Worldwide Air Post Stamps and Postal History, Philatelic Rarities of the World, Part 2

Russian Zemstvo (Rural Post) - Ryazhsk

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1887, Numeral in Square, 3k black on lilac paper, complete sheet of 40, right part is inverted and forming ten horizontal tete-beche pairs, several folds mostly between stamps and a thin spot affecting one tete-beche pair, full OG with many NH stamps, F/VF and very rare, only three complete sheets reported, ex-Bianchi, C.v. $8,800 as ten tete-beche pairs and 20 single stamps, Est. $5,000-$6,000, Schmidt #2, 2S