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Russian Empire - USSR

1867 Third Levant issue, type III. Inscribed 'Parcel post to the East. 6 kopecks for 1 lot'.
1892-03-24 stampless wax-sealed 100Fr. insured money letter sent from ZGERSH PETROKOV (now Zgierz Poland) transit THORN (Toruń) to Braunschweig Germany.
1912-10-19 postcard sent from Ekaterinodar to Biebrich (Wiesbaden) Germany, showing R.O.P.i.T. or Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company steamship Yalta. YALTA?
1914-10. This cover illustrates that the preprinted text defeats the purpose of the mute cancel, it gives away its origin - Warsaw.
1914-10-02 censored R-cover, St. Petersburg-Västerås Sweden. Sent by ASEA (acronym in English translation: General Swedish Electric Company). Up to 1933 the swastika was its logo but in 1933 the company removed it due to the symbol's association with Nazi Germany.
1918-03-17 23 kop. uprated 7kop postal stationary. The postmaster disallowed the stamp of the Romanov series with the Tsar's picture. He crossed out this stamp and applied an oval postage due hand stamp in violet ('DOPLATIT') on the front, and wrote 10k tariff.
1921-01-17 three-triangles stamped cover Solombal-Vienna. Example of 1920's clandestine mail surveillance.
1928 Esperanto cover sent from the Philatelic International "FILINTERN".
1930 Official mail letter sent from Tiflis to Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich.
1932 Unusual usage, combining both a meter frank (15k being the international ordinary letter rate) and the use of the "on account" mark.
1932 Special biplane cancel 'LENINGRAD-BERLIN' for same-day air service leningrad-Berlin.
Rare (and correct) usage of the 80k express stamp
The stamp on this postcard shows a known scarce plate error: dots in 'ФПUS' - ФП.U.S
1936-05-13 postcard sent from Verkhoyansk - (Верхоянск) YASSR with Yakut alphabet postmark. Read its incredible story.
1938-04-17 cover sent by Russian entomologist Andrey Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky.
1941-02-14 registered censored cover sent from Moscow to Leipzig, with rare red 'Zollstück' label.
1944 VOKS - Vsesoiuznoe Obshchestvo Kul'turnoi Sviazi s zagranitsei cachet.
1964 cover, the start of the 4 kop BLUE investigation.
Armenia 1920, large sized framed HP monogram overprint. SON Erivan.

Europe

French 6 centimes newspaper tax signet and Austria 1853 Ib blue green.
French 14-09-1864 money order, reverse Switzerland Fribourg 1862-67 revenue stamp affixed.
Remarkable French 700Fr value declared cover (front only), 1871 and 1873 mixed ceres franking. 15c with open B of 'REPUB'.
Netherlands 1867 stamp (10IA) on fragment.
Austrian 1874 postmark 'ARIVATE' instead of 'ARRIVATE', Müller gaKj, 6883b.
Beautiful North German Confederation 1869 'ZEHDEN'.
Hungary 1876 document revenue, remarkable artwork.
Stuttgart 1888 local receipt stamp, 5 Mrk / 3 Pfg se-tenant pair.
1888 postmark on Austro-Hungarian Empire for usage by Levant post offices, 50 soldi red-lilac. Great strike!
Turkey 1891 transfer and purchase of real estate revenue, pair.
Turkish 'Katchak' (Contrebande) Post overprint, interesting history.
Switzerland 1916-11-23 postcard, passed censorship in Austria; how?
1918 Swiss place of origin certificate.
Switzerland, Bern 1938 postal order fragment. Mixed usage of general and fixed fee revenue stamps.