1,800

1857 Russia Number One 10k (Sc. 1) brown & blue, cover from Fellini to Riga, dotted cancellation '395', RARE!

$2,500

1922 RSFSR 24 Germ Mark Consular Fee Stamp, Airmail (Zv. C2, Type I, Signed, CV $350, MNH)

$1,600

1858 10 kop Russian Empire, Watermark ‘1’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 2, Zv. 2, CV $11,000)

$3,750

1926-27 Weimar Republic, Germany, Blocks of Four (Mi. 385 - 397, 385 W OR - 388 W OR, 389 P OR, 390 W OR - 391 W OR, 392 P OR, 393 W OR, 394 P OR - 397 P OR, Sheet Inscriptions, Full Set, CV $7,500+, MNH)

$2,750

1868 3k Melitopol Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #2, [ RR ], Only 10 Recorded, Certificate, CV $8,000)

$3,250

1858 30 kop Russian Empire, Mint, Watermark ‘3’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 4, Zv. 4, CV $30,000)

$2,100

1c Panama (INVERTED Center, Print Error)

$3,000

1959 'VIII Mendeleev Congress in Moscow'. Unissued set of two due to postponing the Congress. Liapin Catalog #H71-72. MNH OG VF Cv 3000 euros. Mandrovskiy Certificates.

$1,600

1911 Odessa, Card cancelled Odessa Exhibition to Moravia Austria. The Exhibition opened again during 1911, Extremely Rare Exhibition Postmark, Illustrated Postcard, Russian Empire

$2,000

1925 (Jul 22) Cover from TSETSERLIG MANDAL to Kalgan, Boxed cancellation in red, Freepost issue 1924 5 cents and two times 10 cents (25 cents total) as standard postage for foreign letters, Chinese postage due 'T' handstamp, Transit c.d.s. of Russian Post Office URGA 25.7.25, Arrival handstamp KALGAN 11.8.25

$2,000

1899 2k on 5k Lebedin Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #9 [ RR ], Certificate, Used, Only 20 known, CV $4,000)

$3,000

1858 30k Russian Empire, Watermark ‘3’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 4, Zv. 4, Certificate, CV $30,000)

$2,400

1922 (15 Oct) 3k on 4k, 35k on 2k and 70k on 1k Priamur Rural Province (general Diterikhs), Far East Vladivostok, addressed to Mr. D. Scherbinin, Certificate of authenticity of secretary of the Consulate, with violet Consulate handstamp, Signature Rene Andre (Consul of France in Vladivostok) and Red Wax seal, сhecked at the French Consulate in Vladivostok

$1,900

1924 1k Gold Definitive Issue, Soviet Union USSR (IMPERFORATE, Typo, Zv. 35b, Zag. 39Pa, Certificate, MNH)

$1,500

1879 10k Kherson Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #5M, INVERTED Center, Canceled '24 May 1883', Canceled stamp NOT recorded, Ex Faberge, Certificate)

$2,000

1945 Hela Submarine (U-Boot Hela), Military Mail Field Post Feldpost, Germany, Block of Four (Mi. 13 b, Corner Margin, Plate Numbers, Signed, CV $1,820+)

$1,800

1858 20 kop Russian Empire, Mint, Watermark ‘2’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 3, Zv. 3, CV $22,500)

$1,900

1857 10k Russian Empire First Issue, Imperf (Sc. 1, Zv. 1, Watermark ‘1’, Signed)

$1,600

1915 1k, Iron Brigade Communications Committee, Odessa, Russin Empire Cinderella, Ukraine

$4,000

1882 (19 Oct) Urga, Mongolia cover addressed to Pekin, China, franked with 7k (Date-stamp Type 3b, Date EARLIER than the earliest recorded date, Rare)

$1,700

First Essayan, erroneous 1 kop on 25 Rub imperf., NH. Mentioned in ARTAR, p.140. Ex Artashes Taroumyan collection. No more than 2-3 stamps exist. Extremely Rare

$1,600

1874 6k Dukhovschina Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #5, COMPLETE Sheet, All 8 Types, Certificate, Rare, CV $20,000)

$2,300

1880 3k Starobelsk Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #17 [ RR ], Certificate, Only 23 mint stamps known, Ex Faberge and Ferrari, CV $2,000)

$1,800

1912 20pf 'First Regensburg Airmail', German Empire, Germany, Semi-Official Airmail Stamp, Certificate

$1,700

Lebedin Zemstvo 1894 (20 Aug) Сombination cover of a letter sent from the village of Istorop (Исторопъ) in the Lebedin district (Kharkov province) to Moscow (Certificate)

$6,000

1912 German Empire, Germany, Semi-Official Airmail Stamp

$4,750

1875-79 25pf German Empire, Germany (Mi. 35, Signed, CV $6,800, MNH)

$2,750

1958 'Ilya Chavchavadze, Georgian writer' Zverev Catalog #2073A Variety Line perforation 12.5 instead of Combined perforation 12.5x12 MNH OG VF Cv $5000 Kirghner Certificate Rare stamp

$1,900

1924 3r Gold Definitive Issue, Soviet Union, USSR, Russia (Zv. 53E, Sc. 292 var, Typography, Perf 13.5x13.5x13.5x10, Buchsbayew and Diena certificates, Extremely Rare, CV $20,000, MNH)

$6,000

1922 RSFSR 1200 Germ Mark Consular Fee Stamp, Airmail (Zv. C8, Type I, Signed, Certificate, CV $3,000)

$2,500

1922 (30 Jan) Chita, Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (DVR), Russia, Civil War, Registered Cover from Trading House in Vladivostok to Paris with Cyrillic registration label overlaid by a Latin-script registration label 'Vladivostok. Siberia. Asian Russia' and blue registration handstamp, mixed franking with THREE different issues: pair of 10k and 5k of Vladivostok, Far Eastern Republic (DVR) issue, and 4 x 1k, 2 x 3k, 5k, and overprinted 4k (1922 issue) of Chita, Far Eastern Republic (DVR) issue

$7,000

1905 (11 Apr) Urga, Mongolia cover addressed to Kalgan, China, franked with 7k (Date-stamp Type 4b)

$9,000

1897 Canada, Full Set (SG 121, 122, 125, 126, 128 - 133, 135 - 140, CV $7,800)

$1,500

1927 Gold Definitive Issue, Soviet Union USSR (Zv. #190 Ia, `ПОТЧОВАЯ` instead `ПОЧТОВАЯ`, Print Error, CV $7500, MNH)

$3,750

1898 3k Soroki Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #10, INVERTED Background + Shifted Red, Sheet, Rare, CV $24,000+)

$3,000

1881 20k Saint-Petersburg Сity Public Telegraph, Russian Empire, First Issue, Pair (Reprint, Margin, Certificate)

$1,900

1919, 40gr on 2k Grodno Military Communications Courier Post, Germany Occupation WWI (Block of Four, Certificate)

$2,750

First Essayan, erroneous 1 kop on 25 Rub perf., cancelled Dilidjan. Ex Artashes Taroumyan collection. The picture of this stamp is shown in ARTAR, p.140. Extremely Rare

$1,600

1881 3k Starobelsk Zemstvo, Russia (Schmidt #20I [ RR ], Imperforate, Certificate, Only 32 known, CV $2,500)

$2,200

1891 (16 Sep) Eastern Correspondence Offices in Levant, Disinfected Cover from Constantinople to Moscow via Odessa franked with 10k (Kr. 50, Perf. 14.25 x 14.75) with handstamp 'Очищено в Одесском карантине', Only few known

$2,000

1916 Germany Submarine Mail, Berlin German Insurance Bank, 'Lighthouse and Ship', Corner Margins (Full set, Watermark, Only 200 issued, Rare, MNH)

$4,250

1950 (May 2) Overseas Chinese Remittance & Letter Office envelope sent from Amoy to Rangoon, Burma

$1,500

1919, 40gr on 3k Grodno Military Communications Courier Post, Germany Occupation WWI (Block of Four, Certificate)

$2,750

1931 (17 Nov) Urga (Ulan Bator), Republic of Mongolia, Local cover franked with imperf 10m with INVERTED overprint

$1,500

1921 10k Verkhneudinsk Provisional Zemstvo Government Postal Stationery Cover from Selenginsk to Zhigalovo, franked with 2x7r on Imperial stamps and 2x70k on RSFSR stamps (total franking 15r 50k), Russian Civil War

$3,500

1867 10k on 20k Saint-Petersburg Сity Public Telegraph, Russian Empire, Second Issue (Certificate, Rare)

$2,300

1946 Germany, Soviet zone, Reconstruction of German National Theater in Weimar, Sheet, Block (Michel 3 A XZ, Size 105 x 100mm, Rare, CV 20,000 EUR)

$2,200

1860 10k Poland Kingdom First Issue, Russian Empire (Mi. 1, Postmark '325', CV $300)

$1,600

1882 3k Starobelsk Zemstvo, Russia

$1,900

1858 30 kop Russian Empire, Watermark ‘3’, Perf. 14.5x15 (Sc. 4, Zv. 4, CV $30,000)

$3,250

1925 Odessa, International Letter, 6 Advertising Stamps of Salve Cigarettes, the Kremlin, More Than $2,000 According to the Catalogue

$2,100

1915-19 20pf German Empire, Germany, Pair (Mi. 87 II U, Imperforate, Signed, Canceled, Rare, CV $9,000)

$1,600

1924 3r Gold Definitive Issue, Soviet Union, USSR, Russia (Zag. 57C, Zv. 53A, Sc. 292a, Typography, Perf 10, Buchsbayew certificate, Rare, CV $5,500)

$2,500

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