1848/1960 (ca.) amazing invaluable exhibition collection of Russian postal history concerning postage due in Russia and USSR, this is the lifework of an advanced collector with a great knowledge, every item is very well described, here it is only a small extract: the collection contents ca. 196 items of all periods and kinds of Russian postal history with many different postmarks of postage due (cancels with letters, cercles and oval cancel, single frame cancel, canceled invalid, cancels in different languages, not only in Russian language, two items with extremely rare Georgian and Baschkiryan cancels! etc.), seven!!! items with postage due stamps of the issue 1924/25, two local covers both from Moscow with very unusual rate of 11 Kopecks postage due with stamp Mi. 1a and 1b (both in Michel -.-), one cover from Lebedyan to Moscow with very rare postage due rate of 7 Kopecks franked with a pair of Mi. 2b (-.- may be unique!!), because the sender was exempt of postal rate for the letter, but not for the registered rate!, several items from/to abroad with postage due stamps of different countries (Switzerland, Denmark, France, UK, USA, Netherlands), one cover sent from Moscow via New York to Washington D.C. was canceled 4 CENTS and franked with two stamps (with certificate Mikulski), one cover from St. Petersburg before UPU (1872) to Genova franked with postage due stamp of Italy, some items with not allowed usage of fiscal stamps (one cover from Kobrin/Belarus to Berlin with usage of fiscal stamp out of the allowed period it was possible only between 1905-1907 and after 1917), postage due on triangle covers during WWII from different FPO´s, postage due on covers/cards sent by TPO´s, several items with labels of St. Petersburg and other town "taken of the box", a franked postal form of Malakeev/Voronesh incl. the rate of postage due paid by commemorative stamps! postage due on postcard of Tientsin Russian PO in China, some items with incorrect postage due rate and corrected postage due, one cover from St. Petersburg (1867) to Bordeaux with cancel "NE FRANKIROWANO" (not franked) and later overstamped with oval cancel "FRANKIROWANO" (franked), several items with postage in inflation period (incl. postal stationery cards), very rare postage due on invalid usage of postal stationery card of issue 1875 used in 1891, two items with certificate (Dr. Leupold, Mikulski), postage due postmarks used as mute cancels at the beginning of WWI (two stamps and one cover), postage due on invalid German postal stationery card sent to Russia, postage due cancels used in Poland, postage due on items franked by earlier used stamps (fraud mail), one item with control of the right postal rate of postage due!, many items are single lots! very high value
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