RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20239 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of Lake Baikal to St Petersburg (19 IV 1905) endorsed “From the Active Army” and dated 30 3 05, postmarked same day HEADQUARTERS 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE ‘v’ with blue free-frank cachet
alongside: 23rd EAST SIBERIAN RIFLE REGIMENT
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20240 |
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 1905 Japanese card to St Petersburg sent 31 March 1905 (=13 April New Style) by Russian Naval Warrant Officer held at POW camp at MATSUYAMA, Japan. Three-line SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and oval Japanese censor chop,
both in violet, alongside. St Petersburg arrival 13 V 1905 (=26 May N.S.) Message includes: “We are impatiently waiting the sea battle because we think it will bring us close to a conclusion”, referring to the impending Battle of Tsushima, in which
the Russian Baltic Fleet was annihilated (27-28 May).
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SOLD for € 360.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20241 |
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 1905 Registered cover to Germany franked 4k block of 4 plus single to make 20k rate, tied FIELD POST OFFICE/2/HQ 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY 2 IV 1905, Cassel arrival 10 5 05 (27 6 05 O.S.), encircled ‘R’ for registration and
handwritten ‘N 627’. Passed to GHQ which applied its cds HEADQUARTERS/FIELD POST OFFICE 4 4 05 on reverse and censor handstamp on front, reading: STAMP OF THE CENSORSHIP SECTION OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S HEADQUARTERS After the fall of Mukden to the
Japanese, the GHQ of the Russian Manchurian Armies moved to KUOKIATIEN STATION, on Line 265-266 of the Chinese Eastern railway. HQ of the 3rd Army was then located one station to the south, at SZEPINGKIA.
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SOLD for € 420.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20242 |
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 1905 Chinese red-band cover used by Army Captain to send letter to his wife in Ostrov (arrival backstamp 30 IV 05) Lomzha Guberniya, Russia. Circular red free-frank intaglio cachet, repeated on reverse: 7th BATTERY 6th
ARTILLERY BRIGADE, cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE 6th SIBERIAN CORPS ‘b’ 2 4 05.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20243 |
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 1905 Registered cover to Finland franked on reverse 1902-05 7k pair cancelled in black STAFF (GHQ) 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS POST OFFICE ‘v’ 2 4 05. No registration label but manuscript “No. 100” top left. red circular cachet on
front and back reading around Imperial Eagle: STAFF OF 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS. Trilingual (Swedish-Finnish-Russian) cds of receipt at Kristinestad on reverse.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20244 |
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 1905 Illustrated envelope and notepaper with cavalry motifs written 3 4 1905 from village of ERTSANDYANTSZY, 60 km E of HARBIN and posted next day at 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’, red free-frank cachet: 29th ARABA
WARTIME TRANSPORT. Envelope with ragged edges at right and lightly toned.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20245 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of Harbin Wharf to office of Syzran-Vyazma Railway at Kaluga. Black intaglio free-frank cachet and cds: HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 4 4 05, received KALUGA 21 4 05. Card lightly toned. Head Field Post
Office was situated at HARBIN. Delayed delivery due to heavy military traffic on the Chinese Eastern and Trans-Siberian Railways.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20246 |
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 1905 Pictorial envelope with cavalry motif and contents, the notepaper depicting an infantry patrol. Posted from ERTSENDYANTSZY ‘, a village 60km E of HARBIN, Manchuria at 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 7 4 05. sent by
medical officer serving with 1st ARMY, 29th TRANSPORT to Biryuch, Russia. Franked on reverse 14k pair to pay registered rate. Manuscript ‘225’ (Registration labels not in use at this Field Post Office).
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20247 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of decked-out battleship “Retsivan” used to send Easter greetings to Syzran (arrival 10 4 05), postmarked HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (Harbin) (date illegible). Blue circular intaglio cachet of 8th BATTERY
10th ARTILLERY BRIGADE.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20248 |
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 1905 7k Postal stationery envelope uprated 3k to pay overseas rate to Germany. Initially cancelled by hand, probably in the field, before sending to HARBIN, when opened and resealed with label reading: CENSORSHIP COMMISSARIAT
H.Q. AT REAR OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES. Cancelled HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 10 4 05.
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20249 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of ships laid up for winter on River Shilka, Siberia, written from “ST. KOTYADYAN (=KUOKIATIEN) Chinese Railway 7am 9 April” to Volkovysk, Grodno Guberniya. Circular violet free-frank cachet
ADMINISTRATION OF 16th FLYING PARK OF ARTILLERY BRIGADE, cancelled blue-green FIELD POST OFFICE No. 27 10 IV 1905, received Volkovysk 3 5 05. This card establishes the location of FPO No. 27 at Kuokiatien (Russian Gotzyadyan) in April 1905.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20250 |
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 1905 Picture postcard of the Manchurian town Tsitsikar to Chita (Siberia) franked 3k tied by TSITSIKAR FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE ‘b’ IN MANCHURIA 11 4 05, Chita arrival 16 IV 1905. Card somewhat aged. Absence of military
cachet and use of postage stamp suggests that this post-telegraph office was open for civilian use.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20251 |
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 1905 Card to President of Russo-Dutch (Medical) detachment in St Petersburg written from TAOLAICHAO by Staff-Captain in charge of RAILWAY FIELD CORPS. Free-frank cachet in blue: BASE COMMANDANT/TAOLAICHZHAO and circular
datestamp: 30th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 12 4 05. This card fixes the location of Field Post Office No. 30 in April 1905 as Taolaichao, which had a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Line 265/266).
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20252 |
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 1905 3k Stationery card, hand-painted on reverse sent to Bucharest by a Romanian officer attached to the Russian Army at HARBIN, Manchuria additionally franked with Chinese and Russian stamps, including a set of 1905 War
Charity unusually used from Russian P.O.s in Manchuria, cancelled 12 4 05 at HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’. Circular violet cachet alongside: CENSOR/HEADQUARTERS REAR OF MANCHURIAN ARMY:
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20253 |
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 1905 Stampless cover to Ostrov from a Captain with the 6th Artillery Brigade. Red circular free-frank cachet reads: 7th BATTERY 6th ARTILLERY BRIGADE, cds alongside reads: FIELD POST OFFICE 6th SIBERIA CORPS 13 4 05. Ostrov
arrival backstamp 6 5 05. Cover reduced at left.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20254 |
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 1905 7k Stationery envelope used to transmit 100 roubles to Zhitomir, endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY (2), sent by an officer with the 5th RIFLE REGIMENT, PROVISIONAL RIFLE CORPS 15 IV 05. Uprated on reverse 32k made up of
vertical strip of 4 7k plus 1k and 3k tied by FIELD POST OFFICE No. 31 cds’s, registration mark in manuscript only.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20255 |
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 1905 Urals viewcard used by doctor or nurse on hospital train to send Easter greetings to Moscow “from far-away Siberia, STATION TAIGA”. Received at Moscow branch of Kursk-Nizhnegorod Railway and passed to Moscow City Post for
delivery 16 4 05. Circular and oval free-frank cachets in blue: 35th SIBERIAN MILITARY-MEDICAL TRAIN
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20256 |
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 1905 Card addressed to Charity of Empress Maria Feodorovna at the Anichov Palace, St Petersburg from soldier based at STATION KUNGCHULING (Russian Gunchzhulin) (on Line 265/266 of Chinese Eastern Railway) 18 April 1905,
postmarked same day 6th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’. This card confirms the location of No. 6 RFPO at Kungchuling at this time.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20257 |
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 1905 Registered cover to TSAR NICHOLAS II (“His Imperial Majesty Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Aleksandrovich”) at St Petersburg franked 14k on reverse tied by HEADQUARTERS FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’ 20 4 05, then located at
KUNGCHULING. Registration label on obverse translates: FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO HEADQUARTERS OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES. St Petersburg magenta arrival backstamp, passed same day to ST PETERSBURG CHANCELLERY OF THE POSTAL DIRECTOR, a special office
for handling mail of the Imperial Court. Illustrated “Rossica” No. 113/114 (1990), p.45, fig. 18a.
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SOLD for € 350.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20258 |
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 1905 Two picture postcards, first to Velikiya Luki with free-frank cachet in red COMMANDER OF TORPEDO BOAT “KETA”, written from ST. ACHINSK, Siberia, and posted on POSTAL WAGON No. 188 (KRASNOYARSK-NOVONIKOLAEVSK) 1 V 1905.
The second to St Petersburg with free-frank cachet in violet TORPEDO BOAT “SOM”, posted at port of Vladivostok 29 5 05.
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SOLD for € 460.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
