Lot 20204 – 1905 Decorative Chinese cover to Moscow with circu

1905 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 29 1 1905. F.P.O. 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 armies retreated to the north and F.P.O. No. 27 moved to Koukiatien (Gouotszydyan).