Chinese Postcards (1 results)

No Binding. Condition: Good. The collection comprises: (1/9) 9 postcard size photographs of Chefoo: The City Market; The Joss of Bamboo Temple; The Cocoon Culling factory; The Peanut Culling factory; The joss of Yu Harang Temple;The Che ta Road & The Temple Hill; Sze Nan Ho; American China Monument Temple Hill; (10/30) 21 postcards of Soochow, 17 of which are numbered as follows: 5. Panorama of Tiger Hill; 8."Lion Forest" a private garden; 11. Buddhist Idols in Si Yuan Temple; 13. Strone Tablets in Han Shan Temple; 14. Scenery inside the Liu Yuan Garden; 16-18. Double Pagodas Temple; Shang Fan Shun Hill; 23-25 Tsao Shih Bridge Heng-t'ang; Panorama of the whole city; Kao Yi Garden, Tien P'ing Hill; 27. Yuan Miao Kuan Temple; 30 Wu Lung Bridge; 32-35. Old Bell in Han Shan &Tiger Hill Temples; Kanuntei in Liu Yuan; Yin Ch'un Bridge, Shih Hu Lake; the 4 unnumbered cards include the the Pagoda on Tiger Hill; Beam less Monastery; Han Shan-sez Ancient Temple; His Yuan Buddhist Monastery; (31/39) 10 real photographic postcards of Shanghai, the first 4 are captioned as follows: Willow Tea House Native City; Chinese Bridol Chair; Incence burner and a priest at the temple; Lungh Wha Pagoda; the 6 uncaptioned cards include 3 of temples, one interior and two exterior; another depicts an image of a two storey corner building with balconies & lots of people & rickshaws on street below; the last two Shanghai images are of what looks like a tent withbaskets outside and a bare footed woman with her child on her back; (40/44) 4 Hong Kong RP cards: two different views of the Peak; Hong Kong Harbour and Victoria City from the Peak & Illuminations - Hong Kong at night from the sea. The final postcard in the collection is a coloured one of Rue De France, French Concession, Tientsin. Postally unused. The Soochow cards are made in Japan and the last one in China and the country of origin of the rest is not indicated.