RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20319 |
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 1905 Viewcard of market stalls at Harbin New Town endorsed “From the Active Army”, addressed to a farmstead in Vikenshoi Volost, Lifland Guberniya, postmarked FIELD POST OFFICE/3/19th ARMY CORPS 4 IX 1905. Free-frank circular
cachet in violet : 15th (VLADKAVKAZ) INFANTRY REGIMENT OF GENERAL ERMOLOV. Volmar arrival 27 9 05. Card somewhat soiled.
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| 20320 |
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 1905 Viewcard of train crossing river bridge on Taiga-Tomsk branch line of Trans-Siberian Railway near Station Taiga, written from station to Riga 8 IX 05 and picked up next day by TPO KRASNOYARSK-188-OB violet oval datestamp,
violet circular free-frank cachet of 5th COMPANY 2nd BATTALION/KASHIRA INFANTRY REGIMENT, Riga arrival 18 9 05.
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SOLD for € 80.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20321 |
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 1905 Viewcard of Ufa endorsed “From the Active Army”, written in pencil to Aleksandrovsk, Ekaterinoslav Guberniya, dateline 215 9 1905 KHERSU” (KHERSOU), blue abbreviated cds applied next day reading in full: FIELD POST OFFICE
AND TELEGRAPH BRANCH HEADQUARTERS 1st ARMY ‘b’ 16 9 05, Alexsandrovsk 9 10 05 arrival. Official records show that the 1st Manchurian Army HQ were based at Khersou from 24 May to 25 October 1905.
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| 20322 |
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 1905 7k Letter-card uprated 7k for registered rate to Grodno cancelled FIELD CORPS No.2/POST OFFICE 16 9 05. Registration label (lower portion missing) reads: FIELD POST OFFICE ATTACHED TO 2nd SIBERIAN CORPS. 7k is overlapping
bottom right corner.
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| 20323 |
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 1905 Viewcard showing Chinese quarter in Vladivostok addressed to Moscow franked 3k tied Vladivostok 18 9 cds, alongside blue circular cachet: PHARMACY OF VLADIVOSTOK NAVAL HOSPITAL, Moscow arrival 5 10. The stamp was
unnecessary, the cachet serving as a free-frank.
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SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20324 |
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 1905 Viewcard Blagoveshchensk to Finland with Finnish message, datelined “Post Saint Mary Magdalen. Aigun, Manchuria 19 Sept 1905”. Violet circular free-frank cachets around Imperial Eagle POST SAINT MARY MAGDALEN and
SUPERVISORY ADMINISTRATION OF POST SAINT MARY MAGDALEN. Transit following day in Blagoveshchensk, Helsinki arrival 2 XI 1905 (New Style). The Chinese fortress and town of Aigun, on the River Amur opposite Blagoveshchensk, was destroyed during the
Sino-Russian conflict of 1900 by the Russians, who established a military base in the area and named it Post Saint Mary Magdalen. A FPO is said to have operated there from July 1901 to October 1903. No material known. The post was served by the Amur
Steamship Company. This card shows that Post Saint Mary Magdalen continued to be manned throughout the Russo-Japanese War, when its mail was evidently handled on the Russian side of the River Amur at Blagoveshchensk.
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| 20325 |
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 1905 Cover from German military agent to Germany franked 10k ‘Kitai’ stamp cancelled at HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE (HARBIN) 23 9 05. Opened and resealed by slip reading: CENSORSHIP COMMISSION GENERAL HEADQUARTERS AT THE REAR OF
THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES, with circular datestamp bearing similar inscription, struck in violet.
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| 20326 |
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 1905 3k Stationery card from an officer to his wife at Biryuch, Voronezh Guberniya 27 9 05. Cancelled same day 12th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’, arrival 29 Oct, delay due to congestion on railway. At this time No. 12 FPO was
situated at ERTSENDYANTSY, a station of the CER on line 263/264 east of Harbin.
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| 20327 |
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 1905 Registered cover to Moscow franked on reverse 7k pair tied by HARBIN ARMY CORPS SUBURB ‘b’ 30 9 05 cds. Sender’s address: 13th ARMY CORPS 1st INFANTRY DIVISION. 16th (incorporating 117th) MOBILE FIELD HOSPITAL. No
registration label but manuscript “612” and “N 28”.
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| 20328 |
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 1905 Insured cover used to send 300 roubles to Courland Province (Baltic States), franked on reverse 3k, 4k (strip of 3 + single) and 50k Arms issue, cancelled in violet No. 4 FIELD POST OFFICE/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 18 IX 1905. Wax
seals alongside with the same inscription. Blue cachet of 2nd NERCHINSK COSSACK REGIMENT. Blue bordered registration label reads: RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE No. 4 with NINGUTA added by hand. Vindava arrival backstamp 22 X 1905. This cover established
the location of No. 4 FPO at Ninguta, Manchuria. Illustrated K.Adler “British Journal of Russian Philately” 16 (1954), p. 471.
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20329 |
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 1905 Card written by a wounded soldier of the 16th RIFLE REGIMENT in hospital at HARBIN sending thanks to the Empress Maria Feodorovna for gifts received from her charity at the Anichkov Palace, St Petersburg. Violet-grey
free-frank cachet of HARBIN GENERAL HOSPITAL and datestamp reading: HARBIN HOSPITAL SUBURB ‘b’ 9 10 05. St Petersburg arrival 9 10 05. Additional viewcard included showing casualty being taken into a Harbin hospital.
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| 20330 |
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 1905 Viewcard to Moscow with dateline “Manchuria. 9 o’clock Sin-Zhen-Pu. 21 October 905”. Blue circular free frank cachet: STAFF (GHQ) 9th ARMY CORPS. Cancelled FIELD POST OFFICE/3/9th ARMY CORPS 21 X 1905. By this time
hostilities had ceased though the Peace treaty had yet to be finalised.
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| 20331 |
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 1905 Stampless viewcard of Harbin addressed to Lodz, posted 27 XI 05 at FIELD POST OFFICE/HEADQUARTERS 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY. Linear handstamp in red: TO BE DELIVERED WITHOUT CHARGING POSTAGE DUE, evidently applied at Lodz. This
instructional marking was unnecessary as such soldier’s mail was post-free. Illustrated British Journal of Russian Philately No. 37 (1965), figs. 189-90.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20332 |
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 1905 Cover to RETHYMNO, Crete, with seal of the 58th PRAGA INFANTRY REGIMENT, franked 10k tied by FIELD POST OFFICE 8th ARMY CORPS 16 XII 05 cds. This was a mobile F.P.O. following the military unit in its movements.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20333 |
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 1905 Two contemporary cards caricaturing General Kuropatkin, Russia’s Commander-in-Chief, defeated, demoted and hiding behind his wife’s skirt.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20334 |
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 1905 Cover sent to Prisoner-of-War Enquiry Bureau in St Petersburg for transmission to its Tokyo counterpart, enquiring about a sailor from the battleship “PERESVYET”, posted at Romanovskaya, Kuban 10 7 05. Oval DOPLATIT (To
pay)/Romanovskaya applied in error, such mail being post-free. Red Japanese chop (arrow) NARASHINO with barrack number ‘3957’, added in red crayon. The battleship “Peresvyet” carried the flag of Rear-Admiral Prince Ukhtomski. On 7 December 1904 she
was scuttled by her crew in the harbour at Port Arthur after being severely damaged by Japanese land batteries during the siege of the port. The survivors were taken prisoner when Port Arthur capitulated on 2 January 1905.
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SOLD for € 600.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20335 |
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 BRITISH PRISONER OF WAR MAIL: Letter and cover from a Briton, Captain George Anderson, held at Russian POW Camp MEDVED, near St Petersburg. Capt. Anderson commanded the Japanese ship “Sado-maru” and was one of four crew
members captured when his ship was torpedoed in Japanese waters by the Russian Fleet 15 June 1904. The letter is written to I.H.Davidson, brother of the then Archbishop of Canterbury, requesting help from the Archbishop to obtain their release. Cover
addressed to Davidson Mains, near Edinburgh, postmarked St Petersburg 17 XI 1904. On front single line CORRESPONDANCE des PRISONNIERS de GUERRE and very faint EXAMINED BY CENSOR F.I.V.D.K.G. On reverse circular red cachet in French: BUREAU OF
INFORMATION FOR PRISONERS OF WAR ST PETERSBURG and arrival Dec 3 1904. The British prisoners, including Captain Anderson, were freed 5 August 1905. Historical document described K.G.Clark “Kiku Shimbun” No. 139 (2006)
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SOLD for € 700.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20336 |
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 BRITISH PRISONER OF WAR MAIL: Embossed card of philatelic motif sent by Briton Captain George Anderson, held at Russian POW Camp MEDVED, near St Petersburg, to his son Walter, in Edinburgh from St Petersburg 4 VI 1905.
Single-line CORRESPONDANCE DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE in blue and faint Russian EXAMINED BY CENSOR/F.I.V.D.G. in violet. Circular Red Cross cachet in French: BUREAU OF INFORMATION FOR PRISONERS OF WAR ST PETERSBURG. Included is a copy of a sketch by
Frederic Villers of damaged “Sado-maru” being towed towards Japanese port of Moji.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20337 |
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 1904 Money-letter for 5 yen sent by Russian prisoner (Chelepakhin) held at MATSUYAMA P.O.W. CAMP to Japanese newspaper at Yokohama. Violet handstamps: oval Japanese Censor and French SERVICE/DES/PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE. On
reverse: Native MATSUYAMA cds 37.11.29 and bilingual Yokohama receipt same day (=29 Nov 1904 in Western style). Exceptional internal usage within Japan by Russian P.O.W.
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| 20338 |
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 1905 Japanese card sent by a government clerk captured at PORT ARTHUR to inform the Head Artillery Administration in St Petersburg that he and his daughter are well. Dated “Port Arthur/22nd December 1904” (=4th January 1905
New Style), two days after Port Arthur had surrendered. Straight-line handstamp in French: Sve DES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE and square seal-type Japanese cachet translating: FORTRESS HEADQUARTERS PORT ARTHUR, both in orange-red. Japanese FPO strike with
only date legible: 38 2 28 (=28 February 1905). vertical Japanese ms inscription in ink denoting POW mail. Illustrated R.Casey, BJRP 92/93 (2005), p.6, fig. 3C.
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SOLD for € 1,000.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
