Lot# 5490
The 2026 June Auction - Sale 347 (June 20 - June 23, 2026) June 20 - June 23 2026, Hong Kong
Lot# 5490
Starting Price: 2,000 HK$
1901 Imperial 1st postal card uprated by Chinese adhesives totaling 7c, sent by a German national from Yinkow (Yingkou), Manchuria to Helsingfors, Finland during the Russian Occupation of Manchuria and processed through the Russian military postal system.
The card bears several important postal markings including the Yinkow / Field Telegraph Branch No.13 cancellation dated 10 July 1901, with transit and arrival markings at Harbin on 1 Aug 1901, St. Petersburg on 28 Aug 1901, and Helsingfors on the same day, clearly illustrating the mail route from Manchuria through Russia to Europe. The Russian Yingkow tax marking is an unrecorded type and the Harbin marking is also of an unrecorded type, giving the item notable postal history significance; well preserved with clear strikes, it represents an attractive and valuable example of Russian military postal operations in Manchuria and the transcontinental mail route to Europe.