Lot No. 517
| Auction No. | 29 |
| Category |
World Collections, Accumulations and Selections |
| Est. | $900 |
| Status | SOLD $1400 |
Russia Substantial MLH, used & CTO in 6 vols noting 1858 10k perf. 12½ unused (Cat. £450 MLH) & set used (Cat. £500+), 1865 perf. 14½ x 15 wove paper 3k to 30k (3 of latter), laid paper 1866/75 to 20k with shades on 10k & 1875/82 horizontally laid paper 2k to 20k plus excellent later Tsarist issues with shades & paper types to 7r. 1917/18 MLH imperfs to 10r, ditto used, 1913 Romanov Dynasty set used & to 2r (excl 1r) MLH, 1921 Volga Relief, 1922 4000r rose Rostov-on-Don Famine Relief MLH (Cat. £65), 1922 45r Air MLH & used, 1925 Lenin Mausoleum set perf MLH & used, imperf MLH, 1925 perf & imperf sets MLH, 1927 10th Anniv set of 7 MLH & used & 1927/28 portraits to 80k MLH (excl 2k) & used. Also 1931 North Pole Flight set imperf MLH, 1932 50k Air Express used, 1933 Leningrad Philatelic Exhibition 15k used (Cat. £90), 35k MLH (adherence, Cat. £250), 1934 Airship Travel to 20k used (Cat. £80+), "Ten Years Without Lenin" used (Cat. £65) & 1935 Anti-War (Cat. £110) used. Chelyuskin Rescue (Cat. £140), Moscow Underground (Cat. £55), Spartacist Games (Cat. £250), 1937 Congress M/S MLH, 1938 Crimea used, 1939 New Moscow MLH (Cat. £65) & used, 1941 Surikov used, Lermontov, 1942 Alishir, 1943 Turgenev, 1947 Supreme Soviet MLH & used & 1948 Children's Summer Vacation (Cat. £70) plus Young Communist League (Cat. £50). Finally 1949 UPU perf & imperf used & Airs used. No 1950 "Skyscrapers" & a few broken sets but all M/S's present from 1955 (mainly CTO) & 1956 "148th birthday of Aivazov" in both types SG 2006/a used (Cat. £86). A clean collection worthy of close examination. Unchecked for Soviet era perforation varieties. Cat. £5000++ (1000s + M/S's)