15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 117
 

117

Album of Travel Postcards c.1930s-40s postcards from the Far East (Malay, Penang, Ceylon, Shanghai

Album of Travel Postcards
c.1930s-40s postcards from the Far East (Malay, Penang, Ceylon, Shanghai, Kobe and similar), and some of Northern Africa, Malta and Gibraltar. c.30 leaves, most with four postcards mounted recto and verso of tourist scenes, local people and industries, scenery and similar in Japanese black lacquer album with central decorative gilt image on upper board. Date in part derived from a postcard of the ANZAC memorial in Port Said. This was not finished until 1932 and destroyed in 1956 during Suez rioting.

Sold for £350
Estimated at £150 - £250


 

. Spine lacking from album, pages detached, some loose from main, pictures highly variable but generally clean with good contrast.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 15th Mar, 2019

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