Lot 32305 – Russia – Zemstvos: Balance group of Zemstvos with rare items

Russia – Zemstvos: Balance group of Zemstvos with rare items, incl. Bakhmut 1901 1k brown and 3k green in mint n.h. complete sheets of 25; Belebey 1902 2k red imperf. mint pair, minor gum bends (Ch.8a) and 1905 5k blue & rose perf. mint with inverted background variety (Ch.14b); Berdyansk 1868 10k mint h.r. right marginal block of four (Ch.1), plus a single mint h.r. showing plate flaw, 1892 Imperial Eagle 2k postal stationery newspaper wrapper from Moscow to Bogorodsk uprated with 1k violet (Ch. 58); Konstantinograd 1913-14 1k green and 3k carmine rose in complete mint sheets of 25; Krasny: 1912 “Nevsky” 3k mint hr tête-bêche gutter pair possibly on pale pink paper; 1896 envelope to Kharkov franked on back with Novomoskovsk 3k black and rose cancelled by faint violet “Zemskaya Pochta” hs in combination with Imperial Eagle 7k on front, one of only 9 covers recorded from this Zemstvo (ex Dr Nikitin), Orgeev 1879 3k with horizontal net mint imperf. in vertically rejoined pair (lower stamp torn in half), nevertheless exceptionally rare, ex Ferrari and Fabergé (St.71) and 1885 3k yellow-green mint (heavy hinge), listed by Schmidt as no.16, 1894 envelope sent from Kurakino volost with Totma multicolour 3k perf. 11 1/2 (narrow margins), cancelled by manuscript date, a great rarity (ex Fabergé); Velsk 1902-16 6k green mint n.h. complete sheet of 25; Zadonsk 1891-4, group incl. mint 1891 5k blue & brown showing printing separation lines in all corners (Ch.19) and mint 1893 5k (Ch.28), 1893 5k red used (2) with blue cds (less than 15 stamps known according to Schmidt); and finally 1894 5k yellow-orange with neat blue cds, extensive thinning but rated RR by Schmidt (Ch.32); all ex “Nikolai”.