Rare Stamps & Postal History of the World

1905 (11 May) registered picture postcard (Harbin railway station boulevard) from the head fieldpost office in Harbin to Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, then forwarded to Assinie, franked with 20k carmine & blue, tied by "Glavn. Polev. Pocht. Kont." postmark, repeated below, with corresponding Registry label in Cyrillic, violet censor cachet of the Manchurian Army headquarters, Funchal, Madeira and Grand-Bassam and Assinie, Ivory Coast arrival pmks, fine registered usage of a ppc to uncommon destination
Estimate: $250