ABOUT AUCTION

 

Our upcoming Live Bidding Auction #91
will be held on October 15 - 16, 2021

The Online Catalog of Auction #91 is posted on the website with full-color images.

If you would like to view our lots and place bids, please click the CATALOG.

To download the Catalog of Auction #91 in pdf format, click cat91.pdf.

We will accept bids for Auction #91 through our website as usual and by mail, fax, e-mail, or phone. We guarantee acceptance of absentee bids if they are received no later than two hours before the beginning of each section.

Live Bidding Auction #91 will be held in two sections.

The Auction #91 contains
The Volokolamsk RSFSR and Soviet Union Specialized Collection,
Various Russian Stamps and Covers of other owners.

The Sale represents:

• Imperial Russian material with 35 lots of Romanov Dynasty proofs from the Tsar Collection;
• Zemstvo (Rural Post) containing 135 lots of various districts from Alexandria to Zolotonosha and representing numerous items from the Ferrari, Faberge, Schmidt, and other famous collections;
• Valuable RSFSR items including:
  - "Sword Breaking Chain" 70k brown, well margined imperforated single in mint never hinged condition,
  - se-tenant block of 8 definitive stamps of 200r brown and 4 Volga Famine Relief stamps of 2250r brown with gutter in the middle,
  - iconic lithographic surcharge 20r on 15k brown lilac and blue, top sheet margin imperforated single in post office fresh quality;
• Fabulous Soviet Union material:
  - first definitives on paper without watermark imperforated 50k, 20k, 1r, and 3r; perforated 14½x15 astonishing 15k lemon yellow, perforated 12 very scarce 1r, various and very rare compound perforation of 3r,
  - first definitives on watermarked paper including imperforated 18k in horizontal pair and several stamps of litho 8k with "small head" variety,
  - Esperanto Congress of 1926, complete set of two with perforation 11½ in mint never hinged condition,
  - Moscow Philatelic Exhibition "Kartonka" souvenir sheet of 1932 in premium quality,
  - Proofs and Imperfs of Baku Commissars, Lenin Mausoleum, Ivan Fedorov, First Decade without Lenin, and Moscow Subway,
  - Moscow Spartacist Games complete set in premium quality blocks of four,
  - Perforation varieties of Alexander Pushkin issue of 1937,
  - Museum level scarcities of Architectural Projects, including Goznak essay of the Palace of Soviets,
  - Imperforates of Dzerzhinsky, Red Army Anniversary, North Pole and both Trans-Atlantic Flights, Papanin's Expedition, Flight to the Far East, and several definitives of 1936-39,
  - Numerous perforated errors and unissued stamps from 1940's-50's, including Mendeleyev Congress, Centenary of Khabarovsk, Voroshilovgrad (block of four), 250th Anniversary of the Poltava Battle, and valuable imperforates from the 1970s-90s,
  
• Modern Russian Federation rarities, which came to the market by special order, including the practically complete collection of imperforated stamps and souvenir sheets;
• Excellent Semi–Postal issues :
  - Nice range of Philately for the Children issue, including inverted overprints in the complete set of six, first issues inverts on perforated and imperforated 1k,
  - Philately for the Labor with double gold surcharge 1r+1r on 10r, only 25 stamps were printed, inverted silver surcharge 4r+4r on 5000r and other varieties;
  
• First Class Air Post rarities:
  - Airplane "Fokker F111" 5r green with wide "5" variety on thin paper, with only 25 stamps were printed,
  - Moscow Zeppelin Flight 40k and 80k, imperforated complete set of two in horizontal pairs in mint never hinged condition,
  - Airship over the Arctic Region 50k brown of 1931 with the double impression (MNH) and perforated proof of this stamp in brownish violet color, of only a few produced,
  - International Polar Year 50k carmine with perforation L10½,
  - "Stratostat USSR 1" and Moscow – San Francisco Flight in blocks of four;
  
• Postage Due stamps:
  - Numerals of 1k red, 2k lilac, 8k green, and 10k dark blue, litho printing, imperforated complete set of four,
  - Numerals 10k dark blue, a single of litho printing with perforation 14½x14, only a handful known in mint condition;
  
• Collection of Soviet Advertising labels of 1923-29 and several other Collections and Group Lots.

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