1918 two covers from Japanese military located at Hailar, Inner Mongolia, dispatch cancels of "No.6 Field Post Office 7.9.23" (23 Sep 1918), earliest recorded military mail from that Field Post Office, the other sent from Infantry 42nd Regiment from Hailar (25 Dec 1919), rare (Image)

Est.US$500

1919 three postal cards to Japan, two from Irkutsk, one using the Russian POW card, with FPO 9 markings (in one the sender wrote of bitter cold in winter), the other Field Post Office 8, Chita/Peschanka, minor toning, fine and rare group (Image)

Est.US$500

1919 collection of 11 cards and covers, each written-up describing the Japanese Field office numbers and corresponding locations (Verkhneudinsk, Nibangawa, Harken-in-Jochujo in Irkutsk, Kyakhta, Berezovka, North Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Vladivostok, Pervaya Retschka (POW mail), Chita, Vladivostok, different departure pmks, censor cachets, etc. Also included five unused picture postcards (Siberia) and intact illustrated wrapper (Image)

Est.US$750

1919 (8 Nov) cover (with letter) sent by a Hungarian POW in Krasnaya Retschka Camp near Khabarovsk to Busivce, Czechoslovakia, endorsed "Service des Prisonniers de guerre" and "Censurovano", plus the newly instituted Japanese military censor cachet, fine and scarce from a Japanese POW camp at Krasnaya Retschka (Image)

Est.US$250

1920 (10 Aug) cover sent by a German POW in Piervaya Retschka Camp near Vladivostok to USA, framed "Prisonniers de guerre" and "Censored by the Camp Commandant" (in Cyrillic) cachets, addressee not found in New York and the cover was returned back to the Camp and forwarded from there, showing red and violet censor cachets applied by the Japanese, who at this late stage controlled the Prisoner of War Camps jointly with the Bolshevik authorities (Image)

Est.US$250

1920 (24 Feb) Red Cross cover sent by a German POW in Piervaya Retschka Camp near Vladivostok to USA, endorsed "Prisoner of War Mail", franked "Services des Prisonniers de Guerre" and "Censored by the Commandant" (in Cyrillic) cachets, red censor cachet applied by the Japanese, with Moiji, Japan 31.1.1920 departure pmk, fine used from Japanese/Bolshevik controlled POW camp (Image)

Est.US$250

1920 (10 Feb) pre-printed "Correspondence of War prisoners" card sent by a Hungarian POW in Krasnaya Retschka Camp near Khabarovsk to Budapest, Japanese censor strike and "Moiji, Japan" 7.3.20 departure pmk (Image)

Est.US$150