Lot 20011 – 1901 Viewcard written from ‘Taku Fort, China, Pech

1901 Viewcard written from ‘Taku Fort, China, Pechili Province’ to village of Ordynskoe, Tomsk Guberniya, Siberia, franked 4k cancelled No. 18 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 21 V 1901, transit Port Arthur. The Taku Forts, controlling the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, were captured by the Allied Forces on 17June 1900 in the most decisive engagement of the Boxer campaign, a Russian Field P.O. was opened there in October 1900. A rarity as this is is the only known commercial entire from the Russian Field P.O. in China proper, establishing the location of F.P.O. No. 18 at Taku