Lot 20221 – Chinese 1c stationery card uprated Russian 10k add

Chinese 1c stationery card uprated Russian 10k addressed to Paris by French national stationed at TIEHLING, Manchuria, cancelled in blue: No. 10 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 23 II 1905. Black script cachet alongside: SEAL OF CENSORSHIP DIVISION GENERAL HEADQUARTERS MANCHURIA. Message indicates that writer was not troubled by the war. A week later Tiehling was put to the torch and abandoned by the Russians in the face of the Japanese advance.