RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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 1905 Two viewcards to Tsarskoe Selo and St Petersburg used from KETRITSEVO and HARBIN RAILWAY STATIONS respectively, showing two types of circular cachet: 2nd SIBERIAN MILITARY HOSPITAL TRAIN OF THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA
PAVLOVNA.
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| 20180 |
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 1905 Card to Viiro endorsed MILITARY and posted on Chinese Eastern Railway Line 264 (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN) with free-frank seal of Imperial Russian Navy inscribed ICEBREAKER STEAMSHIP NADEZHNI. The ‘Nadezhni’ was an auxiliary
vessel of the Ladivostok Squadron, built in 1896 at Copenhagen (1525 tons) and was armed with two machine-guns.
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SOLD for € 220.00
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| 20181 |
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 1904-05 Two cards to St Petersburg, one used from VERKHE-UDINSK, Siberia, with red free-frank cachet: PERM HOSPITAL RUSSIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. The other used from ST. TATARSKAYA, SIBERIAN RAILWAY, with violet free-frank
cachet: No. 88 MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL Also included a postcard produced in England and postally used in 1909 from the Russian Harbin-Kwangchentze TPO (Manchuria) to Belgium entitled ‘Marauding Chunchuses’. These were basically mounted Chinese bandits
that infested Manchuria. They formed good auxiliary troops for the Japanese, looting and burning Russian supplies and ammunition dumps in numerous hit-and-run raids behind the lines.
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| 20182 |
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 1904-05 Group of 6 letter-cards, 2 postcards and a cover addressed to Paris from nurse or doctor working on Hospital Train of Empress Aleksandria Feodorovna carrying wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Hospital and military
cachets, TPO and cancellations of Irkutsk, Mukden, Harbin Head FPO etc. Messages (in French with English translation provided) give harrowing accounts of suffering and death of the wounded, death of colleagues from infection and speak of a cowardly
and brutish commanding officer. An intriguing historical record.
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| 20183 |
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 1905 Stampless cover to St Petersburg postmarked 15th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘v’ 10 5 05. At this time No. 15 RFPO is believed to have been located at STATION BUKHAI on Line 265/266 of The Chinese Eastern Railway, south of
Harbin.
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| 20184 |
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 1905 Cover headed in Russian “Especially (urgent) from the Mobilised Section of 2nd Rifle Regiment” addressed to Poland with blue-green cds FIELD POST OFFICE No. 31 1 1 19 (05) with Arabic ‘1’ for month inverted. Green
free-frank cachet on reverse: 1st Company/2nd Rifle Regiment. Plotsk 26 1 1905 arrival backstamp. From 1-9 January 1905 FPO No. 31 was located at SANGTIEKHE, Manchuria.
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| 20185 |
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 1905 4k Stationery card sent 25 6 05 (New Style) by German observer with the Russian Army to Silesia, Germany cancelled HEADQUARTERS FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 12 6 05. Transit mark HEAD CENTRAL FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’ and Script
cachet STAMP OF CENSORSHIP SECTION OF COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S GHQ alongside. At this time Russian GHQ was situated at KUNGCHULING, a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway on Line 265/266, south of Kwangchentze. The dispatch marks and censor cachet were
previously used in Mukden, from which the GHQ retreated in March 1905.
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SOLD for € 190.00
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| 20186 |
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 1905 Registered red-band cover to Estonia, readdressed to Nebbe, posted from RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 26, franked on reverse pair of ‘Kitai’ 7k, cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE No. 26/6/8 VI 05. Dispatch mark F.P.O. no. 26/4
the following day. Although ordinary Russian stamps were issued to the F.P.O.s in Manchuria, ‘Kitai’ overprinted stamps were accepted for postage.
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SOLD for € 440.00
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| 20187 |
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 1905 Cover and card, both stampless, sent to St Petersburg and postmarked 30th RESERVE FIELD POST ‘b’ dated 9 6 05; ‘v’ dated 17 5 05, latter to a warehouse of Empress Maria Feodorovna’s charity at the Anichkov Palace. St
Petersburg arrival 7 VI 05. At this time No. 30 Reserve FPO was located at STATION TAOLAICHAO of Line 265/266 of the CER, S. of Harbin.
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| 20188 |
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 1905 Decorative Chinese envelope and matching notepaper used for letter to Warsaw, dateline “STATION KWANGCHENTZE 18/VIII”, endorsed “Army in the Field”. Circular violet free-frank cachet SENIOR DOCTOR 8th SAPPER BATTALION,
postmarked 4th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE 17 7 05 (?error 17 for 18). This cover confirms that this mobile FPO had moved to Kwangchentze, an important station of the CER between Mukden and Harbin.
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| 20189 |
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 1905 Viewcard to Austria bearing Red Cross cachet of RUSSO-DUTCH MEDICAL DETACHMENT, postmarked TALADZHAO ‘b’ 18 9 05. Received HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (HARBIN) 24 9 05, where violet circular cachet applied, reading: GENERAL
HEADQUARTERS AT REAR OF MANCHURIAN ARMY CENSOR. This cancellation of TAOLAICHAO (Russian TALADZHAO), though of civilian type, is known only on stampless military mail.
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SOLD for € 180.00
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| 20190 |
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 1905 Pictorial envelope and notepaper of military motif used by soldier to send letter to a relative in Fellin (Estonia), message in Estonian, postmarked NOVO-ALEKSANDRIA LYUBLIN G. 5 1 1905. 7k postage was required as sender
was not serving on the front. Notepaper depicts stages in military training from arrival of raw recruit to 4th year graduate ready for posting to the reserve (note kettle and samovar as part of his baggage). Printed name and address of the unit:
HAMLET NOVO-ALEKSANDRIA LYUBLIN GUB. 72nd INFANTRY (TULA) REGIMENT with space for insertion of Company number (14). Situated in Poland, far from the theatre of hostilities, the printed stationery suggests that it was a sedentary training unit.
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| 20191 |
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 1905 Red-band cover with contents written in Esperanto written from MUKDEN, Manchuria, 21 1 05 (New Style) to England franked pairs of Russian Arms issue 2k and 3k tied by MUKDEN Type 3B dated 9 1 05 (Old Style = 21 1 05 New
Style in blue). Encircled script cachet in black translates: SEAL OF CENSORSHIP BRANCH GENERAL HEADQUARTERS. Yeovil arrival backstamp. After the fall of Lyaoyang to the Japanese in September 1904, Russian G.H.Q. moved to Mukden, until this too was
taken by the Japanese in March 1905. Russian Mukden cancellations are generally only seen in black and on stampless military mail.
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SOLD for € 300.00
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| 20192 |
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 1905 Stampless native cover to Warsaw posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/HEADQUARTERS 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY 12 1 05, endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY/STATION YAOMYNG and bearing blue circular cachet of FIELD PAYMASTER 2nd IRREGULAR
SHARPSHOOTER CORPS. Cover opened out for display. This cover establishes the location of the 3rd Manchurian Army HQ in January 1905 at Yaomyng, a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway about 100 miles south of Harbin.
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SOLD for € 320.00
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| 20193 |
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 1905 Red-band cover to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, capital of Georgian Republic) from “Colonel Chernik/3rd Manchurian Active Army”. Violet circular cachet of OFFICE OF ADJUTANT-GENERAL HQ 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY, postmarked FIELD POST
OFFICE/1/No. 27 12 1 1905. At this date FPO No. 27 was based at SUCHIATUNG, a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway immediately South of Mukden.
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| 20194 |
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 1905 Registered cover to Carpentras, France, franked on reverse 10k pair tied by HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’ 13 1 05 cds applied at HARBIN with dispatch marks of same office serials ‘b’ and ‘v’ added the next day. ‘Z’
registration label on obverse and encircled ‘R’ for registered mail outside Russia. Opened by censor and resealed with pink paper tape bearing abbreviated inscription: CENSORSHIP COMMISSION DISTRICT HQ OF MILITARY DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION OF
MANCHURIAN ARMIES. Cover with vertical crease.
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| 20195 |
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 1905 Insured money-letter for 2 roubles to ZVENIGOROD, charged 59k in Arms stamps, cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE/5th SIBERIAN CORPS (1) 15 1 05. Centre wax seal with inscription around Imperial Eagle: INSURED
CORRESPONDENCE/FIELD POST OFFICE/5th SIBERIAN CORPS. A. Corner wax seals with inscription around posthorns with “thunderbolts”: FIELD POST OFFICE/5th SIBERIAN CORPS. Some creasing and peripheral toning.
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| 20196 |
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 1905 Cover sent to Venice by doctor or nurse attached to Hospital Train, redirected to Paris, blue circular cachet on reverse with abbreviated inscription reading in full: MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN OF STATE EMPRESS ALEKSANDRA
FEODOROVNA. Franked 3k and 7k Arms issue cancelled on Chinese Eastern Railway TPO HARBIN -265 -PORT ARTHUR (b) 21 1 05. Transferred to route ‘266’ travelling back towards HARBIN, where passed to HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 2 2 05 (backstamp) for
examination by Military Censor. Pink resealing tape with Cyrillic initials of CENSORSHIP COMMISSARIAT OF AREA CHQ OF MILITARY DISTRICT OF THE ARMY IN MANCHURIA. Received Venice 12 3 05 and Paris 15 3 05 (=28 2 05 and 2 3 05 Old Style) Cover slightly
soiled and with vertical crease.
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| 20197 |
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 1905 Viewcard sent by doctor or staff of Chief of Medical Section of Third Manchurian Army to colleague in Weisser Hirsch, Germany, franked 5k War Orphans stamp tied by FIELD POST OFFICE No. 22 (4) 23 1 1905. Script cachet
SEAL OF CENSORSHIP BRANCH OF GHQ MANCHURIA. The War Orphans stamps, issued late in 1904, were very rarely used outside Russia itself. The censorship cachet suggests that this Field Post Office was located at the time in the Mukden area. In February
it moved to Kungchuling.
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SOLD for € 360.00
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| 20198 |
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 1905 Registered cover from Adjutant-General with military unit at MUKDEN to St Petersburg franked on reverse 7k pair tied by 1st RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 24 1 05 cds, military cachet in black and St Petersburg arrival 24
11 05 in magenta alongside. No label but abbreviation ‘MUK’ for MUKDEN below number as part of hand-written registration cachet. Cover slightly reduced at left.
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