Worldwide Rare Stamps and Postal History

Imperial Russia

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Start price: $275

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1873, 5k black and violet, 20k blue and orange in horizontal pair, three stamps printed on vertically laid paper (!), used on registered cover from Vasilievskaya volost via Nolinsk to Vyatka, all appropriate markings and arrival ds, slight filing fold, still VF and rare franking, Sc. #22c, 24a