Lot 20388 – DEMOBILISATION: 1909 7k Stationery envelope uprate

DEMOBILISATION: 1909 7k Stationery envelope uprated 14k to make registered rate, addressed to a soldier in the 242nd BELEBEY REGIMENT at HARBIN, Manchuria, from a peasant in the NIKOLSK district of Vologda Guberniya. Abbreviated cancellation (dated12 1 09) and label read: SHONGSKO-NIKOLAEVSKOE, VOLOGDA/VOLOST (=village group) ADMINISTRATION. Received Harbin 29 1 09 where cachet applied on reverse stating that the item is being redirected to Orenburg, central Russia, where regiment has been posted pending demobilisation. Bottom left corner of envelope missing.