RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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 1904 Registered red-band cover from TIEHLING to Warsaw franked 1902 14k tied by TELIN/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT 12 1904 XII cds, registration label alongside inscribed No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE, Warsaw arrival
backstamp 7 1 05. Unrecorded canceller type characterised by having date in three lines. Recorded “Russia used Abroad” pt. 6 (1960), p.576 as establishing location of No. 10 F.P.O. at Tiehling. Illustrated “British Journal of Philately” No. 46
(1971), fig. 12. Cancellation incorrectly ascribed to Tiehling Type 1.
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| 20160 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to St Petersburg despatched from mobile FIELD POST OFFICE/4/1st ARMY CORPS 12 XII 1904. On reverse violet free-frank cachet: 37th INFANTRY DIVISION. GENERAL SECTION OF DIVISIONAL BAGGAGE TRAIN. St
Petersburg arrival backstamp 14 1 05.
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| 20161 |
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 1904 Registered native cover to Kaluga franked on reverse 3k block of 5 tied by FIELD POST OFFICE/1/No. 27 14 XII 1904 cds’s. Handstruck seal of GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION alongside, endorsed FROM 3rd
MANCHURIAN ARMY. No registration label, but manuscript “N. 18” top left. Some water staining on the obverse. Also included fragment with similar cancellation, serial ‘3’ dated 23 XII 1904.
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| 20162 |
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 1904 Chinese red-band cover to Warsaw endorsed “From the Active Manchurian Army” with circular datestamp: 3 FIELD CONTROL STATION/TELEGRAPH 14 12 04. On reverse free-frank intaglio cachet of FIELD POST OFFICE No. 22 and Warsaw
arrival 12 1 05. The military cachet ties this cover to Tiehling, where F.P.O. No. 22 is believed to have moved in October 1904, and suggests that the Field Telegraph Control Station there was numbered ‘3’. First item of mail identified from a
Russian Field Telegraph Control Station.
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| 20163 |
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 1904 Decorative Chinese cover to Vitebsk from doctor with the army on active service, posted at MUKDEN 15 12 04. On obverse black circular free-frank cachet: FIELD MILITARY-MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES,
faint Vitebsk 11 1 05 arrival alongside. Cover with one nibbled corner.
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| 20164 |
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 1904 Serviceman’s cover from VLADIVOSTOK 15 12 04, received St Petersburg 5 1 05. Red free-frank cachet on reverse reading below Imperial Eagle: CRUISER FIRST CLASS/”GROMOBOI”/VLADIVOSTOK. The cruiser “Gromoboi”, depicted in a
separate postcard , operated from Vladivostok as a marauder, intercepting and sinking enemy transports in the Sea of Japan. She survived the Battle of Ulsan (August 1904) with heavy losses and two months later was put in dock again by running on a
rock. Finally she struck a mine while attempting to run the Japanese blockade of Vladivostok (February 1905).
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| 20165 |
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 1904 Registered cover to London from War Correspondent, Julian Price, of “Illustrated London News”, franked 20k pair and strip of 3, cancelled MUKDEN Type 2, reading MUKDEN/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 17 12 1904.
Black script cachet: SEAL OF CENSORSHIP DIVISION GENERAL H.Q.MANCHURIA. Cover opened out for display. Recorded “British Journal of Russian Philately” No. 29 (1961), p.15.
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SOLD for € 700.00
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| 20166 |
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 1904 Money-letter sent to St Petersburg from ST. HANDAOKHETZE, CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Postmarks and centre seal on reverse read: FIELD POST OFFICE No. 28. Labels and corner seals read: RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 28. This
establishes the location of F.P.O. No. 28 and shows that ordinary F.P.Os and Reserve F.P.Os were interchangeable.Cover opened out for display. Described Adler B.J.R.P. No. 19 (1955) p.593.
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SOLD for € 800.00
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| 20167 |
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 1904 Stampless cover to the Red Cross Community of St Eugene, St Petersburg, with notation in English “Via Chifoo” and in abbreviated Russian “From the fortress of Port Arthur”. On reverse red circular cachet reading: KWANTUNG
MARIINSKI COMMUNITY OF SISTERS OF THE RED CROSS. Received CHEFOO 21 December (Old style = 3 January 1905 New Style. Cover faults. The post office at Port Arthur had ceased to function since early May, 1904. This item was evidently carried on one of
the hospital ships permitted to pass through the Japanese naval blockade of the port and to cross the Strait of Pohai to the Chinese mainland at Chefoo. Port Arthur surrendered on 2 January 1905, the same day or the day after this item was
dispatched. Fifteen thousand sick or wounded were found in the hospitals when the Japanese entered the port.
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SOLD for € 750.00
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| 20168 |
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 1904 Old formular card used to send New Year greetings to Finland datelined 22 XII,04/village Houdi (presumably HOU-TAI, north of Mukden), postmarked two days later HEADQUARTERS/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH ‘a’, circular violet
free-frank cachet alongside: OMSK SIBERIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT. Borgo arrival 31 1 05 (=18 1 05 Old Style). Headquarters Field Telegraph Branch was then located at Mukden.
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 1904 Five postcards concerning the Hull outrage. Firstly an artist’s impression of the Russian outrage on Hull fishing fleet, October 1904, on postcard sent from Ardrossan to Saltcoats (Scotland). On the night of 21/22 October
1904 the Russian Baltic Fleet, while in the North Sea on its way to the Far East, ran into a group of trawlers from Hull fishing off the Dogger Bank and poured hundreds of shells into them believing them to be enemy torpedo boats. The Russian fleet
then steamed on its way regardless of the casualties and damage it had inflicted. This outrage brought Britain to the brink of war with Russia . Crowds demonstrated in London and the British Royal Navy made ready to intercept and engage the Russian
fleet. War was averted when, after an International North Sea Inquiry Commission, the Russians agreed to compensate the families of the dead and wounded and to replace the trawlers lost or damaged in the incident. In May 1905 this ill-fated Russian
fleet, renamed The 2nd Pacific Squadron was annihilated in the Battle of Tsushima (Sea of Japan) in the greatest naval disaster of modern times. The other postcards depict the funeral procession for the trawlermen killed in the incident and the
Inquiry Commission in Paris January 1905 showing the British Delegation, trawler company owners and senior management at the back, with managers, captains and fishermen on the steps below. A rare card but heavily creased. And finally two postcards
showing the damaged trawlers themselves
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SOLD for € 220.00
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 DOGGER BANK INCIDENT: Balance of collection comprising 34 postcards (many postally used) written up on album pages with original letters, documents and copy of relevant article. Postcards include real photo types of funeral.
On the night of of 21/22 October 1904 fishing trawlers from the English port of Hull were attacked in the North sea by the Russian Baltic Fleet (renamed the 2nd Pacific squadron) on its way to the Far East. This outrage met with international
condemnation and brought Britain to the brink of war with Russia.
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 1904 Original hand-illustrated postcard by political cartoonist Prichard sent from Chester 4 Nov 1904 to relative in Nuneaton. The cartoon shows British ministers in despair as the Russian Baltic fleet sails off regardless of
the mayhem they have caused by firing on the Hull trawler fleet in the Dogger Bank incident. Russia is symbolized by the bear.
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 1904 Original hand-illustrated postcard by political cartoonist Prichard sent internally in England on 28 Oct 1904. This was sent a week after the Dogger Bank incident and the Russians did indeed have to pay compenstion after
the North Sea Inquiry Commission in Paris.
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 1904 Picture postcard of natives of Sainte-Marie, Madagascar, addressed to St Petersburg by crew-member of Russian Baltic Fleet under Admiral Roshventdeski, en route to the Far East, dateline “Madagascar 28 Dek”. received
Naval HQ in St Petersburg and put into the post 13 2 1905 and delivered the next day. The main flotilla of the 2nd Pacific Squadron arrived at Sainte-Marie late in December 1904. During their visit ships deemed unfit to continue the long haul to the
Far East were sent back to Russia along with the sick personnel, mail etc.
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SOLD for € 420.00
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 1905 Postcard sent home to Moscow 3 II 05 (Old Style) from Helville, Nossi-Be, off NW coast of Madagascar, by crew-member of the repair ship “KAMCHATKA”, part of the main Baltic Fleet (renamed the 2nd Pacific Squadron) en
route to the Far East. It was the “Kamchatka” that triggered the DOGGER BANK outrage in October 1904 by mistaking a flotilla of Hull fishing trawlers for enemy torpedo boats, The Russian attack on the trawlers brought Britain to the brink of war. The
Russian Fleet was annihilated by the Japanese at the Battle of Tsushima. The “Kamchatka” refused to surrender and went down with colours flying on 27 May 1905.
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SOLD for € 550.00
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 1905 Saigon viewcard posted by Sister of Mercy on shore leave from Russian Hospital Ship “OREL”, anchored in Camranh Bay, franked pair French Indochina 5c, cancelled Mythoi (near Saigon), dated in ms 9 April 1905 (=22 April
New Style); transit Phanrang 24 April, Nhatrang 26 April,; received St Petersburg 22 V 1905 (O.S.) Message states: “The French authorities do not allow the squadron to stay in their bay….today at 12 o’clock the squadron goes somewhere, we don’t know
where…” The “Orel” was a vessel of the Russian Volunteer Fleet, converted to a hospital ship and attached to the 2nd Pacific Squadron, en route from Europe to engage the Japanese. When the squadron reached Camranh Bay she was detached to contact the
Russian Consul in Saigon. The fact that the “Orel” had been sent to collect intelligence at Saigon was regarded by the Japanese as a hostile act and when captured by a Japanese cruiser on the eve of the Battle of Tsushima (27-28 May 1905) was
considered a legitimate prize.
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SOLD for € 800.00
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 1905 Picture postcard sent to St Petersburg from Vladivostok 5 7 05 with blue circular intaglio free-frank cachet reading: CRUISER 2nd CLASS ALMAZ/PACKET. St Petersburg arrival 25 VII 05. Formerly the Viceroy Alexeiev’s
private yacht, the “Almaz” was part of the ill-fated 2nd Pacific Squadron that sailed half-way round the world – from the Baltic to the sea of Japan – to be annihilated on the Battle of Tsushima (May 1905). The “Almaz” escaped to Vladivostok on 29
June 1905, a few days before this card was written, the only vessel of the Squadron larger than a destroyer to reach that port. Separate card included depicting the ship.
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SOLD for € 380.00
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 1905 Two postcards with contemporary cartoons expressing the Russian public’s dismay and its contempt for the Higher Command. The annihilation of the 2nd Pacific Squadron at the battle of Tsushima ranks as the greatest naval
disaster of modern times. RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR (CONTINUED) (Alex, Subtitle)
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 1905 Viewcard with cavalry motif produced in Kiev, sent to St Petersburg from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION, evidently by a German serving with the Russian Army. Violet free-frank cachet: TREASURY 17th EAST SIBERIAN RESERVE BATTALION
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