Lot 51915 – Russia: 1771-1858 PRE-STAMP EXHIBITION COLLECTION

Russia: 1771-1858 PRE-STAMP EXHIBITION COLLECTION: Extensive and valuable assembly of more than one hundred (100+) stampless folded letter sheets, showing an vast array of straight-line, boxed and circular mkgs, mostly all are listed and annotated in the Dobin catalogue, however there are some seventeen mkgs that are unlisted, complete listing of all entires is included showing the Dobin rarity with additional information and notes, the following are a brief listing of some of the more important and rare items, 1813 RIGA (Dobin Rarity 8), SHATSK superb 2-line ds (Unlisted in Dobin), SIMBIRSK 2-line ds (Unlisted in Dobin), PSKOV straight-line (Dobin Rarity 5), ORANIENBAUM straight-line (Dobin Rarity 5), 1850 SERPUKHOV straight-line (Dobin Rarity 8), 1818 Curved strike of ST.PETERSBURG (unlisted in Dobin), KOZLOV straight-line (Dobin Rarity 8), VIATKA straight-line (Dobin Rarity 8), 1854 VASILKOV double framed (Unlisted in Dobin), 1802 TAMBOV straight-line (Dobin Rarity 8), 1771 ST.PETERSBURG straight-line (Dobin Rarity 8), 1816 RIGA boxed strike (Dobin Rarity 8) etc., plus important reference book Postmarks of Russian Empire, by Dobin, HB, 538pp, a truly wonderful collection being an excellent basis for study with the potential of building a great collection of this early Russian mail

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