U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 12-13, 2016

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Lot #1256
RUSSIA Ship Mail
1905 (8 June) picture postcard from a Doctor on a Volga ship, bearing "Parokhod /1/ Astrakhan-Kazan" cds, addressed to a Doctor Stasov, 1st Georgievski Hospital, Office of the Red Cross in Gunzhulin, hand endorsed in Cyrillic letters "To the Active Army at Army headquarters in Kung-chu-ling", with transit cancel "Head Field Post Office Rear of Manchurian Army 27.06.05" (serial "v"), also manuscript arrival "Tsu-Lu-Shin 17.07.05", fine and extraordinary usage during the Russo-Japanese War, ship mail to Manchuria (the Russian Army headquarters moved to Kung-chu-ling after their defeat at Mukden)
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