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G. H. Kaestlin Collection of Zemstvo 

and Imperial Russian Stamps and Covers

FINDING GUIDE

Prepared by 

Thomas Lera, Winton M. Blount Research Chair

Annette Shumway, Museum Technician 

Lokhvitsa’s 1911 No. 48, three-color hectography emergency issue
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 2.

Table of Contents

Collection Scope & Content................................................................................................................3

Provenance .............................................................................................................................................3

Narrative Description...........................................................................................................................3

Container Inventory..............................................................................................................................3

Bibliography .........................................................................................................................................12

Credits & Acknowledgments.............................................................................................................13
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 3.

COLLECTION SCOPE & CONTENT

The G. H. Kaestlin Zemstvo and Imperial Russian Stamp Collection consists of 13 volumes of 

stamps and covers, 15 staging albums of stamps and postal stationery from Russia from 1865 - 1917. 

PROVENANCE

Vera Madeleine Kaestlin-Bock of St. Petersburg, Russia and later Zurich, Switzerland donated these

specialized Russian philatelic collections, gathered by her uncle, George H. Kaestlin, of Moscow, 

Russia and later London, England to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Philatelic Collection.

The specialized collection of Zemstvo and Imperial Russian stamps and covers was donated on 

October 18, 1984 (Accession Number 1984.1026). 

NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION

George H. Kaestlin, one of three remarkable philatelists to join the Rossika membership rolls, was a 

quiet collector, building his collection without exhibiting it or authoring articles for Rossika, nor 

joining the Rossica Society after WWII. However, Kaestlin’s attention to detail and fastidious 

collecting habits, so evident in the layout and handwriting on his album pages, made him a natural 

source of information for Karl Schmidt, author of the monumental zemstvo catalogs of the 1930s.

The quantity and quality of the stamps contained in the collection is outstanding. It has more than 

1,500 pages and 14,000 stamps. An impressive amount of those 14,000 stamps were assembled by 

auction purchases from the famed Agathon Fabergé and the Phillip von Ferrary collections.

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)

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
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 4.

Album 2 (Byezhetsk–Borovichi) – 86 pages 

• Byezhetsk (Tver’) 1–14 (14 pages)

• Bobrov (Voronezh) 15–20 (6 pages)

• 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)

Figure 2. Bogorodsk: 1872 issue – couchê example

Album 3 (Bugul’ma–Fatezh) – 107 pages 

• Bugul’ma (Samara) 1–19 (19 pages)

• Buguruslan (Samara) 20–25 (6 pages)

• 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)

Figure 3. The first issue of Buzuluk. The 

stamp with black borders is from a Ferrary 

sale.
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 5.

• 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)

• 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)

Figure 4. Circular handstamps from Gryazovetswhich were printed 

as needed.

Figure 5. The 1912 lithographed commemorative issue for the 

100th Anniversary of the War of 1812.
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 6.

• 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)

• 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)

• Pereslavl’-Zalesskiy (Vladimir) 56–58 

(3 pages)

• Perm’ (Perm’) 59–64 (6 pages)

• Petrozavodsk (Olonets) 65–66 (2 pages)

• Piryatin (Poltava) 67 (1 page)

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.

Figure 7. Pereslavl’-Zalesskiy: This page shows the level of 

detail presented on the album pages.
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 7.

• 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)

• 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) 

• 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)

Figure 8. The lozenge stamps of Pskov with No. 1 Ex. 

Fabergé.

Figure 9. Spassk (Ryazan' Province) The 1913 issue 

was lithographed on white and colored paper. 
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 8.

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

Figure 10. Volchansk (Khar'kov Province) 1872 

issue Lithographed in three colors on gummed, 

gray-white paper.

Figure 11. 1857 

Russia Number 1 

used in Moscow
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 9.

• 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 1⁄2 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 

• 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

• 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

Figure 12. 1889 Bisect of 2 

kopecks with St. Petersburg 

Town Post cancellation
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 10.

• 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) 

Figure 13. 1857 Tiflis

Provisional – First 

Russian Adhesive 

Stamp
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 11.

• Stamps with location overprints – (overprint locations: Constantinople, G. A. o, onz, MontAthos, 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)

Figure 15. Circular and concentricring numeral cancels on the 1857

Figure 14. Map of SE Europe
 Smithsonian National Postal Museum, G. H. Kaestlin Collection - Finding Guide (Accession #1984.1026), p. 12.

• 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)

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Lindquist, H. L.: H. L. Lindquist, New York, NY, 1945: 78-97

CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This finding aid was prepared with the assistance of Jim O’ Donnell, Museum Specialist, Kellyn 

Hoffman, Museum Technician and Annette Shumway, Museum Technician and Alan Warren.

Images are from the G. H. Kaestlin Collection of Russian Zemstvo and Imperial Stamps and Covers 

at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.