Lot 20148 – 1904 Insured money-letter for 100 roubles sent by

1904 Insured money-letter for 100 roubles sent by Post-Telegraph clerk attached to FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS, stationed at village of NING-KUAN-TUN, addressed to Zvenigorod, near Moscow, charges of 39k paid by pair 2k and two pairs and single 7k, some pen-cancelled, others tied by FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS 20 11 04, ms annotation ‘815’ top left. Central wax seal reads around Imperial Eagle and posthorns: FIELD POST OFFICE 5th SIBERIAN CORPS/INSURED CORRESPONDENCE ‘b’. Ning-kuan-tun, on a tributary of the Sha-ho, 30km south of Mukden, was one of the villages used by the Russian 2nd Manchurian Army as winter quarters after the Japanese advance had been halted at the battle of the Sha-ho (5 – 17 October 1904).