Autumn Auction

1901 Viewcard written from 'Taku Fort, China, Pechili Province' to village of Ordynskoe, Tomsk Guberniya, Siberia, franked 4k cancelled No. 18 FIELD POST OFFICE/1/PRIAMUR DISTRICT 21 V 1901, transit Port Arthur.
The Taku Forts, controlling the Gulf of Pe-chi-li, were captured by the Allied Forces on 17June 1900 in the most decisive engagement of the Boxer campaign, a Russian Field P.O. was opened there in October 1900.
A rarity as this is is the only known commercial entire from the Russian Field P.O. in China proper, establishing the location of F.P.O. No. 18 at Taku