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Siberia

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1341

1918 (22 Oct) cover (partly opened for display) from Vladivostok to Nikolsk-Ussuryjsk, franked with single 35k Imperial Arms, with "Opened by Censor" seal at left, unusual use of the Allied censor tape in inland Siberian cover (two days after this cover was sent, "White" general Ivanov-Rinov assumed control of Vladivostok) (Image)

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1342

1920 group of four parcel cards used from Sannikovskoe Akmol., Kutulinsk, Kainsk Gorod and Usole Irkutsk, each properly franked with a combination of RSFSR and Kolchak surcharges (used by the victorious Red Forces as "Trophy Stamps"), with detailed write-up, parcel labels and arrival markings, fine and scarce (Image)

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1343

1920 (28 Apr) registered cover from the Danish Royal Legation in Vladivostok to its counterpart in Washington, franked with two imperf. pairs of 1r Imperial Arms, tied by cds, with boxed three-line Vladivostok Censor cachet, Registry label and additional "Registered" handstamps, with arrival pmk on back (Image)

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Siberia Kolchak government

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1344

1919 (14 Nov) YMCA bilingual POW free frank card sent to Vienna, with oval Vladivostok Railway Station departure pmk, four-line Vladivostok Censor No.7 cachet, interesting text (the writer comments that he was transferred from Krasnoyarsk in August, presumably as the Red Army was advancing eastward, now is eating well and getting paid as a barber to the General Staff), unusual dispatch from an Austrian POW (Image)

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1345

1919 (21 June) cover from Vladivostok to USA, paying the correct Kolchak rate for a foreign letter, with pair of 10k and 50k Imperial arms, tied by cds, with boxed Vladivostok No.11 censor cachet, fine commercial cover from "Bryner & Co." whose owner was the father of Yuliy Borisovitch Bryner (born July 11, 1920 in Vladivostok. He later changed his name to Yul Brynner, best known for his "The King and I", "Magnificent Seven", etc.) (Image)

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1346

1919 (15 Nov) cover franked on both sides with two each 15k, 25k and 50k, plus single 20k paying the correct 2r rate from Achinsk, addressed to the Welfare Committee for Prisoners of War in New York, Vladivostok censor hs, opened and resealed, fine usage from Achinsk, just west of Krasnoyarsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway (Image)

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1347

1919 (25 Dec) registered cover franked on back with imperforate strip of 4x1r, paying correct postage (2r postage and 2r registry fee), sent from Vladivostok to George Kestlin at Russian Bank for Foreign Trade in Paris, with rare internal style Vladivostok (city) registry label "Vladivostok I Gor.Primorskoi Obl" and boxed censor cachet of Censor No.12, cover forwarded to London, with 31 Jan 1920 arrival, signed Mikulski (Image) (image 1347a)

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1348

1919 (16 Aug) registered cover from Kansk, franked on back with imperf. 1r and perforated block of 4x10k/7k paying old rate 70k postage and 70k for registration, addressed to YMCA in Bern, Switzerland, boxed rectangle cachet of the Vladivostok censor, scarce "Kansk Yenisseisk Prov." registry label, with Bern arrival Oct.13 on back, fine (Image) (image 1348a)

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1349

1919 (21 Aug) registered cover from Vladivostok, colorfully franked with 10 different 1k-1r values, paying 3.05r second weight letter rate (overpaying by 5k), sent from the Swedish Consulate to the Swedish legation in Tokyo, with full violet seal "Consulate de Suede a Vladivostok", two different Tokyo arrival pmks on back, boxed rectangle cachet of the Vladivostok censor on front, fine (Image) (image 1349a)

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1350

1919 (21 June) registered cover from Kansk (Yeniseysk prov), sent via Vladivostok to Switzerland, franked on back with pair of 15k, 10k/7k and 1r imperf. Imperial Arms, paying the correct 1.40r (70k postage and 70k Registry), addressed to the International Peace Bureau, depart for help for Prisoners of War, with San Francisco and New York transit, Bern arrival pmks on back, Vladivostok Military Censor No.6 and sealing tape, fine (Image) (image 1350a)

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1351

1919-1920 (Dec-Jan) collection of 17 commercial covers or cards from Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nikolsk-Ussuriysk, Blagoveshchensk to Austria (card written on Christmas eve by a free Austrian POW traveling on Irkutsk 241 Postal Wagon on the Trans-Siberian Railway, hoping to get to Nikolsk-Ussuriysk and home from there), commercial covers to USA, registered mail from Ufa to Moscow, others from Krasnoyarsk to London, censored card from a freed German POW, sent from Irkutsk to Berlin. Other destinations include Switzerland, Denmark, each cover with a detailed write-up with respect to rates, franking, registry labels, contents and censor markings. A fine group (Image) (image 1351a) (image 1351b) (image 1351c) (image 1351d) (image 1351e) (image 1351f)

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1352

1920 (17 Feb) Prisoner of War card from Alexandrovskoye Zab(aikal) franked with 50k and 25k Arms, paying internal rate to Harbin, Manchuria, addressed to the Swiss Red Cross, advising of the transport of 25 invalids from Krasnoyarsk to a concentration camp in Vladivostok, fine and interesting card (Image)

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Siberia Attaman Semenov Territory

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1353

1920 (2 June) Esperanto postal card from Chita Railway Station to Dundee, Scotland, written in Esperanto, paying 3r Semenov rate for a foreign postcard, with 10k, 50k and 70k on front and additional 10k (3), 20k, 35k (2) and 70k on back, all tied by oval "Vokzal" departure pmks, fine and rare usage from Semenov territory (Image)

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1354

1920 (3 June) registered cover (opened for display) from Olovyanoe (Zabaikal Obl) to USA, franked on back with two imperforate strips of 3x5r Imperial Arms, paying 30r(!), with 30 June arrival pmk, cover wear and slightly reduced, otherwise fine and quite rare. The letter was sent from Olovyannaya, a small town along the Chinese Eastern Railway (between China and Manchuli) (Image) (image 1354a)

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Siberia Priamur Provisional Government

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1355

1921 (19 Sep) registered cover from Vladivostok to New York, franked with imperf. 1r overprinted "Respublika" in red, tied by cds, with Registry label "Vladivostok Siber. Russie d'Asie" label, v.f. and unusual item. The "Respublika" overprint is obviously a private creation, a Civil War "Cinderella" stamp marking the wish to settle a White Russian autonomous republic in Vladivostok (Image)

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Transcaucasian Federated Republics

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1356

3,4,5

1923 (18 July) Money Order for 50,000,000 Rub, franked on both sides with a remarkable combination of 25k (12), 35k (5) and 50k overprinted with large Russian Star, tied by Agdash departure cds and sent to Shusha, with arrival pmks (30.7) on back, framed "Doplachen" (Added) and additional Transcaucasia Postmaster's handstamp at top, minor faults, fine and very rare franking on money order transmitting a large amount of cash (Cat No. 3,4,5) (Image) (image 1356a)