|
If are a buyer or a seller of philately Items and
would like to buy or offer your collectibles in our Online
Marketplace or open your free listing direct supply
store, you have come to the right place. We offer
collectors, private sellers and dealers a place where to
show their items listed for sale at auction or fixed
price offering buyers a complete line, a huge variety of
products they can choose from.
Russian Postage stamps, Definitive and Commemorative stamps Pictorials ,
Revenue stamps ,
Postal stationery; Sheetlets , Miniature sheets ,
Souvenir sheets , Corner blocks or plate blocks , First day covers -
(FDCs) ,
First Day Ceremony Programs "FDCPs" and Souvenir pages.
By the 16th century, the postal system included 1,600 locations, and
mail took 3 days to travel from Moscow to Novgorod. . The
earliest known Russian postmark dates from July 1765; it is a single
line reading "ST.PETERSBOVRG" .
Postal stationery made its first appearance in 1845, in the form of
envelopes and
Local postal systems used stamps referred to as Zemstvos.
The first stamps went on sale 10
December 1857. The
first value was a 10-kopeck followed by 20-kopeck and 30-kopeck .
A 5k stamp for local postage was introduced in 1863,
followed by 1k, 3k, and 5k values. were used to make up rates for international mail, After 1866 the stamps were watermarked
"EZGB" in Cyrillic.
In September 1865, the Shlisselburg district became the first of the
zemstvo offices to issue stamps
In 1874, Russia became one of the original 22 countries forming the
General Postal Union
The coat of arms design was changed in 1875, and used for 2k and 8k
values, and a 7k in 1879.
In 1889 the designs were changed again, this time to introduce
thunderbolts across the posthorns underneath the double-headed eagle.
At the end of 1904 Russia issued its first semi-postal stamps followed
in 1909 by a new series using a mix of old and new designs.
Russia's first series of commemorative stamps appeared 2 January 1913 to
mark the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty.
During the Russian Revolution post offices across the country were
thrown on their own devices, issued new kinds of stamps, Entities issuing their own stamps
include:
Armenia ,
Army of the Northwest ,
Batum ,
Far Eastern Republic ,
Georgia ,
Latvia ,
Siberia ,
South Russia ,
Transcaucasian SFSR . The first stamps of the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic appeared in 1918, as two
values depicting a sword cutting a chain. The next
stamps appeared in 1921, after inflation had taken hold. and by the next year were
being surcharged up to 100,000
rubles.
A currency reform in 1922 enabled new stamps in the 5r to 200r range,
including a set marking the 5th anniversary of the October Revolution,
Stamps with portraits of a worker, peasant and soldier
appeared this year and would continue
to be issued throughout the 1920s.
Russian Civil War Issues
Amur Province , Ataman Semyonov Regime , Crimea ,Denikin Government ,
Don Territory, Far Eastern Republic , Kolchak Government, Kuban
Territory ,
North Ingermanland , North Western Army , Northern Army ,
Priamur and Maritime Provinces , Siberia (Czechoslovak Army) ,
Transbaikal Province , Western Army,
Wrangel Government.
Russian post offices abroad
Beirut , China , Constantinople, Crete , Dardanelles , Jaffa ,
Jerusalem ,
Kerrasunde, Mount Athos , Mytilene , North Korea, Rizeh,
Russian post offices in the Turkish Empire
Salonika, Smyrne , South Lithuania , Trebizonde.
Before 1923, each of Georgia, Armenia, and
Azerbaijan issued its own postage stamps. The first issues consisted of some of
the stamps of Russia and Armenia overprinted Massive
inflation having set in, this was followed by an issue of the
Federation's own designsStarting in 1924, the Federation
used stamps of the Soviet Union.
Transcaucasian Federation , Tuva, USSR , USSR Issues for the Far East . |
