1919 (14 Nov) YMCA bilingual POW free frank card sent to Vienna, with oval Vladivostok Railway Station departure pmk, four-line Vladivostok Censor No.7 cachet, interesting text (the writer comments that he was transferred from Krasnoyarsk in August, presumably as the Red Army was advancing eastward, now is eating well and getting paid as a barber to the General Staff), unusual dispatch from an Austrian POW (Image)

Est.US$150

1919 (21 June) cover from Vladivostok to USA, paying the correct Kolchak rate for a foreign letter, with pair of 10k and 50k Imperial arms, tied by cds, with boxed Vladivostok No.11 censor cachet, fine commercial cover from "Bryner & Co." whose owner was the father of Yuliy Borisovitch Bryner (born July 11, 1920 in Vladivostok. He later changed his name to Yul Brynner, best known for his "The King and I", "Magnificent Seven", etc.) (Image)

Est.US$200

1919 (15 Nov) cover franked on both sides with two each 15k, 25k and 50k, plus single 20k paying the correct 2r rate from Achinsk, addressed to the Welfare Committee for Prisoners of War in New York, Vladivostok censor hs, opened and resealed, fine usage from Achinsk, just west of Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Image)

Est.US$150

1919 (25 Dec) registered cover franked on back with imperforate strip of 4x1r, paying correct postage (2r postage and 2r registry fee), sent from Vladivostok to George Kestlin at Russian Bank for Foreign Trade in Paris, with rare internal style Vladivostok (city) registry label "Vladivostok I Gor.Primorskoi Obl" and boxed censor cachet of Censor No.12, cover forwarded to London, with 31 Jan 1920 arrival, signed Mikulski (Image)

Est.US$150

1919 (16 Aug) registered cover from Kansk, franked on back with imperf. 1r and perforated block of 4x10k/7k paying old rate 70k postage and 70k for registration, addressed to YMCA in Bern, Switzerland, boxed rectangle cachet of the Vladivostok censor, scarce "Kansk Yenisseisk Prov." registry label, with Bern arrival Oct.13 on back, fine (Image)

Est.US$150

1919 (21 Aug) registered cover from Vladivostok, colorfully franked with 10 different 1k-1r values, paying 3.05r second weight letter rate (overpaying by 5k), sent from the Swedish Consulate to the Swedish legation in Tokyo, with full violet seal "Consulate de Suede a Vladivostok", two different Tokyo arrival pmks on back, boxed rectangle cachet of the Vladivostok censor on front, fine (Image)

Est.US$150

1919 (21 June) registered cover from Kansk (Yeniseysk prov), sent via Vladivostok to Switzerland, franked on back with pair of 15k, 10k/7k and 1r imperf. Imperial Arms, paying the correct 1.40r (70k postage and 70k Registry), addressed to the International Peace Bureau, depart for help for Prisoners of War, with San Francisco and New York transit, Bern arrival pmks on back, Vladivostok Military Censor No.6 and sealing tape, fine (Image)

Est.US$150

1919-1920 (Dec-Jan) collection of 17 commercial covers or cards from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk to Austria (card written on Christmas eve by a free Austrian POW traveling on Irkutsk 241 Postal Wagon on the Trans-Siberian Railway, hoping to get to Nikolsk-Ussuriysk and home from there), commercial covers to USA, registered mail from Ufa to Moscow, others from Krasnoyarsk to London, censored card from a freed German POW, sent from Irkutsk to Berlin. Other destinations include Switzerland, Denmark, each cover with a detailed write-up with respect to rates, franking, registry labels, contents and censor markings. A fine group (Image)

Est.US$750

1920 (17 Feb) Prisoner of War card from Alexandrovskoye Zab(aikal) franked with 50k and 25k Arms, paying internal rate to Harbin, Manchuria, addressed to the Swiss Red Cross, advising of the transport of 25 invalids from Krasnoyarsk to a concentration camp in Vladivostok, fine and interesting card (Image)

Est.US$150