Auction 250 - 256 Day 4

1859/1916: Lot 137 covers/postcards with several rare and interesting usages in Russia and abroad incl. 23 inland 1859/65 covers at the 10 kop inland rate with Arms definitive perf 12½ showing a variety of dotted numeral cancellations, 1869 printed matter at 7 kop rate from Berdiansk, 1870/72 two stationery envelopes despatched at Moscow city PO showing numeral ‘2’, 1884 formular postcard abroad, 1884 three colour franking Taganrog to Hydra Greece, 1899 postcard with blue Stanziya Kainsk cds, registered mail, mass frankings, 1902 registered cover sent from Port Arthur via Siberia to Lausanne, 1908 value letter to Jerusalem, 1908 Poltava Zemstvo cover, WWI camouflage cancellation on cover Kremenchug to Warsaw, 1908 SPB to Holland, missent with German shipmail to New York, 1904/06 Money Transfer Orders (4), 1914 Finnish censorship strip, 1906 postcard with mixed franking Russia - India, 1881 registered cover abroad from Kamenets-Podolski to Brussels, 1882 octagonal SPB railway cancellation in blue, also several pre-UPU multi-colour frankings abroad with 13 kop to Italy & France, 14 kop to Germany, 20 kop to Germany, Great Britain, Italy & France, 26 kop. double rate to France, 27 kop to Great Britain, 28 kop. to France, 30 kop. to Great Britain, 35 kop to Italy, 36 kop to the Netherlands, 40 kop double rate to France, also Russian Levant with 1904 Persia stationery postcard to the Russian ROPiT PO in Samsun, cover Odessa to Khios with Russian stamp tied upon arrival at the ROPiT agency in Khios, 1880 cover to Constantinople tied upon arrival, 1904 Jerusalem printed matter. A strong lot with high retail value.