RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20099 |
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 1904 Picture postcard from MANCHULI RAILWAY STATION 13 VIII 04 to St Petersburg with Red Cross free-frank cachet translating: HEAD REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RUSSIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY IN CHITA Included is a postcard depicting Red
Cross supplies awaiting despatch to the Far East (Manchuria). A large Red Cross depot was maintained at Chita, on the Trans-Siberian railway.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20100 |
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 1904 Letter-card to KALUGA datelined “Chovchintszy 12 August” endorsed “From the Manchurian Army”, posted next day at FIELD POST OFFICE OF 17th ARMY CORPS, straight-line violet handstamp alongside: FIELD POST OFFICE OF 17th
ARMY CORPS. Backstamped KALUGA arrival 3 IX 1904 and two strikes in violet of circular cachet: STAFF (HQ) 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20101 |
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 1904 Postcard from SYZRAN RAILWAY STATION to St. Petersburg 1 IX 1904 with violet free-frank cachet FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY/EAST SIBERIAN FIELD AERONAUTICAL BATTALION. This unit was responsible for operating captive balloons for
observing enemy artillery positions and troop movements. Included is a postcard depicting a similar unit on exercise.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20102 |
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 1904 Postcard to Belgium depicting soldiers of the Eastern Siberian Rifle Regiment en route to the Far East (Manchuria) franked 4k tied by POSTAL WAGON No. 74 (KHARKOV-VOROZHBA) 5 IX 04
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SOLD for € 50.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20103 |
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 1904 Cover to Switzerland franked 3k + 7k tied by blue Field Post cancellation dated 5 9 04 and cachet of mobile Red Cross unit reading : COURLAND FLYING SQUAD, violet official seal alongside: DISTRICT GENERAL H.Q. OF MILITARY
ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARMY IN MANCHURIA, opened by military censor and resealed with pink slip (unfolded) bearing initials of the same beginning with CENSORSHIP COMMISSARIAT.
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SOLD for € 550.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20104 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to France franked 10k tied by MUKDEN ‘b’ 6 9 04 cds, alongside violet circular cachet: MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN OF STATE EMPRESS ALEKSANDRA FEODOROVNA, additional cachet in magenta: DISTRICT GHQ OF THE
MILITARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE ARMY IN MANCHURIA, opened and resealed both ends with pink paper tape bearing initials of CENSORSHIP COMMISSARIAT of the same military administration
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SOLD for € 440.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20105 |
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 1904 Cover from Russian-Chinese Bank to St Petersburg with arrival (11.9.06 – 2 years after posting) franked 7k tied PORT ARTHUR Type 2 G, dated 7 9 04 on reverse, alongside printed label applied: “This letter was among
correspondence captured by the Japanese at the time of the surrender of Port Arthur and returned through the Russian Imperial Mission to Japan to Khabarovsk post-telegraph office, from where it was despatched to the addressee”. Port-Arthur was
besieged by the Japanese 7 8 04 and capitulated 2.1.05.
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SOLD for € 2,600.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20106 |
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 1904 Picture postcard of Chita to Orenburg (arrival cds of 22 9 04) datelined “1904 10 S (Sept.)”, postmarked next day CHITA/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 11 IX 1904, alongside violet circular free-frank cachet reading around
Imperial Eagle: 288th INFANTRY (KULIKOV) REGIMENT. Postcards with free-frank cachets already applied were issued to officers travelling on the Trans-Siberian Railway for their private correspondence.
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SOLD for € 340.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20107 |
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 1904 Chinese native pictorial cover to ZVOLEN, Radom Guberniya, cancelled SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS FIELD POST OFFICE No. 4 ‘b’ 13 9 04, Radom transit and Zvollen arrival backstamps for 7 10 04., circular violet free-frank cachet
reading around Imperial Eagle: MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL OF 2nd SIBERIAN INFANTRY DIVISION. This hospital must have received many of the 14,301 Russian wounded from the Battle of Lyaoyang, concluded shortly before this item was sent.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20108 |
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 1904 Registered cover to London from Russo-Chinese Bank in Kirin, southern Manchuria, franked 7k (4), 3 affected by vertical crease and one by overlapping, tied by GIRIN/3/ARMY CORPS POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Kirin registration
cachet alongside. Based on a station of the Chinese owned telegraph line Shanhaikwan-Aigun, this office was opened when the Russians occupied the town in 1900 and dealt with both military and civilian mail.
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SOLD for € 950.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20109 |
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 1904 Cover addressed to a farmstead in Estland Guberniya near STATION IEBBE on the Baltic Railway with violet circular free-frank cachet : 15th COMPANY/146th INFANTRY (TSARITSYN) REGIMENT, postmarked FIELD POST OFFICE/1/1st
ARMY CORPS 15 IX 1904, Iebbe arrival backstamp 8 X 1904. In the ensuing Battle of the Sha-Ho the Tsaritsyn Infantry Regiment formed part of the 37th Infantry Division under Lt.-Gen. Chekmarev.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20110 |
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 1904 Cover to Frederikshamn (Hamina in Swedish), Finland with free-frank negative cachet in blue: DIVISIONAL BAGGAGE 37th DIVISIONAL TRANSPORT, posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/3/1st ARMY CORPS 19 IX 1904, trilingual
(Finnish/Swedish/Russian) arrival mark dated 25 X 1904 (12 X 1904 Old Style).
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20111 |
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 1904 Stampless stationery card to RIGA endorsed “From the Active Army”, message in German, datelined “Tschan-syn-tung d.19/IX/1904”, cancelled next day at FIELD POST OFFICE/1/5th SIBERIAN CORPS 20 9 04, alongside intaglio
seal-type cachet of the Field Post Office used as free-frank
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20112 |
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 1904 Picture postcard of boat-wharf at Port Arthur to Poland endorsed “From the Active Army”. Free-frank military cachet and cds in greenish-black, the latter reading: LYAOYANG FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 19 9 (04), Chenstohova 3 X
1904 arrival cds. Russian General Headquarters was situated at Lyaoyang until 23 Aug/5 Sep 1904, when the city fell to the Japanese. Posted nearly a month after the event, this card shows that the staff of the Lyaoyang P.O. were continuing to use the
old canceller at a new location, probably Mukden, 40 miles to the north, whence GHQ had evacuated.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20113 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to Guberniya Estland posted from FIELD POST OFFICE /4/1st ARMY CORPS 20 IX 1904 with free-frank cachet on reverse: 15th COMPANY/146th (TSARITSYN) INFANTRY REGIMENT, Iebbe arrival backstamp, cover opened-out
for display.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20114 |
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 1904 Stampless soldier’s letter to KHARKOV posted from FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS 23 9 04 and bearing violet cachet of HOSPITAL 31st INFANTRY DIVISION. In addition Community of St. Eugene charity card depicting
wounded arriving at Field Hospital franked 4k tied St. Petersburg 15 IX 1904 cds.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20115 |
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 1904 Port Arthur viewcard to Lifland Guberniya endorsed “From the Active Army” with red circular free-frank cachet of COURLAND FLYING DETACHMENT, a highly mobile Red Cross unit, posted at STAFF (GENERAL HQ) OF 3rd SIBERIAN
ARMY CORPS/POST OFFICE ‘v’ 25 9 04, Yuriev arrival backstamp. The 3rd Siberian Army Corps was part of the Russian Eastern Force under General Stackelberg and at this time was engaged in the battle of Sha Ho, between Lyaoyang and Mukden.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20116 |
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 1904 Cover with contents written from a Zemstvo Field Hospital set up at STATION KAIYUAN, N. of Mukden, on Line 265/266 of Chinese Eastern Railway, to Rostov-on-Don, free-frank Red Cross cachet and violet inscription on
reverse, reading HEAD OF BASE MEDICAL DETACHMENT MOSCOW ZEMSTVO, postmarked DALNY KWANTUNG OBLAST/1/RAILWAY POSTAL BRANCH 24 IX 1904. Cover roughly opened at right just infringing on red cachet. Dalny was evacuated by the Russians in May 1904 ahead
of the Japanese advance, but continued to function behind the lines at KUNGCHULING, on Line 265/266, 400 miles NE of its home base. (see Casey, BJRP 91, 2004, p.46)
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20117 |
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 1904 Red-band cover to Riga (arrival backstamp 19 10 04) endorsed “From the Active Army”, violet circular free-frank cachet on front and back: 1st ARGUN REGIMENT OF TRANSBAIKAL MILITARY COSSACKS, cancelled FIELD POST
OFFICE/1/5th SIBERIAN CORPS 25 9 04.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20118 |
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 1904 Cover from Russo-Chinese Bank in Port Arthur to Azov-Don Commercial Bank in St. Petersburg, cancelled at PORT ARTHUR P.O. with Type 7G cds dated 30 IX 1904 but onward transmission impossible while communications cut off
by Japanese siege. Seized by Japanese when Port Arthur surrendered in January 1905 and returned to Russia in 1906. Delivered 11 IX 1906, almost two years after date of posting. Delay explained on attached yellow label .
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SOLD for € 2,600.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
