Postcards Ceylon (6 results)

Hard Cover 8vo. Condition: Good. All postcards are removable. Most are unposted.

Eight pictorial colour postcards, all captioned and numbered with the publisher's studio series, versos blank in two columns 8.8 x 13.8 cms (or portrait), in very good condition. Eight Plâté photographic postcards (the last four from their "Art series") : No. 13 A Tamil Lady in Rickshaw, Ceylon No. 18 Hindu Temple, Colombo, Ceylon No. 20 Mohammadan Mosque, Colombo, Ceylon No. 36 Temple Elephants after their bath, Kandy, Ceylon No. 43 A typical road scene, Ceylon No. 54 A Double Bullock Cart, Ceylon No. 82 Street Scene in Pettah, Colombo, Ceylon No. 105 Street Scene in the Pettah, showing Native Quarters, Colombo, Ceylon A. W. Plâté & Co. was a prominent photographic studio in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), founded in 1890 by Alfred William Amandus Plâté, a German-born apothecary. The Plâté firm was instrumental in popularizing photography on the island and quickly became renowned for its high-quality photographic postcards, capturing the island's landscapes, people, and daily life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1907, their annual postcard production reached half a million. ".Plâté provides an important testimony to the development of colonial Ceylon during a crucial period of many changes, and a substantive repository that provides a visual archive to support further historical research." [see Benita Stambler, "Maintaining the Photographic Legacy of Ceylon" on the University of Michigan's website].

Condition: Good. Eleven Postcards. 3.5" x 5.5". Black & White Photographs (one Color), blank on verso (save for one, signed with inked note in German). Very Good. Text in English, French & German.

Large 14 x 11 inches, black lacquered purpose made photograph album decorated with a hand drawn view of mount Fuji in red and gold with a rickshaw racing across the foreground with a lady seated inside. The head of the rickshaw driver and his passenger are carved in ivory or bone and inlayed. Inside the album each of the 12 pages and the endpapers are decorated with hand painted watercolour designs of birds and flowers or landscapes. The post cards are ethnographic, depicting people, tradesmen, events, and landscapes. A lovely album with interesting content.

Mixed set of 63 postcards (several of which are duplicates);-----45 blank unused cards, all undated, but all appearing to be approximately from the 1910s to 1940s:---Greece: 17 scenes depicting 10 different images, 1 black-and-white photograph, 13 in duotone, 3 in colour;---Brazil: 21 scenes depicting 19 different images, 10 black-and-white photographs, 5 in duotone, 5 in colour;---Cuba: 1 in colour;--- Egypt: 2 in colour;---Ceylon: 1 duotone without postage stamp, 3 in colour with "6 cents" stamps affixed to cards, not preprinted;---most of these are in Very Good to Fine condition, but several show minor traces of shelf wear to corners, still Good or better;-----18 cards addressed and with franked stamps: 1 from Argentina---6 from Ceylon (2 dated 1960, 1 in 1963)---7 from Brazil (1 with an American "One Cent" stamp franked in Chicago in 1910, 2 in ?1939, 1 with U.S. Army Postage in 1944, 1950, 2 in 1960)---2 from Fiji (1 with date unreadable but with a reference to 1950, the other 1972)---1 from Egypt dated 1962---1 from West Africa dated "14.VI.15" (presumably 1915, but sadly with the stamp removed and the franking stamp unreadable); most of these are in surprisingly Very Good condition despite their travels with only a few showing minor traces of shelf wear to corners;-----images include, in Brazil: Praia do Flamengo, Pão de Açúcar, Sugarloaf Mountain, Corcovado, Copacabana, Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador-Bahia; in Ceylon: Mount Lavinia Hotel, Peradeniya; Buenos Aires; Christiansborg, Gold Coast, Western Africa (Ghana); Cuva; Queen`s Hotel, Kandy; Salonique; Athens. See also our listings for Famous Mountains in China [commemorative souvenir book of 22nd UPU Congress, Beijing, 1999 [stamps, philately, Universal Postal Union], and for A Cidade da Beira (Moçambique): um ensaio historico-socialogico urbano anos 1880-1970 [History of Mozambique PLUS laid in several old related photographs and Carte Postale (Post Cards) (Portuguese Overseas Province, Africa)].

Condition: Very good condition. A set of b&w printed photographic postcards of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), postally unused and captioned in English, of daily life and vernacular architecture, and including tea production. The postcards include city views of Colombo (Queen Street; Harbour and Landing Jetty; Galle Face green) and Kandy (Queens Hotel; Temple of the Holy Tooth; views of the Lake) Scenes of daily life include: village huts, native vegetable & fruit stand, bullock carts, local Hindoo (sic) temple, railways, elephants, and Singhalese women. Postally unused, bright and clean.