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CHINA BOXER REBELLION - Italian Forces in China continued...

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CatNo.

Lot Description

3221

1901 (20 Nov) registered cover sent through the Imperial Chinese Post Office in Peking, franked with 2c, 4c and 5c C.I.P. Coiling Dragons, tied by oval Peking departure markings and large "R", with framed "R Peking" registry box below, addressed to the Italian Flagship "Marco Polo" at the Italian Consulate in Shanghai, with large "COMANDO BATAGLIONE MARINAI" seal on back, Shanghai Registered Nov.28 arrival pmk, filing fold away from the stamps, faint toning, fine (Image)

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction

3222

1902 (10 May) registered cover to Italy, franked with 5c Eagle and 20c (3) Umberto, tied by "R. Nave Puglia" pmks, with R.No. at bottom, boxed "Piroscafi Italiane", Rome (29.6.02) arrival pmk on back, fine. At the outbreak of the Boxer Uprising, the only Italian forces in China were four ships of its East Asia Cruiser Squadron, including the "Puglia", which had its own on board post office (Image)

SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction

3223

1902 (Feb) cover to Viareggio, Italy, with Italian pair of 5c green and 10c red brown, tied on back by blue "COMANDO BATAGLIONE MARINAI" (with Savoy Coat of Arms seal), arrival (1.3.1902) on back, fine and scarce usage, signed Diena, with his 1988 certificate (Image) (image 3223a)

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction

3224

1903-04 registered cover and card to Italy, each with Italian franking, first one (opened for display), with 20c and 25c Umberto, canceled by "Comando Truppe Italiane in Cina" (14 Jan 1903) departure, with large "R No." (actual number in pen), "Regie Truppe Italiane in Cina Comando" backflap and arrival pmk (27 Feb), the latter franked with 10c and 25c Victor Emmanuel, tied by "Comando Truppe Italiane in Cina" (15 Apr 1904) departure pmk, Registry label (previously unrecorded) at left, Firenze arrival pmk (29.5.04) at bottom, cover and card tears, fine and extremely rare pair of Registered items from Italian forces in China (Image)

SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction

3225

Ship Mail. 1901 (20 Oct) cover with official naval markings of the cruiser "Stromboli", sent via the French maritime "Australie, Paq.Fr. T.No.1", with 50c Type Sage, Registered and addressed to the "Ministerio Della Marina" in Rome, with arrival pmk on back, filing fold away from the stamp, fine and incredibly rare example of French franking of Italian Naval mail during the Boxer period. As official mail, this cover should have been sent through the ship's own post office at no charge. The only explanation for the unusual routing was that there was no Italian mail ship in North China at that time and the cover was sent from China to Colombo, where it was posted on the French packet "Tonkin". Postage was paid at the full international rate of 50c (25c postage and 25c registry fee). The "Stromboli" was deployed to the Far East, together with "Vesuvio" and "Ettore Fieramosca" to assist the Eight-Nation Alliance in putting down the Boxer Uprising in China (Image)

SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction

CHINA BOXER REBELLION - Japanese Forces in China

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Lot Description

3226

1900 (Tientsin) registered cover franked with six overprinted Japanese Offices in China adhesives (a stamp at lower right is missing and has been replaced by 8sen which does not belong), canceled by Tientsin I.J.P.O 7 October 1900 cds, addressed to Germany, with the very scarce Registry label overprinted "I.J.P.O. Tientsin", Moji and Yokoyama (27 Oct) transit pmks, Erfurt (29.11.00) arrival pmks, minor faults, rare (Image)

SOLD for $270.00
Will close during Public Auction

3227

1901 (Shanhaiguan) 3sen stationery lettersheet additionally franked with Japanese Offices in China 2s green, tied by Shanhaiguan I.J.P.O. 19 Jan 1902 cds, addressed to a German Sergeant in Tangshan, red censor chop, diagonal crease, otherwise fine. Also a cover from Shanhaiguan (11 Mar 1901) to Tokyo, with arrival pmk on back (Image)

CLOSED
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3228

1901 (4 March) Japanese 1 1/2sen stationery card with additional 2sen and 5sen (Japanese Offices in China) franking, tied by Peking (English text) pmks, endorsed "Feldpost" and sent to Germany, fine (Image)

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction

3229

1901 (1 March) China 1c stationery card, additionally franked with Japanese (Post Offices in China) franking, used in combination with China 2c CIP (2), tied by Japanese text pmks (intended for use on mail to Japan), with oval "Peking" datestamp and German K.D.Feld-Poststation No.2 cds, sent to Germany, with Gera (12.5.01) arrival (Image)

SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction

3230

1901 (Taku) 4sen postal card, used with Japanese Offices in China 15s lilac, canceled TAKU I.J.P.O. (10 Jan 1901), with stamps of Russian and German Offices in China in combination with CIP Coiling Dragon 2c red with a Tientsin cancel, v.f. A scarce, albeit philatelic example of the Taku I.J.P.O. cancel (this post office was open only until January 11, 1901) (Image)

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3231

1901 (Tientsin) 4sen postal stationery card additionally franked with Chinese Offices in China 20s carmine, canceled Tientsin I.J.P.O. (23 Apr 01), addressed to Germany, with Aschaffenburg arrival cds on front. Also included is a free frank military mail envelope with "Tientsin 16 Oct 1901" pmk ("OCT" reversed), with red "Gunji Yubin" (military mail) docketing (Image)

CLOSED
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3232

1901 (Tongku) 1 1/2sen stationery postal card sent from Tongku I.J.P.O. to Japan, also a registered picture postcard to Germany, franked with four Japanese Offices in China overprinted adhesives, tied by Tongku I.J.P.O. 19 Sep 1901 departure cds, additional stamps added alongside, canceled by Moji 23 Sep 1901 transits, with two Registry labels on the picture side, one Japanese, the other English language "Moji, Japan", Trisedorf (Bavaria) 27 Oct. 01 arrival (Image)

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

3233

1901 (Tungchow) 3sen stationery lettersheet to Germany, franked with six different Japanese Offices in China adhesives, including 1sen carmine, tied by Tungchow 26 Feb 1901 departure cds, Registry label with name filled in by hand added at top, Frankfurt 12.4.01 arrival pmk on back, fine, extremely rare example of registered mail from the Japanese Post Office in Yungchow (which operated for less than one year) (Image)

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction

3234

1901 (Yangtsun) two different stationery post cards to Germany, each with Yangtsun I.J.P.O. (14 Jan and 2 Apr 1901) departure pmks, the latter with German military "Ostasiatischen Expeditionscorps" Fieldpost markings, Frienwalde and Breiholz arrival pmks, fine (the Yangtsun I.J.P.O. operated as a suboffice of Tientsin from 10 Sep 1900 to 17 July 1901) (Image)

CLOSED
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3235

Naval and Maritime Mail. 1900 (21 Oct) cover from Hongo branch post office in Tokyo franked with 1sen and 2sen adhesives, tied by departure pmks, addressed to a sailor on HIJMS "Takasago" in China, small adhesion (possibly part of a removed directional label) adhering to one of the stamps, otherwise fine, exceedingly scarce example of the Japanese Naval mail during the Boxer period (the "Takasago", a protected cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy supported Japanese naval landing forces at Tianjin, as part of the Eight-Nation Alliance and was later stationed at Chefoo, Shanhaiguan and Taku for the duration of the Boxer War. Several years later, the Takasago struck a mine off Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese war and sunk on December 13, 1904) (Image)

SOLD for $675.00
Will close during Public Auction

CHINA BOXER REBELLION - Dutch Legation Guards

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Lot Description

3236

1907 (22 Feb) China 1c stationery card additionally franked with 1/2c and 1c CIP Coiling Dragons, tied by Peking departure pmks, sent via Shanghai to Venlo, Netherlands, with large violet "Nederlandsche Gezantschapswacht Peking" undated cachet, oval "B.4" and arrival (29.3.07) cds, v.f., signed Bloch. The Netherlands had a legation in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, but no Dutch personnel served in the Allied forces. After the uprising, the Dutch took advantage of the Peace Protocols which allowed the foreign legations to have armed military guards. A rarity (Image)

SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction

3237

1917 (19 Apr) registered cover from Peking to Amsterdam, franked with Chinese 4c, 5c, 7c and 10c definitives, tied by departure pmks, endorsed "Via Siberia", with Registry handstamp below, oval "L.Q" handstamp, sender's "Netherlands Legation Guard" docketing, "Opened by Censor" label, another violet censor handstamp, fine and rare (the Netherlands had a legation in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, but no Dutch personnel served in the Allied forces. After the uprising, the Dutch took advantage of the Peace Protocols which allowed the foreign legations to have armed military guards. The Netherlands did not open its own post office in China, but the legation guards used the Chinese postal service to send their mail) (Image) (image 3237a)

SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction

CHINA BOXER REBELLION - Russian Forces in China

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Lot Description

3238

1900 (Peking) 7k stationery lettersheet with additional 3k franking, tied by framed "Pekin 19-00" handstamped, repeated alongside, with date filled (20.XI) by hand, sent through the Russian Post Office in Port Arthur (10.XII) and Shanghai (28.XII) to Germany, with Russian Post Office in Chefoo (11 Dec) and Hong Kong transit pmks on back, Prinzenthal arrival, fine and scarce usage of the provisional "Pekin" handstamp, signed Holcombe (Image)

SOLD for $1,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

3239

1900 (Peking) 7k stationery entire envelope, additionally franked with 3k and 10k "Kitai" adhesives, tied by framed "Pekin 19-00" handstamp, repeated below, with date (24.XI) filled-in by hand, Registry label No.526 added alongside, sent through the Russian Post Office in Port Arthur (10.XII) and Shanghai (28.XII) to Germany, with Russian Post Office in Chefoo (11 Dec) and Hong Kong transit pmks on back, Freiburg (1.2.01) arrival, crayon markings, extremely rare registered cover with provisional "Pekin" handstamp (the Russian Post Office in Peking lost its circular datestamp during the siege of the Legations in 1900. The local provisional handstamps were improvised locally, as were the primitive Registry labels) (Image)

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction

3240

1901 (Shanhaiguan) cover to Belgium, franked with unoverprinted Russian 3k and 7k, tied by violet "No.3 Polev (aya) Pocht (ovaya) Kon (tora) Priamur (ski) Okr (ug)" 14.III.01 (3rd Field Post Office Priamur District), with Russian Post Office in Shanghai (18.III), Chefoo (24 Mar), with corresponding Chinese Post Office pmks, forwarded via the British Post Office in Hong Kong (Apr 11), arriving in Anvers (12 May), fine and unusual example of civilian mail sent through the military post office to uncommon destination (Image)

SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction