Showing posts with label St. Petersburg. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Petersburg. Show all posts

Jan 23, 2020

1862 (10 Apr) FL from Wirballen to St. Petersburg, franked with single 10k brown & blue, tied by indistinct bilingual "Kibarty" cds, repeated at top, with arrival pmk on back


1862 (10 Apr) FL from Wirballen to St. Petersburg, franked with single 10k brown & blue, tied by indistinct bilingual "Kibarty" cds, repeated at top, with arrival pmk on back (when in 1861 a branch of the Saint Petersburg Warszawa Railway was built from Wilna to the Prussian border, where it was linked to the Prussian Eastern Railway, the Russian border station near the village of Kibarty (today Kybartai) was named after the neighboring town of Wierzbolowo (today Virbalis)), fine usage

Cerrystone
Price Realized $230.00

Oct 9, 2014

1857 cover from Tauragė (Touraggen)



1857, 10 k. light brown/blue, fresh color and good margins, tied by boxed "TAUROGEN MAY 7 1858" and handstamp "Aron Ch.Segalls & Sohne" to folded letter sheet to St. Petersburg, fine and rare.

Starting price: 2000EUR.