RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 1203 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1902 (31 Aug) a folding postcard with a panoramic view of Vladivostok, sent from Vladivostok to Tsingtau, China, postmarked "Postal Wagon No.265" (3.9.02, earliest recorded postmark from the Harbin to Port Arthur direction), Port Arthur transit and Chefoo arrival pmks; also included is a 1903 cover from Khabarovsk to Vladivostok, stationery of Enoch Emery, an American merchant with Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1209 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1911 (5 Aug) an illustrated Japanese envelope, franked with 10k Arms, sent from Vladivostok to Hamburg (by Chief Stoker Sandberg on the German light cruiser SMS Nurnberg, part of the German East Asia Squadron. The Nurnberg was sunk by the Royal Navy at the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914), minor cover creases and wear, otherwise fine Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1204 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1906 (1 July) folded panoramic view card of Vladivostok mailed on a Chinese Eastern Railway train and sent to France, franked with 1k and 3k Arms, tied by oval Vladivostok-Harbin pmks, with St. Die, Vosges arrival on back Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1210 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1914 (20 May) registered 7k stationery entire envelope additionally franked with 3k and pair of 10k Romanovs, sent from Vladivostok by Nikolai Vasilyevich Kuener to Oberhofen, Switzerland, with a domestic registration handstamp and an international registration label. Kuener was professor and chair of geography and history at the Oriental Institute in Vladivostok. The enclosed letter contains an extensive want list for Kuener's stamp collection, fine cover, with 16 June arrival pmk on back Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1205 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1907 (10 June) 3k stationery card uprated with 1k Arms, written on an eastbound Trans-Siberian Railway train "near Omsk". When the sender reached Vladivostok he posted it on the ship "Baltica" of the Russian East-Asiatic Steamship Co. which was sailing to Tsuruga, Japan. The card was then transported by rail to Yokohama and placed on a ship to Seattle. Postmarked "Paraxod Ob. R. V. A. P." and Yokohama (23 June), with framed "Paquebot" applied in Tsuruga (Hosking 3441 "very rare"). The sender was Samuel Vestey, whose family was one of the richest in England. The message reads in part, "My address will be British Post Office Hankow. These are the new Russian cards. I will try to get the whole set at Vladivostok but doubt whether they will have them there yet." Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1211 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1917 (8 Sep) cover franked with 5c U.S. regular issue, sent from Cleveland to YMCA secretary Donald Alexander Lowrie in Novo-Nikolayevsk, Siberia. The cover first traveled to Petrograd where it was censored on 26 October (the first day of Communist rule). It arrived in Novo-Nikolayevsk on 9 November and was forwarded back to Petrograd to the American Consulate. It was postmarked at the government and diplomatic mail delivery section of the Petrograd post office on 19 January 1918, and at the American Consulate on the same day (1 February new style). The handstamp "Unclaimed" was applied at the consulate (Lowrie provided aid to German and Austro-Hungarian POWs in the Tomsk area (including Novo-Nikolayevsk) from September 1916 until the United States entered the war in April 1917, when he became the General Secretary of the Odessa and Moscow YMCA branches) Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1206 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1908 (25 Sep) U.S. picture postcard from East Orange, New Jersey, via Tsuruga to the American Consul Lester Maynard in Vladivostok, with transit and arrival pmks. Maynard was consul in Vladivostok from 1908 to 1911 Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1201 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1897 (18 Aug) 4k stationery card sent from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to Schleswig, Germany by a sailor on the German cruiser SMS Arcona, part of the German East Asia Squadron, with arrival pmk Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1207 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1909 (14 July) picture postcard franked with 1k and 4k Arms, sent from Vladivostok to Dresden by sailor Karl Ernst Wilhelm Apelt on the German armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst, part of the German East Asia Squadron. In December 1914 she was sunk by the Royal Navy near the Falkland Islands. The Russian cruiser Askold can be seen (with five funnels) in the photo of Vladivostok harbor on the back of the postcard Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
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 Lot 1202 - RUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) - Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World1901 (12 Oct) picture postcard mailed from Vladivostok, via Nagasaki and Yokohama to New York. The message reads, "On the deck of Graf Ignatieff. Now I am on the steamer named G. Ignatieff and am near Blagoveshchensk. Wonderful to tell you that the Amoor River is going very sandy year after year, and so often our steamer lost its movement." The Graf Ignatiev transported passengers on the Amur River from 1894 until 1957 Cherrystone Auctions Rare Stamps & Postal History of the WorldRUSSIA Russia - Russian Far East (Asia Pacific Region) |
