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Latest news
AUCTION Russia, Soviet Union and Zemstvos including the Nikolai Collection – Tuesday 15th June 2021
The next auction series of David Feldman International Auctioneers will take place from June 14th to 19th in Geneva. The second day of the auction week will be dedicated to Russia, Soviet Union and Zemstvos. Following on from the outstanding series of Russian sales...
YOUR FAVOURITES – JUNE 2021
From Vladivostok to Liverpool at the Beginning of the First World War by Philip Robinson This registered cover was sent by Kunst & Albers, a large German trading company that had many branches in the Russian Far East. Franked with the 70 kopek value from the...
Your Favourites – April 2021
A postcard sent from Gizhiga to the Kampffmeyer bookstore in Berlin. Postmarked GIZHIGA PRIM. OBL. * * a (10.1.14). This is the only known mail from Gizhiga by Howard Weinert Overland westbound mail left Gizhiga (pop. 400) only once a year in January, via Okhotsk,...
Galleries
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VYATKA GUBERNIYA (PROVINCE) NON STAMP ISSUING ZEMSTVO UEZDS (DISTRICTS) by Robin Calvert
27 April 2017 Ex the Vyatka District Court Archive. From the collection of T. Page. Endorsement reads:“Received at Yaroslav Volost Pravlenye for transmission to the Zemstvo Post 11 September 1915 (signed) Volost Assessor”. BJRP 106 pages 57 to 75 download article ... more
Batum Philatelic Postcard
25 August 2015 Philatelic postcard with Batum view and three different frankings: Turkish, Batum stamps and BPP with Baghaturov signature. ... more
From the archives
Selected articles from the archives of the British Journal of Russian Philately. Classic, new, quirky, or seminal
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