Lot 10010 – TIENTSIN: 1905 Cover sent registered to Germany fr

TIENTSIN: 1905 Cover sent registered to Germany franked on the reverse with « KITAI » 20k tied by Tientsin 23.3.05 cds (Tchilinghirian type 5A), and franked on the obverse with War Charity 10k and 3k that were ignored by the P.O. as a philatelic embellishment, with the 10k tied only by the encircled « dotted R » hs, registered label adjacent, Troitskosavsk transit indicating that it was not sent by the Trans-Siberian railway via Manchuria (as it was closed during the Russo-Japanese War), very unusual. Note: The War Charity issue was not distributed to the P.O.s in China.