Showing posts with label RSFSR postal history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label RSFSR postal history. Show all posts
Monday, 18 April 2016

Russia, RSFSR Inflation covers

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Click on Image to Magnify Inflation covers are popular with collectors and would be more popular if there was not one problem: a ...
Thursday, 3 September 2015

RSFSR: Two Interesting Covers from 1922

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Click on Image to Magnify Click on Image to Magnify We think of the Bolsheviks as specialist in propaganda, extensively usin...
Wednesday, 22 July 2015

Russian Brides

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Click on Image to Magnify I guess this Blog post is going to get a lot of hits ... The card above is of interest in at least fo...
Thursday, 16 July 2015

Russia 1917: the transition from the Provisional Government to Soviet power

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In the Soviet Union, the anniversary of the (Bolshevik) Russian Revolution was celebrated on 7 November, the New Style equivalent of 25 Octo...
Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Darling, I think someone is opening our mail ...

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Click on Images to Magnify It doesn't get more clumsy than this. In World War One, Imperial Russian mail censorship was exte...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

Russia: Foreign Mail Tariffs in 1920 - 1921

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From 30 September 1920, all mail sent from Bolshevik Russia to foreign destinations had to be franked - the Free Post for foreign mail was a...
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Saturday, 1 February 2014

The Igor Gorski Collection of the RSFSR

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Like many of this Blog's readers, I just received the catalogue for the sale of the Igor Gorski collection coming up at Cherrystone Auct...
Sunday, 14 July 2013

RSFSR /Sovdepia, Ordinary [Einfach] mail abroad 1920 - 1921

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In his article on RSFSR Mail Abroad, detailed in my previous Blog, Alexander Epstein inventories 129 Registered letters going abroad in 1920...
Sunday, 19 May 2013

Recycling in the RSFSR

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Click on Images to Magnify Here is a March 1923 commercial registered cover from Petrograd to Berlin, the stamps cancelled with...
Saturday, 5 January 2013

Improvisation and Recycling after the Russian Revolution

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Between 1914 and 1923 industrial  and agricultural production in Russia was devastated by the effects of war and civil war. Only after ...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2013

RSFSR Mail in the Free Post period 1919 - 21

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Anyone who collects Russian postal history will have come across postcards and maybe covers from the Free Post period in the RSFSR. ...
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Friday, 13 July 2012

Russia RSFSR 1917 - 1923 Provisional Cancellations

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One can guess that provisional cancels come into use during the Civil War period for several reasons: - the old canceller got destroyed in f...