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RUSSIA RUSSIAN OFFICES IN CHINA continued...

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Lot Description

1161

1918 (14 Dec) registered cover (opened for display) with Manchuria departure pmk, corresponding Registry label, addressed to Station Slyudyanka, showing two line handstamp indication that postage of 1r and 5k was paid in cash, also with arrival pmk on back, fine and incredibly rare Paid By Cash cover from Manchuria (Image)

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction

1162

1918 (14 Mar) registered cover from Peking to Kharkov, franked with pair of 10c on 10k surcharged, tied by "Peking" departure cds in Cyrillic, repeated alongside, corresponding Registry label at left, endorsed on back flap "Return because Post Office was closed due to Military Activities", cover returned to Peking, with 23.5.1918 arrival on back. An interesting historical usage from Russian Offices in China to regime-changing city of Kharkov (on 8th April 1918, the German army took control of Kharkov and shortly thereafter all Bolshevik gains in Ukraine were lost. The "green armies" and Insurgent Army of Ukraine refused to subordinate to Germany and Pavlo Skoropadsky proclaimed the Hetmanate, with himself as monarch). On 25th May, 1918, the Czech Legion revolted in Siberia and communication between Russian and European China completely collapsed (Image)

SOLD for $550.00
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RUSSIA Chinese Eastern Railway

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1163

1904 (14 Sep) picture postcard (Blagoveshchensk) from Hailar to Vienna, franked with 1k and 3k Arms, tied by Postal Car No.261 IX 19 (Harbin-Manchuli) pmk, repeated below, charged "30" with Austrian Postage Dues 10h and 20h added on arrival in Vienna, fine usage from Hailar (Image)

SOLD for $450.00
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1164

1904 (14 Feb) registered cover from Kwangchentze (Changchun) to Paris, franked on back with two each 3k and 7k Arms, tied by departure cds, with Postal Car No.260 transit (22.II) and Paris arrival (24.3) alongside. There is an additional departure and corresponding Registry label "Kwangchentze Polevaya P-T-Kontora" label and large "R" in circle on front, some cover toning, otherwise fine, scarce usage (Tchilingirian : "No material known to the authors") (Image) (image 1164a)

SOLD for $575.00
Will close during Public Auction

1165

1911-12 two (Japanese) picture postcards from "St.Ashike" to Warszawa, each franked with 3k red, tied by oval "Harbin-Vladivostok 263", with arrival pmks, written in Polish ("please send closed envelopes") fine and scarce usage from St.Ashike to Warszawa (Image) (image 1165a)

SOLD for $280.00
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1166

1913 (13 May) picture post card to Scotland, with 4k franking tied by oval (May 9 3 "1" of year omitted) "Manchuria" Railroad station, repeated alongside, fine and scarce, late usage (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
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RUSSIA Russo-Japanese War

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1167

1904 (6 June) commercial cover "Brothers Sennet" bilingual stationery, franked with unoverprinted 10k dark blue, tied by "Headquarters Field Post Office b" cds, repeated alongside, addressed to Paris, via Port Arthur, violet military seal on back, Paris arrival, v.f., rare usage of military pmk on Civilian mail during Russo-Japanese War, which commenced in February 1904 (Tchilingirian rated "RR") (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

1168

1904 (18 Nov) red-band cover franked with unoverprinted 10k dark blue, tied by Mukden departure cds, repeated below, sent to Germany, with boxed "Razryshenyo Polkovnik" (allowed by Colonel) censor cachet, with the Colonel's signature, v.f. and most unusual example of civilian mail through military censor (Image)

SOLD for $290.00
Will close during Public Auction

1169

1904 (19 Nov) red-band stampless cover to Riga, showing a solid strike of "Dalny-Kwantun.Ob. Zhelezno-Dorog." departure cds, with military cachets and Riga (13.12.04) arrival pmks. Situated in Kwantung Province at the end of Lyaotung Peninsula and not far from Port Arthur, the port of Dalny was one of the first places to fall to the Japanese. The Russians abandoned the city in May 1904. The staff of the Dalny Railway Post Office relocated to Kaiyuan Station on Line Nos.265/266 of the C.E.R., from where it continued in service until November 1904. This cover may be the latest date known from Kaiyan (the relocation of "Sedentary" Post Offices during the Russo-Japanese War was discussed by Dr.Casey in the Post-Rider No.52, June 2003) (Image)

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction

1170

1904 (12 Dec) registered red-band cover from "Telin" (Tiehling) to Warszawa, franked with 14k carmine & blue, tied by "Telin Polev. Tel. Ot. Priam.Ok." cds, repeated alongside, supported by Registered label "No.10 F.P.O", with red Warszawa 7.1.05 arrival on back, minor cover tears, otherwise fine, signed Carl Lange, with copies of articles of British Journal of Russian Philately Nr.46 (1971), describing this cover as being the only one known (Image)

SOLD for $575.00
Will close during Public Auction

1171

1904 (23 Oct) Insured money letter for 30 rubles sent by officer with 12th Siberian (Barnaul) Infantry Regiment to Germany, franked on reverse 4k,10k and 20k (tone spot). Wax seals and cancelations read "Siberian Army Corps Field Post Office No.4", the latter applied 22.10.04, with another strike the next day; passed to Mukden Post Office No.24 received at Head Field Post Office (Harbin) 29 (10) 04, Registry label partly torn off. The 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 FPO was situated in Mukden. Only one other example of the double-circle Mukden canceler with serial "a" has been recorded, while the Head FPO canceler of small (25mm) format has not been reported previously (Image) (image 1171a)

SOLD for $250.00
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1172

1904 (1 Aug) free frank cover to Riga, with oval violet Field Hospital Lifland Red Cross cachet, corresponding handstamp and Postal Car No.1 TPO cancel, with Riga arrival, fine and scarce (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
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1173

1904 (24 Apr) free-frank cover, with letter addressed to "Manchuria. Gunzhulin (Kungchuling). To the General Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces. To the Senior Adjutant of the Intelligence Department, Lt.-Colonel of the General Staff Baron Viteken". Sent by wounded officer recuperating in St Petersburg voicing his suspicions that the British Military Observer with the Russian forces in Manchuria, Colonel Waters, is spying for the Japanese and wants him placed under surveillance (following receipt of this letter, the accreditation of Col. Waters was withdrawn and on attempting to return to Manchuria from leave, he was stopped at Irkutsk and made to turn back). The envelope bears a St. Petersburg cds of 24 4 05 and receipt cds of "Headquarters Field Post Office "d" (29.5.05)", also red crayon "Handed to Lt.-Col 29.V" (Wallscourt Walters, who became a Brigadier-General, was Military Attache in St Petersburg 1893-1898, observer with the Russian Army in Manchuria 1904-05 and chief of the British Military Mission at Russian GHQ in 1916. His book "Secret and Confidential" (1926) describes the Irkutsk incident) (Image) (image 1173a)

SOLD for $450.00
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1174

1904 (2 Sep) stampless lettercard to Station Skhodnya, Nikolaevsk Railway, dateline MUKDEN, nobility logo inscribed in blue "Gift of his Royal Highness Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich", posted "Field Post Office 3.17th Army Corps" (at Mukden during autumn 1904) (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
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1175

1904 (13 Sep) Chinese native pictorial cover to Zwolen (Radom Guberniya), canceled "Siberian Army Corps Field Post Office No.4" (b), Radom transit and Zwolen arrival (8.10.04), circular violet free-frank cachet reading around Imperial Eagle "Mobile Field Hospital of the 2nd Siberian Infantry Division" (This hospital must have received many of the 14,301 Russian wounded from the Battle of Liaoyang, concluded shortly before this item was sent) (Image)

SOLD for $240.00
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1176

1904 (5 May) registered cover to St. Petersburg, franked on back with pair of 7k blue, tied by Headquarters Field Telegraph Branch pmks, corresponding Registry label on front, with 27 May arrival, roughly opened on front, otherwise fine (Image) (image 1176a)

SOLD for $140.00
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1177

1905 (14 Dec) registered cover (opened for display) from active 3rd Manchurian Army to Simbirsk, franked on back with 14k carmine & blue, tied by Manchurian 3rd Army Fieldpost pmk, repeated on front, which also bears Registry label "No.920 3rd Army Headquarters", negative seals of "Navarin" and arrival (18.1.06) in Simbirsk, fine registered usage from the Manchurian Army, with what might be unrecorded Registry label (Image)

SOLD for $450.00
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1178

1905 (8 Mar) Pictorial envelope and letter on military-motif note paper, written in Kungchuling and canceled "TELIN" (Tiehling), sent to Biryuch, with blue departure cds, red military cachet, charged "160" in blue crayon, some toning and roughly opened, Tchilingirian (pages 456 and 473 "only one recorded so far on a stampless military letter") (Image)

SOLD for $450.00
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1179

1905 (12 Aug) service military cover sent from the Active Army Reserve FPO No.12 (Ershitsiatse) to Telegraph branch of the 1st Army, missent FPO 31 and redirected and missent again, this time to TALADZHAO, with 9.9.05 arrival pmk, opened and resealed with official seals, redirected to its final destination (15th Field Telegraph branch), exceptional usage, parts of the cover replaced and mended, rare (Image)

SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction

1180

1905 (30 Nov) registered cover to Denmark, franked on back with combination Russia 1k and 3k Arms and 10k "Kitai", tied by Fieldpost Corps No.1 Post Office "b" pmks on both sides, supported by corresponding Registry label ("1st Siberian Corps"), "R" in circle, with Copenhagen (5.2.06) arrival pmk, rare registered usage, mistakenly paying 14k domestic, instead of 20k overseas Registry rate. The mixed franking of Imperial and Russian Offices in China adhesives on cover to a foreign destination is unusual (The 1st Siberian Corps was at the time in Taolaichao) (Image) (image 1180a)

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction