1917, Official Seal, Black (OX18). Jan. 3, 1923 registered cover from South Russia to Trenton N.J., franked with an astonishing 150 1912 2 Kopec Russian stamps in three blocks of 50, franking is more than three times as large as the cover, upon arrival in New York Registry Office 56 seals were applied to hold the stamps together (front and back), item was then sent under separate cover from superintendent of Post Office in Trenton to Princeton (not to original addressee), enclosed note from postmaster states, "I am enclosing the Registered letter that I told you about yesterday, which comes from South Russia. These 150 stamps represent 2 Copeks each under the old form of government, and these would represent about 250,000 Rubles, which it requires to bring a Registered Letter from Russia to America...", cover has faults as would be expected, an outstanding item that surely must represent the largest number of seals extant on one cover, illustrated in Kotanchik (p. 155)

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