RUSSIA - 1808 ENTIRE LETTER FROM ESTONIA. (8 Jan) Entire Letter addressed to Riga (now in Latvia) showing straight-line Cyrillic "Pernov" (now Parnu) cancel. Scarce!

RUSSIA - 1834-1896 POSTAL HISTORY OF ESTONIA. An interesting collection of stampless covers & entire letters in a cover album, inc 1834 EL to Mitau with bilingual "Dorpat" cds, 1835 EL with bilingual "Dorpat" cds & dated Cyrillic two-line "V Valk Poluceno" (Valga) cancel, 1850 cover & 1851 EL with different boxed dated "Revel" cancels, 1851 EL with bilingual "Pernau" cds, 1856 & 1859 EL's with different boxed dated "Fellin" cancels, 1856 EL from Germany with "Pernau" cds & boxed dated "Poluceno" cancel, 1857 Entire with "Pernau" cds & boxed dated "Fellin" cancel, 1885 Entire with two-line Cyrillic "Teilitz" cancel and "Fellin" & "Oberpahlen" cds's, 1878, 1883 & 1889 EL's with different two-line dated Cyrillic "Uddern" cancels (one in blue, two also with "Derpt" cds's), 1860's - 1890's covers & entires with various Town & Coach Station cds's inc Fellin, Derpt, Oberpahlen, Pernov, Verro, Weissenstein, Quellenstein, Revel, Merjama, Hapsal, Arensburg, Leal, Hallick & Lemzal, a few from foreign destination etc. Fine condition, very attractive! (40 covers)

RUSSIA - 1842 ENTIRE FROM ESTONIA. (27 May) Entire addressed to Dorpat (now Tartu), showing nice oval bilingual "Kuikatz" (now Kuigatsi) cancel on reverse. Very fine condition!

RUSSIA - 1848 ENTIRE FROM ESTONIA. (10 Jan) Entire addressed to Pernau (now Parnu) showing two-line dated Cyrillic "Wesenberg" (now Rakvere) cancel and bilingual "Pernau" cds on reverse. Fine condition!

RUSSIA - 1850 ENTIRE FROM ESTONIA. (Nov) Entire addressed to Pernau (now Parnu) showing scarce undated circular bilingual "Arensburg" (now Kuressaare) and bilingual "Pernau" (now Parnu) cds cancels. Fine condition!

RUSSIA - 1850 ENTIRE FROM ESTONIA. Circa 1850 Entire addressed to Teilitz (now Tolliste) showing scarce bilingual "Walk" (now Valga) cds cancel with manuscript date. Fine condition!

RUSSIA - 1858-1917 FINE USED "EMPIRE" COLLECTION presented chronologically on stockpages. We see a lightly duplicated range with shade varieties throughout that includes the 1858 10k & 30k P12½, 1865 20k, 1866-75 horizontally laid paper set to 20k plus vertically laid paper 3k, 10k, 20k & 30k, 1875-79 to 20k, 1884-88 set to 70k, later Arms types with most values to 10r & 1913 Romanov Dynasty set to 1r. Good foundation collection (160+ stamps)

RUSSIA - 1858-1919 ATTRACTIVE SPECIALIZED COLLECTION of chiefly fine used stamps with many shades, paper & perf types, varieties & postmarks, all identified and nicely written up on leaves, inc 1858 10k, 1863 5k Town Posts unused, 1865 set to 5k & 20k, 1866 set, 1875-79 set, extensive ranges of 1884-1919 Arms types to 10r inc two 10r imperf with shifted centres NHM, 1913 Romanov vals to 5r mint, 1914-1917 Charity & Currency stamps issues etc. Fine & fresh condition, a great lot for the specialist! (approx 435+ stamps)

RUSSIA - 1865 30k carmine & green, Mi 17y, VFU

RUSSIA - 1866 ENTIRE LETTER FROM ESTONIA. Stampless entire letter showing rare small straight-line "SELLI" cancel. Fine condition, scarce!

RUSSIA - 1875 ENTIRE LETTER FROM ESTONIA. (23 Oct) stampless Entire Letter addressed to Trickaten (now Trikatas in Latvia), showing two dated two-line Cyrillic "Didrikul" (now Tiidrekula) cancels in blue, Cyrillic "Volmar" (now Valmiera in Latvia) cds and paper Church seal on reverse. Fine condition!

RUSSIA - 1875-79 8k vertically laid paper, Michel 26y, SG 37, vfu, fresh

RUSSIA - 1878 TELEGRAMME (ESTONIA) A superb complete Telegramme form addressed to "Reval, Russland" (Tallinn) with message in German, and showing very fine Cyrillic "Postovnyj Vagon No 39-40" Railway cds cancel and printed paper Telegraph seals on the back. In fine condition, and very scarce.

POLAND - 1879 ENTIRE TO LONDON bearing Russia 1875 8k Arms, Mi 26x, tied by OZORKOV boxed cancel, with various transit and arrival marks on front and back. Usual filing folds, but otherwise in fine condition.

LATVIA - 1913 cover to Triest - Russia 3k Arms & 7k R/nov with Mitau cds

RUSSIA - 1917 20k on 14k Romanov Dynasty marginal block of 4 with revolutionary 'Cap & Swords' INVERTED overprint, very fine mint. Attractive! (4 stamps)

RUSSIA - 1919 WESTERN ARMY 1.50r on 35k lilac and green, Michel 31 (SG 50), very fine mint (2 stamps NHM) corner vertical strip of five, scarce multiple.

BATUM - 1920 25r on 25k deep violet and green, surcharged in black, SG 32, very fine mint. Signed.

BATUM - 1920 25r on 50k green and copper red, surcharged in black, SG 33, very fine mint. Signed.

BATUM - 1920 50r on 2k yellow green, SG 34, very fine mint. Signed.

BATUM - 1920 50r on 3k carmine red, SG 35, very fine mint. Signed.

RUSSIA - 1921 MINSK REVOLUTIONARY OVERPRINT 1921 (250r) on 2k green perf block of six with the full large Minsk circular control handstamp in black, Michel 1a, superb with 3 stamps hinged & 3 never hinged mint. Rare multiple with the complete overprint. (Block of 6)

RUSSIA - 1921-49 FINE USED RANGES neatly presented on stockpages. We see useful perf & imperf ranges including 1921 Industry 40r, 1922 opt'd values to 100000r on 250r, 1931 Air Airship set & Zeppelin set to 1r, 1932 15k Exhibition, 1933 'Races of Russia' set together with 1935 Engels set, 1935 Party Activists set and 1937 Air set and much more. Ideal collection for expansion (250+ stamps)

RUSSIA - 1922 Charity 'Food Parcel Request' card sent to USA

RUSSIA - 1922 LOCAL ISSUE FOR KIEW 8000k on 5k yellowish brown and green, overprint reading down Mi. 2 I. a horizontal pair on a piece, tied by Kiew cds, scarce !