RUSSIA » RUSSIA POST IN CHINA – MANCHURIA
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 LYAOTUNG LEASEHOLD TALIENVAN (I Casey): 1899 Cover to Germany franked 10k tied by TALIENVAN 12 Oct 1899 in 3 lines cds, forwarded the next day to Port Arthur, thence Russian P.O. Shanghai 08.X 1899 (error of day for ’18’ O.S.
= ’30’ N.S.), conveyed to Europe by French Ligne ‘N’/Paquebot No. 2 (SS “Tonkin”) 31.Oct 1899, cover tears at top clear of cancels and stamp, a major rarity The earliest of 4 known Talienvan / Dalny forerunners and the only recorded cover.
Illustrated in B.J.R.P. 1971 pp.3 – 7, 89 (2003) p.9. Note: For a few years at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries the name Talienwan (Russian Talienvan) was given to a port on the south side of Talien Bay in the Lyaotung area. In August 1899 the
port was named Dalny and the name Talienwan was transferred to another port on the north side of the bay (Talienvan II). The old canceller remained in use at Dalny until at least 1901. Provenance: Liphshutz and Mizuhara
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SOLD for € 26,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10001 |
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 TALIENVAN (I Casey): 1900 Viewcard of Port Arthur addressed to Germany franked 4k tied by TALIENVAN POST OFFICE 21 Okt. 1900 cds, received Port Arthur the same day (strike on reverse), Russian P.O. Chefoo 25 Okt. 1900 in
violet, passed to Chinese P.O. Chefoo same day, Chinese P.O. Shanghai 10 Nv. 1900, & Russian P.O. Shanghai 14 XI 1900, then by French ship, Dresden arrival, fine Note: Although the Russian name for this port had been changed from Talienvan to Dalny
in August 1899, the old canceller remained in use until 1901. One of the four known examples of this Talienvan cancellation
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SOLD for € 5,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10002 |
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 TALIENWAN (II Casey): 1900 Cover registered from Talienwan (a small port on the North side of Talien Bay, opposite Dalny) to Chefoo, with two 10k tied by “TALIENVAN / POST OFFICE 16 IV” cds (year omitted), Port Arthur bs, very
fine The only known registered mail from Talienvan. Illustrated B.J.R.P. 89 (2003) p.18 Note: The name Talienwan had been previously used for the port later called Dalny by Russian Imperial Decree of 11 May 1899.
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SOLD for € 11,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10003 |
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 TALIENWAN (II Casey): 1901 Stationery card to Pola franked 7k (3k excess) tied Russian TALIENWAN/POST OFFICE 13 III (old style = 26 III new style) year omitted, transit cancels of Port Arthur (14 III 1901, Chefoo 16 III 01
(old style) and Chinese P.O. same day (29 Mar 01 new style), Russian and Chinese P.O.’s Shanghai 2 Apr 01, then put on French ship Ligne ‘N’ paquebot no 7 (s.s.ERNSIMONS) 4 Apr 01, arriving Pola 3 5 01, card with dateline in German “Bay of Talienwan”
(near Port Arthur), message begins: “A large town is being built here as the terminal station of the Trans-Siberian Railway: Dalny”, very fine and rare Illustrated B.J.R.P. 89 (2003) p. 19
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SOLD for € 13,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10004 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1898 4k Stationery card to Germany cancelled PORT ARTHUR / POST OFFICE 15 V 1898 (Subtype 1B), transit Russian P.O. SHANGHAI 6 VI 1898 in blue and Hong Kong 10 June 1898, Munster arrival 11 7 98, fine strike Note:
Earliest item of mail from the Russian P.O. in Port Arthur, which opened about early April 1898
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SOLD for € 2,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10005 |
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 1898 4k Stationery card addressed to Germany with manuscript dateline “Port Arthur 28 5 1898” (2 months after Russian troops had landed in the leased territory), placed directly on the ship and cancelled on arrival at the
Russian P.O. in Shanghai with Type I canceller in blue dated 6 VI 1898, saving the sender a day of transit time transiting through Shanghai and Hong Kong as the previous lot which was despatched a day earlier, a few tonespots, otherwise fine, ex
Casey Note: Date of opening of the Russian P.O. at Port Arthur: 16 IV 1898. Earliest known postmark of this office: 1 VI 1898
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10006 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1898 3k Stationery card uprated 1k to make overseas rate to Germany tied by PORT ARTHUR Type I cds (1 VI 1898 old style), transit cds of Russian P.O. Chefoo (old style), 2 days later arrived at Russian P.O.
Shanghai (type I cds in blue new style), transiting Hong Kong 4 days later, arriving Hamburg on 23 7 98, fine and appealing, was the earliest recorded until the recent discovery of lot 10075
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SOLD for € 1,200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10007 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1899 Cover to Finland franked 1889-92 7k tied by PORT ARTHUR Type 1c 23 1 1899 cds, repeated below, transit St Petersburg and Helsinki arrival backstamps indicating a transit time of over 7 weeks, very fine Note:
Before the rail link with Newchwang was completed (October 1899) mail from Port Arthur was taken to that port by courier. Completion of the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1901-02 permitted faster overland communication with Europe
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10008 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1899 4k stationery card to Germany cancelled PORT ARTHUR / POST OFFICE 15 II 1899 (subtype 1B), with Russian P.O. Shanghai transit (type 2) in Old Style and despatch in New Style, French paquebot LIGNE N / PAQ.
FR. No.6 (S/S Sydney) octagonal ds and Oschatz arrival cds, fine
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10009 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1899 Stationery card imprinted with Imperial Russian eagle and Chinese Dragon franked 3k tied by PORT ARTHUR Type 1A 16 XI 99 cds, fine
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SOLD for € 240.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10010 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1899 Reply paid card from Port Arthur to Switzerland uprated Russia 3k + 1k ‘Kitai’ overprint (unnecessary), ordinary stamps cancelled Type 1b 28 11 00 cds’s, ‘Kitai’ issue cancelled in transit or on arrival with
‘dumb’ canceller, transit marks of Russian P.O. Shanghai and British P.O. Hong Kong, fine Note: ‘Kitai’ overprints were available at Port Arthur only during the second half of 1899 and there is no record of their genuine use from that office at that
time
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10011 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1901 Unsealed envelope from firm of Grunberg and Reilly, Port Arthur to St Petersburg franked vertical pair of 1889-92 1k to pay 2k rate for printed matter, cancelled PORT ARTHUR Type 2 (serial ‘4’) 7 III 1901, St
Petersburg arrival backstamp, lightly soiled, scarce franking Note: The junior partner in this firm was Sidney (“Ace of Spies”) Reilly, a British agent implicated in the attempted assassination of Lenin in 1918. He fled Russia with a price on his
head and was sentenced to death in his absence by a Soviet military tribunal. Executed on his return to Russia during the Stalin regime.
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10012 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1901 Money transfer card for 100 roubles sent by telegraph by crew member of the cruiser ‘Admiral Kornilov’ at Port Arthur to a wife at the naval base of KRONSHTADT, charges paid by 3k, 5k strip of 3 + 7k tied by
violet PORT ARTHUR Type 2d 4 III cds’s, scribbled ‘Telegraph’ in red crayon and ‘O’ in blue crayon to denote paid (Oplacheno), fine Note: The ‘Admiral Kornilov’ was one of the older unarmoured vessels of Russia’s Pacific Fleet, built at St Nazaire,
France in 1887 and refitted in 1895
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10013 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1901 Japanese 1 1/2s postal stationery card from Tokyo to Nagasaki, re-addressed to Port Arthur with 11.04.01 arrival cds (T&S type 3C with year inverted), taxed 5 1/2c in Nagasaki and oval “DOPLATIT / PORT
ARTHUR” postage due hs with ms “5k” applied on arrival, this being the ONLY RECORDED STRIKE of the Port Arthur postage due mark, very fine
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SOLD for € 850.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10014 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1901 Money transfer form for 50 roubles to an addressee in St Petersburg, imprinted stamp cancelled in violet PORT ARTHUR/3/POST OFFICE 16 X 1901, boxed PORT ARTHUR/No. 301 also in violet, received St Petersburg
18 Nov. 1901, paid out 24 Nov. 1901, fine and rare Note: Delay in transmission may be attributed to congestion of the railway wih military traffic during the Occupation of Manchuria
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SOLD for € 650.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10015 |
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 1901 Cover registered to the USA with 1k pair, 4k, 10k pair and 14k tied by Port Arthur 15.10.01 cds (T&S type 1B), paying 3 lots plus 10k registration, via Russian and Chinese P.O. at Chefoo, then Chinese and Russian P.O. at
Shanghai, thence via Yokohama, Seattle and arriving in New York, with Cyrillic “Z” type reg’d label contrary to UPU regulations, horizontal fold affecting 1k, otherwise a fine and attractive multi-colour franking, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10016 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1889 1R with “PORT-ARTHUR / 1 / RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH” 12 VII 1902 cds, stamp with faults incl. a hole at the left side, still the ONLY EXAMPLE RECORDED of this cancel, plus a ppc of Port Arthur Railway Station
Note: This is the origin of the record in the BJRP no.30 (1962), pp.13 & 17 fig.68. Evidently the bulk of mail arriving a Port Arthur Railway Station for despatch was loaded straight on to the TPOs of Line 266 for sorting and cancelling and the
Station’s own canceller used only items such as insured sendings, money transfers and parcel cards
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SOLD for € 180.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10017 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1902 Triple panoramic viewcard of Port Arthur with Chinese Dragon and Imperial Russian Eagle embossing on face symbolising liaison between the two countries, sent to Japan franked 3k + 7k (10k letter rate) tied by
Port Arthur cds 4 V 1902, transit Nagasaki and Kobe arrival backstamps, scarce Note: Card produced by firm of Siatas, Blok & Company, Port Arthur and Talienwan
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10018 |
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 1903 Registered cover from Port Arthur addressed to Empress Maria Feodorovna franked on reverse 3 pairs of 7k tied by Port Arthur cds,s, cover flap (torn) sealed by 3 Red Cross labels, arrival mark of the Royal Chancellory St
Petersburg, from Dr Balashev, head of Russian Red Cross in the Far East and Surgeon-general of the Russian Army, fine and desirable, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 2,400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10019 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1903 Registered postcard to Mitava franked 3k + 7k tied by PORT ARTHUR Type 2b 13 XI 1903 cds, placed on Chinese Eastern Railway POSTAL WAGON No 266 (2) (PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN) 2 days later and transferred to CER PW
no. 263 (3) (HARBIN-MANCHULI) on 17.XI.1903, transit time 3 weeks, fine
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SOLD for € 850.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10020 |
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 PORT ARTHUR: 1912 Savings Bank book issued by Russian P.O. in Port Arthur December 1903 to Russian priest, Father Anton Angelov, Saving Bank stamps to the value of the sum deposited are affixed and cancelled by Port Arthur
datestamp Type 2B in violet Note: Cash withdrawals were made at a time of war fever, heightened by the Japanese attack on the Fleet and town in February 1904 when many citizens fled. The siege of Port Arthur (May 1904-January 1905) saw great loss of
life from enemy action and disease
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SOLD for € 180.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10021 |
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 MANCHURIA PROPER EARLIEST RECORDED COVER FROM MANCHURIA PROPER HARBIN: 1900 Cover registered to St. Petersburg with 4k, 7k and 10k tied by fine blue “HARBIN MACHURIA / POSTAL BRANCH” 10.09.00 cds (T&S type 1), St. Petersburg
bs (24.11.00, over two months later), small cover fault at top right not affecting the stamp, a beautiful and rare franking Note: Recorded in “Russia Used Abroad” pt.5, pp.395, 425 & 427 as earliest cover from a Russian P.O. in Manchuria proper.
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SOLD for € 11,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10022 |
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 HARBIN: 1901 Cover to Berlin franked 10k tied by HARBIN/1/POSTAL BRANCH 24 July 1901 cds, this cancellation is an unrecorded subtype of Harbin Type 1, characterised by recumbent ‘1’ at sides, transit backstamp of Moscow and
arrival Friedenau, fine
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SOLD for € 1,500.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10023 |
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 HARBIN: 1902 Decorative postcard registered to St. Petersburg with 3k and 7k Arms tied by Harbin 28.4.02 cds (T&S type 2) with serial “6,” with Cyrillic reg’d label and arrival cds, fine
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10024 |
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 HARBIN: Reply half of 4k(+4k) reply-paid card in Russian to Japan and in Japanese to Kobe, cancelled HARBIN Type 2E 3 IX 1902 cds, Nagasaki transit cds, fine
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10025 |
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 HARBIN: 1902 Early picture postcard showing Harbin street scene to St. Petersburg with 1k and 2k Arms, one stamp tied by Harbin 14.3.03 cds (T&S type 2) with serial “5,” with arrival cds tying the other stamp having been
missed at Harbin, fine
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10026 |
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 HARBIN: 1907 registered cover to St Petersburg franked single 14k on reverse tied by HARBIN Type 4 serial ‘e’ 25 9 07 cds, dispatch mark of HARBIN Subtype 4n 26 9 07 and Harbin Central registration label alongside, St
Petersburg arrival, addressee could not be found and remnant of “spravka” (enquiry) label, serial letter ‘e’ is a hitherto unrecorded subtype of the Harbin Type 3 cancellers, lightly soiled
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10027 |
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 HARBIN: 1908 Registerd cover to IRKUTSK franked pair 1902-05 7k on reverse, tied by HARBIN subtype 3B dated 21 6 08, transit HARBIN subtype 4Q next day, IRKUTSK arrival 26 6 08, unusual HARBIN/CENTRAL registration label on
front, cover slightly reduced at top shaving label Note: Serial letter ‘O’ erroneously attributed to Subtype 4Q in “Russia used Abroad” (“often over-inked”). The serial letter is actually ‘z’.
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10028 |
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 HARBIN: 1911 Registered cover to St Petersburg franked on reverse 1k irregular block of 18 + 5 singles tied by HARBIN Type 3N 5 8 11 cds’s, two-line handstamps with added date and signature: REMOVED FROM THE
POSTBOX….POST-TELEGRAPH CLERK..’ alongside. Presumably mailed when the post office was closed and taken from the box for registration, fine and unusual
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10029 |
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 HARBIN: 1911 Value Declared cover for 50 roubles (133 francs, 33 centimes) from Harbin to Austria, on front blue-lined HARBIN label in Russian and purple bilingual (French/Russian) value declared label and linear HEAD OF
HARBIN POST OFFICE in blue, on reverse franked 15k pair + 14k to pay 44 kopeck charge cancelled HARBIN Type 4 , serial ‘z’ dated 27.9.11, five wax seals alongside in good condition imprinted HARBIN POST OFFICE around Imperial Eagle with posthorns and
thunderbolts, letter ‘b’ at foot, dated 27 X 11, there are no previous records of Harbin postmaster’s handstamp, purple label or Harbin P.O. wax seal, rare and spectacular
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10030 |
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 HARBIN: 1911 Picture postcard of Vladivostock showing the Head Post Office to Paris franked 4k tied by HARBIN Subtype 3P dated 29.12.11, fine
Get Market Data for [Russia Collection] Visual Pricing Guide Sample Census |
SOLD for € 110.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10031 |
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 HARBIN: 1913 Despatch card for package valued 40 roubles sent to Leipzig, charges of 1 rouble 86 kopecks paid by Romanov stamps, cancelled HARBIN Type 4H, dated 4 1 13, transit marks of KIBARTY (Poland) and EYDTKUHNEN
(Prussia) on reverse, fine Note:This card suggests that the Romanov Tercentenary issue was placed on sale in the Harbin office on 2 Jan 1913 as in Metropolitan Russia
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10032 |
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 HARBIN: 1913 Viewcard to Germany dateline Harbin 23.2.13 franked Republic of China 4c, posted 2 days later, stamp not accepted at post office, pen-crossed and 2 types of HARBIN Subtype 3N applied below 12 2 13, postage due
indicated by encircled ‘T’ (taxé) struck at Harbin and boxed PORTO in Germany where blue crayon ’20’ added Note: Writer draws addressee’s attention to stamp, apparently unaware that it had no validity at the Russian P.O.
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SOLD for € 480.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10033 |
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 HARBIN: 1913 Registered cover to Riga from Chief of XIth Division for the Transmission of Mail by Railway, an office recently moved from Vladivostok to Harbin, franked on reverse a vertical pair of 7k Romanovs tied by HARBIN
Type 3, serial ‘b’ 3.7.3 cds’s, transit cds of HARBIN Type 3 serial ‘m’ next day and St Petersburg plus Riga arrival cds, handstruck registration cachet on obverse not previously recorded, fine
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10034 |
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 HARBIN: 1913 Envelope from the Esperanto Society registered to Germany with 20k on reverse tied by Harbin 20.9.13 cds (T&S type 3b) and further dispatch cds (T&S type 3n) adjacent, reg’d labels in Cyrillic ‘Z’ and Latin ‘R’
characters, arrival bs, cover faults at top
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SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10035 |
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 HARBIN: 1914 Pictorial straw envelope registered to Germany franked on reverse pair of 10k tied by HARBIN Type 3B 15 5 14 cds’s, registration labels applied on front in Russian and French, the latter reading KHARBIN/SIBERIA,
ASIATIC RUSSIA, backstamped St Petersburg transit and Arnstadt arrival, fine
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SOLD for € 250.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10036 |
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 HARBIN: 1914 Cover from pharmaceutical consultant at Harbin Wharf to Switzerland franked on reverse Romanov 10k tied HARBIN Type 4 serial ‘k’ 16 11 14 cds, opened and resealed in transit by military censor in Irkutsk (linear
and circular violet cachets – Speeckaert Types 1 and 2), Basel arrival cds alongside, fine
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SOLD for € 220.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10037 |
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 HARBIN: 1915 3k Postal stationery card to Denmark, underpaid with “HARBIN / TO PAY” violet oval cachet and encircled “T,” cancelled by Harbin 23.3.15 cds with Petrograd censor cachet adjacent, some minor creasing, fine, the
only known “To Pay” in violet of Harbin
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10038 |
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 HARBIN: 1915 Registered cover to KHABAROVSK Siberia franked on reverse Romanov 4k strip of 5 cancelled HARBIN Type 3 serial ‘b’ 20 6 15 cds’s, on obverse Harbin registration label and Passed by Censor violet cachet applied in
transit in POGRANICHNAYA on Manchuria’s Eastern border with Siberia (Speeckaert Type 1), fine
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SOLD for € 380.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10039 |
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 HARBIN: 1915 View card of street corner in Russified Manchurian town of Harbin to Petrograd franked 3k tied by HARBIN Type 4L 7 9 15 cds, fine
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SOLD for € 130.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10040 |
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 HARBIN: 1915 Japanese handpainted picture postcard to England with 4k tied by Harbin 28.9.15 cds (subtype 4L), with crisp red “Military Censor Attached to Irkutsk Post Office” hs applied in transit through Siberia (Speeckaert
type 2), minor soiling, fine
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SOLD for € 75.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10041 |
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 HARBIN: 1915 “Oxypathy and Oxypathor” advertising envelope to Scotland with 1k Romanov, 3k Arms (3) and 10k Arms paying double rate, all tied by Harbin 20.10.15 cds (subtype 4L), with Cyrillic “D.Ts.” censor hs applied at
Krasnoyarsk (Siberia) (Speeckaert type 1) and 3-line censor cachet applied at Petrograd, attractive Note: This cover was the origin of the Harbin type 4L illustration in “Russia Used Abroad” pt.5, p.429, fig.602, and also the first record of the
Krasnoyarsk type 1 censor hs used in 1915 and in red.
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10042 |
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 HARBIN: 1916 Dispatch card from HARBIN to BAKU for parcel valued at 90 roubles, charges of 7 roubles paid by pair 1r, single 10k and 14 copies of 35k Arms issue, all cancelled HARBIN Type 4 of unrecorded type (fancy ‘m’),
signature on receipt dated 18 2 17 when a further charge of 48 roubles 10 kopecks was raised at Baku by adding and cancelling five 7r Arms issue, pair of 5r and single 3r Romanov and 10k/7k provisional, the reason for the additional charge applied at
Baku is unknown, fine and spectacular showpiece
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SOLD for € 1,800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10043 |
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 HARBIN: 1916 Registered cover to Switzerland franked on reverse gutter block of 4 5k stamps tied by HARBIN Type 3 serial ‘b’ 12 1 16 cds, overlapping registration labels on front in Cyrillic and Latin, opened and resealed in
transit with red cachet on reverse: Military Censor Attached to IRKUTSK Post Office (Speeckaert Type 2), fine
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10044 |
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 HARBIN: 1916 Registered cover to USA franked 10k Arms issue (pair) tied by HARBIN T&S Subtype 3B dated 22 4 16, ‘Z’ registration label in Cyrillic and matching French label, opened and resealed by Military Censor attached to
IRKUTSK P.O. with violet circular cachet (Speeckaert Type 2) applied on reverse, New York transit and Fitchburg arrival backstamps
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10045 |
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 HARBIN: 1916 Registered cover to New York franked on reverse 7k War Charity issue of 1914 in combination with 1915 War Charity 3k + 10k tied HARBIN Type 4 (serial ‘el’) 15.12.16 cds,s, boxed violet handstamp Military Censor
no. 5/Vladivostok on obverse plus registration labels in Cyrillic/Latin alongside, Seattle transit and New York arrival backstamps, scarce and attractive usage of this popular issue
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10046 |
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 HARBIN: 1917 Cover registered from a stamp dealer in Harbin to Canada with 20k on 14k provisional issue tied by Harbin 1.3.17 cds (T&S type 3B), reg’d labels in Cyrillic and Latin characters, with boxed violet censor hs
applied at Vladivostok, arrival bs, minor cover faults
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10047 |
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 HARBIN: 1917 3k Stationery card uprated 2k imperf cancelled HARBIN Subtype 4L 7 12 17 cds, addressed to Switzerland, encircled ‘T’ (taxe) applied at Harbin, Swiss 10c postage due applied on arrival, examined in transit by
military censors in Petrograd and France, fine
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10048 |
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 HARBIN: 1919 Fragment of dispatch document franked with Japanese adhesives and cancelled Yokohama Japan 6 12 18, backstamped HARBIN 8 1 19 cds of an unrecorded type showing a word in inverted commas apparently excised, the
postmark in its original form being unknown, highly unusual
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10049 |
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 HARBIN: 1919 Registered cover to San Francisco franked on reverse 2 strips of 3 and pair of 50k tied HARBIN Subtype 3b 20 12 19 cds’s, transit Japanese P.O. Changchun (Manchuria) on reverse and Yokohama on the front, arrival
backstamp, ‘Z’ registration label on obverse, attractive and scarce franking
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
