Description

Japan.- Three Postcard Albums, all with thick card leaves covered in silk hand-painted with birds, flowers and views, 2 with 70 inserted postcards of Japan (views, buildings, group studies of customs and ceremonies, and scenes of rice-planting & harvesting, tea processing etc.), the other empty, some spotting or staining to leaves, contemporary cloth-backed black lacquer with decorative upper covers, one with eagle formed of inlaid pieces of carved bone and mother of pearl, one with figure of woman in a rickshaw, the last of a bird formed of inlaid pieces of mother of pearl, a little rubbed and marked, corners chipped, the last two rebacked, oblong 4to, [c.1900] (3)

Lot 105

Japan.- Three Postcard Albums, all with thick card leaves covered in silk hand-painted with birds, flowers and views, black lacquer covers, some inlaid, oblong 4to, 1900.  

Hammer Price: £350

Description

Japan.- Three Postcard Albums, all with thick card leaves covered in silk hand-painted with birds, flowers and views, 2 with 70 inserted postcards of Japan (views, buildings, group studies of customs and ceremonies, and scenes of rice-planting & harvesting, tea processing etc.), the other empty, some spotting or staining to leaves, contemporary cloth-backed black lacquer with decorative upper covers, one with eagle formed of inlaid pieces of carved bone and mother of pearl, one with figure of woman in a rickshaw, the last of a bird formed of inlaid pieces of mother of pearl, a little rubbed and marked, corners chipped, the last two rebacked, oblong 4to, [c.1900] (3)

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