RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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 1904 Decorative card “From the Manchurian Army” to Dvinsk, written from bivouac at village of MAKHUNDZTSIDZY, near KAIPING, on Line 265/266, 11 June 1904, posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 266 (train ‘2’) next day. Wax seal of 8th
COMPANY 1st EAST SIBERIAN RIFLE REGIMENT applied top right hand corner on reverse. The 1st E. Siberian Rifle Regiment was part of a force which attempted to relieve beleaguered Port Arthur by engaging the Japanese at Telisze, on Line 265/266.
Defeated, the Russians fell back on Kaiping on 17 June. They remained there until driven out on 9 July 1904, the southern Terminus of Line265/266 then moving northwards from Kaiping to Tashihchiao. This usage of a wax seal is unusual and probably
means that the unit handstamp had been lost during the campaign.
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20080 |
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 1904 Viewcard of Port Arthur franked 1k and 3k tied by LYAOYANG FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 3 6 04 cds with violet cachet: OFFICE OF GENERAL FIELD HEADQUARTERS OF MANCHURIAN ARMY alongside, fine.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20081 |
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 1904 Postcard with military motif depicting GENERAL A.N.KUROPATKIN, Command-in-Chief of the Russian Armies in Manchuria, postally used from Odessa 19 VI 04 to Trieste, Austria.
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SOLD for € 80.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20082 |
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 1904 3k Postal stationery card uprated 1k to make up foreign rate to Germany, dateline “SHANHAIKWAN 5 7 04”, cancelled two days later at YINGKOW No 13 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 24 VI 1904, dispatch mark of YINGKOW
FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH added the next day, Munster arrival 2 8 04. Yingkow, the port for Newchang, on the Gulf of Lyaotung, was captured by the Japanese on 25 July and Newchang became the base for their Second Army
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| 20083 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to Samara, redirected to St Petersburg, handstamped violet free-frank cachet of mobile medical unit under royal auspices, abbreviated description translating in full: FLYING DETACHMENT OF STATE EMPRESS
MARIE FEODOROVNA, postmarked DA(LNY) KWANTUNG (OBLAST)/1/ RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 28 VI 1904. Dalny was evacuated in May 1904 ahead of the Japanese advance.Its railway office is known to have continued operating with its old canceller at the new
location of KUNGCHULING, N. of Tiehling, on Line 265/266 of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
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SOLD for € 650.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20084 |
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 1904 Postcard of Irkutsk (Siberia) endorsed “From the Active Army”, addressed to Estonia with violet cds: STATION POLOVINA/SIBERIAN RAILWAY 30 6 04, violet 4-line free-frank handstamp: 1st COMPANY OF SIXTIETH BRANCH OF
MILITARY TELEGRAPH 15th SAPPER BATTALION and Reval arrival alongside
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| 20085 |
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 1904 Insured money-letter for 10 roubles to Moscow franked on reverse 2k and 20k tied by LYAOYANG FIELD POST OFFICE ‘d’ 1 7 04 cds, wax seals alongside inscribed: INSURED CORRESPONDENCE LYAOYANG FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’, no
registration label but manuscript “N86” in upper left corner on front, endorsed on front “FROM PAYMASTER, FIELD EXCHEQUER 1st SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS”. Lyaoyang fell to the Japanese the following month in August.
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20086 |
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 1904 7k Letter-card uprated 4k tied by DALNY KWANTUNG REGION/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 13 VII cds used to send eye-witness account of Battle of Ta-shih-chiao to France, re-addressed to Moscow, by doctor on hospital train
evacuating wounded, written on eve of Russian retreat (11724 July). Blue circular cachet of MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN OF EMPRESS ALEKSANDRA FEODOROVNA and magenta cachet of DISTRICT HEADQUARTERS OF MILITARY DISTRICT CONTROL OF MANCHURIAN ARMY, latter
applied at Harbin. Dalny had been abandoned by the Russians 13/26 May. The railway station post office was relocated behind the Russian lines, still using the old canceller, at KUNGCHULING, a station of the CER between Tiehling and Kwangchentze. (See
R.Casey: BJRP 91 (2004), p. 46)
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SOLD for € 1,300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20087 |
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 1904 Red-band cover endorsed “From the Active Army” addressed to Warsaw Guberniya, redirected within Poland, violet free-frank cachet reading: 1st ARGUN REGIMENT OF TRANSBAIKAL MILITARY COSSACKS, posted from FIELD POST OFFICE
/5/10th ARMY CORPS 14 VII, various arrival backstamps
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| 20088 |
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 Artist’s impression of sinking of Japanese Military transport ship KINSHU MARU in Sea of Japan, April 1904, by Russian cruisers of the Vladivostok Squadron under command of Rear-Admiral K.P. Yessen (inset top right). Card sent
from St Petersburg to Germany. The ‘KINSHU MARU’ had refused to surrender and was sunk by torpedoes. As the ship went down officers committed suicide in their cabins and soldiers bayoneted each other rather than face the disgrace of capture. Only a
few Japanese sailors and labourers were rescued from the water. The sinking of this unarmed vessel brought condemnation from the world’s press. Illustrated and described Casey, BJRP 92/93 (2005), p.64.
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| 20089 |
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 1904 Cover from Vladivostok to London 17 7 04 placed on POSTAL WAGON No. 264 of CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Violet cachet of DIVISIONAL H.Q. of MILITARY AREA OF MANCHURIAN ARMY and pink resealing slip of CENSORSHIP COMMISSARIAT
of the same authority.
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SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20090 |
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 1904 Viewcard of Harbin Wharf to Finland with violet circular free-frank cachet of COMMANDER/MACHINE-GUN COMPANY/5th EAST SIBERIAN DIVISION, postmarked DALNY KWANTUNG OBLAST/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 25 VI 1904, Helsinki arrival
alongside. The writer of the card was travelling south, probably to join his unit, which was in action at the battle of Hsi-mu-cheng a few weeks later. Dalny had been evacuated by the Russians in May 1904 and its railway post office relocated at
KUNGCHULING on the CER north of Tiehling.
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SOLD for € 280.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20091 |
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 1904 Cover to PLATFORM CHUKHLINKA, Moscow-Nizhnegorod Railway, free-frank intaglio cachet in black of EAST SIBERIAN military unit and postmarked No. 7 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 19 VII 1904. At this time No. 7 FPO was
located at KHOIYAN, Kirin province.
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SOLD for € 160.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20092 |
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 1904 Viewcard to Finland inscribed “From the Active Army” franked 1k and 2 k both tied by DALNY KWANTUNG PROVINCE/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 27 VII 1904 with Helsinki arrival 31 VIII and “Gundjulin” dateline. The Russian army
abandoned Dalny during the night of 26 May 1904. The Dalny Railway Station PP.O. staff escaped with their stock and equipment and set up business far behind the line using the old canceller. This card establishes relocation of Dalny Railway Station
P.O. at KUNCHULING (Russian: GunZhulin, Gunchzhulin) about 400 miles NE of its home base (Casey, BJRP 91, 2004, pp. 46-47).
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20093 |
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 1904 3k Postal stationery card to Germany uprated 1k cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE/5/10th ARMY CORPS 29 VII 1905 written by a German observer with the Russian Armies in Manchuria to a fellow officer from a village 30km from
LYAOYANG, violet circular intaglio cachet of GHQ 17th ARMY CORPS, Cassel arrival. Written shortly before Battle of Lyaoyang in which the 10th and 17th Army Corps were heavily involved. GHQ of the Russian armies was situated at Lyaoyang railway
station, depicted on the front of the card.
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| 20094 |
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 1904 Stampless cover to Riga posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 264 of Chinese Eastern Railway (VLADIVOSTOK-HARBIN) 1 VIII 1904, with oval violet and straight-line black free-frank cachets: LIFLAND FIELD HOSPITAL RED CROSS SOCIETY,
fine
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20095 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to sender’s relative in Poland endorsed on reverse “Sent from Manchuria via Harbin/Headquarters of 3rd Brigade of Border Guards/St. Handaohketze. Armourer Veneslav Shvedkovskii”. Posted on Chinese Eastern
Railway TPO POSTAL WAGON No. 264 (3) 8 VIII 1904. Free-frank cachet in blue-grey: 3rd BRIGADE TRANSAMUR REGION SECTION OF CORPS OF BORDER GUARDS, Lodz arrival.
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| 20096 |
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 1904 Registered cover from CHEFOO, China, to Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Marie Feodorovna, sent by Dr Balashev, Head of the Russian Red Cross in the Far East and Surgeon-General of the Russian Army, franked 20k and 1k
‘Kitai’ tied CHEFOO Type 2 8 Aug. 1904 ds’s, printed heading and sealing wafer on reverse reading: REPRESENTATIVE OF STATE EMPRESS MARIE FEODOROVNA FOR RED CROSS IN THE FAR EAST, St Petersburg Chancellery arrival backstamp. With Port Arthur under
siege, Russian Red Cross Headquarters was moved across the Strait of Pohai to Chefoo.
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20097 |
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 1904 Chinese red-band cover to textile factory at SERPUKHOV cancelled LYAOYANG FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’ 9 8 04, circular violet free-frank cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: MILITARY-MEDICAL SEMI-TRANSPORT OF THE MANCHURIAN
ARMY. Cover dispatched on the eve of the Battle of Lyaoyang in which the Russians lost 3,611 killed and 14,301 wounded. Included postcard depicting evacuation of wounded from the Russian forward position at the village of An-shan-chan, SW of
Lyaoyang. The main medical evacuation centre was at Lyaoyang railway station.
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| 20098 |
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 1904 Registered cover to U.S. Consul in CHEFOO, China, sent through Imperial Chinese post by British military observer, R.B.Denny, franked on reverse 5c ‘dragon’ (another stamp removed), tied by incomplete SHEN-YANG (MUKDEN)
cds with POSTAL COUNTER (MUKDEN) alongside, dated 17 7 04 (lunar calendar = Gregorian 11 8 04). Black circular cachet with Cyrillic inscription around Imperial Russian Eagle: MILITARY COMMISSAR ATTACHED TO THE MUKDEN TZIAN-TZYUN (GOVERNOR GENERAL)
alongside with further large boxed violet cachet in Cyrillic: PERMITTED/COLONEL…with signature of Colonel Pesteech (General Staff of Russian Viceroy of Far East) and number. Censorship of war despatches was at this time under the control of the
Viceroy. Note that the letter was submitted for censorship before stamps and cancellations were applied.
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
