Russia
Allied (Soviet) zone issue 7 x 24 pfg, 20, 2 x12, 2 x 10, 8 pfg; the 'zehnfach frankatur' (10 x rate) introduced 21-23 June 1948 as part of the currency reform tariff; used for longer in the Russian Zone; Dresden cancellation to Cologne; 240 pfg = 24 pfg new rate; some stains and wear but a spectacular franking; (see Stich handbook p105) Reference: 1238 |
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Russian parcel card, registered from Lodz in Poland, appears to be local use, franked with arms types 50k, 20k, 3 x 10k, 5k, 3k (108 kopek rate); striking franking, on front and back, and a spectacular Poland cover Reference: 1221 |
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Russian Arms type 9 x 3 kopek + 3 x 1 kopek (30 kopek rate) on reverse of registered envelope cancelled Warsaw 1 April 1906 to Vienna; fine and spectacular Reference: 1206 |
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Registered air mail with violet h/s TEHERAN R No. 13702; d/r circular cachet 'Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship' plus a faint similar mark in Cyrillic; small violet circular registration (?) cachet 16; with 3 definitive stamps on reverse; faults to envelope Reference: 1145 |
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Plain emergency paper envelope, unfranked, with registration No 857; all text on envelope in Russian; official mail postage and registration free; 3 d/r cds b/s, all Moscow(?), 24 April 1943; presumably local delivery, unusual official mail Reference: 1128 |
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8 pictorials and 3 portrait issues franked front and back cancelled Teheran; by airmail from Polish Red Cross; sealed with local language Censor's tape; tied by circular violet cachet 'Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship No 3 & similar cyrillic on reverse; arrival cds Beyrouth 6 December(?) 1944; a spectacular franking Reference: 1110 |
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8 pictorials + 1 small definitive, 138 kopeks total, cancelled d/r cds Moscow 55 13 April 1936; to Stockholm; a nice multifranking, no backstamp Reference: 1037 |
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19 x 5 roubles (SG 279) (plus probably 2 other copies lost) & 2 x 10 roubles (SG 280); 5th anniversary of the October Revolution issue; the values expressed in '1922 roubles' each worth 10,000 times the earlier values Reference: 1036 |
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14 kopek blue PS envelope, registered, uprated with Arms issues 1 kopek and 5 kopek, cancelled by s/r cds Odessa 7 March 1901 (Russian calendar); b/s Paris Av. dʼOrléans 24 March 1901 Reference: 996 |
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4 kopek red on buff PS card cancelled VF s/r cds ODESSA 29 May 1896; light s/r arrival cds ANVERS 13 June 1896; Belgian postman's h/s 57 Reference: 994 |
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Outer wrapper, no text, from Temnikov to St Petersburg May 1960, to the St Petersburg Board of Guardians; sealed with wax seal of Temnikov Zemstvo; s/r cds 26 May 1860; faint strike large s/r cds on front; m/s '4' Reference: 1017 |
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Arms type 2 x 7 kopeks on registered envelope with Odessa registration label, cancelled d/r cds Odessa 24 April 1908; b/s d/r cds MERGOROD 27 April, KIEV 28 April 1908 Reference: 997 |
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Russian Arms types 1 rouble + 4 kopek on folded typed letter in Russian, unsealed (printed matter rate); from Tamvov 5 August 1922; b/s d/r cds Kersonov 8 August 1922 Reference: 995 |
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Finland 2 x 5 p Russian Arms design on commercial envelope from Tavastehus to Avo, 4 August 1915; cancelled with trilingual d/r cds; with red d/r Russian Cyrillic censor h/s Avo(Abo); b/s ABO/Turku roller d/s 5 Aug 1915; small faults to envelope at top do not detract Reference: 883 |
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Berlin Airlift commemorative issue, Russian Zone General issue on official envelope FDC; from Berlin-Neu Koeln to Hamburg, 23 June 1949; 24pfg overprinted 3rd German People's Congress 29-30 May 1949 (SG R54); no b/s Reference: 907 |
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envelope bearing Russian Arms series 4k + 10k on 7k, registered, cancelled with d/r bridged cds Moscow ('antique' lettering); unclear small censor's cachet No 54, on hand made wrapper; on reverse Moscow d/r cds 13 April 1917 (in between the two revolutions); London 'hooded' registered d/s 26 May 1917; blue crayon 217 on front and 13 on reverse; fragile Reference: 900 |
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tinted PPC of the Naval Engagement at Port Arthur (Russo-Japanese war); franked Hong Kong KEVII 4c black on red; from Shanghai to Manchester 2 May 1904; cancelled with the Treaty Port s/r cds SHANGHAI; nice combination Reference: 808 |
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Russian 7 kopek and 3 kopek Arms type issues cancelled d/r cds Lodz 3; to Zwickau, 14 February 1913; registered; b/s Zwickau 1 March 1913 Reference: 807 |
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POW card from Austrian soldier in a Russian Camp (stated to be Camp 26) to Pilsen, Austria 3 May 1917; triangular Austrian censor cachet "Zensur Abteiling Wien"; 2 v faint strikes of boxed Russian censor h/s Reference: 786 |
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Printed document in German concerning the German Lutherian Church in Riga dated 16 December 1865; official stampless folded letter to Marienburg cancelled Riga 8(?)December 1865 (note diffeence in Russian and other calendars) Reference: 822 |
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Official folded letter from Riga to the Pastor of the German Lutheran Church Symposium, Wolmar, b/s Riga 11 June 1877, with cachet of the Symposium Reference: 823 |
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Russian stamps used in Finland: 15 x 2 kopek gtreen, from Helsinki to Copenhagen 7 August 1915; censor band in Russian, Finnish, and Danish; red censor text h/s; spectacular and rare Reference: 790 |
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Germania issue oveprinted Russissche Polen 3,5,10,20,50 pfgs, and similar issues overprinted Gen-Gouv Warschaw 2½,7½,15 pfgs (SG 1-5,6, 9, 11) on large brown envelope used within Czenstochau; with Czenstochau violet censor cachet;, no backstamp: philatelic franking but a fine scarce assembly Reference: 613 |
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2 x 2 kopek green Rusian small arms type cancelled large letter d/r cds 8 November 1909 Meetava (Mitau) then in Russia (now Jelgava, Latvia); to Parama, Brasil; on postcard of a Reference: 627 |
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10 February 1930 Leningrad to London, Portrait issue 2 x 20kop, 10kop, 5kop, 3kop cancelled d/r cds Leningrad; red express label, white Leningrad registered label, British violet h/s express fee paid 6d, b/s Leningrad 10/2/30; fine scarce combination Reference: 591 |