Lot 60382 – 1857 First issue,10k brown and blue, large to just clear margins tied to cover

1857 First issue,10k brown and blue, large to just clear margins, strong colour, tied to an entire from Nizhny Novgorod by a black rectangular two-line mark; signed Mikulski; a fine example of this rare stamp on a clean uncreased cover, the only known Russia #1 cover cancelled by the boxed postmark of Nizhny Novgorod (see Census of the 1857 10-kopeck Imperforate Stamp of Russia by Guido Craveri, p.40).