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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 400 PICTURE POSTCARDS AND IMAGES OF BRITISH INDIA DEPICTING PEOPLE, ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE FROM CIRCA 1900-1930


Estimate: Rs 40,000-Rs 60,000 ( $560-$835 )


A collection of approximately 400 picture postcards and images of British India depicting people, architecture and landscape from circa 1900-1930


ALBUM 1: Blue plastic album with 203 unused black and white postcards, loosely inserted in plastic pockets 8 to a sheet. About 60 of these on Bombay.
33 x 28.5 cm

ALBUM 2: String-bound album with 3.5 x 2.5 inch original black and white photographs and printed professionally taken black and white images pasted in the album, 4 to a page with tissue guards, with captions written in hand, mostly showing Bombay and Calcutta. 67 images in all. PLUS 49 images of Singapore and Hong Kong, some large. [non-Indian images not being counted in the lot]
19 x 27 cm

LOOSE POSTCARDS: 127 black and white and colour postcards, based on photographs as well as paintings, including Raphael Tuck’s Oilettes issues in their ‘Wide Wide World’ series, Mortimer Menpes paintings and others. A number of these showing occupations and street workers and other cityscapes.

NON-EXPORTABLE

This lot will be shipped in "as is" condition. For further details, please refer to the images of individual lots as reference for the condition of each book.