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Oh, thanks for the byline on ebay, and good luck with the auction!

By the way, after looking at the actual photo of the engraving, and doing a few minutes of Googling, I can say with confidence...

P.S. That map in my previous post is from the wikipedia article on the Russo-Japanese War, and the reddish areas represent what was historically "Manchuria."

The Trans-Siberian Railroad passed...

One can't rule out the possibility that the names on the cup belonged to Japanese war veterans, but to me it seems just as likely that they were members of Vladivostok's civilian Japanese community. ...

Actually, this isn't true.

У китайцев привычно есть трепанг ИМЕННО ПОТОМУ, ЧТО он похож на большой ху фаллос. Значит, по принципу "симпатической магии", он считается полезно для мужского...

Well, think of it from the point-of-view of a foreign tourist (or in this case, a long-term resident foreigner who was getting ready to pack up and leave because the Communists had taken over).
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Here's an odd fact I learned from reading about Vladivostok on wikipedia. The territory has only belonged to Russia since 1860, and prior to that it was Chinese-controlled for centuries. And the...

It's probably just the date on which the engraving was done -- Vladivostok itself was in a long period of "transition" all through the 1920s, but nothing really major happened in November 1926.
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