1893 (27 Apr) 10k stationery entire envelope sent from St. Petersburg (27.4.93) to executive officer K. P. Jessen on board "His Imperial Russian Majesty's cruiser Admiral Korniiloff" in Hong Kong (14.6.93), forwarded to Nagasaki (22.6.93) and Vladivostok (29.6.93). With two strikes of "Vladivostok" forwarding mark applied by the Russian consul in Nagasaki, fine and scarce routing (Karl Petrovich Jessen served as executive officer on the Admiral Korniloff from 1891 to 1893. During the Russo-Japanese War, Rear Admiral Jessen commanded the Vladivostok cruiser squadron. He was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918) (Image)

Est.US$150

1895 (22 July) cover (HMS Edgar stationery) franked with pair of 3k and single 4k paying 10k from Aleksandrovsk De Kastri, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to Colne, England, sent by Roger Baron, assistant engineer on the British cruiser "HMS Edgar", part of the China Station Squadron, fine cover, illustrated in Rossica No.122, ex-Adler collection (Image)

Est.US$150

1898 (24 Jan) cover franked with two 10k Arms (one defective), paying 20k from St. Petersburg to the Russian consul in Hong Kong (14.3) for transmission to midshipman Vladimir Mikhailovich Rykachev on board the battleship "Navarin", inscribed "please forward in case he has left." (the Navarin was the first battleship in Russia's Pacific fleet. She arrived in Hong Kong on 9 March and stayed until the 24th. Vladimir Rykachev was the grandnephew of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. On 26 June 1903, Lt. Rykachev was executive officer on the survey ship "Opisnoi" in the Gulf of Finland near Helsinki when he fell overboard and drowned) (Image)

Est.US$150

1913 (22 Aug) picture postcard franked with single 3k Arms, sent from Aleksandrovsk De Kastri to Irkutsk by a sailor on the cruiser "Askold". The sender writes, "Greetings from Sakhalin, from where we returned yesterday. While we are at sea far from Vladivostok I will have more free time to write." The Askold (the only ship with five funnels) was the flagship of the Siberian flotilla based in Vladivostok. In June 1918 she was seized by the British in Murmansk and renamed HMS "Glory IV" (Image)

Est.US$150

1914 cover (stationery of Otto Lagerfeld) posted on a ship sailing from Vladivostok to Tsuruga, Japan, from where it was sent overland to Kobe, franked with 10k Arms, postmarked 20.8.14 Tsuruga, with Kobe (21.8.14) on back, violet framed "Paquebot" (Hosking 3442, "scarce") applied in Tsuruga, minor cover faults, tape reinforced, otherwise fine (Lagerfeld, a German national, arrived in Vladivostok in 1907 and established a business selling Carnation canned milk. On 3 August 1914 he was arrested on espionage charges and was sent to Verkhoyansk for the duration of World War I. His son Karl was a famous fashion designer) (Image)

Est.US$150

1914 cover (stationery of M. J. Sterelny) posted on a ship sailing from Vladivostok to Tsuruga, Japan, from where it was sent overland to Yokohama, then by ship to Seattle, franked with 10k Arms, postmarked Tsuruga (12.11.15), with Yokohama (13.11), framed "Paquebot" (Hosking 442, "scarce") applied in Tsuruga, fine (Sterelny took over Otto Lagerfeld's canned milk importing company when Lagerfeld was arrested for espionage on 3 August 1914) (Image)

Est.US$150

1916 (23 June) Japanese picture postcard sent from the Vladivostok railway station to Petrograd by a sailor on the Russian cruiser Peresvyet. The Vladivostok postage due mark was incorrectly applied and later crossed out, with handstamp "Cruiser Peresvyet 3rd Company." The Peresvyet was scuttled in 1904 during the siege of Port Arthur. The Japanese salvaged the ship and sold her back to the Russians in March 1916. After repairs the ship was ordered to the White Sea. She struck German mines near Egypt on 4 January 1917 and sank (Image)

Est.US$100