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1880 (18 Jan) Podolsk Zemstvo (Moscow Province), Money arrival notification (Official summons) 150 mm x 118 mm from Podolsk Imperial Post Office to Molodinskaya (Podolsk district) "Volost Administration", for money transfer of 30r from Odessa to Slepushkino (Podolsk district), Type – Postal, printed on white paper, franked with 5k (Podolsk), canceled by handwritten cross pen lines postmark (РГ1)

Russia & Soviet Union / Zemstvo

With recipient certification by Molodinskoy Volost Starshina with his signature and Volost seal in blue-green ink on reverse

Catalog: Schmidt 6 typ. А
Condition: Used.
Cover Postal History
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George Werbizky's Zemstvo Collection
Auction 57
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United States United States , Black Mountain , NC

Outstanding selection of rare Zemstvo stamps and postal history, assembled over decades, including the World's finest collection of postmarks. Catalog numbers are based on the Schmidt Handbook. Catalog values are taken from Stamps of the Zemstvo Posts of Russia 1866–1919 by Gurevich, Poltorak, and Strebulaev (the Large Zemstvo Catalogue), as well as the Solovyev Catalogue. The auction is currently being prepared, with new lots added weekly.

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1911 (5 Jun) Bugulma Zemstvo (Samara Province), Postcard from Samara to Bugulma district, franked with 3k (Russian Empire), canceled by black circular Samara postmark. Received by the imperial post June 6, 1911 in Bugulma, transit postmark, transferred to the zemstvo post on June 7 1911, grey oval due cachet "БУГУЛЬМИНСКАЯ / ЗЕМСКАЯ ПОЧТА / ДОПЛАТИТЬ 2 к."
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