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.