CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 6

1885 (Dec 1): Registered cover from Russe to Moscow, bearing first issue 1879 50 c. black & blue, tied by a crisp strike of very rare bilingual "РУСЧЮКЪ / ROUSTCHOUK" datestamp in blue, reverse with an add. information strike, two UNGENI transit cds's (border to Bessarabia) and Moscow arrival cds's (Dec 25). A very rare use of the Russian-type datestamp in Russe on scarce first issue cover. Opinion Penev (2023).rnProvenance: Corinphila sale 156 (Oct 2008), lot 4905.rnNote: Sent by the private doctor of the Russian Czar, Vladimir von Rambach to his wife in Moscow.