Lot 10133 – 1905 Stampless military cover to St Petersburg han

1905 Stampless military cover to St Petersburg handstamped free-frank seal of RUSSO-DUTCH MEDICAL SQUAD , endorsed FROM THE ACTIVE ARMY, cancelled oval HARBIN-PORT ARTHUR T.P.O. (Line 265) (serial ‘a’), fine Note: this canceller probably remained in use until the end of the Russo-Japanese War (September 1905), though the capture of Port Arthur by the Japanese in December 1904 had made it impossible for the Line to extend to this terminus