RUSSIA » RUSSIA POST IN CHINA – RUSSIAN OCCUPATION OF MANCHURIA continued...
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| 20019 |
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 1901-03 Two German 5 pfg ‘China’ cards cancelled in violet and black respectively at Russia No. 3 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT, the first to a German officer at Tsingtau 4 II1901, sent through Russian P.O.’s at Port
Arthur and Chefoo, other to Germany date-line SHANHAIKWAN, used in combination with Russia 4k carried on Chinese Eastern POSTAL WAGON no. 266 (HARBIN-MANCHULI). This FPO was located at Shanhaikwan, which held a strong German contingent during the
Boxer disturbances
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SOLD for € 650.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20020 |
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 1901-03 Postal stationery cards embossed with Chinese Dragons and Russian Imperial Arms, symbolising postal liaison between the two powers, one used from Port Arthur to Germany franked Russia 5k on reverse cancelled Type 2c
dated 29 5 01, the other mailed from Yingkow (NEWCHANG) 5 12 03 at the Chinese P.O. and franked with 4c CIP and two Russia 2k, latter cancelled YINKOU/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH, PRIAMUR DISTRICT. The Yingkow card is illustrated in “Russia Used Abroad”,
Pt. 5 (1959), p. 459. fig. 653.
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SOLD for € 1,400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20021 |
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 1901 Tientsin viewcard used from Mukden franked Russia 1k + 3k cancelled No 11 FIELD POST OFFICE /+/ PRIAMUR DISTRICT 3 VI 1901 cds in blue, transit Russian P.O. in Chefoo where encircled ‘T’ applied, both in violet, onto
Shanghai, Hong Kong and to France where redirected internally. The card was treated as underpaid because at this date cards with messages were charged letter rate. This rule was commonly ignored. Another example of No. 11 FPO (Mukden) has been
reported (Casey, 2004, BJRP no. 91, p.49) in red.
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SOLD for € 900.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20022 |
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 1901 Chinese postal stationery card uprated CIP 1c + 2c + 4c tied by YINGKOW/1/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT 10 VII 1901 ds, sent to Finland by German national and handed to Russian military office, transit Harbin
(unrecorded type), St Petersburg and Helsinki arrival, Russian YINGKOW doplatit oval applied alongside of a previously unrecorded type.
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SOLD for € 1,500.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20023 |
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 1901 Incoming registered cover from the Russian monastic community at MOUNT ATHOS (Greece, near Salonica, and site of a Russian P.O. in the Turkish Empire) franked Russian Levant 10k pair tied by R.O.P.I.T. Athon cds, sent to
Harbin, Manchuria (two strikes of cancel 11 and 24 June), redirected to NINGUTA and showing the only known strike of the datestamp reading “NINGUTA/1/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT” dated 14 and 15 August, one showing error ‘1900’ for
‘1901’, note on front stating the addressee, a member of the 18th East (Siberian) Rifle Regiment at Ninguta had been discharged and the letter retuned to Mount Athos, transit Odessa cds’s in both directions, remarkable cover
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SOLD for € 2,600.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20024 |
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 1901 Registered decorative card to Madgeburg, Germany franked Russia 4k + 10k tied by No. 17 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 13 XII 1901, matching registration label alongside, transit marks of Harbin (Type 1) and Moscow.
Earliest known cancellation of No. 17 Field Post Office (Dalny) and first registered item to be recorded.
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SOLD for € 3,200.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20025 |
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 1902 Decorative card registered to Finland with dateline “SIN-MIN-TIN” South Manchuria 30 1 1902 franked 1k (2), 2 other stamps removed, cancelled No. 22/1/FIELD POST OFFICE 4 II 1902 cds’s in blue, registration label with
same inscription as canceller alongside, transit marks of Moscow/Nikolaevsk Railway Station and St Petersburg. A temporary Field Post Office was opened in Sin-Min-Tin , SW of Mukden, from August 1901 to September 1902, hitherto doubtfully designated
No. 22. This card is the first recorded item of mail from Sim-Min-Tin and confirms the allocation of No. 22 to this office.
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20026 |
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 1889-92 Pair of 14k cancelled TALIENWAN/1/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH 5 III 1902 cds, only known example of this cancellation, introduced late in 1901 when the Russians had transferred the name TALIENWAN (Russian Talienvan) from
Dalny to the village of LYU-SHU-TUN, 11km the north-east, on the opposite side of Talien Bay
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20027 |
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 1902 Baikal viewcard to St Petersburg franked 3k cancelled No. 7 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 3 IV 1902. No.7 FPO was located at the time at MUDANGTSIANG, near KIRIN, capital of the Manchurian province of that name.
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20028 |
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 1902 Picture-postcard to Tyumen Siberia franked 4k tied by KVANCHANDZY FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT 14 IV 1902, transit POSTAL WAGON no.82 (Chelybinsk-Vyatka) 2 V 1902, received TYUMEN next day. “KVANCHANDZY” was
early Russian name for important station on Line 265/266 of Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin, later called Kwangchentze, better known as Changchun. A Field Post Office and Field Telegraph Branch were opened there in November 1900. This card
shows the earliest recorded date for the FTB
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SOLD for € 600.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20029 |
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 1902 Japanese card addressed from Tiehling, Manchuria, to Moscow franked Russia 1k + 2k tied by No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 11 6 1902, transit mark applied the same day: TELIN/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH/PRIAMUR
DISTRICT. Only known entire bearing this cancellation confirming the location of No. 10 FPO in Tiehling
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20030 |
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 1902 Registered red-band cover addressed in Chinese and Russian to Colonel Madritov at Port Arthur franked 4k + 10k tied by MUKDEN/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT 25 IX 1902 with Mukden registration label alongside,
all on reverse, Port Arthur arrival on obverse. Lt.Col.A.S. Madritov, a member of the Russian general staff, was involved in the Yalu River Timber Concession, one of the causes of the Russo-Japanese war. Gen. Kuropatkin ordered him to sever his links
with the timber company or resign his commission. Madritov mapped the area of Manchuria along the Korean border and in May 1904 led a raid across the Yalu to attack the Japanese in Korea. As a detachment commander, he later played an active part in
the battles of Lioyang, Sha-Ho and Mukden
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SOLD for € 1,000.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20031 |
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 1902 Registered postcard to Germany franked 4k + 10k tied by No. 17 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 26 X 1902 with DALNII registration label, Port Arthur and Moscow transit marks and Dresden arrival all alongside. In
addition 1k block of 4 with the same cancel dated 8 XI 1902.
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SOLD for € 2,400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20032 |
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 1903 Registered cover to Germany from Tientsin, China, initially franked Chinese ‘dragon’ stamps, re-registered at Russian P.O. YINGKOW where 2 blocks of 4 5k ‘Kitai’ applied front and back, front block tied by No.13 FIELD
POST OFFICE / PRIAMUR DISTRICT 20 II 1903 cds, reverse block uncancelled but tied by wax seal, Yingkow registration label and Tientsin registration handstamp also on reverse along with BRANCH POSTAL WAGON No. 3 (4) 12 III 1903 and manuscript
“Received from P.W. 30 with split envelope, repaired and sealed. Examining clerk Laizhovski”, envelope slightly reduced at top left, full of character, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20033 |
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 1903 Long registered cover from U.S. Consulate in DALNY to San Francisco franked on reverse 7k strip of 3 tied by DALNY FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH 1 cds’s, transferred next day to No. 17 FIELD POST OFFICE (DALNY); thence by three
Trans-Siberian Railway Postal wagons (Lines 260, 242, 198), received Moscow 12 V 03, DEUTSCHE-AMERIKA SEEPOST HAMBURG-NEW YORK 28 6 03, San Francisco 11 June 1903. The long route across Siberia , Europe and the Atlantic, rather than the normal
Pacific Ocean routing by way of Japan, may reflect the mounting tension between Russia and Japan prior to he Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. Cover described “Rossica Journal” No. 68 (1965), pp.20-24, as first recorded example of the Dalny Field
Telegraph canceller.
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SOLD for € 2,000.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20034 |
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 1903 Registered opened-out red-band cover to Novorossiisk, Russia, franked on reverse two 7k tied by HAILAR/2/FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE TRANSBAIKAL PROVINCE 24 III 1903 cds’s. Placed 3 days on Chinese Eastern Railway POSTAL
WAGON no. 262 (HARBIN-MANCHULI), thence by Trans-Siberian POSTAL WAGONS No. 260 (MANCHULI-CHITA), No.242 (CHITA-IRKUTSK) and No. 198 (IRKUTSK-KRASNOYARSK). Although Hailar is situated in western Manchuria its Field Post Office was evidently run from
the adjoining Siberian province of Transbaikal.
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SOLD for € 1,400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20035 |
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 1903 Registered cover from the Austro-Hungarian Legation in PEKING to Copenhagen, franked initially with China Imperial Post 30c tied by oval bilingual Peking ds, sent via Chinese P.O.’s in TIENTSIN and NEWCHANG (YINGKOW) to
Russian P.O., re-registered and refranked with Russian ‘Kitai’ 5k (6) tied by No. 13 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 16 V 03, on reverse registration label: YINGOU FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE, cover signed Mikulski. The sedentary Russian F.P.O.’s
in Manchuria were at this time open for civilian mail.
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20036 |
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 1903 Quadruple-rate cover to England endorsed “via Siberia” in English and Russian (blue handstamp) with additional blue directional mark in Russian “Germany”, franked initially 4 China 10c “dragon” stamps, tied by bilingual
Chinese TIENTSIN 31 May 1903 and sealed on reverse with 3 wax seals of Tientsin bank, passed to Chinese P.O.NEWCHANG next day (backstamp), thence to Russian Field Post Office at YINGKOW (=NEWCHANG) where vertical strip of 4 10k ‘Kitai’ stamps applied
and tied by No.13 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 20 V 1903 (Old Style = 2 June 1903 New Style), Surbiton arrival backstamp.
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20037 |
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 1903 Cover to France endorsed in Russian “Via Siberia/France” franked 10k ‘Kitai’ tied by SHANHAIKWAN/1/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT cds, backstamped transit mark of Trans-Siberian T.P.O. POSTAL WAGON No. 260
(MANCHULI-CHITA) and Toulon arrival, ex Casey Note: ‘Kitai’ stamps were intended for use in China proper and were not sold in the Manchurian offices, though accepted for postage when offered.
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20038 |
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 1903 Postcard addressed from TIENTSIN 10 July 1903 to England franked 4c Chinese ‘Dragon’ stamp cancelled next day by local bilingual cds, received Chinese P.O. NEWCHANG 15 July 03 and passed to Russian P.O. where two Russian
2k ‘Kitai’ stamps applied and tied by No. 13 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 3 VII 1903, Russian words for “Via Siberia” and “England” struck in blue, redirected on arrival
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
