Lot 20285 – 1905 Pictorial envelope with Field Hospital motif
Lot 20285 – 1905 Pictorial envelope with Field Hospital motif
Russia » Russo-Japanese War
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Price realised
420 EUR
Estimate
500 EUR
Auction date
Tue 2 Dec 2014 at 11:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
1905 Pictorial envelope with Field Hospital motif produced in Kiev, sent as stampless soldiers’ mail to St Petersburg. Abbreviated endorsement translates: FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY. 120th INFANTRY (SEPUKHOV) REGIMENT. Cancelled GENERAL HEADQUARTERS FIELD POST OFFICE ‘b’ 19 6 05.
After the fall of Mukden, March 1905, the Russian G.H.Q. was transferred to KUOKIATIEN, a small station of the Chinese Eastern Railway south of Harbin in a section of the railway ceded to Japan after 1905. Auction
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