So when the cover below popped up on eBay I had to get past my initial impulse (Crimea! Civil War! 1920! Buy! Buy! Buy! Want!) and let sanity prevail.
This purports to be a letter from Sevastopol' to Yalta dated sometime in October 1920. It's a fake, in my opinion. The rate is wrong (should be 100R if it's after 15 October and 5R if it's before 15 October), no Yalta receiver (not impossible but uncommon, even for non-registered mail) and that postmark...
I collect Crimean postmarks and maintain a small database of information and pictures about them. This seems to be a legitimate postmark (SEVASTOPOL' TAVR.G. serial "k") but it seems to pop up a lot on faked covers...
So no. The cover went for a little over $100 - a price that is far too low if it were legitimate - so I think I'm not alone in disliking it...
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