1917 Red band cover to PEKING, 10k stamp cancelled URGA Type 7B, reading URGA IN MONGOLIA 'v' 28 1 17. Censored at VLADIVOSTOK (Speekaert Type 7). Arrived PEKING 2 Feb 1917.

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1917 (28 Jan) Red band cover to PEKING, 10k stamp cancelled URGA Type 7B, reading URGA IN MONGOLIA 'v' 28 1 17. Censored at VLADIVOSTOK (Speekaert Type 7). Arrived PEKING 2 Feb 1917. The roundabout route from Urga to Peking, via the Trans-Siberian and Chinese Eastern Railways, was the avoid the bandit-infested region of the Gobi Desert.

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Auction 45

June 16 - 27, 2025

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Zemstvo, the Empire with Wenden and charity letter sheets, offices abroad, Civil War, Soviet and Tannu Tuva rarities, Ukrainian tridents of 1918 and DP camps. Germany from the Empire to the Reich, WWI and WWII occupations, legions, field post, propaganda and the world complete the sale.

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