RUSSIA » RUSSIA POST IN CHINA – CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY continued...
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| 10100 |
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 1902 Japanese postcard to Taganrog franked 5k with dateline 24 X 1902 (new style) tied by POSTAL WAGON No. 264 (1) 11 X 1902 (old style), this being the earliest item of mail carried on Line 264 (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN) which
opened in February 1902
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SOLD for € 460.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10101 |
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 1902 3k stationery card uprated 1k to make overseas rate used to inform Netherlands Consulate in Kobe, Japan, of meeting with Director of Russo-Chinese Bank in Vladivostok, written in Dutch “In train at Nikolsk” 6/19 Nov.
1902, cancelled next day on POSTAL WAGON No. 264 (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN)(train ‘3’) 7 XI 1902 Note: The Vladivostok-Harbin line was opened to traffic in February 1902. The section from Vladivostok to Nikolsk was on Russian soil
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SOLD for € 260.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10102 |
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 1902 Stampless viewcard to St Petersburg cancelled on TPO POSTAL WAGON No. 264 (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN) (2) 21 XI 1902, oval tax mark (30 X 21 mm) applied DOPLATIT (To Pay)/264/POSTAL WAGON/264 with ‘6k’ inserted by hand, denoting
standard tax of twice normal postage, delivery took ca 7 weeks caused by military congestion of railway during Russian occupation of Manchuria
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10103 |
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 1903 Registered cover to Bukhara franked ‘Kitai’ 2k green pair + two 10k cancelled Shanghai Type I 9 1 03 cds’s, transit Port Arthur Types 1 & 2, CER POSTAL WAGON No. 266 (PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN) (8) & POSTAL WAGON No. 262
(HARBIN-MANCHULI) (7) 6 1 03, arrival datestamps of 9 1 03 (Old Style)
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10104 |
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 1903 Picture postcard from Station Pogranichnaya to St. Petersburg with 3k Arms tied by “POSTAL WAGON No. 264 / 3” 17.2.03 cds (Vladivostok-Harbin), arrival cds, fine
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SOLD for € 80.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10105 |
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 1903 Postcard from American missionary travelling through Manchuria writing back to colleague in Nanking (China) dateline 13 June 1903, pair ‘Kitai’ 2k cancelled MANCHULI/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 31 V 1903 (Subtype 1B of
Casey), transit POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (2) (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) 3 VI 03, PORT ARTHUR 5 VI 03, Chinese P.O. CHEFOO 19 Jun. 03, Shanghai 22 VI 03, received Nanking 24 Jun 03, central crease clear of adhesives
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10106 |
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 1903 Siberian viewcards (2) both posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 266 (PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN), one franked 4k to Belgium posted on train ‘3’ 18 IX 1903, other franked 1k + 3k to Vienna posted on train ‘5’ 27 XI 1903, fine pair
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SOLD for € 380.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10107 |
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 1903 Viewcard franked 1k pair on front cancelled in Warsaw and sent to Japan via Odessa presumably for transmission by sea but ended up on C.E.R. Line 261 (MANCHULI-HARBIN) where tax markings applied in the form of an
encircled ‘T’ and manuscript ‘2’ inserted in oval DOPLATIT/261/POSTAL WAGON, Japanese tax handstamp applied on arrival in red, unusual
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10108 |
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 1903/04 Postcards (2), earlier one to France franked 1k block of 4 cancelled PW No. 266 (2) PORT-ARTHUR-HARBIN 16 IX 1903 with PW No. 260 (2) MANCHULI-CHITA applied on Trans-Siberian Railway 4 days later, 1904 card written
from Mukden, cancelled on PW no.265 (6) HARBIN-PORT-ARTHUR 7 V 1904, , both fine with average to good strikes
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10109 |
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 1903 Siberian viewcards to Belgium (17 IX) and England (22 X), latter overpaid 3k, showing 2 types of circular canceller in concurrent use at MANCHULI STATION, differing in position of side numerals and spacing of inscription,
both reading MANCHULI/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH, recent discovery, published illustrations showing a fictitious compound of the 2 types
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SOLD for € 650.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10110 |
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 1903 Viewcard depicting Boxer rebels sent to Belgium franked 4k (defective) tied POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (3) 18 IX 1903, Moscow transit and Bruges arrival cds’s alongside, presumably an error as it travelled in the wrong
direction and should have been T.P.O 266, fair strike
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SOLD for € 220.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10111 |
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 1903 Opened out cover to England with “KITAI” 3k and 7k tied by Chefoo 5.10.03 cds (Type 1, New Style), reverse with C.E.R. Line 262 (Harbin-Manchuli) 26.9.03 (Old Style) cds, London arrival before being forwarded to Glasgow,
missing backflap and other minor faults, an interesting usage showing the usage of the Gregorian calendar for Western-bound mail and the retention of the Julian calendar on the C.E.R.
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SOLD for € 160.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10112 |
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 1903 Picture postcard of Cossacks to Belgium sent from Manchuli Railway Station with 1k and 3k Arms tied by “MAN’CHZHURIYA / 1 / RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH” 26.10.03 cds, transferred the same day to “POSTAL WAGON No.260”
(Manchuli-Chita), with St. Petersburg and Brussels cds, very fine, plus picture postcard of the market by the Station on the Siberian side
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SOLD for € 130.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10113 |
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 1903 7k Stationery envelope to Dalny posted on POSTAL WAGON no. 266 (2) 16 XI 1903, presumably from Port Arthur, addressed to “Gospodin Stepanov at the Customs, Passenger Hall, Station Dalny, CER”, on reverse receipt mark of
No. 17 Field Post Office 17 XI 1903, fair strike only and overall soiling Note. Use of the FPO canceller as an arrival mark instead of that of Dalny Railway Station suggests the possibility that No. 17 FPO was located at the station and/or Dalny
Railway Station had not been issued with its own canceller
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10114 |
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 1903 Attractive vignette postcard of Vladivostok franked 4k to London cancelled by CER TPO POSTAL WAGON No. 264 (7) (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN) 25 XI 1903, fine
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SOLD for € 180.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10115 |
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 1904 3k Stationery card uprated 1k to make foreign rate to Germany, dateline “Charbin 22/1 1904”, next day put on TPO going in wrong (southerly) direction and cancelled thereon, transferred from POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (2)
(HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) 10 1 1904 same day to POSTAL WAGON No. 262 (8) (HARBIN-MANCHULI), fine and unusual
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SOLD for € 340.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10116 |
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 1904 Irkutsk viewcard with dateline “Mukden 23 1 1904”, franked 2k pair to pay 4k rate to Germany cancelled the next day POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (3) 11 1 1904 cds, interesting contents
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SOLD for € 110.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10117 |
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 1904 Cover to France franked 10k (defective) and placed on POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (2) (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) 12 1 04, proceeded in the wrong direction and transferred same day to POSTAL WAGON No. 266 (1) (PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN),
transferred 14 1 04 to Line 262 (HARBIN-MANCHULI) to connect with Trans-Siberian Railway but canceller of POSTAL WAGON No. 261 (MANCHULI-HARBIN) applied in error NOTE: Postal wagons of the CER carried a pair of numbered date-stamps to give a
distinctive cancellation for each direction of the Line, but not infrequently the wrong one was applied
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10118 |
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 1904 Postcard to Wales franked Korea 6ch tied by Chemulpo cds, taken by ship to Vladivostok or Port Arthur to connect with C.E.R., transit mark applied POSTAL WAGON No. 261 (4) 26 1 1904 (year inverted), (fair strike only) PW
No. 261 ran eastwards from Manchuli to Harbin (the wrong direction for westbound mail), yet another example of the postal clerks neglecting to change the cancellers, card lightly soiled
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SOLD for € 600.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10119 |
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 1904 Overweight registered cover to STARAYA BUKHARA (Central Asia) from Shanghai (8 II 04), sent via CER Postal Wagon No. 266 (PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN) and POSTAL WAGON No. 262 (HARBIN-MANCHULI), thence by Trans-Siberian Railway
including POSTAL WAGON No. 198 (IRKUTSK-KRASNOYARSK), arriving 5 III 04 Note: Opening of the CER to commercial traffic in February 1902 enabled Russian-bound mail from China to take the overland route via Manchuria and Siberia and avoid the long sea
journey to Odessa
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SOLD for € 1,800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10120 |
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 1904 Registered cover to Kazan, readressed to Nizhnii-Novgorod, franked on the reverse with 7k and 14k Arms tied by “MANCHULI / 1 / RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH” 30.3.04 cds, with “POSTAL WAGON No.261” transit cds, obverse with
“ALEKSANDROVSKII FACTORY” registration label erased and corrected by hand, minor soiling, a rare emergency registration label. Note: Possibly because of the outbreak of war, the Manchuli Railway Station P.O. ran out of registration labels, so
emergency supplies from the Aleksandrovskii Factory in the Transbailkal Province in SIberia were altered by hand. The Railway Station at that time was administered by the 10th Railway Postal District, based in Siberia, and did not come under the
control of Harbin until 1915
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SOLD for € 850.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10121 |
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 1904 Stampless cover to Reval with Dalyny Railway Station “DALNII KVANTUN OBLAST / 1 / RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH” 9.4.04 cds, with ms notation on reverse “From the active Manchurian Army – Field Headquaters / Colonel (?) Ya.
Sulalatko / Town Lyaoyang” in lieu of military free-frank cachet, Reval bs, fine. Note: This is the only known example to date of the Dalny Railway Station cancel applied before the evacuation of the city at the end of May 1904. The office was
subsequently relocated at Kunchuling, and continued to use the old Dalny Railway Station cancel.
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SOLD for € 2,800.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10122 |
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 1904 Memorial card for Vice-Admiral S.O.Makarov killed in action on 31 March 1904 (old style) sent to St Petersburg from Irekte, a station of the CER east of Manchuli, on line 261/262, 3k cancelled POSTAL WAGON No. 261
(MANCHULI-HARBIN)(train ‘5’) 13 5 1904
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SOLD for € 340.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10123 |
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 1904 Harbin viewcard written from STATION SHWANMYYAOTZE 25 V 1904 to Irbit and cancelled next day on POSTAL WAGON No. 265 (4) (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR), sent by doctor to hospital for infectious diseases, violet free-frank cachet
DIVISIONAL LAZARET 3rd SIBERIAN INFANTRY DIVISION, arrival 13 VI 04, delay caused by severe railway congestion, fine Note: ST. SHWANMYAOTZE was a small station on Line 265/266 about half way between Kwangchentze and Tiehling and had no post office of
its own
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10124 |
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 1904 Registered cover from MANCHULI RAILWAY STATION franked 1902 14k on reverse cancelled early single-circle (Type 1) MANCHZHURIYA/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 18 7 04 with matching registration label on front, this representing the
first recorded example of this cancel (B.J.R.P. No 29, 1961, p15), cover reduced on one side
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SOLD for € 960.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10125 |
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 1904 Stampless card endorsed MILITARY, written from BUKHEDU, a station of the CER (Line 261/262), posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 262 4 VIII 1904 to St.Vereto, Perm railway, free-frank seal in green alongside: BASE AT STATION
BUKHEDU; CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10126 |
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 1904 Panoramic postcard of Vladivostok sent to St. Petersburg with two 7k Arms paying the registered rate, tied by “POSTAL WAGON No.264 / 7” 18.8.04 cds (Vladivostok-Harbin), with ms registration note reading “No.2 / P.V.
(Postal Wagon) 264”, St. Petersburg arrival, very fine and UNIQUE registered mail posted at a TPO on the C.E.R., ex Casey Note: Mail was seldom registered on board TPOs. A handstamp was issued in 1914 for this purpose. Prior to that date only very
rare handwritten markings were used.
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SOLD for € 2,000.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10127 |
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 1904 Mukden viewcard to Moscow dateline “7 September 1904/St.Tsitsikar” sent by serviceman during Russo-Japanese War, violet circular free-frank cachet ACCOUNTANCY FOR TRANSPORT OF DIVISIONAL BAGGAGE OF 55th INFANTRY DIVISION
alongside, posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 262 (8) (HARBIN-MANCHULI) 8 IX 1904, received Moscow 22 9 04, a transit time of 14 days due to wartime congestion of the railway system, in addition a card showing Station Tsitsikar
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SOLD for € 220.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10128 |
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 1904 Picture postcard of a train crossing a bridge on the River Kruchin on the Transbaikal Railway, sent to Tambov with violet circular “GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 55th INFANTRY DIVISION” free-frank cachet, posted on the CER TPO
with “POSTAL WAGON No. 262 / 8” 8.9.04 cds (Harbin-Manchuli line, train 8), fine, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 50.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10129 |
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 1904 Postcard to Italy, datelined “Vladivostok 16 December”, blue circular “MILITARY-MEDICAL (HOSPITAL) TRAIN OF STATE EMPRESS ALEKSANDRA FEODOROVNA” cachet, with 4k Arms tied by “POSTAL WAGON No.264 / 6” (Vladivostok-Harbin)
18.12.1904 cds, Venice 4.2.05 arrival (delay due to congestion of the railway during the Russo-Japanese war), very fine
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SOLD for € 200.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10130 |
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 1904 Cover endorsed “From the Active Army” to Finland with free-frank Red Cross cachet of FIELD HOSPITAL OF THE FINNISH SOCIETY FOR THE CARE OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS, cancelled on CER TPO HARBIN-265-PORT-ARTHUR ‘d’ 19
12 04, Red cross cachet repeated on reverse along with violet circular cachet of COMMANDANT OF RAILWAY STATION “MANCHULI” and Helsinki arrival, fine
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SOLD for € 380.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10131 |
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 1904 Stationery card to member of 2nd FINNISH RED CROSS DETACHMENT at KUNGCHULING (GUNZHULIN’) sent by officer travelling on Line 265/266 during Russo-Japanese War, free frank cachet in blue of FLYING ARTILLERY PARK alongside,
dateline 23 12 1904, cancelled next day POSTAL WAGON No 265 (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) (2), text reads”I have come as far as Station Kwangchentze; tomorrow in the morning I will travel through Kungchuling to Mukden…”, fine
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10132 |
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 1905 MILITARY BASES: Picture postcard of Chinese soldiers sent to St. Petersburg with “COMMANDANT STATION HARBIN CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY” blue free-frank cachet and “HARBIN RAILWAY STATION” despatch cds (type 1), fine, ex
Casey
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SOLD for € 50.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10133 |
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 1905 Stampless military cover to St Petersburg handstamped free-frank seal of RUSSO-DUTCH MEDICAL SQUAD , endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY, cancelled oval HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR T.P.O. (Line 265) (serial ‘a’), fine Note: this
canceller probably remained in use until the end of the Russo-Japanese War (September 1905), though the capture of Port Arthur by the Japanese in December 1904 had made it impossible for the Line to extend to this terminus
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10134 |
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 1905 Cover “From the Active Army” to Moscow with oval “VLADIVOSTOK – 264 – HARBIN / z” 4.1.05 oval ds, with violet “No.1 HOSPITAL COMPLEX IN “EKHO”” free-frank cachet, arrival bs, fine Note: Ekho was a stop on the Chinese
Eastern Railway (Line 263/264) 225 miles east of Harbin
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10135 |
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 1905 Front of money-letter for 138 roubles sent from STATION MANCHULI to Moscow franked 1k and 1902-05 20k strip of 3 tied MAN’CHZHURIYA/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 4 1 1905, violet boxed MANCHZURIYA/No with manuscript ‘197’
alongside, fine and very scarce Note: 2 spellings of this office – with and without ‘soft sign’ after ‘n’.
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10136 |
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 1905 Viewcard of Tiehling with dateline 6 Jan 1904 (error for 1905) posted following day on PORT ARTHUR-HARBIN TPO (LIne 266, train ‘d’) to Odessa, Free-frank seal struck in red: COMMANDANT STATION TIEHLING;, CHINESE EASTERN
RAILWAY, fine Note: After September 1905 this station was taken over by the Japanese
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10137 |
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 1905 Manchurian viewcard addressed to Odessa with dateline “St. Chantu-Fu 6 Jan 05” franked 3k cancelled same day on TPO HARBIN-265-PORT ARTHUR ‘d’ 6 1 05, fine Note: STATION CHANTUFU, between Kwangchentze and Mukden had no
postal facilities and mail from there was collected by and cancelled on the TPO’s. At this time much of the southern part of the Line 265/266, including Port Arthur, was in enemy hands. After the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) the whole of the line up
to Kwangchentze was ceded to the Japanese
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10138 |
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 1905 Stampless soldier’s cover to Riga endorsed “From the Active 45th Artillery Brigade”, on reverse violet free-frank cachet of 2nd DIVISION 45th ARTILLERY BRIGADE, cancelled on TPO during Russo-Japanese War PORT-ARTHUR
-266-HARBIN ‘v’ 17 1 05, good strike Note: This canceller was in use throughout 1905, though the southern terminus of Line 265/266, Port Arthur, had fallen to the Japanese and was later moved northwards to Kwangchentze
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SOLD for € 850.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10139 |
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 1905 Native cover franked 7k posted on C.E.R. line 265 (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) 19 1 05 (train ‘g’), with no previous record for this cancel, fine Note: This oval canceller was introduced early in 1904 and remained in use only
until the end of the Russo-Japanese war (September 1905), after which Kwangchentze replaced Port Arthur as the southern terminal of Line 265
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SOLD for € 750.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10140 |
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 1905 Postcard from a soldier of the 35th East Siberian Rifle Regiment wounded in the Russo-Japanese war, with “MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN OF STATE EMPRESS MARIE FEODOROVNA” violet free-frank cachet, sent to the Empress’s charity
in St. Petersburg giving thanks for a gift, further struck with Harbin Railway Station 29.1.05 oval ds, very fine, plus a picture postcard of a similar Hospital train under patronage of Empress Marie Feodorovna
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SOLD for € 70.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10141 |
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 MILITARY BASES: 1905 Stampless picture from Harbin to Moscow with violet “BASE AT STATION HAILAR, CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY” free-frank cachet and Harbin Railway Station 22.2.05 cds, Moscow arrival, minor soiling, fine
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SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10142 |
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 1905 3k stationery card posted on C.E.R. line 265 (HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR) 6 3 05 (train ‘v’), only a stampless military cover with train ‘v’ cancel has been recorded (B.J.R.P. no. 29, 1961, p.16, fig.38), fine Note: These oval
cancellers were introduced early in 1904 and remained in use only until the end of the Russo-Japanese war (September 1905), after which Kwangchentze replaced Port Arthur as the southern terminal of Line 265
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SOLD for € 850.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10143 |
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 1905 Red Cross card illustrating CER mail train with guards addressed to Moscow from STATION HAILAR (Line 261/262) 6 III 1905 franked 1k + 2k cancelled next day oval HARBIN-265-PORT ARTHUR (b) 7 3 05, fair strike Note: this
TPO canceller was in use for only a few months, Port Arthur and much of the Line 265/266 being ceded to the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1905
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10144 |
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 1905 Hand illustrated decorative cover to Sherpukhov struck on the reverse with “No.14 MILITARY-MEDICAL AMBULANCE” violet free-frank cachet, posted on the circular CER TPO with “POSTAL WAGON No.263 / 6” 4.8.1905 cds which was
the wrong train for this destination, not received until 24.11.05 due to military traffic on the railway, minor faults Note: Although the Postal Wagon no.264 from Vladivostok to Harbin is the commonest of the CER cancellations, the reverse route
no.263 is by far the scarcest
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SOLD for € 1,600.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10145 |
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 1905 Transbailkal viewcard with violet free-frank cachet of the 4th Battery 23rd Artillery Brigade, sent to St. Petersburg during the Russo-Japanese war via TPO, with “HARBIN 262 MANCHZHURIYA” 2.9.05 oval ds, St. Petersburg
20.9.05 arrival ds (delay caused by congestion of the Railway system at the end of the war), minor soiling
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SOLD for € 130.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10146 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of Station Handaokhetze in Eastern Manchuria on Line 263/264 and about 170 miles east of Harbin, with 3k Arms tied by “HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (HARBIN)” 2.9.05 cds, St. Petersburg arrival, very fine
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SOLD for € 70.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10147 |
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 1905 Stampless card to Volkovyshki, Suvalsk Guberniya – Poland postmarked VLADIVOSTOK ‘b’ 16 12 05 with 4-line violet cachet reading: 1st Company / of the 1st USSURI / RAILWAY / BATTALION, arrival 8 1 06, ex Casey
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SOLD for € 85.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10148 |
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 1906 Cover (lightly soiled) from Harbin to USA franked 10k ‘Kitai’ cancelled oval HARBIN-265-PORT-ARTHUR ‘g’ 11 1 06 Note: ‘Kitai’ stamps were not issued to the TPO’s of the CER but were accepted when supplied by the customer.
Following the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) Port Arthur and the southern half of Line 265/266 was in the hands of the Japanese and later became the South Manchuria Railway. Latest known use of the Harbin-Port Arthur canceller, introduced late in
1904
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
| 10149 |
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 1907 Picture postcard from Karlovka, Poltava Guberniya, to Station Tsitsikar, unfranked and struck with oval “doplatit” tax hs with ms “6k”, “MANCHULI – 261 – HARBIN /zh” transit and “TSITSIKAR / STATION OF CHINESE EASTERN
RAILWAY” 31.7.07 arrival cds (T&S type 3), very fine. Note: The Tsitsikar arrival was the first cancel issued to the Tsitsikar office under civilian control following the evacuation of the Russian Army from Manchuria
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-13, 12:00 PM |
