My Big Find In Old House (Not)

Like many home renovators, I dream of finding a treasure in an old house. Just went through a house with an interesting back history. Belonged to a emigre member of Russian nobility, as part of her summer estate. She deeded in her will to a family retainer of hers. His grandson was still living in it in 2016, the last few years as my tenant. He just left and I went through it his left over stuff. I was salivating at what I might find. I found a souvenir photo book from the 1892 Columbia World Fair. Images of a MNH set of Colombians danced through my head, but it was not to be. :_)!

However, I did have my first real philatelic find. This post card from USSR to Bronx in 1930. There were others. Unfortunately, he let most of the postcards etc get ruined. This was only salvageable one. There was a cover from 1894, but someone ripped the stamp off!

I dream on



Also NOT a US Cover, ergo *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***

Nice find anyway, and surely authentic. The stamps look surprisingly fresh for being glued to that rough paper for a lifetime, absolutely a keeper by my measures.

Not that I plan on selling, but anyone have any idea of what it is worth?

it's a 1930 canceled
cover, with 1927-28 stamps on it no great value the stamps are only few cents scott # 382, I dought the stationary have any value in this poor condition.

Despite the condition (typical for a lot of Soviet material), this isn't a very common postal card and the postmarks are better than average for the Soviets. It's from Saratov which was later a closed city until the end of the Soviet Union. On someplace like ebay it might net $1 to $5, or even more depending on message content.

As a card and with those stamps and cancellation combined with it being so badly damaged I would call it a space filler of little cash value to someone who had a collection. However, because it is something you found and reclaimed from the trash I would think that the value would be the non-monetary kind to yourself. On the other hand, if you can read the Russian writing on the card AND if it turns out to be something historically significant in terms of it being sent by a high level Russian noble (like Anastasia or such) plotting with the recipient to overthrow the Communists or such (not likely on a card) then it would have significant historical cash value.

Keep it!

Here is second find (in same house) pre communist postcard. Card is from resort city of Odessa, to New York city