RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20139 |
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 1904 Red Cross charity card featuring railway map of Siberia and Manchuria, endorsed “From the Mobilised Section” and written from STATION PETROVSKII ZAVOD, Siberia (inserted on map by sender) to Dvinsk. Violet free-frank
cachet: 1st BATTERY 41st ARTILLERY BRIGADE
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| 20140 |
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 Chinese red-band cover to St Petersburg endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY, posted on Chinese Eastern Railway POSTAL WAGON No.262 (HARBIN-MANCHULI) (train ‘3’) 7 (XI) 1904. Red Cross free-frank cachet on reverse: FLOATING HOSPITAL
OF THE MARBLE PALACE Part of the Chinese Eastern Railway flotilla of ships and barges was handed over to the Red Cross to operate as hospitals on the River Sungari. Many of these were equipped and maintained under the patronage of royalty or the
nobility. The Marble Palace in St Petersburg is now a branch of the Lenin Museum.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20141 |
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 1904 Official insured money-letter for 162 roubles to Moscow, franked on reverse 3k, 10k and 35k, tied by FIELD POST OFFICE 6th SIBERIAN CORPS ‘v’ 11 11 04. Similar postmark, serial ‘a’ applied next day, central wax seal
alongside reads: INSURED CORRESPONDENCE FIELD POST OFFICE 6th SIBERIA; CORPS ‘a’, corner seals read: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 6th SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS around Imperial Eagle
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| 20142 |
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 1904 Cover to Riga endorsed “From the Active Army” postmarked FIELD POST OFFICE / 1 / 5th SIBERIAN CORPS 13 11 04, alongside violet circular free-frank cachet : HEAD ADMINISTRATION OF ARTILLERY 5th SIBERIAN CORPS Also piece
from back of money-letter franked 4k and 35k Arms issue 1902-05 showing wax seals and cancellation SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS No. 4 ‘a’ 13 11 04 with Chita (Siberia) arrival 24 XI 1904. Also 1902-05 1 rouble with same cancel 20 3 05.
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| 20143 |
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 1904 Cover to Moscow from Mukden 13 11 04 with violet free-frank cachet of EAST SIBERIAN PONTOON BATTALION despatched shortly after the battle of Sha-Ho (5-18 October), during which this unit, based in Mukden, was part of a
flanking detachment under Lt.-General Dembovski and was engaged in bridge-buiding over the Hun-ho.
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| 20144 |
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 1904 Stampless cover to France from Harbin with HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 16 11 04 cds (29 11 04 New Style), on reverse circular violet cachet: STAFF (HQ) KWANTUNG DISTRICT. Taxed on arrival with French postage dues 10c pair
+ 30c applied. Evidently from a member of a military unit evacuated from the Kwantung Peninsula after it was overrun by the Japanese. Military cachets served as free-franks only on ordinary mail to Russia and Russian post offices abroad.
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SOLD for € 180.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20145 |
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 1904 Cover to Riga endorsed “From the Active Army”, violet circular cachet STAFF (HQ) OF 5th SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS, posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/1/5th SIBERIAN CORPS 18 11 04, Riga arrival backstamp, envelope with a few light
creases
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SOLD for € 60.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20146 |
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 1904 Stampless letter-card to STATION SKHODNYA, Nikolaevsk Railway, dateline 1 September/MUKDEN, nobility logo inscribed in blue GIFT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GRAND DUKE MIKHAIL ALEKSANDROVICH. In addition 3k stationery card to
Kaluga (received 18 XI 04) with black circular cachet GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION. Both posted at FIELD POST OFFICE/3/17th ARMY CORPS 2/9 and 9/10 04 respectively. These items establish location of 17th Army Corps and HQ 3rd Infantry
Division at Mukden during autumn 1904.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20147 |
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 1904 Stampless stationery card with photograph of Mukden affixed to reverse, addressed to Dvinsk, Vitebsk Guberniya, message in German written “248 versts south of Fusan” and postmarked 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 19 11
04, alongside circular free-frank cachet in blue: FIELD HIGHWAY MANAGEMENT OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMY. Writer gives his address as “Field Highway Management, Mukden”. At this time No. 12 FPO was situated at FUSAN.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20148 |
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 1904 Insured money-letter for 100 roubles sent by Post-Telegraph clerk attached to FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS, stationed at village of NING-KUAN-TUN, addressed to Zvenigorod, near Moscow, charges of 39k paid by pair
2k and two pairs and single 7k, some pen-cancelled, others tied by FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS 20 11 04, ms annotation ‘815’ top left. Central wax seal reads around Imperial Eagle and posthorns: FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS/INSURED
CORRESPONDENCE ‘b’. Ning-kuan-tun, on a tributary of the Sha-ho, 30km south of Mukden, was one of the villages used by the Russian 2nd Manchurian Army as winter quarters after the Japanese advance had been halted at the battle of the Sha-ho (5 – 17
October 1904).
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| 20149 |
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 1904 Picture postcard “From the Active Army”, message in Polish written from GAOLINGTZE to Telshi (Baltic region), with free-frank cachet of 1st BATTERY 2nd ARTILLERY BRIGADE, blue cancel alongside: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd
SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS/POST OFFICE 22 11 04. This card suggests that the temporary location of this mobile Field Post Office was at Gaolingtze (Russian spelling Gaolintszy), a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Line 263/264) about 150 miles east of
Harbin.
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SOLD for € 150.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20150 |
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 1904 Insured money letter for 2 roubles 20 kopecks sent from MUKDEN FIELD POST OFFICE to Moscow postmarked MUKDEN Subtype 3A 23 11 04 in blue with rectangular framed cachet in violet reading RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 11
with item number 4770 and “Mukden” inserted by hand. On reverse two wax seals with Imperial Eagle and post-telegraph insignia reading: INSURED CORRESPONDENCE/No. 11 FIELD/POST OFFICE 1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT. Absence of stamps implies official mail. No
previous records of wax seals,cachet or blue colour of postmark.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20151 |
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 1904 Chinese red-band cover to Taganrog, Sea of Azov, cancelled MUKDEN Type 3B 30 11 04. Violet free-frank military cachet of EAST SIBERIAN MINING COMPANY. Despatched after the battle of Sha-ho, during which the Russians
suffered the heaviest reverse of the campaign and were obliged to fall back on Mukden.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20152 |
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 1904 Picture postcard of Harbin church to Zhitomir dated 30 XI 1904 and postmarked the same day: HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ (Harbin), overlapped by violet intaglio circular free-frank cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: 6th
HARBIN GENERAL HOSPITAL, Zhitomir arrival cds. Additional postcard depicting part of Harbin hospital suburb during the war.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20153 |
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 1904 Registered native cover to Kaluga franked on reverse 14k tied by FIELD POST OFFICE/3/No. 27 2 XII 1904 cds. Handstruck seal of GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION alongside, Manuscript annotation on front “FROM THE
MANCHURIAN ARMY. FROM STAFF-CAPTAIN BOGANOLOV”. No registration label but manuscript ‘321’ top left corner
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SOLD for € 270.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20154 |
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 1904 Insured money-letter for 1400 roubles from HARBIN to YUKHNOV franked on reverse 1r pair, 3k pair and single 70k tied by HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘d’ 5 12 04 cds. Central wax seal: INSURED CORRESPONDENCE HEAD FIELD POST
OFFICE ‘d’ and corner seals: No. 1 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT. This cover establishes that No. 1 Field Post Office and Head Field Post Office, situated in Harbin, were one and the same.
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SOLD for € 350.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20155 |
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 Cover endorsed “From the Active Army” and posted to Kiev from MUKDEN, where blue datestamp applied: HEADQUARTERS/FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH 6 12 04. Violet free-frank cachet struck twice alongside: 1st BATTALION 57th INFANTRY
(MODLIN) REGIMENT. The cachet indicates a Polish regiment serving with the Russian Army, Modlin being the Polish name for the town north of Warsaw called Novo-Georgievsk by the Russians.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20156 |
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 1904 Picture postcard used by civilian to send New Year greetings to Galati, Roumania, franked 7 1/2 cents in Chinese Dragon issue, cancelled at Russian P.O. MUKDEN 8 12 04. Transit Odessa 2 2 05 (Old Style) and Galati 17 2 05
(New Style = 4 2 05 Old Style). Endorsed in Russian (after stamps affixed): VIA MUKDEN CENSOR. Violet circular handstamp: GENERAL HQ 6th SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS, evidently used as a censor cachet. China was not admitted to the Universal Postal Union
until 1920 and before that date its stamps had no validity outside national boundaries. Their acceptance by Russian and Roumanian clerks was irregular.
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SOLD for € 350.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20157 |
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 1904 Registered red-band cover to Moscow franked on reverse pair of 7k tied by No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 10 XII 1904. registration label on obverse reads: FIELD No. 10 POST OFFICE and manuscript “413/TELIN”
confirming the location of this office at TIEHLING (Russian TELIN). Circular cachet in magenta on reverse: 4th TRANSAMUR RAILWAY BATTALION. The Transamur Railway Brigade was formed in March 1903 to run the Chinese Eastern Railway and comprised 4
battalions and 7776 men.
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SOLD for € 560.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20158 |
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 1904 Krasnoyarsk viewcard written 11 XII 1904 from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia to St Petersburg, postmarked next day on TRANS-Siberian TPO POSTAL WAGON No. 188. Blue circular free-frank cachet alongside reading: 98th (YURIEV)
INFANTRY REGIMENT. Also straight-line handstamp in same blue ink at top left translating: NOT LIABLE FOR PAYMENT. St Petersburg arrival 26 12 1904. There is no previous record of the post-free handstamp.
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