Container Inventory

Album 1 (Akhtyrka–Byelozersk) – 99 pages

  • Akhtyrka (Khar’kov) 1–2 (2 pages)
  • Alatyr’ (Simbirsk) 3–3a–4 (3 pages)
  • Aleksandriya (Kherson) 5–10 (6 pages)
  • Anan’ev (Kherson) 11–14 (4 pages)
  • Ardatov (Nizhniy–Novgorod) 15–32 (18 pages)
  • Arzamas (Nizhniy–Novgorod) 33–48 (16 pages)
  • Atkarsk (Saratov) 49–54 (6 pages)
  • Bakhmut (Yekaterinoslav) and Balashov (Saratov) 55 (1 page)
  • Balakhna (Nizhnii–Novgorod) 56 (1 page)
  • Belebey (Ufa) 57–60 (4 pages)
  • Berdyansk (Taurida) 61–62 (2 pages)
  • Byelozersk (Novgorod) 63, 64, 64a, 65–97 (36 pages)
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Figure 1. Alatyr’s stamps were printed by typography in pale black ink on rough grayish white paper, gummed and imperforate. There are only three copies known of No. 1

Album 2 (Byezhetsk–Borovichi) – 86 pages

  • Byezhetsk (Tver’) 1–14 (14 pages)
  • Bobrov (Voronezh) 15–20 (6 pages)
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Figure 2. Bogorodsk: 1872 issue – couchê example
  • Bogorodsk (Moscow) 21–66–66a–66b–67–74 (56 pages)
  • Boguchary (Voronezh) 75 (1 page)
  • Borisoglyebsk (Tambov) page 76 (1 page)
  • Borovichi (Novgorod) 77–84 (8 pages)

Album 3 (Bugul’ma–Fatezh) – 107 pages

  • Bugul’ma (Samara) 1–19 (19 pages)
  • Buguruslan (Samara) 20–25 (6 pages)
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Figure 3. The first issue of Buzuluk. The stamp with black borders is from a Ferrary sale.
  • Buzuluk (Samara) 26–35 (10 pages)
  • Bronnitsy (Moscow) 36–37 (2 pages)
  • Charkov / Khar’kov (Khar’kov) 38–51 (14 pages)
  • Cherson / Kherson (Kherson) 52–56 (5 pages)
  • Cholm / Kholm (Pskov) 57 (1 page)
  • Khvalinsk / Khvalynsk (Saratov) 58–59 (2 pages)
  • Dankov (Ryazan’) 60–64 (5 pages)
  • Dem’yansk (Novgorod) 65–66 (2 pages)
  • Dmitriev (Kursk) 67 (1 page)
  • Dmitrov (Moscow) 68–71 (4 pages)
  • Dneprovsk (Taurida) 72– 74 (3 pages)
  • Donets (Don Host Region) 75 (1 page)
  • Dukhovshchina (Smolensk) 76–82 (7 pages)
  • Egoryevsk / Yegor’evsk (Ryazan’) 83–84 (2 pages)
  • Ekaterinburg / Yekaterinburg (Perm’) 85–86 (2 pages)
  • Ekaterinoslav / Yekaterinoslav (Yekaterinoslav) 87 (1 page)
  • Elets / Yelets (Orel) 88–95 (8 pages)
  • Elisavetgrad / Yelisavetgrad (Kherson) 96–106 (11 pages)
  • Fatezh (Kursk) 107 (1 page)

Album 4 (Gadyach–Kobelyaky) – 97 pages

  • Gadyach (Poltava) 1–18 (18 pages)
  • Gdov (St. Petersburg) 19–22 (4 pages)
  • Glazov (Vyatka) 23–28 (6 pages)
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Figure 4. Circular handstamps from Gryazovets which were printed as needed.
  • Gryazovets (Vologda) 29–57 (29 pages)
  • Irbit (Perm’) 58–68 (11 pages)
  • Yarensk (Vologda) 69 (1 page)
  • Jassy / Yassy (Bessarabia) 70–71 (2 pages)
  • Kadnikov (Volodga) 72–77 (6 pages)
  • Kamyshlov (Perm’) 78–79 (2 pages)
  • Kashira (Tula) 80 (1 page)
  • Kazan’ (Kazan’) 81 (1 page)
  • Kasimov (Ryazan’) 82–83 (2 pages)
  • Kirilov (Novgorod) 84–91 (8 pages)
  • Kobelyaki (Poltava) 92–97 (6 pages)

Album 5 (Kologriv–Lokhvitsa) – 98 pages

  • Kologriv (Kostroma) 1–2 (2 pages)
  • Kolomna (Moscow) 3–15 (13 pages)
  • Konstantinograd (Poltava) 16–18 (3 pages)
  • Korcheva (Tver’) 19–21 (3 pages)
  • Kotel’nich (Vyatka) 22 – 35 (14 pages)
  • Kungur (Perm’) 36–38 (3 pages)
  • Kuznetsk (Saratov) 39–40 (2 pages)
  • Kozelets (Chernigov) 41 (1 page)
  • Krapivna (Tula) 42–43 (2 pages)
  • Krasnoufimsk (Perm’) 44–45 (2 pages)
  • Krasnyy (Smolensk) 46–55 (10 pages)
  • Kremenchug (Poltava) 56–65 (10 pages)
  • Laishev (Kazan’) 66–67 (2 pages)
  • Lebedyan’ (Tambov) 68–73 (6 pages)
  • Lebedin (Khar’kov) 74–76 (3 pages)
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Figure 5. The 1912 lithographed commemorative issue for the 100th Anniversary of the War of 1812.
  • L’gov (Kursk) 76(a) (1 page)
  • Livny (Orel) 76(b)–78 (3 pages)
  • Lokhvitsa (Poltava) 79–96 (18 pages)

Album 6 (Lubny – Ostashkov) – 90 Pages

  • Lubny (Poltava) 1–4 (4 pages)
  • Luga (St. Petersburg) 5–10 (6 pages)
  • Malmyzh (Vyatka) 11–13 (3 pages)
  • Maloarkhangel’sk (Orel) 14–15 (2 pages)
  • Mariupol’ (Yekaterinoslav) 16–18 (3 pages)
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Figure 6a. Melitopol' (Taurida province) No. 4 shows the rider without a pipe. (Ex. Fabergé.)
Figure 6b. Melitopol' (Taurida province) No.5 shows the rider with a pipe.
  • Melitopol’ (Taurida) 19–22 (4 pages)
  • Morshansk (Tambov) 23–29 (7 pages)
  • Nikol’sk (Vologda) 30–31 (2 pages)
  • Nolinsk (Vyatka) 32–42 (11 pages)
  • Novaya Ladoga (St. Petersburg) 43–45 (3 pages)
  • Novgorod (Novgorod) 46–53 (8 pages)
  • Novomoskovsk (Yekaterinoslav) and Novouzensk (Samara) 54 (1 page)
  • Novorzhev (Pskov) 55 (1 page)
  • Okhansk (Perm’) 56–64 (9 pages)
  • Odessa (Kherson) 65 (1 page)
  • Opochka (Pskov) 66–70 (5 pages)
  • Orgeev (Bessarabia) 71–75 (5 pages)
  • Osa (Perm’) 76–87 (12 pages)
  • Ostashkov (Tver’) 88–90 (3 pages)

Album 7 (Oster–Poltava) – 99 pages

  • Oster (Chernigov) 1 (1 page)
  • Ostrogozhsk (Voronezh) 2–5 (4 pages)
  • Ostrov (Pskov) 6–7 (2 pages)
  • Urzhum (Vyatka) 8–10 (3 pages)
  • Ustyuzhna (Novgorod) 11–21 (11 pages)
  • Ust’sysol’sk (Vologda) 22–40 (19 pages)
  • Pavlograd (Yekaterinoslav) 41–42 (2 pages)
  • Penza (Penza) 43–46 (4 pages)
  • Pereyaslav (Poltava) 47–55 (9 pages)
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Figure 7. Pereslavl’-Zalesskiy: This page shows the level of detail presented on the album pages.
  • Pereslavl’-Zalesskiy (Vladimir) 56–58 (3 pages)
  • Perm’ (Perm’) 59–64 (6 pages)
  • Petrozavodsk (Olonets) 65–66 (2 pages)
  • Piryatin (Poltava) 67 (1 page)
  • Podol’sk (Moscow) 68–73 (6 pages)
  • Poltava (Poltava) 74–99 (26 pages)

Album 8 (Porkhov–Smolensk) – 90 pages

  • Porkhov (Pskov) 1–5 (5 pages)
  • Pudozh (Olonets) 6–7 (2 pages)
  • Priluki (Poltava) 8–11 (4 pages)
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Figure 8. The lozenge stamps of Pskov with No. 1 Ex. Fabergé.
  • Pskov (Pskov) 12–22 (11 pages)
  • Ryazhsk (Ryazan’) 23–24 (2 pages)
  • Ryazan’ (Ryazan’) 25–35 (11 pages)
  • Rzhev (Tver’) 36–40 (5 pages)
  • Rostov (Don Host Region) 41–46 (6 pages)
  • Samara (Samara) 47 (1 page)
  • Sapozhok (Ryazan’) 48–53 (6 pages)
  • Saransk (Penza) 54 (1 page)
  • Sarapul (Vyatka) 55 (1 page)
  • Saratov (Saratov) 56 (1 page)
  • Shadrinsk (Perm’) 57–67 (11 pages)
  • Shatsk (Tambov) 68–83 (16 pages)
  • Shlissel’burg (St. Petersburg) 84 (1 page)
  • Skopin (Ryazan’) 85–89 (5 pages)
  • Smolensk (Smolensk) 90 (1 page)

Album 9 (Solikamsk–Tver’) – 91 pages

  • Solikamsk (Perm’) 1–10 (10 pages)
  • Soroki (Bessarabia) 11–16 (6 pages)
  • Sudzha (Kursk) 17–18 (2 pages)
  • Sumy (Khar’kov) 19–20 (2 pages)
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Figure 9. Spassk (Ryazan' Province) The 1913 issue was lithographed on white and colored paper.
  • Spassk (Ryazan’) 21–34 (14 pages)
  • Staraya Russa (Novgorod) 35 (1 page)
  • Starobel’sk (Khar’kov) 36–45 (10 pages)
  • Stavropol’ (Samara) 46–47 (2 pages)
  • Shchigry (Kursk) 48 (1 page)
  • Syzran’ (Simbirsk) 49 (1 page)
  • Tambov (Tambov) 50 (1 page)
  • Tikhvin (Novgorod) 51–57 (7 pages)
  • Tetyushi (Kazan’) 58 (1 page)
  • Tiraspol’ (Kherson) 59–63 (5 pages)
  • Tot’ma (Vologda) 64–67 (4 pages)
  • Tula (Tula) 68 (1 page)
  • Chembar (Penza) 69–70 (2 pages)
  • Cherdyn’ (Perm’) 71–80 (10 pages)
  • Cherepovets (Novgorod) 81 (1 page)
  • Cherkassy (Don Host Region) 82 (1 page)
  • Chern’ (Tula) 83–84 (2 pages)
  • Chistopol’ (Kazan’) 85–86 (2 pages)
  • Tver’ (Tver’) 87–91 (5 pages)

Album 10 (Valday–Zolotonosha) – 97 pages

  • Valday (Novgorod) 1–4 (4 pages)
  • Valki (Khar’kov) 5–9 (5 pages)
  • Vasil’ (Nizhniy–Novgorod) 10 (1 page)
  • Velikiy–Ustyug (Vologda) 11 (1 page)
  • Vel’sk (Vologda) 12–16 (5 pages)
  • Verkhne–Dneprovsk (Yekaterinoslav) 17–20 (4 pages)
  • Verkhotur’e (Perm’) 21–23 (3 pages)
  • Ves’egonsk (Tver’) 24–30 (7 pages)
  • Vetluga (Kostroma) 31–32 (2 pages)
  • Vyatka (Vyatka) 33 (1 page)
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Figure 10. Volchansk (Khar'kov Province) 1872 issue Lithographed in three colors on gummed, gray-white paper.
  • Volchansk (Khar’kov) 34 (1 page)
  • Vol’sk (Saratov) 35 (1 page)
  • Zadonsk (Voronezh) 36–50 (15 pages)
  • Zemlyansk (Voronezh) 51 (1 page)
  • Zen’kov (Poltava) 52–86 (35 pages)
  • Zmeinogorsk (Tomsk) 87 (1 page)
  • Zolotonosha (Poltava) 88–97 (10 pages)

Album 11 Imperial Stamp Album – 90 pages

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Figure 11. 1857 Russia Number 1 used in Moscow
  • Stamps – (1857-1858) 1 (1 page)
  • Stamps with pen cancellations – (1857-1858) 2 (1 page)
  • Stamps with dispatch town name postmarks – (1857-1858) 3-9 (7 pages)
  • Stamps with dots surrounding number postmarks – (1858-1875) 10-20 (11 pages)
  • Stamps with dispatch town name and date postmarks –(1858-1879) 21-34 (14 pages)
  • Postmarks – (St. Petersburg; 1856 - 1875) 35-38 (4 pages)
  • Cancellations – (St. Petersburg; 1858-1880) 39-42 (4 pages)
  • Town Post Postmarks – (St. Petersburg; 1881-1904) 43-44 (2 pages)
  • Town Post Cancellations – (St. Petersburg; 1883-1889) 45-49 (5 pages)
  • Postmarks – (Moscow; 1855-1875) 50-53 (4 pages)
  • Town Post Cancellations – (Moscow; 1845-1879) 54 (1 page)
  • Town Post Postmarks – (Moscow) 55 (1 page)
  • Town Post Cancellations – (Moscow; 1883-1889) 56 (1 page)
  • Postmarks – (Riga; 1829-1847) 57-58 (2 pages)
  • Postmarks – (Odessa; 1849-1875) 59-64 (6 pages)
  • Erroneous Stamps/Forged Postmarks – (1883-1905) 65-76 (11 and ½ pages) *Errors: misplaced perforations, imperforate, inverted center, background omitted, printed on gummed side, altered background postally-used forgeries
  • Postmarks – (1906-1913) 77-81 (5 pages)
  • War Charity Stamps – (1914-1916) 82-83 (2 pages)
  • Currency Stamps – (1915) 84 (1 page)
  • Cover – (Novgorod-London; 1914-1920) 85 (1 page)
  • Fancy Cancels – (1913) 86-90 (5 pages)

Album 12 Imperial Stamp Album – 87 pages

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Figure 12. 1889 Bisect of 2 kopecks with St. Petersburg Town Post cancellation
  • Postal Stationery Essays – (St. Petersburg; 1845) 1–3 (3 pages)
  • Postal Stationery with Information/Illustration – (St. Peterburg; 1848-1868) 4-5 (2 pages)
  • Information/Illustration about Postal Stationery (Moscow; 1845-1856) 6 (1 page)
  • Postal Stationery for Imperial Service – (1848-1859) 7-10
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Figure 13. 1857 Tiflis Provisional – First Russian Adhesive Stamp
  • Information/ Photographs with Stamp – (Tiflis; 1857) 11a, 11b (2 pages)
  • Information/Photographs on Stamp Essays – 12 (1 pages)
  • Stamp Essays –(1857/1858) 13 (1 page)
  • Stamp Essay and Stamps on wove paper – (1858) 14 (1 page)
  • Special Stamp – (Poland; 1860) 15 (1/2 page)
  • Town Post Stamps – (St. Petersburg/ Moscow; 1863) 15 (1/2 page)
  • Stamp Essays – (Printed in Paris; 1864) 16 (1 page)
  • Stamp Proof/ Stamps – (1864) 17 (1 page)
  • Stamp Essays on horizontally laid paper/ gummed/ unwatermarked/ thin curling paper – (1865-1866) 18 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1865-1879) 19-28 (10 pages) *sample errors on page 20 and 26
  • Photographs of Essays (1883-1889) 28a (1 page)
  • Stamp Essays – (1883-1888) 29-30 (2 pages)
  • Stamps – (1883-1888) 31 (1 page)
  • Stamps and Stamp Essays – (1883-1884) 32 (1 page)
  • Photographs with Stamps – 33 (1 page) * Imperforated pair
  • Stamps – 34-35 (2 pages) *Misplaced centers
  • Stamps and Stamp Proofs (1889) 36 (1 page) *Imperforated pair
  • Stamps – (1889) 37 (1 page)
  • Stamps and Stamp Proofs – (1889) 38 (1 page)
  • Photographs with Stamp Essay – (1896) 39 (1 page)
  • Stamps- (1902 -1905) 40-55 (16 pages) *Errors: partially and fully printed on gummed sides; misplaced centers
  • War Charity Stamp Proofs – (1905) 56a – 58 (4 pages)
  • War Charity Stamps – (1905) 59 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1906) 60 (1 page)
  • Stamp proofs – (1909-1912) 61 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1908-1912) 62 (1 page) * Errors: without lines of chalk
  • Stamps – (1902-1905) 63 (1 page) * Errors: misplaced centers; printed on gummed sides; imperforate
  • Stamps – (1918) 64 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1911) 65 (1 page)
  • Photographs of Romanov Tercentenary Stamp Essays – (1913) 66 (1 page)
  • Romanov Tercentenary Stamps – (1913?) 67-68 (2 pages)
  • War Charity Stamps Specimen – (1914-1915) 69 (1 page)
  • War Charity Stamps – (1914-1915) 70-74 (5 pages)
  • Stamps – (1917) 75 (1 page)
  • Currency Stamps – (1915) 76 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1917-1918) 77-81 * 80-81 Errors: partially and fully printed on gummed sides; misplaced centers
  • Stamps with Unofficial Perforations – (1917) 82 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (1917-1918) 83 (1 page)
  • Currency Stamps – (1918) 84 ( 1 page)

Album 13 Imperial Stamp Album – 89 pages

  • Stamps – (Wenden; 1863-1903) 1-4 (4 pages)
  • Cancelled Stamps – (Russian stamp, Polish postmark; 1858) 5-7 (3 pages)
  • Cancelled Stamps on Covers – (Russian Stamp, Polish Postmarks – Towns: Siedlce, Kibarty, Zamozc, Gostynin, Wachock, Stopnica, Lublin, Seyny, Praszka, Turek, Konin, Kurow, Wyszogrod, Lodz, Czestochowa, 1860-1864) 8-13 (7 pages)
  • Cancelled Stamps – (Russian stamp, Polish postmark; 1858-1864) 14-15 (2 pages)
  • Cancelled Stamps on Covers – (Russian stamp, Polish postmarks; 1870-1875) 16 (1 page)
  • Cancelled Stamps – (Russian stamp, Polish postmark; 1884) 17-18 (2 pages)
  • Map of SE Europe and Southern Russia – 19 (1 page)
  • Cancelled Stamps – (Russian stamp, Levant postmarks; 1858-1866) 20-22 (3 page)
  • Stamp Proofs – ( Levant; 1863) 23 (1 page)
  • Stamps – (Levant; 1863-1866) 24 (1 page)
  • Photographs of Stamps – (1863-1865)25 (1 page)
  • Stamp Forgeries – 26 (1 page)
  • Stamps and Photographs of Stamps – (1865-1867) 27-29 ( 3 pages)
  • Stamps and Photographs of Stamps with horizontal network background – (1866-1867) 30-32 (3 pages)
  • Stamps and Photographs of Stamps with vertical network background – (1866-1867) 33 (1 pages)
  • Stamps – (1868) 34 (1 page)
  • Stamp Proofs – 35 (1 page)
  • Stamps and Photgraphs of Stamps – (1872-1904) 36-42 (7 pages)
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Figure 14. Map of SE Europe
  • Stamps with location overprints – (overprint locations: Constantinople, G. A. o, onz, Mont- Athos, Mételin, Kerassunde, Rizeh, Trebizonde, Dardanelles, Salonique, Beyrouth, Smyrne, Ierusalem, Jaffa; 1910) 43-49 (7 pages)
  • Stamps – (1910-1913) 50-69 (20 pages)
  • Section Header page – 70 (1 page)
  • Russian Offices in China Stamps /Photographs of Stamps – (Peking) 71 (1 page)
  • Russian Offices in China Stamp Proofs – 72 (1 page)
  • Russian Offices in China Stamps on Covers – 73 (1 page)
  • Russian Offices in China Stamps – (1899-1916) 74-89 (11 pages)
  • Town Postmarks – (Moscow; 1845-1879) 52 (1 page)
  • Town Branch Offices Cancellation Postmarks – (Moscow) 53 (1 page)
  • Town Post Postmarks – (Moscow; 1880-1905) 54 (1 page)
  • Postmarks – (Riga; 1839-1909) 56-59 (4 pages)
  • Postmarks – (Odessa; 1839-1909) 60-62 (3 pages)
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Figure 15. Circular and concentric-ring numeral cancels on the 1857
  • Table of Contents – 63 (1 page)
  • Postmarks – (Poland; 1780-1850) 64 (1 page)
  • Straight Inscription, Rectangular Frame, and Circular Town [and Date] Postmarks with Latin or Polish Characters – (Poland; 1814-1870) 64-71 (8 pages)
  • Straight Inscription, Rectangular Frame, Circular, Oval Town Postmarks with Russian or Polish Characters – (Poland; 1860-1870) 72-74 (3 pages)
  • Special Cancellation Postmarks – (Poland; 1858-1870) 75 (1 page)
  • Mail Coach and Receiving Postmarks – (Poland) 76 (1 page)
  • Town Postmark with Russian Characters – (Poland; 1858-1870) 77 (1 page)
  • Postmarks – (Warsaw; 1787-1907) 78-81 (4 pages)
  • Postmarks – (Levant region; 1865-1913) 82-83 (2 pages)
  • Postmarks – (China; 1880-1913) 84 (1 page)

G. H. Kaestlin Collection of Zemstvo and Imperial Russian Stamps and Covers