ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 4597 - ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal Historye 1919 (28 Dec) registered cover franked with 3x25k violet & green, sent from Yevpatoriya (Tavricheskaya oblast) to "His Excellence, the Admiral of the Allied Forces, Sebastopol", with arrival pmk, cover creases and tears, roughly opened, fine appearance, rare Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA |
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 Lot 4598 - ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal Historye 1919 (30 July) cover addressed to Athens (c/o Russian Legation), sent by Aspirant Michel Popoff, British Mission Ekaterinodar South Russia C/o Constantinople G.H.Q., with Army Post Office and "Passed by Censor No.370" markings, backstamped on arrival, minor cover flaws, fine (before the postal service was started in August 1919, mail was censored locally and canceled in Constantinople by the Army Post Office) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA |
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 Lot 4599 - ALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA - Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal Historye 1920 (28 May) "On His Britannic Majesty's Service", legal size envelope, registered to England franked with 4x1/2p green, tied by "Army Post Office B.M.S.R" (British Mission South Russia) cds, repeated on back, censors' signature and London arrival pmks, filing fold away from the stamps, some backflap tears, fine and rare usage (the British military mission arrived in South Russia in late 1918, and started to provide General Denikin's White army with ample supplies. Denikin would have not been able to build his army of more than 200,000 men or to make his operation against Moscow without the British material. The British mission also trained and equipped Russian troops. Many of the British instructors also took part in fighting the Bolsheviks despite the orders of their government) Cherrystone Auctions U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal HistoryALLIED INTERVENTION IN RUSSIA - SOUTH RUSSIA |
