RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
| Lot |
Symbol |
Catalog No. |
Descrip |
Opening |
| 20219 |
|
|
 1905 Stampless cover to Riga endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY with violet free-frank seal: 6th SOTNYA 1st ARGUN REGIMENT OF TRANSBAIKAL COSSACKS. FIELD POST OFFICE/2/5th SIBERIAN CORPS 17 2 05 cds alongside. A Sotnya was a unit
of 100 cossacks.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20220 |
|
|
 1905 Harbin viewcard to Narva posted from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION 20 II 1905 (error 1901) with violet circular free-frank cachet: BAKERY OF HARBIN COMMISSARIAT, Narva 16 3 05 arrival cds alongside. Additional postcard depicting
field kitchen and staff on way to Far Eastern front.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20221 |
|
|
 Chinese 1c stationery card uprated Russian 10k addressed to Paris by French national stationed at TIEHLING, Manchuria, cancelled in blue: No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 23 II 1905. Black script cachet alongside:
SEAL OF CENSORSHIP DIVISION GENERAL HEADQUARTERS MANCHURIA. Message indicates that writer was not troubled by the war. A week later Tiehling was put to the torch and abandoned by the Russians in the face of the Japanese advance.
|
SOLD for € 260.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20222 |
|
|
 1905 Red-band cover to St Petersburg with violet free-frank cachet on reverse: 2nd COMPANY 18th DETACHMENT OF STATE MILITIA SIBERIAN MILITARY DISTRICT. Posted on Chinese Eastern Railway TPO HARBIN-262-MANCHULI 25 2 05 with
another impression struck following day. Not received at St Petersburg until 14 III 05 owing to congestion on Trans-Siberian Railway.
|
SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20223 |
|
|
 1905 Pictorial envelope with military motif sent by soldier on Active Service to Serpukhov from HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (HARBIN) ‘b’ 27 2 05. On reverse violet circular free-frank cachet: 12th EAST SIBERIAN RESERVE BATTALION
and arrival cancel.
|
SOLD for € 480.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20224 |
|
|
 1905 Viewcard of Tsitsikar addressed from TIEHLING to Dmitrovsk (Orlov Guberniya) by officer of Russian rearguard 28 February 1905. No cancellation consistent with evacuation of Tiehling post and telegraph office two days
earlier ahead of the Japanese advance. Violet free-frank cachet: COMMANDANT OF MANCHULI RAILWAY STATION evidently pre-applied to sender’s stationery. Dmitrovsk 30 III 05 arrival. Recorded R.Casey “The Postrider” 52 (2003), p.10. Additional postcard
included depicting main entrance of Tiehling.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20225 |
|
|
 1905 Formula-card to Warsaw and picture postcard of cruiser “Rossiya” to Helsinki posted from VLADIVOSTOK 2 3 05 and 12 4 05 respectively, both with violet circular cachet reading below Imperial Eagle: CRUISER FIRST CLASS/
“ROSSIYA” The cruiser “Rossiya” operated from Vladivostok as a marauder, attacking Japanese transports and merchantmen in the Sea of Japan. Badly damaged in the Battle of the Ulsan (14 August 1904), returned to Vladivostok for repairs and remained
bottled up there by Japanese mines for the rest of the war.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20226 |
|
|
 1905 Pictorial envelope and illustrated letter with military motifs used from STATION GUNZHULIN (=KUNGCHULING) 8 III 1905 to Biryuch, Russia, circular datestamp of TIEHLING (Russian TELIN) applied in blue same day; red
circular free-frank cachet of 29th ARABA WARTIME TRANSPORT. Envelope with small faults. Tiehling was put to the torch and abandoned by the Russians ahead of the Japanese advance and new defensive lines were put up at Kungchuling, 200km to the north.
Written 5 days after the Japanese had entered Tiehling (3 3 05 OS = 16 3 5 NS), this letter shows that the Tiehling canceller continued in use at the new location.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20227 |
|
|
 1905 Registered cover to France franked on reverse 20k tied HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’ 6 3 05 cds applied at HARBIN with dispatch marks of same office serial ‘v’ 9 3 05 and serial ‘b’ 10 2 (error for ‘3’) 05. ‘Z’ registration
label alongside and encircled ‘R’ on front. Opened by censor and resealed with paper tape reading CENSORSHIP COMMISSION AT REAR HQ OF MANCHURIAN ARMIES
|
SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20228 |
|
|
 1905 3k Stationery card written from “St. Gun’zhulin (=GUNCHULIN; KUNGCHULING), Chinese Eastern Railway” 10 March 1905. Cancelled blue-green TIEHLING FIELD TELEGRAPH BRANCH PRIAMUR DISTRICT cds. Tiehling was put to the torch
and abandoned by the Russians ahead of the Japanese advance. Their Commander in Chief, General Kuropatkin, departed by train with his staff to set up defensive lines at Kungchuling, 200km to the north. This card, written a week after the Japanese had
entered Tiehling (16 3 05), indicates that the Field Post and Telegraph Office had also moved to St. Kungchuling, though continuing to use the Tiehling canceller.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20229 |
|
|
 1905 Viewcard of Khabarovsk to Shkudy via Station Prekulin, L.G. (Libava-Gazenpot) Railway, Kovno Guberniya, posted from Khabarovsk 14 III 05 with red free-frank cachet reading around Imperial Eagle: KHABAROVSK No. 4 COVERED
HOSPITAL, Shkudy 9 IV 05 arrival. An example of a hospital functioning well outside the theatre of active military conflict.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20230 |
|
|
 1905 Cover to St Petersburg with violet free-frank cachet of FIELD HEADQUARTERS OF 2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY. Cancelled No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 14 III 1905, St Petersburg 25 III 1905 arrival backstamp. The 2nd
Manchurian Army HQ and FPO No. 10 left Tiehling on 26 February 1905 ahead of the Japanese advance and relocated at ST.KUNGCHULING of the Chinese Eastern Railway, depicted on postcard in the lot. Recorded R.Casey, “The Postrider” 52 (2003), p.10.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20231 |
|
|
 1905 Postcard with manuscript endorsement FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY addressed to Kiev, posted at the FIELD POST OFFICE 10th ARMY CORPS (5) 21 3 05 and bearing orange-red cachet of the 6th SAPPER BATTALION, MILITARY TELEGRAPH
REGIMENT. Note the use of “thunderbolts” in the military cachet.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20232 |
|
|
 1905 Pictorial envelope and contents with military motif, written from village of ERTSENDYANTSZY, east of HARBIN 21 3 05 but posted next day to Biryuch, Russia, from 6th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’, then located at KIRIN,
about 180km to the south. Faint violet free-frank cachet of WARTIME TRANSPORT BATTALION alongside.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20233 |
|
|
 1905 Registered cover to Germany franked 1889-92 1k and 3k and 1902-05 2k and 14k for 20k registered rate tied by HEADQUARTERS FIELD POST OFFICE (a) 24 3 05 cds, encircled ‘R’ alongside with registration label translating:
FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS MANCHURIAN ARMY. Black script cachet on obverse: SEAL OF CENSORSHIP DIVISION GHQ MANCHURIA. After the fall of Mukden (10 3 05) the Russian GHQ withdrew to KUOKIATIEN.
|
SOLD for € 500.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20234 |
|
|
 1905 Registered cover from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION to Warsaw sent by doctor with the 7th RIFLE REGIMENT, endorsed FROM THE ARMY IN THE FIELD. Oval canceller Type 2b of HARBIN CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION 25 3 05 Green circular
cachet of 1st BATTALION 7th RIFLE REGIMENT. Cover opened out for display.
|
SOLD for € 260.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20235 |
|
|
 1905 Siberian viewcard (source of River Angara) used by soldier at “village Takudyatszy 24 March” to write to his parents at Cossack village of Stanitsa Novopokrovskaya, postmarked next day: STAFF (GHQ) 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS
POST OFFICE ‘v’ Violet circular free-frank cachet alongside: OFFICE OF COMMANDER OF ARTILLERY 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS. Card with some peripheral faults.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20236 |
|
|
 1905 Siberian viewcard addressed to Chausy (arrival 24 IV 1905), Mogilev Guberniya, endorsed “From the Active Army”, dateline “Gunchzhulin (=KUNGCHULING)/27 March 1905”. Postmarked same day No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR
DISTRICT. No. 10 FPO was originally located at TIEHLING, whence it was evacuated along with Russian Army Headquarters a few days before the town fell to the Japanese (3/16 March 1905). The new location at KUNGCHULING a station of the Chinese Eastern
Railway about 192 km (120 miles) NE of Tiehling, is depicted in an additional card to the lot. Both somewhat soiled. Recorded R. Casey, The Postrider 52 (2003), p.10.
|
SOLD for € 85.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20237 |
|
|
 1905 Pictorial envelope and contents with military motif, notepaper depicting Mobile Field Hospital. Posted from ERTSENDYANTSZY, a village 60 km E of HARBIN, Manchuria at 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’ 28 3 05. Sent by an
officer serving with 1st Army, 5th BAGGAGE BATTALION to Biryuch, Russia. On reverse red circular cachet: 29th ARABA WARTIME TRANSPORT. (An araba was a bullock or horse-drawn covered cart, as depicted on notepaper.)
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20238 |
|
|
 1905 Stampless cover from St Petersburg (3 III 1905) addressed to Captain at Headquarters of 3rd Manchurian Army, re-addressed to HQ 2nd Manchurian Army, arrival cancels: FIELD POST OFFICE/4/HEADQUARTERS 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY 28
III 1905 and FIELD POST OFFICE HEADQUARTERS/3/2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY 1 IV 1905. Ordinary mail addressed to the armed forces on active service was forwarded without charge.
|
CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
