RUSSIA » RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR continued...
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| 20359 |
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 1905 Registered cover to Kaluga endorsed “From the 3rd Manchurian Army”, franked on reverse 14k, abbreviated cancellation reading in full: FIELD POST OFFICE/3/HEADQUARTERS 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY 20 XI 1905. A second strike added
below next day. Not received in Kaluga until 18 1 1906. Registration label: 3rd Army/GENERAL HEADQUARTERS POST OFFICE, circular violet cachet on reverse: GHQ 3rd INFANTRY DIVISION:
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20360 |
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 1905 Stampless card from private soldier giving thanks for gift from Empress Maria Feodorovna’s charity, St Petersburg, dateline “St. Kuanchenze 20 XI 1905”. Cancelled the next day FIELD POST OFFICE No. 31 21 XI 195. This card
establishes the location of FPO No. 31 at this time (Nov 1905) at STATION KWANGCHENTZE, there being no previous record of its location after April 1905. After the Treaty of Portsmouth (Sep 1905) St. Kwangchentze (Changchun) became the southern
terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway Line 265/266, the rest of the line being ceded to Japan.
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SOLD for € 300.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20361 |
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 1905 Pre-addressed card used by wounded soldier to send thanks to Empress Maria Feodorovna for a gift from her charity run from the Anichkov Palace in St Petersburg, postmarked : FIELD POST OFFICE SIBERIAN ARMY CORPS No. 4 ‘e’
30 11 05. St Petersburg arrival 21 1 1906. Writer identifies himself as belonging to 10th (Omsk) Siberian Infantry Regiment (17th Army Corps). The 1st Company of this regiment is depicted at Port Arthur in a separate viewcard.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20362 |
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 1905 Viewcard of Vladivostok to Porkhov, Pskov Guberniya, endorsed “From the Manchurian Army”, written 7 XII 05 and posted next day at FIELD POST OFFICE HEADQUARTERS/2/2nd MANCHURIAN ARMY 8 XII 1905. Violet free-frank cachet:
1st SECTION/1st EAST SIBERIAN BRANCH OF TELEGRAPH COMPANY. Pskov 6 2 06 and Porkhov same day arrival cds’s. Lengthy time between dispatch and delivery possibly due to congestion of military traffic on Trans-Siberian Railway.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20363 |
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 1906 Viewcard of Revel (top right corner missing) franked 3k tied Revel 5 2 06 addressed to STATION MANCHULI/CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY, arrival cds: 29th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘a’ 21 2 06. From June 1905 to March 1907 29th
Field Post Office was based at Manchuli Station and during that period its postmarks were used there exclusively. When the military evacuation of Manchuria was completed the Station reverted to railway administration and used the normal oval “vokzal”
canceller.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20364 |
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 1906 Japanese postcard used by Russian soldiers to send message to friend at BOBRUISK FORTRESS, White Russia, franked 3k tied by FIELD POST OFFICE/4/4th ARMY CORPS 25 III 05. The message speaks of an “indefinite stay in
Harbin”.
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SOLD for € 100.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20365 |
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 1906 Registered postcard to Warsaw written in Polish from TAOLAICHAO, Manchuria, franked 3k and 7k cancelled FIELD CORPS No. 1/POST OFFICE ‘v’ 27 2 06. Registration label translates FIELD CORPS POST OFFICE WITH 1st SIBERIAN
CORPS. Although the Russo-Japanese War ended in September 1905, the Russian military postal organisation remained in use during the evacuation period.
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SOLD for € 400.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20366 |
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 1906 Japanese card to Finland with message in Finnish dated 28 II 1906. Double-circle free-frank cachet in red reading: FIELD POST AND TELEGRAPH ADMINISTRATION AT THE REAR OF THE MANCHURIAN ARMIES, Kuopio arrival 5 IV 1906
(=23 III 1906 Old Style). When the post-telegraph administrations of all three Manchurian armies were disbanded at the beginning of 1906 all their field post-telegraph networks came under the Rear Administration, based at HARBIN. This in turn was
abolished in July 1906 after the majority of Russian troops had been evacuated from Manchuria.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20367 |
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 1906 Pictorial envelope with military motif addressed to St Petersburg; free-frank regimental cachet in violet on reverse and cds of dispatch on front struck in blue, reading: HARBIN ARMY CORPS SUBURB ‘a’ 2 3 06, St Petersburg
arrival 20 III 06.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20368 |
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 1905-06 Two insured money-letters to Moscow, each franked 4k and 35k, handstruck registration cachet MANCHZHURIYA (MANCHULI). Central wax seal and cancellation: 29th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE, latter dated 7 II 05 and 15 3 06.
Corner seals with inscription: ABAGAITUI FIELD POST-TELEGRAPH OFFICE/TRANSBAIKAL DISTRICT. These corner seals suggest that RFPO 29 was formerly located at ABAGAITUI, where a Halt of the Chinese Eastern Railway was situated near Manchuli and the
Siberian (Transbaikal) border. No previous evidence of a Russian FPO at Abagaitui.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20369 |
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 1906 Money-letter to COMMANDER of 3rd FINLAND RIFLE REGIMENT, Abo, Finland, sent by REGIMENTAL PAYMASTER, 23rd EAST SIBERIAN RIFLE REGIMENT, franked 10k tied by FIELD POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE OF HAILAR/a/ 18 4 06. HAILAR
registration on obverse. On reverse regimental corner seals and central seal reading: FIELD POST & TELEGRAPH OFFICE OF HAILAR/a/INSURED CORRESPONDENCE. Situated at the railway station in Hailar, western Manchuria, this office was converted to
civilian status in 1906/07 when the Russian armies evacuated Manchuria.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20370 |
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 1906 Peking viewcard used to send Easter greetings to Penza, dated 18 III 1906 and postmarked three days later FIELD POST OFFICE/4/4th ARMY CORPS 21 III 1906. Violet intaglio circular free-frank cachet: 8th COMPANY/159th
INFANTRY (GURIINSK) REGIMENT. Penza 9 4 05 arrival.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20371 |
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 1906 Pictorial military envelope and enclosed letter-sheet with Christmas and New Year motif, produced by special military depot in Vilna, the message written to KALUGA 27 12 06 by soldier awaiting demobilisation and
postmarked two days later TOMASHOV (Petrok.). 7k stamp applied as soldier was not on active service. The writer complains that he has been moved so many times recently that he does no know where he is.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20372 |
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 1906 Russian viewcard of Nagasaki used to send Easter greetings to Ryazan, Russia, endorsed “From the Manchurian Army” and posted from 6th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘v’ 6 3 06, violet circular free-frank cachet 138th INFANTRY
(BOLKHOV) REGIMENT. Ryazan arrival 24 III 06. Postcard with small missing corner. At this time No. 6 Reserve FPO was based at STATION YAOMING on line 265/266 of the Chinese Eastern Railway, south of Harbin.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20373 |
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 1906 Cover to Berlin franked 10k with abbreviated cancellation translating in full: RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH BRANCH No. 14 18 4 06. Cover with small faults clear of adhesive and cancels. This office was located
at KWANGCHENTZE on C.E.R. Line 265/266.
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SOLD for € 150.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20374 |
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 1906 Card to St Petersburg handstamped “Active Army”, postmarked in blue 7th RESERVE FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 27 5 06, St Petersburg arrival 7 6 1906. Writer gives address as The Armoury, GIRIN (=KIRIN), Manchuria, showing that
No. 7 FPO was still based at Kirin long after hostilities had ceased.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20375 |
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 1906 Japanese viewcard registered to NEZHIN franked 3k and 7k Arms issue tied by FIELD POST OFFICE / 9th ARMY CORPS (2) 28 V 1906. Registration label: 3rd ARMY/TELEGRAPH BRANCH No. 2 with inscription deleted. The writer speaks
of embarking for the mother country, from which it may be inferred that this F.P.O. was still located on Manchurian soil, though the registration labels it used were now out of date.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20376 |
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 1906 Registered cover from Russian-Chinese Bank, Harbin, to Moscow, franked on reverse 1k (3 pairs and a single) and 14k (1k over required 20k rate) tied by HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE ‘g’ 2 6 06 cds’s. Registration label reads:
HARBIN/HEAD FIELD POST OFFICE. An example of civilian use of Harbin Head Field Post during evacuation period.
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Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20377 |
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 1906-07 Two postcards, first from Ireland addressed to s.s. “Allerton” at Hamburg, redirected to Vladivostok, transiting HARBIN, Manchuria, where cds applied: FIELD HEAD POST OFFICE OF THE REAR OF THE ARMY OF MANCHURIA ‘b’ 2 7
06. Second to HARBIN franked 1k and 2k tied by Moscow cds, receipted on arrival FIELD HEAD POST OFFICE OF THE REAR OF THE ARMY OF MANCHURIA ‘g’ 19 2 07. Both cards lightly toned.
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CLOSED
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
| 20378 |
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 1906 Registered cover addressed from STATION HANDAOKHETZE (Chinese Eastern Railway) to Bern, Switzerland, during the evacuation period, franked on reverse 1k, 5k and 14k Arms issue to make 20k registered rate, cancelled Type
2B reading: FIELD POST OFFICE No. 28 (2) 8 VII 1906. Type 2A canceller applied as a dispatch mark the following day. Registration label reads simply HANDAOKHETZE. One of the two covers known from Handaokhetze, confirming the location of F.P.O. No. 28
at this station. The registration label and Type 2B cancellation (with figure ‘2’ at sides) have not been recorded previously.
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SOLD for € 800.00
Closing..Dec-06, 12:00 PM |
