FREE: History of Russian Customs Service Postage Stamps

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The Top stamp features an early 18th century engraving, State Museum of History. The middle stamp features an 1830s painting by an unknown artist "The exterior of the newly-built Customs House in St.Petersburg", Pushkin House Museum. The last stamp features a mid-1800s lithographic picture "Kalanchovskaya Square after the construction of the Nikolayevsky Railway Station and Moscow Customs Warehouse", State Museum of History. The margins feature ships remaining off the Arkhangelsky harbour (th 18th c engraving); the Ministry of Finance Foreign Trade department employees (the 1830's); a skirmish between customs officers and smugglers (a picture by V. G. Khudyakov, mid-1800s, The State Tretyakov Gallery). The pictures are made as stamp coupons.


offset perforation frame 12 x 12½ souvenir sheet size multicolor.
Souvenier sheet