Bin Full of Russia covers
At the local show last month, I got a deal as we were headed out the door. One of the sellers had two whole bins of 1940s-1970s covers from Russia. He was selling them at a fairly low price, but I guess he didn't want to pack it up again, because he let me have the batch of roughly 1100 covers for $100. I'm not really a big collector of Russia, but it's better to not be looking for things for myself. I found these interesting because they were mostly registered mail covered in postal markings on front and back. I had a lot of fun sorting through the batch. There were ongoing correspondences between people, some of them covering over 100 covers and 20 years. I put those all back together by recipient. Then I took out about 50 of my favorites to scan and post for sale, then put these rest into my own show at 50c each (10 for $4). The scans are done, but I still have to write up the listings. But we sold 36 of them at the show today. Th...