Russia/USSR – Global Postcard Sales

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Leningrad, St. Isaac’s Square
Card bought and mailed in 1969. Two Soviet stamps, partly readable postmark. B&W card is slightly abraded at top front. Grade: 3

Code: 20545001
Price: $7.50
Krasnoyarsk (Siberia), ship Nikolai
Battered, Soviet-era (1966) card, unmailed but with edge tears and dings and scratches. It has a 3 kopeck stamp pre-printed. Grade: 4

Code: 20545002
Price: $6.00
Leningrad, winter folio
Fourteen B&W cards remain from this folio of winter scenes, in a cover (pictured), from 1969. All are unused and pretty much as they were when they were bought. Grade: 1

Code: 20545003
Price: $28.00
Leningrad, folio of daily life
All 12 unused colour cards remain in this 1969 Soviet-era folio (cover is pictured here) showing daily life, and of course the obligatory statues, in Leningrad. Grade: 1

Code: 20545004
Price: $29.00
Moscow, hotel
This card was mailed from Moscow in 1969. There’s good news, and there’s bad news. The good news is that the two stamps are exceptionally large and colourful, including one of a space walk. The bad news is that one stamp covers the name of the hotel. Full postmark, though! Grade: 2

Code: 20545005
Price: $9.50
Leningrad, Palace of Peter I in Summer Gardens
Somewhat flimsy and essentially uninteresting but historical unused B&W card from 1968. Grade: 1

Code: 20545006
Price: $3.00
Leningrad, Northern Gate of Summer Gardens
Unused, clean B&W card from 1969. Grade: 1

Code: 20545007
Price: $2.50
Grodno, M. Lermontov
We debated whether to list this or not because it’s not a picture postcard in the usual sense, but for you Lermontov fans out there, why deny you? The reverse is fully written with a message. Also note that Grodno is now in Belarus, but was in the USSR at the time. Grade: 1

Code: 20545008
Price: $3.00
Moscow (folio)
What you see in the photo is the cover of a folio of 19 unused cards remaining from an original 27, dating from about 1965. All are in colour and provide a permanent record of the era. Grades: 1

Code: 20545009
Price: $29.00
Leningrad (folio)
Of the 24 B&W cards originally in this folio, 21 remain. All are unused, all are starkly reminiscent of how life was during the heart of the Soviet era. Grades: 1

Code: 20545010
Price: $29.00
Moscow, view of Kremlin from Bolshoi
Classic Soviet card, flimsy and therefore full of latent creasing, two very large stamps and fully legible postmarks. Mailed in 1969, this just about represents the period perfectly. Grade: 2

Code: 20545011
Price: $9.50
Moscow, Red Square
This 4″ x 7.7″ card has the message on the reverse, but no stamp or address as it was mailed in an envelope. Because of that, Grade: 4

Code: 20545012
Price: $4.00
Institute of Scientific Information
In 1966, this organisation was soliciting specimen copies of academic journals from around the world. The message on the reverse explains everything. The big question, which may never be answered, is whether any USA journal responding favourably to that request at that time would have found itself in big trouble. Grade: 1

Code: 20545013
Price: $3.00
1-May
USSR-era May Day greeting card with pre-printed stamp and full postmark. The entire message is in Russian. Grade: 3

Code: 20545014
Price: $4.00
Greetings
This 4″ x 7.7″ card has four stamps, two large and fully legible postmarks, and is just really very nice. Grade: 1

Code: 20545015
Price: $6.00
Kamchatka volcano
Though this card may be handmade, it came through with five stamps and full postmark. So as far as we’re concerned, it qualifies. Grade: 2

Code: 20545016
Price: $3.00
Letnii Sad, Sergei Sidelev
Mailed in 2010, this art card has four stamps and full postmark–very good of its kind. Grade: 1

Code: 20545017
Price: $2.00
St. Petersburg, Nevsky Prospekt
Mailed in 2010, this nice contemporary card has four stamps, two full postmarks (Ekaterinburg), and blue bilingual Par Avion sticker affixed. The caption is in eight languages, on the reverse. Grade: 1

Code: 20545018
Price: $3.00
Anapa, Russian Gates
The card is brilliant. The stamps are brilliant (including a huge one of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics). The postmarks are brilliant. And still you’re hesitating? Grade: 1

Code: 20545019
Price: $3.00
Moscow, Vestibule of Mayakovskaya Metro station, 1938
The photo of this mailed card may be from 1938 but the card is contemporary, mailed in 2010 with three stamps and two very large and full Moscow postmarks. Can’t do much better with a modern card. Grade: 1

Code: 20545020
Price: $3.00
Moscow, Metro station Mayakovskaya 1938
From 2010, mailed with a stamp and very heavy postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545021
Price: $3.00
St. Petersburg, River Neva, Palace Bridge
The card was mailed in 2010 with stamp and fully legible postmark, also a small sticky part on the reverse where a price tag had been removed. Grade: 3

Code: 20545022
Price: $2.50
Tikhvin, monastery
Though Tikhvin is near Leningrad Oblast, this card was mailed from Moscow in 2010 with three stamps and two huge, partial postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545023
Price: $3.00
Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna
The biographical caption in English on the reverse doesn’t say where the painting is located. The card has three stamps and a large, full postmark. Lower left corner has a bit of postal bumping. Grade: 2

Code: 20545024
Price: $2.00
Bronze Horseman
From 2010, mailed with four stamps and two large, full St. Petersburg postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545025
Price: $2.00
Moscow, Kremlin
The card dates the photo from 1986, but was mailed in 2010 with five different stamps (one of them being very large) and two full postmarks. Significant creasing on upper left corner, but then the card was in transit for quite awhile. Grade: 3

Code: 20545026
Price: $3.00
Byatka
This 3-1/2″ x 7″ card was mailed in 2010 with three stamps. Side note: we receive many contemporary cards from Russia, but none seem to have the same amount of postage. Makes us wonder what the correct rate really is, and does it change from city to city? Anyway … three stamps, full if blurred postmark, and major ink smudging on the front. Grade: 4

Code: 20545027
Price: $1.00
St. Petersburg, Neva River
Mailed in 2011 with four different stamps and multiple yet indistinct postmarks. Grade: 2

Code: 20545028
Price: $6.00
Astrakhan, day of the naval forces
The caption is bilingual Russian/English on this card mailed in 2011 with three stamps and mostly legible postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20545029
Price: $6.00
Moscow, Cathedral of Kremlin
A bit more expensive for a contemporary (2011) mailed card, but the condition is great and there are four different stamps and multiple postmarks. Grade: 1

Code: 20545030
Price: $7.00
Postbox
This was a privately made card, but done so professionally that we are happy to include it here. Mailed in 2011 with four stamps and most of the (large) postmark. Really done very nicely. Grade: 1

Code: 20545031
Price: $7.00
Smolensk
Not just Smolensk, but the “Monument to the Heroic Defenders of the City on August 4-5, 1812.” Mailed however in 2011 with four stamps and two full postmarks. Great example of a “domestic” card. Grade: 2

Code: 20545032
Price: $5.00
Cat
Who could ask for more, right? Card made in Saint Petersburg in 2006, mailed in 2011 with five stamps and three large and full postmarks. A bit of a gummed area on the reverse where we think someone removed the card’s original price tag. Grade: 2

Code: 20545033
Price: $6.00
Moscow, First Metro Bridge over Moscow River
The caption on the reverse of this card mailed in 2011 is in six languages, of which the English reads: First metro bridge over Moscow-river. 1937. The photo is newer than that, though. One stamp, nearly full Moscow postmark. Grade: 1

Code: 20545034
Price: $4.00
V.M. Salabanov artwork
Mailed in 2011 with two large stamps and much of the postmark. Some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20545035
Price: $5.00
Tsarskoye Selo, The Catherine Park
Captioned in four languages, this card from 2010 was mailed in 2011 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 3

Code: 20545036
Price: $3.00
Ivan Bilibin artwork
Hard to know what to say of this card, whose front speaks for itself and whose reverse is a morass of printed drawings, poetry (?), message, six stamps, and two postmarks. Makes the card very interesting, though. Grade: 2

Code: 20545037
Price: $5.00
Kursk, St. Seraphim of Sarov
One of the largest (5-1/2″ x 8-1/8″) postcards we have in stock, and it’s a miracle that it survived being mailed from Kursk to Hong Kong with minimal damage. Four stamps, two postmarks. St. Seraphim, the Patron Saint of Postcards? Grade: 2

Code: 20545038
Price: $5.00
Recipe for SCHI (Traditional Russian Soup)
Sounds good enough to eat! Card mailed from Moscow in 2011 with stamp and fully legible postmark. Little stickers on the reverse also. Grade: 3

Code: 20545039
Price: $4.00
St. Petersburg, Church of the Savior on the Blood
This 4-1/8″ x 8-3/8″ card was mailed in 2011 with one stamp, full postmark, and normal postal battering for a card of this size. Grade: 2

Code: 20545040
Price: $5.00

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