RUSSIA » RUSSIA POST IN CHINA
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Opening |
| 10000 |
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 QUASI OFFICIAL MERCHANTS POST: 1871 Envelope to Ratibor (Prussia) from the North German Consulate in Tientsin, taken to Peking for conveyance by Russian Merchants’ Post to Russian border at Kyakhta, the fee of 30k paid in cash
with ms note on reverse, Russian 1k, 3k and 10k pen cancelled by sender for pre-payment of UPU rate from Russia to Prussia, some peripheral wear, still unique and the earliest known cover bearing Russian stamps in China. Note: Described and
illustrated in BJRP 94/95 (2006) p.45-46
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SOLD for € 24,000.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10001 |
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 QUASI OFFICIAL MERCHANTS POST: 1871 Incoming 10k postal stationery envelope (1863 issue) sent to the Border Commissar at Kyakhta on the Siberia / Mongolia border for transmission to a member of the Russian Ecclesiastical
Mission at Peking, placed on Postal Wagon No.11-12 (Kiev-Nizhnii-Novgorod), then taken by Merchants’ Post across Mongolia to Peking, received 10.8.71 (ms note) Note: The Russian Merchants’ (or Mongolian) Post was a private enterprise under the
protection of the Russian Government initiated in 1865, about 10 years before the official Russian Post was established in Mongolia and China. A charge for its service was levied on incoming mail, payable by the recipient. From January 1872 such mail
received the standard “Doplatit” (to pay) hs.
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SOLD for € 3,800.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10002 |
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 RUSSIAN EMBASSY IN CHINA POST: 1875 (Dec 16) Cover to France incl. contents datelined “Peking, le 16 Dec 1875”, carried by the Embassy post from Peking through diplomatic channels to St. Petersburg and on to Vienna, where it
was franked with Austrian 10k and put into the normal post, with French transits and reverse with wax nobility seal. Note: This incredible routing is confirmed by the contents which says: “Do not be surprised to see on this letter Viennese postage
stamps. I am sending in the winter all my packets by the Russian Courier free to St. Petersburg and from there they are sent on to Vienna”. Freezing over of the River Yangtze is given as the reason for this unusual route for this correspondence. Use
of the Diplomatic Bag would have been in deference to the sender’s status. Provenance: Ex Beckeman
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SOLD for € 3,400.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10003 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1879 2k and 7k with Cyrillic two-line Tientsin ds (T&S type 1), although its use postdates that of the type 2 cancel), minor faults, only three known examples of this cancel (all on loose stamps), no cover known
Note: Recorded in the British Journal of Russian Philately 71 (1991) p.8
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SOLD for € 750.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10004 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1886 14k Postal stationery envelope sent registered to St. Petersburg cancelled by double oval Tientsin 5.10.86 ds (T&S type 3B, rated very scarce), with ms “Registered” (in Cyrillic) and registered number in top
left corner, with Kyakhta and St. Petersburg bs
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SOLD for € 22,000.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10005 |
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 TIENTSIN INCOMING: 1893 Cover from the Imperial Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg to Shanghai via the Russian P.O. in Tientsin, sent unfranked, with St. Petersburg, double oval Tientsin 10.10.93 (T&S type 3B)
arrival, missing a back flap and some creasing
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SOLD for € 900.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10006 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1894 Postcard to Switzerland with 1889-92 7k tied by double oval Tientsin 5.6.94 ds (T&S type 3B), with Troitskosavsk, Moscow transits and Fribourg arrival, some toning around the stamp, it took 59 days in total
incl. about 8 weeks to get to Moscow due to the deterioration of the postal route across the Gobi desert, Mongolia and Siberia during the winter, very rare
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SOLD for € 19,000.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10007 |
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 TIENTSIN INCOMING: 1897 Cover from Vologda to the Russian Consul-General in Shanghai, franked on the reverse with three 10k, with Troitskosavsk and Russian Tientsin 8.12.97 type 4 cds in red adjacent
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10008 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1899 1R tied on piece by Tientsin 8.12.97 type 4 cds in red, very fine
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SOLD for € 170.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10009 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1901 Ordinary Russian 10k letter-card to France cancelled by Tientsin 8.2.1901 cds in red (T&S type 4X, characterised by defective year numerals), with Chefoo Russian P.O. transit in violet (Tchil. type 2), Shanghai
Russian P.O. cds (Gregorian calendar) and French paquebot ds, a rare usage of postal stationery
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10010 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1905 Cover sent registered to Germany franked on the reverse with “KITAI” 20k tied by Tientsin 23.3.05 cds (Tchilinghirian type 5A), and franked on the obverse with War Charity 10k and 3k that were ignored by the
P.O. as a philatelic embellishment, with the 10k tied only by the encircled “dotted R” hs, registered label adjacent, Troitskosavsk transit indicating that it was not sent by the Trans-Siberian railway via Manchuria (as it was closed during the
Russo-Japanese War), very unusual. Note: The War Charity issue was not distributed to the P.O.s in China.
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10011 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1912 Dispatch document (Bulletin D’Expedition) for consignment to Moscow without declared value, franked with “KITAI” 1R and three 20k tied by Tientsin 25.7.12 cds (T&S type 5C), with white bilingual registration
label at top left, with transit ds of the Japanese P.O.s at Tientsin and Changchun, the Russian P.O. at Harbin (Manchuria) and Moscow, rare and unusual. Note: The Harbin ds is an unrecorded subtype
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SOLD for € 1,200.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10012 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1915 Prisoner of War printed envelope sent insured for 20R to P.O.W. at Khabarovsk (Siberia), franked on the reverse with “KITAI” 14k pair tied by Tientsin 15.9.15 cds (Tchilinghirian type 6), sent via the Japanese
P.O.s at Tientsin and Changchun, with insured label in Cyrillic on obverse, with Pogranichnaya censor hs, s/l Vtorichnaya hs indicating 2nd delivery attempt and five attractive wax seals.
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10013 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1916 Despatch card (Récépissé du destinataire) for value declared packet to Kuldja (SINKIANG), franked with “KITAI” 4k, 20k, 70k and 1R tied by Tientsin 14.6.16 cds (T&S type 6), with red “valeur declarée” label
adjacent, sent via the Japanese P.O.s at Tientsin and Changchun and the Russian P.O. at Harbin, arriving in Kuldja 20.7.16 (error “19” for “16”), the International card was used because the postal route to Sinkiang took the packet outside China,
re-entering via the Russian province of Semirechinksk
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SOLD for € 3,400.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10014 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1918 Dispatch document (complete) for sending valued at 60R to Kharkov, franked with “KITAI” 4k, 14k and 70k (3) tied by Tientsin 31.8.16 cds (T&S type 6), red value declared (valeur declarée) label, sent via the
Japanese P.O. at Changchun, rare as normally the left hand side “Coupon” was detached on arrival.
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SOLD for € 1,400.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10015 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1916 Prisoner of War printed envelope sent insured for 500R to P.O.W. at Kolyvan (Siberia), franked on the reverse with “KITAI” 2k, 7k (2 pairs) and 15k (2) all tied by Tientsin 8.10.16 cds (T&S type 6), sent via the
Japanese P.O.s at Tientsin and Changchun, with insured label on obverse, wax seals on reverse, attractive.
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SOLD for € 460.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10016 |
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 TIENTSIN: “KITAI” 10k postal stationery envelope printed for used by the Red Cross P.O.W. Agency, lightly cancelled by Tienstin cds (T&S type 6), with violet boxed “Examined Military Censor / In / Tienstin” censor hs adjacent,
fine. Note: Origin of the illustration in “Russische Postcensuur 1914-1918” p.94 by A. Speeckaert
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SOLD for € 3,200.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10017 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1917 Prisoner of War printed wrapper sent from a German P.O.W. Relief Agency used to send reading matter to a P.O.W. in Kolyvan (Siberia), franked with Chinese surcharged 20c on 20k strip of three, all tied by
Tientsin 13.5.17 cds (T&S type 6), with censored hs applied at Tientsin on obverse (unrecorded type)
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SOLD for € 3,200.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10018 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1917 10k on 7k provisional postcard sent by a German officer in the P.O.W. camp at Khabarovsk (Siberia) to Tientsin, cancelled by illegible cds and ornamental framed “Postal Division / Prisoners of War / Khabarovsk
Garrison” cachet, both in violet, received at Tientsin 9.10.17 (T&S type 6 cds) and struck with two censor hs and oval “Dopltatit / Tientsin” (To Pay) hs with ms 16k, reverse with six-line “Received by the Sending (Department) Damaged / By Fire in
the Baggage (Car) on the Train at / Station Borzya 23 September 1917 / Manager/Railway Postal Department / Post Telegraph Clerk…” cachet, described in the “British Journal of Russian Philately” no.31 (1962) as the first recorded Russian wreck cover,
Tientsin “Doplatit” unrecorded by T&S, unique showpiece
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SOLD for € 5,500.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
| 10019 |
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 TIENTSIN: 1918 Prisoner of War printed envelope sent insured for 200R to P.O.W. at Berezovka (Siberia), franked on the reverse with 3c on 3k, 4c on 4k (2), 10c on 10k and 15c on 15k all tied by Tientsin 17.2.18 cds (T&S type
6), sent via the Japanese P.O.s at Tientsin and Changchun, with insured label on obverse, wax seals on reverse, attractive
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-12, 12:00 PM |
