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Image and Description of Lot #1147 of Auction #99

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WORLDWIDE AIR POST STAMPS AND POSTAL HISTORY

SOVIET RUSSIA (RSFSR AND SOVIET UNION)

 

Lot # 1147   |    cover

1934-35, two real-photo postcards representing aviators Anatoly Alexeyev, one of the rescuers of the Umberto Nobile expedition (1928) and participant of the air expedition to the North Pole (1937); Vasily Molokov, one of the rescuers of the Chelyuskin Expedition (1934), both are Heroes of the Soviet Union, cards are unused and VF, printed in quantity 5,000-10,000 copies only, Est. $200-$250 .

 

 

 

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