Lot 10090 – POGRANICHNAYA: 1908 3k Postal stationery card from

POGRANICHNAYA: 1908 3k Postal stationery card from a customs officer in Pogranichnaya to a colleague in Imperial Maritime Customs, CHINWANGTAO, readdressed to Tientsin, passed through Japanese P.O. SHANHAIKWAN (11.3) and Chinese P.O. Tientsin arrival (13.3), cancelled Pogranichnaya Casey Type I 22.2.08, also included is a picture postcard of the railway station at Pogranichnaya where customs inspection carried out, fine Note: Writer complains of being sent to Pogranichnaya, « a rotten place, full of Russian cossacks and bandits, the staff having to live in railway carriages and work in the cold in the open » The Pogranichnaya cancellation is not recorded in « Russia Used Abroad ». Illustrated B.J.R.P. 96/97 (2007) p.27