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Auction: 141 - Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 666

Russia Pre-UPU Stampless Mail to the West, the Grand and Gold Medal winning 10 frame exhibit formed by Dr. Ross Marshall, offered intact and still on exhibit pages, examines the routes, rates and markings of Russian stampless mail to Western Europe and beyond, includes unpaid, pre-paid and part-paid covers from the 18th century onwards until Russia joined the U.P.U. in 1874, the exhibit itself contains 202 covers which delicately explain the complicated postal history due to the effect of various Postal Treaties, differing currencies, weight measurements, domestic rates as well as evaluating the difference between unpaid mail versus those that were pre-paid and part-paid, each cover is accurately described and differentiates the aforementioned complications as they made their way through the main transit routes of Prussia and Austria, also included are references and material associated with the exhibit such as 36 covers in frames left out due to limited space; a collection, decades in the making and near impossible to replicate (scans of the entire exhibit available upon request).

Estimate
$15,000 to $20,000