Auction 90, Session 2 - Worldwide Rare Stamps and Postal History
Lot 900: Soviet Union - GULAG (Soviet Labor Camps) Correspondences
2021-07-24T15:00:00Z
Start price: $100
Lot 900:
Soviet Union - GULAG (Soviet Labor Camps) Correspondences
Description
1939, free-frank letter from Leningrad to the Nagaev Bay Department of Internal Affairs (northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk, Magadan Obl.), apparently prisoner’s enquiry, archival holes at left, still F/VF. During the Great Purge, the Nagaev Bay was used as a transit point for newly arrived prisoners by sea to be sent further along the stage to the camps of Magadan and Kolyma, Est. $150-$200
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