RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20259 |
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 1905 Cover from “His Imperial Majesty’s Chancellery for Receiving Petitions” to a Russian peasant in Harbin, endorsed “with documents”. Dispatched St Petersburg with official seals 1 V 1905 and received HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE
(HARBIN) ‘a’ 21 5 05. Enquiry label and endorsement of Post-telegraph Clerk show that addressee could not be located and item returned from HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 24 7 05, arrival 11 VIII, delay in transit due to military congestion on the line.
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SOLD for € 350.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20260 |
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 1905 3k Stationery card from a wounded soldier in hospital in HARBIN writing to Empress Maria Feodorovna’s charity in St Petersburg acknowledging gift of tobacco-pouch. He identifies himself as belonging to 3rd COMPANY 24th
EAST SIBERIAN RIFLE REGIMENT. Card, issued free of charge cancelled in green: GENERAL HEADQUARTERS 3rd SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS/POST OFFICE 15 05. This card enables the temporary location of this mobile Field Post Office to be fixed as Harbin.
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| 20261 |
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 1905 Obsolete formular card with dateline”Position Syaokhetszy 27 VI 1905", addressed to Finland, postmarked one week later FIELD POST OFFICE SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS No. 4 ‘b’ 4 5 05. Two different circular free-frank cachets in
violet of 12th (BARNAUL) SIBERIAN INFANTRY REGIMENT.
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| 20262 |
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 1905 Viewcard to St Petersburg posted from MANCHULI RAILWAY STATION 7 V 1905 with Red Cross free-frank cachet: REPRESENTATIVE OF UNITED ZEMSTVO ORGANISATION FOR RELIEF OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED At the outbreak of the
Russo-Japanese War (1904), though outside the sphere permitted the zemstvos by law, fourteen zemstvos entered into a secret agreement to send field hospitals to the Far East. When the news reached the central government the Zemstvo Organisation was
promptly declared illegal and other zemstvos were prohibited from joining it. The Ministry of the Interior who had banned the formation of the zemstvo field hospitals was murdered and as a concession to public opinion his successor gave the
organisation official recognition and permitted other zemstvos to participate.
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| 20263 |
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 1905 Registered cover to a medical student in Warsaw from medical officer with 11th HORSE-ARTILLERY BATTERY violet cachet, franked on reverse with pair of 7k tied by FIELD POST OFFICE/2/ 17th ARMY CORPS 8 5 05. Registration
label: CORPS FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO 17th ARMY CORPS, Warsaw arrival backstamp in red 31 V 05 (23 days in transit).
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20264 |
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 1905 Siberian railway viewcard to Riga posted from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION 10 V (1905), red circular free-frank cachet: BAKERY OF RUSSIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY IN HARBIN, Riga arrival 31 5 05. Additional card depicting field
kitchen of 19th East Siberian Rifle Regiment.
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| 20265 |
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 1905 Insured money-letter for 15 roubles to St Petersburg franked on reverse with 14k and 35k tied FIELD POST OFFICE No. 30 11 V 1905 cds, wax seals alongside inscribed INSURED CORRESPONDENCE/FIELD POST OFFICE No. 30 Sender
gives address as ST.TSITSIKAR, indicating that F.P.O. No. 30 had moved in May 1905 to the suburb (now the town of ANGANKI) that had grown up around the Station of the Chinese Eastern Railway, some 20 miles south of Tsitsikar proper.
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SOLD for € 320.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20266 |
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 1905 Insured money-letter for 100 roubles to YUKHNOV franked on reverse 4k and 35k Arms issue tied by abbreviated cancellation translating: HAILAR FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE ‘a’ 14 5 05 Straight-line violet handstamp HAILAR
and manuscript ‘N596’ on front, on reverse large central wax seal inscribed INSURED CORRESPONDENCE/HAILAR FIELD/POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE ‘a’ around Imperial Eagle. Corner seals with HAILAR and symbol.
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SOLD for € 650.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20267 |
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 1905 Card depicting wounded Russian prisoners at Red Cross hospital, Matsuyama, Japan, sent by Russian P.O.W. to STATION BUTEVO, on the Moscow-Kursk Railway. Sent via Japanese port of Nagasaki 16 May 1905. Japanese censor
cachet.
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| 20268 |
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 1905 Viewcard of Kainsk Railway Station, Trans-Siberian Railway, addressed to Pyatigorsk (Caucasus), dateline “16/V”, cancelled next day in green STATION KARGAT/SIBERIAN RAILWAY 17 5 05, violet circular free-frank cachet of
209th INFANTRY (–ERVN. NIKOLAEVSK) REGIMENT. Pyatigorsk arrival 26 V 1905.
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| 20269 |
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 1905 Cover of insured money letter for 75 roubles and accompanying message on illustrated notepaper with military motif sent by officer serving with 1st ARMY, 5th BAGGAGE BATTALION, written from village ERTSENDYANTSZY 8 V 1905
and posted same day to Biryuch, Russia from 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’, charges paid by two 14k and single 4k Arms issue, adhesives with some faults. Wax seals of 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE on reverse and manuscript registration number in
top left-hand corner.
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| 20270 |
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 Stampless cover from Russian P.O.W. in Japan, sent via Kobe to a Colonel in the Russian Railway Gendarmerie at TOMSK, Siberia. Re-addressed to Omsk and received 21 V 1905 at OMSK RAILWAY STATION, on the Trans-Siberian Line.
Violet 3-line SERVICE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and vertical red-orange Japanese chop reading PRISONER OF WAR MAIL on front; violet oval Japanese cachet reading GREATER JAPAN…./CENSORED/NAGOYA PRISONER OF WAR CAMP. Cover opened out for display.
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| 20271 |
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 1905 Formular card endorsed “From the Active Manchurian Army” written by a wounded soldier in hospital in HARBIN writing to charity of Empress Maria Feodorovna at Anichov Palace cancelled HARBIN HOSPITAL SUBURB ‘v’ 21 5 05
with violet free-frank cachet alongside: 8th HARBIN COVERED HOSPITAL Included is a postcard depicting interior of Harbin military hospital.
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| 20272 |
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 1905 Card addressed to charity of Empress Maria Feodorovna at the Anichkov Palace, St Petersburg from officer with the 2nd Company of 164th Reserve Infantry Regiment giving thanks for gift, dispatched from FIELD POST
OFFICE/5/16th ARMY CORPS 22 V 1905, St Petersburg arrival 13 VI 1905. At this time the 16th Army Corps is said to have been based at STATION MEISHATZE of the Chinese Eastern Railway (Line 265/266) S. of Harbin
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| 20273 |
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 1905 Formular card to Empress Maria Feodorovna’s charity at the Anichkov Palace, St Petersburg from wounded NCO of 7th COMPANY 10th (ROSSIISK) RIFLE REGIMENT giving thanks for gift. Cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE/1/No. 27 22 V
1905 cds in blue. At this time No. 27 FPO was located at KUOKIATIEN.
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| 20274 |
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 1905 Card sent by Cossack of 2nd SOTNIA 11th ORENBURG COSSACK REGIMENT to Empress Feodorovna at St Petersburg giving thanks for gift, cancelled HARBIN HOSPITAL SUBURB ‘a’ 25 5 05. Red free-frank cachet of 4th HARBIN COVERED
HOSPITAL. This Cossack unit took part in the defence of Mukden (March 1905), in which Russian losses were more than 40,000 killed and nearly 50,000 wounded. This wounded soldier says that he was evacuated by Empress Maria’s Military Medical Train
from Station Kungchuling, to which Russian GHQ moved after the fall of Mukden. Additional viewcard included depicting transfer of wounded to a Harbin hospital.
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20275 |
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 1905 HISTORICAL LETTER addressed to “Manchuria. Gunzhulin (Kungchuling). To the General Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of all the Armed Forces. To the Senior Adjutant of the Intelligence Department, Lt.-Colonel of the General
Staff Baron Viteken”. Sent by wounded officer recuperating in St Petersburg voicing his suspicions that the British Military Observer with the Russian forces in Manchuria, Colonel Waters, is spying for the Japanese and wants him placed under
surveillance. Following receipt of this letter, the accreditation of Col. Waters was withdrawn and on attempting to return to Manchuria from leave he was stopped at Irkutsk and made to turn back. The envelope bears a St Petersburg cds of 24 4 05 and
receipt cds of HEADQUARTERS/FIELD POST OFFICE ‘d’ 29 5 05. Also red crayon “Handed to Lt.-Col….29 V”. Sent post free as soldier’s mail. Wallscourt Walters, who became a Brigadier-General, was Military Attaché in St Petersburg 1893-1898, observer with
the Russian Army in Manchuria 1904-05 and chief of the British Military Mission at Russian GHQ in 1916. His book “Secret and Confidential” (1926) describes the Irkutsk incident.
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| 20276 |
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 1905 Two cards posted at HARBIN, one endorsed “From the Active Army” and addressed to Postal Station Astrabamovka in Alatyr District of Simbirsk Guberniya, no dispatch mark but 31 V arrival, other addressed to St Petersburg
from HARBIN RAILWAY STATION 6 II 1905, arriving 25 II. Both with blue circular free-frank cachets of 1st PONTOON BATTALION – 2nd and 3rd COMPANIES respectively.
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| 20277 |
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 1905 Pictorial envelope with military motif sent from Vladivostok to Moscow 2 6 05 with blue free-frank on reverse of No. 265 RESERVE FIELD HOSPITAL
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| 20278 |
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 1905 Viewcard to Old Peterhof with free-frank cachet of OFFICE OF THE CAUCASIAN CAVALRY BRIGADE, written from village of PEN-DIONA 3 VI 05 and posted 8 days later at FIELD POST OFFICE No. 23 with date inserted by hand. Some
staining. The locations of the village and the Field Post Office are unknown.
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