RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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 1904 4k Stationery card and uprated 3k card both to Cassel in Germany written in German from “DAZSIAPU” (TATSIAPU), 15km south of MUKDEN, cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE /4/1st ARMY CORPS 11 and 29 X 1904, both with circular
violet cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 1st ARMYS CORPS
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 1904 Red-band cover sent by military medical officer to Warsaw, circular cog-shaped cachet in blue reading: OFFICE OF COMMANDANT OF STATION KETRITSEVO, faint KHABAROVSK 12 X 1904 cds alongside, Warsaw 6 Nov (1904) arrival
backstamp. Ketritsevo was also known as Nikolsk-Ussuriiskii, situated in Primorsk Province, well outside the theatre of active military operations.
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| 20121 |
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 1904 Viewcard of Lake Baikal showing Circum-Baikal Railway along foot of cliff, addressed to Romny, readdressed to St Petersburg, arriving 13 X 1904, with circular intaglio free-frank cachet in black, reading around Imperial
Eagle: 5th SOTYNA OF 19th REGIMENT OF DON COSSACKS. A sotyna was a unit of 100 cossacks.
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| 20122 |
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 1904 Russian 3k stationery card uprated 1k for foreign rate + China 1 cent for internal postage. Written by an American observer with the Russian Army on train “Between Harbin and Mukden” 11 October having left Vladivostok 8
days earlier to his wife in the USA. Chinese stamp cancelled native Mukden Fengtien Province with date in lunar calendar equivalent to 15 Oct in Western style; native Chinese transit Newchang 18 Oct; thence Chinese P.O. Shanghai (bilingual) 25 Oct;
passed to Russian P.O. Shanghai where Russian stamps cancelled Type 3 15 10 04 (error for 25 10 04); thence to Japanese P.O. same day. Chinese tax mark (T) applied and later erased. Received San Francisco 15 Nov 1904. By using the Chinese P.O. at
Mukden instead of the Russian the sender evaded Russian censorship.
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| 20123 |
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 1904 Letter sent to Riga from SIN-KHUAN-DY written on captured Japanese stationery, endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY and posted at Mukden, Manchuria, 17 10 04. Free-frank seal of GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 5th SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS.
Recorded “British Journal of Russian Philately” No.37 (1965), p.25.
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| 20124 |
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 1904 Two red-band covers addressed to a cement works in Estland Guberniya, both postmarked FIELD POST OFFICE/4/1st ARMY CORPS dated 22 X 1904 and 15 XI 1904 respectively. First with free-frank circular cachet reading around
Imperial Eagle: 145th INFANTRY (NOVOCHERKASSK) REGIMENT OF HIS MAJESTY Second endorsed “From the Active Manchurian Army” and with circular intaglio free-frank cachet in black reading: 4th COMPANY OF 145th INFANTRY (NOVOCHERKASSK) REGIMENT. Vezenberg
arrival 17 XI 1904 and 12 XII 1904 respectively.
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| 20125 |
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 1904 Stationery card with violet oval Red Cross cachet WAREHOUSE OF HER MAJESTY STATE EMPRESS ALEKSANDRA FEODOROVNA, written in French to Venice by a serving nurse or doctor from a village south of the Dalin Pass near River
Tai-Tzu, franked 4k, tied by GENERAL HQ 3rd SIBERIAN CORPS POST OFFICE ‘v’ 22 10 04. Violet cachet 2nd NERCHINSK TRANSBAIKAL COSSACK REGIMENT. The Dalin Pass was captured during the Japanese advance in July 1904. A Russian counter-attack (Battle of
Sha-Ho) in October failed to secure the mountain passes and the right bank of the Tai-Tzu. During this campaign the 3rd Siberian Corps was part of the Eastern Force under Lt.-General Baron Stekelberg.
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| 20126 |
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 1904 Insured money-letter for 30 roubles sent by officer with 12th SIBERIAN (BARNAUL) INFANTRY REGIMENT to Germany franked on reverse 4k, 10k and 20k (tone spot). Wax seals and cancellations read: SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS FIELD
POST OFFICE No. 4, the latter applied 22 10 04 with another strike the next day; passed to MUKDEN P.O. 24 10 04 and received at HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (HARBIN) 29 (10) 04. Violet circular cachet of DISTRICT HQ OF ADMINISTRATION OF MILITARY DISTRICT
OF THE ARMY IN MANCHURIA, applied as a censor mark before the seals were affixed, suggests that this Siberian Army Corps F.P.O. was situated in Mukden. Only one other example of the double-circle Mukden canceller with serial ‘a’ has been recorded.
The Head F.P.O. canceller of small (25mm) format has not been reported previously.
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| 20127 |
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 1904 Picture postcard endorsed “From the Active Army” posted on Chinese Eastern Railway Line 266 (4) (PORT ARTHUR – HARBIN) 26 X 1904 (O.S.). Red Cross paper seal affixed in top right corner as free-frank, reading : FIELD
HOSPITAL OF THE FINNISH SOCIETY FOR CARE OF SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS. Received Pernio, Finland 18 XI 04 (N.S.).
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| 20128 |
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 1904 Stampless card and cover to the same address in Kiev, one posted at Mukden 3 II 04, the other with circular datestamp: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE ”v” 27 10 04 Both with circular free-frank
seal in blue-green or in violet: 3rd SIBERIAN MOUNTAIN ARTILLERY PARK
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 1904 Stationery card to Ekaterinoslav with violet circular free-frank cachet: GENERAL FIELD HOSPITAL No. 103. Message indicates it was sent from Mukden by SENIOR INTERN 68th FIELD HOSPITAL, MANCHURIAN ARMY, 15th DIVISION, 8th
CORPS. Cancelled MUKDEN 28 12 04. Ekaterinoslav arrival 15 1 05.
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| 20130 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to Odessa endorsed “From the Active Army”, free-frank cachet in violet reading around Imperial eagle: DIVISIONAL COMMISSARIAT 14th INFANTRY DIVISION, posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/1/8th ARMY CORPS. 30 XII
1904. Odessa arrival backstamp 27 1 05.
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| 20131 |
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 1906 Red Cross charity card depicting the cruiser NOVIK used from Ostrig, Russia to France franked 4k cancelled 12 II 06. The “Novik” had many encounters with the enemy and was the only ship in the Port Arthur squadron to
break the Japanese blockade during the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Chased as far north as Korsakovsk, Sakhalin Island, where, after a robust exchange of gunfire at close quarters with Japanese cruisers, she was beached by her crew and finished off by
enemy shells (31 August 1904). Her crew took to the boats and reached the mainland. They then walked hundreds of miles through wild country for 45 days to report for duty at Vladivostok. Illustrated “British Journal of Russian Philately” 92/93
(2005), p.69.
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 1904-08 Selection comprising 1904 Viewcard to Novoselitsy, Bessarabia Guberniya, with free-frank cachet: 2nd COMPANY 3rd RIFLE REGIMENT, dateline 10 November, cancelled alongside STATION STUDENETS, SYZRAN-VYAZMA RAILWAY 11 XI
1904. In addition two Red Cross charity cards to benefit the Community of St Eugene, each with circular free-frank cachet reading: SQUADRON OF RIFLE REGIMENT 15th CAVALRY DIVISION. Unaddressed. Postcards with free-frank cachets already applied were
given to officers going on leave or detached duty to provide post-free facilities. Also 8 items with cancellations of the various FPO’s and their locations including multiples and on piece.
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 1904 Cover to Warsaw endorsed “From the Active Army”, free-frank cachet in violet in top right corner around Imperial Eagle translating: 146th INFANTRY (TSARITSYN) REGIMENT with Company cachet in blue bottom left corner.
Posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/3/1st ARMY CORP. 19 IX 1904. Warsaw arrival 18 X 04 Arrival backstamp 18 X 04. Some creasing to the cover.
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 1904 Lake Baikal viewcard addressed to Samara (arrival 3 II 04) written on the train at STATION KURGAN, Trans-Siberian Railway 31 X 1904 and cancelled next day at STATION LEBYAZHYA, SIBERIAN RAILWAY 1 II 04. Circular
free-frank cachet in violet reads: MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL No. 267/FOR PACKETS. Writer gives address as Harbin Active Army – No.267 Mobile Field Hospital. A similar field hospital attached to the 2nd Army is shown in a millet field on a military
charity card.
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 1904 Cover to St Petersburg (arrival backstamp 24 XI 1904) endorsed “Military” and postmarked: FIELD POST OFFICE 6th SIBERIAN CORPS ‘b’ 3 II 04, circular violet free-frank cachet alongside: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 6th SIBERIAN
ARMY CORPS, envelope marginally reduced at right
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 1904 Viewcard of section of the Trans-Siberian track posted 5 XI 04 from OB Railway Station Moscow, free-frank cachet on obverse of COMMANDANT OF OB STATION To keep the armies in the Far East supplied with troops and material,
Russia relied on the Trans-Siberian Railway and its extension from the Manchurian frontier, a line of communication almost 5,500 miles in length. The principal railway stations were placed under military control.
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 1904 7k Stationery envelope uprated with Arms stamps to value of 89k to pay fee for insured sending of 300 roubles from TIEHLINH, Manchuria, to YUKHNOV, Russia, stamps cancelled: TELIN’/1/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR
DISTRICT 5 XI 1904, boxed cachet alongside with ‘329’ inserted by hand and label: RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 10. Part wax seals on reverse. Cover marginally reduced at top. This cover confirms the location of No. 10 Field Post Office at Tiehling.
The office was closed when the Japanese entered Tiehling in March 1905.
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SOLD for € 1,500.00
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 1904 Letter-card to Leipzig posted at mobile F.P.O. franked 10k tied by FIELD ARMY CORPS No.1 POST OFFICE (G) 6 II 04 cds. Nobility crest in blue inscribed: GIFT OF ROYAL HIGHNESS GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH
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