RUSSIA Russo-Japanese War continued...
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| 1181 |
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 1905 (18
Sep) picture postcard (military officer) to Bohemia and Moravia, with TAOLAICHAO departure cds, sent through the Field Post Office (24 Sep), with violet General Headquarters Manchurian Army (rear) censor hs, Red Cross "Russo-Dutch Medical Detachment"
cachets and bilingual Iglau (11.11.05) arrival pmk, fine and intriguing usage from Taolaichao (postmark not recorded in Tchilingirian). The Dutch Red Cross was active in Manchuria during the war and provided medical assistance to the wounded soldiers
of both sides. It was one of the few organizations that was allowed to operate there because it was neutral and had no political affiliations (Image)
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SOLD for $500.00
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| 1182 |
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 1905 (4
Aug) registered cover from St. Petersburg to Gungchzhiulin, care of Headquarters of the chief commander Danish Military Service, Registry label at bottom, with additional St. Petersburg departure and Main Central Field Post Office at Gungchzhiulin
(25.8.05) arrival on back, with "Legation de Denmark" consular label in red, fine and historical item, cover was sent to a Danish International observer stationed in Manchurian theater of War (Image)
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SOLD for $450.00
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| 1183 |
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 1905 (5
Oct) cover to St. Petersburg, with "Taladzhao" (Taolaichao) departure pmk, two handstamps Red Cross of the Russo-Dutch Medical detachment and arrival (3 Nov) on back, minor tears, fine cover, Tchilingirian "No Examples known so far, Rating: RRR" (Image)
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SOLD for $475.00
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| 1184 |
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 1905 (25
May) card sent to Empress Maria Feodorovna from Harbin, with two excellent strikes of "Harbin Gospit. Gorodok" (Harbin Hospital Compound), with red cachet of 4th Harbin covered hospital, St. Petersburg arrival (14.6.05) arrival pmk, all on front.
The wounded soldier writes giving thanks for a gift and that he was evacuated by Empress Maria's Military Medical Train from Station Kungchuling, to which the Russian GHQ moved after the fall of Mukden. Also included is an additional picture
postcard depicting transport of wounded to a Harbin hospital (Image)
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SOLD for $140.00
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| 1185 |
E |
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 1905 (22
July) red-band cover to Austria, franked with three each 3k and 7k, paying 30k rate and tied by "Field Post Office 6th Siberian Corps (b)" cds, with corresponding cachet of "5th Battery 18th Artillery Brigade", registered, with large "R", endorsed
"Via Vienna", with Reichenau (28.8) arrival pmk on back, fine (Image)
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SOLD for $240.00
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| 1186 |
E |
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 1905 (17
July) Chinese-style envelope to Warszawa, sent from "4th Reserve Field Post Office", violet "Senior Doctor 8th Sapper Battalion" cachet, with Warszawa arrival. The 4th Reserve Field Post Office was at that time located in Kwangchentze, fine (Image) (image 1186a)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1187 |
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 1905 (4
Apr) Pictorial envelope and letter on military-motif note paper, datelined ERTSENDYANGTZE, sent to Biryuch, with "12th Reserve Field Post Office (b)" and red free-frank cachet of the "29th Arbyaniy Wartime Transport", some toning and roughly opened,
Tchilingirian (page 438 "no examples recorded yet") (Image)
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SOLD for $475.00
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| 1188 |
E |
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 1905 (22
Jan) native Chinese style envelope sent from Mukden to Libau, violet "Lazaret 9th Infantry Regiment" ("Ivangorod Border to Estonia"), with arrival (16.II) on back, filing fold, otherwise fine usage from Mukden (Image)
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SOLD for $240.00
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| 1189 |
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 1905 (16
Feb) red-band cover endorsed "From 1st Active Army" and registered to Simbirsk, franked 14k tied "12th Reserve Field Post Office a", no registration label, but manuscript "628/FUSHUN", Simbirsk 13 3 05 arrival backstamp along with intaglio cachet of
2nd Company 7th (Krasnoyarsk) Siberian Infantry Regiment. This cover confirms the location of 12th Reserve FPO at Fushun, on the Hun Ho, 40km ENE of Mukden. Three days after this cover was posted the office was evacuated in the face of the Japanese
advance (Image)
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SOLD for $290.00
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| 1190 |
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 1905 (22
Mar) Pictorial envelope and letter on military-motif note paper, datelined "Ertsendyangtze", sent to Biryuch, with "6th Reserve Field Post Office (b)" and red free-frank cachet of the "Wartime Transport Battalion", fine and attractive item,
Tchilingirian (page 438 "no examples recorded yet") (Image)
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SOLD for $475.00
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| 1191 |
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 1905 (29
Jan) decorative Chinese cover to Moscow with circular violet free-frank cachet of 3rd Division 35th Artillery Brigade (faint strike) plus circular datestamp of "Field Post Office 1 No. 27". FPO No. 27 was attached to 3rd Manchurian Army and opened
September 1904 at "Suyantun" (Suchiatung) a station of the Chinese Eastern Railway immediately south of Mukden. After the Battle of Mukden (23 Feb-10 March 1905) the Russian Army retreated to the north and FPO 27 moved to Koukiatien (Gouotszydyan),
fine cover, signed Maslowski (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1192 |
E |
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 1905 (12
Apr) card addressed to the President of Russo-Dutch (Medical) detachment in St Petersburg written from Talaitha by a staff Captain in charge of Railway Field Corps. Free-frank cachet in blue "Base Commandant TAOLAICHZHAO" and circular datestamp of
"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). (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1193 |
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 1905 (10
July) registered insured money letter for 3 rubles, franked on back with 3k and 14k Arms, sent from Field Corps No.2 to St. Petersburg, with two intact wax seals, Insured Correspondence Field Corps No.2, corresponding Registry label, arrival pmk,
some cover toning and wear, otherwise fine (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1194 |
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 1905 (4
July) large registered cover from "No.9 Reserve Field Post Office" to Paris, franked on back with strip of 3x10k dark blue, tied by the FPO cds, with corresponding Registry label on front, red circular cachet of "Chancellery Field HQ 1st Manchurian
Army", some cover faults and minor repairs, with 11.8.05 arrival (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1195 |
E |
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 1905 (12
Oct) registered cover from a Chinese firm in Ninguta, with "4th Reserve Field Post Office (e)" to Moscow, franked on back with pair of 7k blue, tied by the FPO cds, with corresponding Registry label on front, Moscow 4.11.05 arrival pmk, fine and rare
usage from NINGUTA (present-day Ning'an) (Image)
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SOLD for $240.00
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| 1196 |
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 1905 (18
May) picture postcard to Moscow, Head Fieldpost Harbin departure pmk, showing an elaborate cachet of "Vereinslazareth der Deutschen Vereine von Roten Kreuz" in red, endorsed "From Active Army" at top, with Moscow arrival pmk, fine example of this
rare German Red Cross cachet on mail from Manchuria (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1197 |
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 1905 (21
Feb) large part of a registered parcel card from Bendin (today Bedzin, Poland) to a soldier (Roniewski) with Active Army East Siberia Reserve Harbin City, Kwangchentze (FPO 14), card redirected several times, with Main Field Post Office arrival and
finally sent back to Bendin and Sosnowice, with corresponding transit and arrival markings nine months later (17 Nov), fine and impressive item (Image)
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SOLD for $450.00
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| 1198 |
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 1906 (28
Dec) Japanese picture postcard to Moscow with a large "Head Field Post Office (a)" negative seal cachet, arrival pmk alongside, fine post-war usage from a large military unit in Manchuria. Also included a block of 20x4k red (vertically laid paper),
with 3.10.06 Head Field Post Office cds (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1199 |
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 Prisoner
of War Mail. 1904 Money letter for 5 Yen, sent by Russian prisoner (Chelepakhin) held at Matsuyama POW camp to a Japanese newspaper in Yokohama, violet handstamps and oval Japanese censor, also "Service des Prisonniers de Guerre" in violet, with
Matsuyama cds and bilingual Yokohama markings on back, fine and exceptional internal usage by a Russian POW in Japan (Image)
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SOLD for $230.00
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| 1200 |
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 Prisoner
of War Mail. 1905 (8 Aug) registered Money Letter from Jacob Bapsan, Chaplynka (Ukraine) to "St. Petersburg Central Information Bureau of Prisoners of War", endorsed "Money, Ten Rubles", repeated in red crayon, with further endorsement "16 Aug"
and "E.Kulin", franked on back with 1k, 3k and 20k Arms, with St. Petersburg arrival markings and five intact wax seals. Also "1-5 Sept 1905" handstamp and endorsed "Ispolneno" (done), probably an indication that a Money Order was prepared to be
sent to Prisoner of War E.Kulin in a Japanese POW camp. An unusual money letter sent from Ukraine to St. Peterburg, from where it should have been converted into Austrian currency and sent by money order to the Japanese information office and from
there to the prisoner at the POW camp (Image) (image 1200a)
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SOLD for $450.00
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