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Russia » Ship Mail » Ship Mail in the Far East
Prix réalisé
240 EUR
Estimation
300 EUR
Date de vente
sam. 3 déc. 2016 at 11:00 (Europe/Zurich)
Description
SHIP MAIL ACROSS THE STRAIT OF POHAI: 1901 Envelope with missing backflap to Switzerland from a firm in Port Arthur, put on a ship crossing the Strait of Pohai, franked ‘Kitai’ 10k, cancelled on arrival at the RUSSIAN P.O. CHEFOO 17 3, framed PAQUEBOT in violet alongside. Transit marks of Russian and Chinese P.O.’s in Shanghai 20 3 01. The junior partner in this firm was Sidney (« Ace of Spies ») Reilly, a British Agent implicated in the attempted assassination of Lenin in 1918. He fled Russia with a price on his head and was sentenced to death in his absence by a Soviet military tribunal. Executed on return to Russia during the Stalin regime.

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