RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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 Japanese postcard used to send Easter greetings to Kovno (now Kaunas in Lithuania) by Russian prisoner, dateline “16/III 1905 Sidzuoka” (=Shizuoaka). Native cancellation of SURUGA SHIZUOKA applied in black. Saw-tooth
horizontal framed Japanese cachet POSTCARD FOR RUSSIAN PRISONERS and similar oval GREATER JAPAN/CENSORED/SHIZUOKA PRISONER-OF-WAR CAMP, 3 line SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and vertical Japanese DATE OF DISPATCH MEIJI 38 3 31 (=31 March 1905),
all in violet. Transit Tokio 1 April 05, Kovno arrival 23 IV 05 (=6 May 05 New Style). Shizuoka was one of the smaller camps for Russian prisoners held in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, holding a total of 319 men, including 14 colonels. It was
open from 14 December 1904 until 18 January 1905.
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SOLD for € 250.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20340 |
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 1905 Two postcards sent from Kronshstadt to Russian P.O.W. held in Osaka routed through P.O.W. agency in Tokio, both with Japanese violet censor chops. Abbreviated Russian in red crayon on one card translates: ‘5th Yard,
Barrack 20’ presumably applied at Osaka.
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SOLD for € 500.00
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| 20341 |
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 1905 Japanese Forces postcard used by Russian prisoner on ship in Yellow Sea being transported to Japan, sending birthday greetings to Moscow. Three-line SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and oval Japanese chop translating
EXAMINED CENSOR P.O.W. CAMP NINOSHOMA. Nagasaki transit 15 Apr 1904, Moscow arrival 19 5 05 (1 6 05 NS)
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| 20342 |
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 1905 Cover bearing seal of HYDROGRAPHICAL EXPEDITION TO THE EASTERN OCEAN and circular cachet of VLADIVOSTOCK CENSOR COMMISSION 4 7 05 to Russian naval prisoner at Osaka, Japan. Violet oval cachet and paper sealing tape of
Japanese censor; circular Japanese chop in orange and large violet double-oval cachet in French of P.O.W. Enquiry Bureau at Tokio dated 29 Oct 1905. Manuscript “Inconnu” (unknown) in red. Cover opened out for display. Some red ink smudging on
reverse.
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SOLD for € 550.00
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| 20343 |
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 1905 Japanese postcard to Madison USA from Japanese survivor of the “KINSHU MARU”, posted from St Petersburg 20 VIII 1905. Straight-line violet CORRESPONDANCE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and Red Cross circular cachet in French:
P.O.W. INFORMATION BUREAU IN ST PETERSBURG, overstruck with violet two-line Russian EXAMINED CENSOR/F.I.V.D.K.G. (meaning of abbreviations unknown). The transport “KINSHU MARU”, carrying troops of the Japanese 37th Infantry Regiment, was torpedoed by
the Russians in the Sea of Japan on 26 Apr 1904. Some soldiers and labourers were picked up by the Russian cruiser “Rossiya”, the soldiers choosing to go down with the ship rather than face the disgrace of capture. Additional postcard included
depicting a group of Japanese P.O.W.s held at the village of MEDVED, near St Petersburg and postally used from that city 27 12 06.
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SOLD for € 500.00
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| 20344 |
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 1905 Japanese postcard from Russian prisoner dated “7/VIII” from “town Hirosaki” to St Petersburg. Native cancellation of HIROSAKI with date equivalent to 20 August 1905 . Boxed Japanese inscription reading PRISONER OF WAR
MAIL at top with small circular and oval handstamps indicating censor and his personal cachet, all in orange-red, three-line SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and oval-framed cachet in Japanese reading CENSORED HIROSAKI P.O.W. CAMP, both in violet.
Hand-endorsed “To Russian capital St Petersburg”. Tokio transit 31 August 05 and St Petersburg arrival 23 IX 1905 (=6 X 05 New Style). Plus picture postcard of General Kuroki interrogating Russian prisoners postally used in England. Hirosaki, near
the northern Japanese city of Aomori, was one of the smallest P.O.W. camps, holding only 61 men (54 soldiers and 7 sailors), mainly from the Sakhalin campaign. It was open for only about 5 months in 1905.
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SOLD for € 400.00
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| 20345 |
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 1905 PEACE CONFERENCE: Three cards of the conference. One postally used in September 05 and produced in USA of the Peace Commission. Japan was ahead on points but had not delivered a knock-out. American interests required that
the war ended before a rampant Japan took control of the Pacific. President Theodore Roosevelt had called a Peace Conference to take part in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA in August 1905. Victorious in the field the Japanese were out-manoeuvered at
the negotiating table, thanks to the wily de Witte, Russia’s former Minister of Finance. Under the Treaty of Portsmouth they obtained some territorial concessions but not the huge monetary indemnity they had demanded. The Japanese public felt they
had been cheated by the Russians and the Americans and turned against their own representatives. The second card is a Special Commemorative card posted from Portsmouth on August 14th, 1905. This Conference resulted in the Treaty of Portsmouth (5th
September) whereby the belligerent parties agreed to evacuate Manchuria and return it to China. Japan was the victor and Russia ceded the Lyaotung leasehold, the southern half of Sakhalin Island and the section of the Chinese Eastern Railway between
Port Arthur and Kwangchentze. The third card depicts the leaders involved under the banner “The Portsmouth Drama”, postally used from Jamaica Plain-Station to Riga
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| 20346 |
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 1905 Registered postcard from a Cossack officer with his photograph affixed to the obverse from MAI-MAI-KAI, Manchuria to a lady friend in Kramatorskaya, a few days after the Treaty of Portsmouth (5 Sept.1905) had ended the
Russo-Japanese War. Contents include: “Greetings from far-away Manchuria. In two days we shall go to Bukhai, near Harbin, where we shall be dispersed…You cannot break a Cossack…” Franked pair of 5k Arms issue cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE GENERAL
HEADQUARTERS 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY (3) 13 IX 1905. Registration label reads: FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO GENERAL HEADQUARTERS COMMAND 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY. This was a mobile F.P.O. following the unit in its travels.
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| 20347 |
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 1905 Mukden viewcard to Gmunden (arrival 14 ++ 05 (N.S.), Austria datelined 24/IX (7 X) 05 franked two 2k cancelled in violet FIELD POST OFFICE/3/5th SIBERIAN CORPS 24 9 05. Message in German states writer attached to 244th
Infantry Regiment of 5th Siberian Corps.
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| 20348 |
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 1905 Stampless military cover to St Petersburg bearing free-frank Red Cross cachet of RUSSO-DUTCH MEDICAL DETACHMENT cancelled TALADZHAO ‘b’ 5 10 05. This cancellation is in a style issued by the Russian State Postal
Administration but was probably used at a military establishment open to civilians and ceased to function after the Army had left in March 1906. The railway station at Taolaichao had its own post office.
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| 20349 |
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 1905 Cover to Poland with violet free-frank cachet of 42nd RIFLE REGIMENT on reverse, cancelled on front RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 23 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY. Radom arrival backstamp 9 11 05. Envelope slightly reduced at left.
The location of RFPO No. 23 at this time is not known.
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| 20350 |
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 1905 Registered cover from a Chinese firm in NINGUTA to Moscow franked on reverse 7k pair tied NINGUTA Type 2 (Subtype with serial ‘e’) reading: 4th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE/e/ 12 10 05. Registration label on front reads: No.
4 RESERVE POST OFFICE. The registration label omits the word “Field” in accordance with the conversion of this office to civilian status after cessation of hostilities.
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| 20351 |
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 1905 Viewcard to St Petersburg from hospital train travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway, dateline “10/X 905” postmarked three days later with green cds: STATION MOSKALENKI/SIBERIAN RAILWAY 13 10 05. Violet circular
free-frank cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: 32nd SIBERIAN MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN. Although hostilities between Russia and Japan had ceased in September 1905, the Siberian Hospital Trains were kept busy for several months evacuating wounded
soldiers from the Manchurian hospitals.
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| 20352 |
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 1905 Pictorial envelope with military motifs used from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION 20 X 05 to Moscow. On reverse oval violet cachet : 3rd COMPANY OF 2nd SOFIISK INFANTRY, manuscript endorsement “From the Army of the Rear” and
Moscow arrival.
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SOLD for € 500.00
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| 20353 |
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 1905 Pictorial envelope with Cossack motif addressed to Pskov with free-frank cachet of RESERVE BATTALION of an EAST SIBERIAN REGIMENT in violet on reverse. Blue HARBIN ARMY CORPS SUBURB ‘b’ 24 10 05 cds on front, Pskov
arrival backstamp 14 11. Under the Treaty of Portsmouth (September 1905) both Russia and Japan agreed to evacuate their forces from Manchuria and to retain only small contingents to protect their railways.
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| 20354 |
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 1905 Card from a Bohemian officer attached to the Russian army writing home with his photograph on the obverse, message in Czech, sent to Prague franked two 2k tied TSITSIKAR FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE/IN MANCHURIA 25 10 05
(=7 11 05 New Style), Prague arrival 30 11 05. Ordinary mail to Russia and Russian post offices abroad was sent post-free for the serving military. Mail to foreign countries paid the normal rate.
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SOLD for € 400.00
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| 20355 |
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 1905 Money letter for 60 roubles sent by Captain Blofield of the Viborg Regiment to his wife in Finland franked on reverse with 4k and pair of 14k cancelled STAFF (GHQ) 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE ‘e’ 7 11 05. no
registration label but manuscript No. ‘192’. On reverse central wax seal: INSURED CORRESPONDENCE/STAFF 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE, abbreviated inscription on corner seals: 18th FIELD POST OFFICE PRIAMUR DISTRICT. St Petersburg arrival 25 1
06, Viborg transit 26 1 06 and Kristinestad 28 1 06 arrival. The corner wax seals establish a connection between 18 FPO and GHQ 3rd Siberian Army Corps.
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| 20356 |
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 1905 Double-rate registered cover to Finland franked 1902-5 issue 7k and 14k on reverse cancelled in black STAFF (GHQ) 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE ‘d’ 9 11 05. No label but manuscript “N 388” in top left corner. On
reverse red circular cachet STAFF 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS and Kristinestad arrival 28 1 06.
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 1905 Viewcard of Baikal sent to Poland from 7th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘v’ 10 11 05. Violet circular cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: SEAL OF 12TH RIFLE REGIMENT. Lodz arrival 22 1 06. At this time No. 7 Reserve FPO
was situated at KIRIN.
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 1905 Lake Baikal viewcard endorsed “From the Active Army” and addressed to Warsaw (arrival 6 1 06), message in Polish with dateline 21 Nov 1905 (=8 Nov 05 Old Style). Blue cds reading: FIELD POST OFFICE & TELEGRAPH BRANCH
HEADQUARTERS 1st ARMY ‘v’ 10 11 05. Circular free-frank cachet in red: EAST SIBERIAN MILITARY TELEGRAPH BATTALION. Headquarters of the Russian 1st Manchurian Army was then located at SHWANGCHENPU, a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway about 50km
south of Harbin on the 265/266 Line.
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