RUSSIA » RUSSIA POST IN CHINA – MANCHURIA continued...
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10050 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Registered cover addressed in Chinese and Russian to Commander of the 9th Chinese Military Division at Nikolsk-Ussuriiskii (Siberia), sent from Command HQ in Harbin, prepayment of postage in cash as certified on
reverse, with Harbin 15.2.19 cds (type 3A) and registered label, a very fine and attractive cover reflecting the consequences of the civil war in Russia; a presence of foreign forces in the Russian Far East and the shortage of stamps in some Russian
post offices
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SOLD for € 10,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10051 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Picture postcard of Vladivostok to Peking, underpaid with “HARBIN / TO PAY” black oval cachet with ms “10” and Peking oval framed “T” with ms “2c,” franked with 15k Arms tied by Harbin 3.3.19 cds, minor soiling
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SOLD for € 340.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10052 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Cover to Chicago USA franked 1916 10k on 7k provisional issue (pair + single) 15k (2) + 20k making up 80k rate, cancelled HARBIN Subtype 4M dated 21 3 19, Changchun violet transit cds of the Japanese P.O.
alongside, examined by American censor with resealing slip applied to reverse, central fold clear of adhesives and slight peripheral wear, unusual franking
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10053 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Incoming 5k “Crownless Eagle” stationery card (issued after the Revolution) from Tomsk to Harbin, uprated with 10k pair with red boxed “Passed by Censor / Harbin / No.1” censor cachet adjacent, very fine Note:
This cover is the origin of the illustration in “Russische Postzensur 1914-1918” (1986) p.16 by A. Speeckaert
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10054 |
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HARBIN: 1919 14k Stationery envelope with added 1k imperf., 5k imperf. pair, 20k + 25k Arms issue to make up 70k rate to USA, all cancelled HARBIN subtype 4M, dated 29 5 19, transit Japanese P.O. Changchun (Manchuria) and Kobe
in violet alongside, fine
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10055 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Advertising cover registered to the USA with 15k Arms in pair and two singles plus 70k Arms imperf. pair, all tied by Harbin 26.8.19 cds (T&S type 3B), reg’d label and English reg’d hs adjacent, reverse with
previously unrecorded “D.Ts.” in red as well as USA arrivals, horizontal filing fold at top clear of stamps, fine
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10056 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Cover to Chita (Siberia) franked on the reverse with 50k and 20k imperf. strip of three tied by Harbin 6.9.19 cds (T&S type 4M), with red boxed “Examined / Harbin Military Controller / No.7” censor cachet,
slightly reduced at left. Note: This cover is the origin of the illustration in “Russische Postzensur 1914-1918” (1986) p.16 by A. Speeckaert
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10057 |
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HARBIN: 1919 14k Stationery envelope uprated on reverse with 5k + 15k + Kolchak Siberia issue 35k on 2k (pair) tied by HARBIN Type 4 (serial ‘g’) dated 19 9 19, addressed to Hankow with arrival backstamp, fine and scarce
combination Note: Normal sources of supply of stamps to the Manchurian offices being impeded by the civil war in Russia, supplementary stocks were obtained from Siberia periodically
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SOLD for € 750.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10058 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Cover to Vladivostok franked on the reverse with fifty 2k imperf. to make the 1R rate, tied by Harbin 27.9.19 serial “l” cds (T&S type 4), with violet censor cachet applied on arrival, minor soiling to obverse, a
spectacular multiple franking Note: Inflationary franking reflecting the rapid depreciation of the Rouble during the Russian Civil War period. To stabilise the situation, Russian Arms stamps were surcharged in Chinese currency at Harbin in October
1920.
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SOLD for € 480.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10059 |
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HARBIN: 1919 Japanese postcard to Poland with Siberia Kolchak issue 35 on 2k vert. pair tied by Harbin 10.12.19 cds (T&S type 4M), with oval “HARBIN / DOPLATIT” postage due hs with ms “10”(k) adjacent, some corner creases,
fine. Note: In 1919, civil war had cut off normal sources of supply to the Manchurian offices and stocks of stamps had to be replenished from Siberia and China proper.
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SOLD for € 900.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10060 |
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HARBIN: 1920 Registered cover from Harbin to Vladivostock with 3-line violet handstamp on reverse translating as: ‘Fee collected in/Amount of Rub…Kop…/Post-telegraph clerk with ‘4’ inserted by hand to denote 4 roubles postage
collected and clerk’s signature added, also on reverse registration label, framed cachet in red Examined/Harbin/Military Controller/No 7 (Speeckaert Type 3) and Vladivostok arrival, Harbin cds and framed cachet Passed Controller/Vladivostok/No 20
(Speeckaert Type 9), fine Note: This handstamp was introduced to meet the shortage of postage stamps at Harbin due to the Civil War in Russia
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10061 |
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1920 South Manchurian Railway and Yamato Hotel illustrated envelope registered from Harbin 22 2 20 to Hankow, prepayment of postage in cash as the Harbin post office had run out of postage stamps due to civil war conditions,
denoted by violet cachet on reverse: “FEE COLLECTED IN / AMOUNT OF RUB…KOP… / POST & TELEGRAPH CLERK” with ms fee “4(R)” and signed, with Harbin reg’d label and cds, Hankow arrival, very fine and attractive, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10062 |
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HARBIN: 1920 FREE FRANK SLIP used in Harbin during acute shortage of postage stamps, the inscription reading: FEE COLLECTED IN AMOUNT OF RUB.—–KOP.—–POST TELEGRAPH CLERK, this handstamp is known to have been applied to a
registered cover sent from Harbin on 21 3 1920, very scarce
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SOLD for € 150.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10063 |
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HARBIN: 1920 10k “KITAI” Postal stationery envelope uprated with 3c on 4k vert. pair (lower showing “wide C” variety) and 4c on 4k “Harbin surcharges,” all tied by single Harbin 16.11.20 cds (T&S type 4G), sent to Station
Hailar (Chinese Eastern Railway line 261/262), with Station Bukhedu transit on the same line, opened for display, fine Note: Owing to depreciation of the Rouble following the Russian Revolution, stocks of Russian stamps at the Harbin office were
surcharged locally in Chinese currency. The work was done at the Printing Works of the Russian Cathedral in Harbin.
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SOLD for € 2,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10064 |
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HARBIN: 1920 10k “Kitai” letter card registered from Harbin to Germany, uprated with 10k on 7k provisionally surcharged 10c at Harbin, both cancelled by Harbin 11.12.20 cds (T&S type 3B), with reg’d labels in French and
Russian, Yokohama transit, reverse with German postal control label and Cottbus cds, very fine Note: Owing to the civil war, stamp supplies to Harbin from Metropolian Russia ceased and stamps and stationery had to be acquired from China and Siberia.
In October 1920, remaining stocks of ordinary Russian Arms issues were overprinted in Chinese currency, the rouble then being of unstable value
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SOLD for € 3,400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10065 |
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HARBIN: 1920 Picture postcard addressed to HARBIN WHARF franked China Junk issue two 1c + 2c, uncancelled, HARBIN Type 4 serial ‘I’ 31 12 20 and postage due mark HARBIN / DOPLATIT (To pay) with manuscript ‘6 cents’ inserted by
hand applied alongside, fine NOTE: Owing to rapid depreciation of the rouble during Civil war conditions in Russia only Chinese currency was accepted at the Russian P.O. at this time, though Chinese stamps were not accepted for postage
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SOLD for € 380.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10066 |
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HARBIN: 1921 Picture postcard to Chefoo, China, franked pair of 2k surcharged 2 cents in red cancelled Harbin Type 4M dated 11 1 21, rare genuine Harbin surcharge usage Note: The influx of refugees into Manchuria during
1919-20 led to a great increase in postal traffic and a shortage of stamps surcharged in Chinese currency, which was the only currency in Manchuria at that time. The postmaster of Harbin authorised the local surcharging of low value stamps of the
Arms issue, using the printing works of the Russian Cathedral at Harbin. The surcharged stamps were issued in October 1920 and remained in use until the early months of 1921 when the Russian Harbin office was closed.
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SOLD for € 3,200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10067 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1917 Locally addressed cover for insured sending (improvised cachet in red crayon translating $4657/insured.. (initials)) franked 1917 Arms issue surcharged in Chinese currency made up of 5d/5r on vertically laid
paper, remainder 20c/20k to 1d on 1r, all tied by HARBIN WHARF ‘b’ POSTAL BRANCH 12 8 17 cds’s, cover lightly toned Note: This surcharged issue was intended for use in China proper though had validity in the Russian Manchurian offices also. Harbin
Wharf also appears in the literature as Harbin Pier but they are one and the same
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10068 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1917 Double weight registered cover to Switzerland franked two 20k tied by HARBIN WHARF ‘zh’ 7 10 17 cds (= 20 10 17 new style), 2 registration labels alongside (1 in Latin as required by UPU regulations), opened
and resealed by Military Censor in Petrograd (sealing slip partly lifted), Lausanne arrival backstamp of 4 1 18 reflecting delay in censor’s office and difficulty of wartime communications, fine, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 1,700.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10069 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1918 Cover to Tuyen Quang Tonkin, Indochina franked 5k imperf + 15k perf, cancelled HARBIN WHARF POSTAL BRANCH ‘g’ 22 1 18, boxed cachet of military censor Vladivostok, thence to Chinese P.O. at Shanghai and
censored again on arrival in Tonkin, small peripheral cover faults, unusual destination
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10070 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1918 Registered cover to Stockholm franked pair of 50k + 5k Arms issue tied by HARBIN WHARF / POSTAL BRANCH / ‘g’ 10 4 18 cds’s, registration slip alongside in Latin script translating HARBIN WHARF / RUSSIAN
POST, opened and resealed by Petrograd Military Postal Control. Violet cachet in French applied “Return. Delivery impossible because of the War”. However still reached Stockholm 3 10 18 after censorship. Fine
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SOLD for € 480.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10071 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1919 Cover registered from Russo-Asiatic Bank to the USA with two vertical pairs of 50k tied by Harbin Wharf 21.9.19 cds, with red boxed Cyrillic “Harbin Wharf / 1st Town Postal Branch” registration hs with
further white bilingual reg’d label adjacent, Japanese Changchun and Yokohama transits and San Francisco arrival, opened on three sides, a rare registered cover
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10072 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1919 Registered cover to USA franked 3R50 imperf and 50k tied by HARBIN-WHARF / POSTAL BRANCH/ ‘g’ 11 12 1919 cds, handstruck registration cachet in red (HARBIN-WHARF / 1st TOWN POSTAL BRANCH) and large white
bilingual label (HARBIN WHARF / RUSSIAN POST) alongside, backstamped Japanese P.O. Changchun and Seattle arrival, fine
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SOLD for € 1,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10073 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1920 Commercial cover registered from Harbin Wharf to the USA, franked on reverse with 3R50k and two 25k Arms tied by Harbin Wharf 23.2.20 cds, obverse with Cyrillic reg’d hs and French reg’d label describing
Harbin Wharf as part of Russian Asiatic Siberia, minor soiling
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SOLD for € 840.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10074 |
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1920 Stampless registered cover to NIKOLSK-USSURIISK from HARBIN WHARF16 6 20, on reverse framed red cachet denoting fee collected with 4 (roubles) inserted by hand and signed by POST-TELEGRAPH CLERK, registration cachet on
obverse, rare, ex Casey Note: Cash paid markings were applied to meet stamp shortages during the Civil War. No previous record of use at Harbin Wharf.
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SOLD for € 1,800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10075 |
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HARBIN WHARF: 1920 Registered cover to USA franked revalued 20k ‘Kitai’ issue on reverse cancelled HARBIN-PRISTAN (WHARF) ‘g’ 20 11 20, handstruck ‘Z’ Cyrillic registration cachet in red translating HARBIN-PRISTAN 1st TOWN
BRANCH and ‘R’ registration label in French KHARBIN/SIBERIA, ASIATIC RUSSIA, transit cds of Japanese P.O. Changchun next day and Yokohama 6 12 20 both in violet, New York arrival backstamp, fine Note: This office closed at the end of 1920. Note use
of ‘kitai’ stamp, obsolete in China proper and ‘R’ registration label supplied by Harbin main P.O.
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SOLD for € 480.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10076 |
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MANCHULI: 1907 Postcard (depicting Bulgarian coins) to St. Petersburg with 3k Arms tied by Manchuli cds (small format with serial letter “a”), arrival machine cancel adjacent, fine usage of an elusive cancel Note: These small
cancels of Manchuli (Russian spelling Manchzhuriya) were used between 1907 and 1910. Illustrated B.J.R.P. 96/97 (2007) p.20
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10077 |
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MANCHULI: 1907 Picture postcard franked 1k + 3k tied Manchuli ‘g’ 9 12 07 cds, this card is the original record of this elusive Manchuli postmark – see British Journal of Russian Philately No 31 1962 p 4, fig 92, addressed to
the French ambassador in Tokyo, same cancel tying 3k on 1907 ppc to Shanghai and cancelling 7k pair of adhesives, attractive group
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SOLD for € 250.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10078 |
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1909 Picture postcard to England with 4k tied by Manchuli cds 2.1.09 (small format with serial letter “b”), minor soiling, fine, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 40.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10079 |
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MANCHULI: 1910 Picture postcard to St. Machzhuriya (Manchuli), posted on the Chinese Eastern Railway TPO with 3k tied by “HARBIN-262-MANCHZHURIYA ‘zh'” 16.8.10 oval ds, with Manchuli arrival cds (small format) of the next day
adjacent, very fine, plus 1908-11 7k Arms blue in rejoined strip of three with Manchuli 13.11.10 cds (small format) Note: This Manchuli cancellation is not recorded in “Russia Used Abroad”. Strip of stamps recorded in B.J.R.P. 42 (1968) p.25. Card
illustrated B.J.R.P. 96/97 (2007) p.24
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10080 |
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MANCHULI: 1913 “Saint’s Day” embroidered card to Pernov (Estonia) with 1k and 2k tied by MAN’CHZHURIA “b” 15.4.13 cds, arrival cds adjacent, very fine
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SOLD for € 60.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10081 |
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MANCHULI: 1913 Cover registered to a fur trading company in Chita (Siberia) with 14k Romanov tied by Manchuli 22.8.13 cds (T&S type 2), further strike and reg’d label adjacent, arrival bs, very fine
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10082 |
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MANCHULI: 1913 Registered cover to Italy from customs officer at Station Manchuli franked on reverse Romanovs 1k + 2k + 3k +7k (2) tied by MANCHULI Type 2B 7 10 13 cds’s, 2 different Italian TPO cds’s alongside, on obverse
Mandchouria registration label in French, one side roughly opened, still attractive and scarce usage
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10083 |
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MANCHULI: 1914 Cover registered to a fur trading company in Chita (Siberia) with 1k and 20k tied by Manchuli 29.5.14 cds (T&S type 1), further strike and reg’d label adjacent, arrival bs, very fine
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10084 |
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MANCHULI: 1914 Cover to London franked Romanov 10k on reverse tied by MANCHULI Type 1B 7 10 14 cds, showing 3 types of Military Censor cachets in use at Manchuli, all struck in red, translating Circular MILITARY
CENSOR/MANCHULI (Speeckaert Type +), 2-line MILITARY CENSOR/EXAMINED (Speeckaert Type 2), linear OPENED BY MILITARY CENSOR (Speeckaert Type 3), also blue crayon manuscript OPENED BY CENSOR/V.DACH::.., the letter was sent by the Manchuli censor
himself, (V.DACHNOVICH), giving his address as c/o Russian Post Office, Harbin”, central vertical fold
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SOLD for € 460.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10085 |
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MANCHULI: 1915 Registered cover from military censor in Manchuria (Manchuli) franked 10k (2) tied Tchiliinghirian and Stephens type 1b 25.02.15, bilingual registration labels on obverse (Cyrillic and French), violet cachets
read: D.TS (=Passed by censor) and military Censor Manchuria, addressed to Stanley Gibbons, fine
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10086 |
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MANCHULI: 1915 7k Stationery envelope uprated on reverse with 1k + 2k cancelled MANCHULI Type 2 7.3.15 cds, addressed to Staff-Captain at Station TSITSIKAR with arrival cancel, military censor cachet applied in violet at
Manchuli (Speeckaert Type 4 ) on front and Type 1 on reverse
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10087 |
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MANCHULI: 1915 4k Postal stationery card from a stamp collector to a stamp dealer in England cancelled by crisp Machuli 15.4.15 cds (T&S type 2B), with circular “Military Censor / Manchuli” and boxed “D.T.” censor cachets in
violet, very fine Note: This cover was the origin of the illustrations in “Russia Used Abroad” pt. 5 (1959), p.409
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10088 |
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MANCHULI: 1915 Christmas card to ANDA, Chinese Eastern Railway franked 3k Romanov tied by Orenburg 21 12 15 cds, passed through Russian border station of Manchuli where military censor applied circular cachet in pink
(Speeckaert Type 1)
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SOLD for € 190.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10089 |
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MANCHULI: 1917 Registered cover to the Russian P.O.W. agency in Stockholm franked 20k on reverse tied by MANCHULI Type 2A dated 4 2 17, only recorded Type 2A cancel, registration labels in Cyrillic and Latin applied on obverse
as required by regulations, opened and resealed by military censor in Petrograd, fine
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SOLD for € 900.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10090 |
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POGRANICHNAYA: 1908 3k Postal stationery card from a customs officer in Pogranichnaya to a colleague in Imperial Maritime Customs, CHINWANGTAO, readdressed to Tientsin, passed through Japanese P.O. SHANHAIKWAN (11.3) and
Chinese P.O. Tientsin arrival (13.3), cancelled Pogranichnaya Casey Type I 22.2.08, also included is a picture postcard of the railway station at Pogranichnaya where customs inspection carried out, fine Note: Writer complains of being sent to
Pogranichnaya, “a rotten place, full of Russian cossacks and bandits, the staff having to live in railway carriages and work in the cold in the open” The Pogranichnaya cancellation is not recorded in “Russia Used Abroad”. Illustrated B.J.R.P. 96/97
(2007) p.27
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10091 |
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PROGRANICHNAYA: 1911 Viewcard of local market to St Petersburg franked 3k tied by POGRANICHNAYA Type 2 1 2 11 cds, minor staining on back clear of adhesive
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SOLD for € 180.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10092 |
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1912 Picture postcard of Vladivostok, written in Estonian, sent to Veisenshtein with 3k tied by Pogranichnaya 22.1.12 “a” cds (Casey Type I), fine, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10093 |
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POGRANICHNAYA: 1915 7k Romanov stationery envelope to Germany uprated with 14k Romanov (defective) and 3k Arms issue to pay charges on insured sending of 10 roubles to P.O.W. held at Hannover cancelled POGRANICHNAYA IN
MANCHURIA ‘b’ 27 10 15 cds’s, Russian red censor cachet of Pogranichnaya and German violet linear censor cachet on obverse, private wax seals on reverse, envelope very slightly reduced at right and some folds affecting the adhesives, very scarce
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SOLD for € 6,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10094 |
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POGRANICHNAYA: 1916 Cover registered to England with 20k tied by “POGRANICHNAYA IN MANCHURIA” 19.2.16 cds, with reg’d labels in Cyrillic and Latin characters, with unrecorded red “D.Ts / T.” censor hs (indicating that it was
passed by censor T), opened and resealed by censor in Petrograd, fine
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SOLD for € 1,900.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10095 |
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POGRANICHNAYA: 1916 3k Stationery card sent from Razdolnoe (maritime province of Siberia) to German-Austro-Hungarian P.O.W. Agency in Tientsin, PASSED BY CENSOR / POGRANICHNAYA No 1 boxed cachet in violet applied at the
Manchurian border post of Pogranichnaya, fine Note: Military censors were attached to the post offices
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
10096 |
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POST OFFICES IN MANCHURIA: 1905-21 Collection on 15 exhibition sheets of stamps, often in multiples or on fragments (+ 1 postcard), with postmarks from Harbin and Manchuli including unrecorded types, Pogranichnaya, TAOLAICHAO
with unrecorded serial letter ‘v’, noted 1916 Romanov 5r block of 25 used from Harbin, exceptional group of scarce to unique material, many illustrated in the literature.
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SOLD for € 2,800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |