Lot 20241 – 1905 Registered cover to Germany franked 4k block

1905 Registered cover to Germany franked 4k block of 4 plus single to make 20k rate, tied FIELD POST OFFICE/2/HQ 3rd MANCHURIAN ARMY 2 IV 1905, Cassel arrival 10 5 05 (27 6 05 O.S.), encircled ‘R’ for registration and handwritten ‘N 627’. Passed to GHQ which applied its cds HEADQUARTERS/FIELD POST OFFICE 4 4 05 on reverse and censor handstamp on front, reading: STAMP OF THE CENSORSHIP SECTION OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S HEADQUARTERS After the fall of Mukden to the Japanese, the GHQ of the Russian Manchurian Armies moved to KUOKIATIEN STATION, on Line 265-266 of the Chinese Eastern railway. HQ of the 3rd Army was then located one station to the south, at SZEPINGKIA.