Lot 20162 – 1904 Chinese red-band cover to Warsaw endorsed “Fr

1904 Chinese red-band cover to Warsaw endorsed “From the Active Manchurian Army” with circular datestamp: 3 FIELD CONTROL STATION/TELEGRAPH 14 12 04. On reverse free-frank intaglio cachet of FIELD POST OFFICE No. 22 and Warsaw arrival 12 1 05. The military cachet ties this cover to Tiehling, where F.P.O. No. 22 is believed to have moved in October 1904, and suggests that the Field Telegraph Control Station there was numbered ‘3’. First item of mail identified from a Russian Field Telegraph Control Station.