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Tsingtau, Bismark Fort after war
Unused, aging card with pale brown caption on bottom front. A little online research is probably in order unless you know about this already. The photo is clear but it’s hard to make out just what happened. Grade: 2

Code: 20307085
Price: $6.00
Manchurian Customs
Bird cage? We’re not experts on Manchurian customs, alas. Nice, unused card with corner album indents visible on reverse but not on the front. Grade: 2

Code: 20307086
Price: $7.00
The Palanquin of Chinese
An iconic view on this unused, aged card, showing album indents on the corners but otherwise undamaged. Grade: 2

Code: 20307087
Price: $6.00
Shanghai, harbour
The caption calling Shanghai “the most busiest international harbour in Orient” may not be strictly true now, but anyone who has seen the city in the past few years cannot dispute that it is “the most” in many ways. Unused card, superb condition. Grade: 1

Code: 20307088
Price: $29.00
Different Coiffures and Costume of Chinese and Manchurian Ladies
Unused card, printed in Germany, and in superb condition. Let’s deviate from our standard description and say this card would be a terrific gift for a professor, or for a high-end hair styling salon, or for a fashion designer. Trust us. Grade: 1

Code: 20307089
Price: $9.00
Nankou Pass
Unused card from Germany, album indents on corners. On the lower left front corner there is a white area and we honestly can’t tell whether that is just a rock sticking into the picture, or what. It doesn’t seem like an abrasion on the card but we are not 100% certain, so we’ve downgraded the card. Grade: 3

Code: 20307090
Price: $6.00
Peking, Travelling chair
Peking is nowhere to be seen in this countryside view of the Chinese equivalent of a covered wagon. The card is unused and was printed in Germany. The right and left edges are abraded to suggest they were roughly cut from a strip, but we weren’t there when that happened; there are also minor album indents on reverse corners. A lovely card overall. Grade: 1

Code: 20307091
Price: $9.00
Chinese Children in the Country
Unused card #222 from Universal Postcard and Picture Co. of Shanghai. Despite minor edge abrasions, it’s another great entry in this series. Grade: 2

Code: 20307092
Price: $8.00
Graves in China
Superb unused card 209 from Universal Postcard & Picture Co. in Shanghai. Yes it’s a bit dark, but then so is the theme. Definitely a specialty card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307093
Price: $11.00
Shanghai, The Bund
The thought that anywhere in today’s Shanghai could look like this is unimaginable–or that it ever did. Unused Universal Postcard & Picture Co. card 301, photo by Lai Chong Photo Co., aging but how great would this card be for anyone with China connections. Grade: 2

Code: 20307094
Price: $34.00
Chinese cart
We like cards like this, on many levels, not the least because it takes dozens of Japanese characters (on a card of China) to say what two words in English communicate. On the back of this unused card, the phrase “Post Card” appears in 13 languages, not all of which we recognise. And one layer of the card is beginning to separate from another layer, on one corner, but this doesn’t affect the photo. Whew. Grade: 2

Code: 20307096
Price: $7.00
A Junk on the Yalu
It’s impossible now to know what this unused card would have looked like when it was new, though clearly a bit of colour would have helped. However it is still special in its own way, as it was issued by the South Manchuria Railway Company of Dairen and is not damaged. Grade: 2

Code: 20307097
Price: $9.00
Manchuria, High-Heel Dance
We like it that the caption writer says this is an “actual view” because we hate to think this pose was done just for the card! What a jovial group it is, too. Terrific card, mailed, with its 1-1/2 sen stamp and fully legible postmark and message written in Japanese. Some latent creasing but a wonderful ethnographic addition to your collection. Grade: 2

Code: 20307098
Price: $12.00
Manchoukuo, view of primitive omnibus
Unused card by Taisho, with album indents on the corners but not too serious. Actually that omnibus doesn’t look too primitive at all–only a little cozy if there’s more than one passenger. Grade: 2

Code: 20307099
Price: $7.00
Shanghai, Bird’s Eye View from the Bund
This Universal Postcard & Picture Co. card 267 was never mailed and so it is absolutely perfect for substantial framing and hopefully relocation back to a first-class Shanghai hotel or office–or your own home. Grade: 2

Code: 20307100
Price: $49.00
Port Arthur (Manchuria), alm gum boat at dock
Unused card, album indent marks on corners, otherwise clean and nice. Made by Tokyo Design Printing Co, Kanda Tokyo, which probably by great coincidence is where we obtained this card many years ago. Grade: 2

Code: 20307101
Price: $8.00
Ryojun (Port Arthur, Lushun) interview place
The caption, which may be too tiny for the scan, says: “The spot where General Nogi interviewed General Stoesslor, Suishiei, Ryojun.” The only way we could find in Google to learn anything about this was to enter “Suishiei” because there were so many different spellings of Stoesslor, and sure enough, the meeting was in 1904 at this location near Dalian at the time of the Russo-Japanese war. Japanese general Nogi Maresuke and Russian general Anatoly Mikhailovich Stessel (Stoesslor?) agreed on a cease-fire in that house, which was owned by a doctor. Apparently the agreement was signed on the operating table. The card came later, of course. Grade: 2

Code: 20307102
Price: $5.00
Ryojun (Port Arthur), Monument for dead members of Third Blockade Expedition
Another unused card from the Russo-Japanese War group. We won’t attempt to explain this one. Grade: 2

Code: 20307103
Price: $6.00
Shanghai, the money changer
The strange thing about this unused card is that it looks like a cheap reproduction of an original photo–but it’s not, it’s really the original, in B&W and on a flimsy paper stock. Still, the photo is great, with lots of advertising signs, as you can see. Album indents on reverse corners. A Taisho card. Grade: 1

Code: 20307104
Price: $24.50
Dairen, Erectric Park
It does sometimes occur that Japanese persons (who produced this old card) mix up the letters R and L when speaking or writing. That has happened here, with unintentionally ironic and funny consequence. You figure it out!! Unused card, some crunching on the lower right corner. Grade: 2

Code: 20307105
Price: $29.50
Great City Shanghai
Another unused Yamadashi card, printed by Kaigakenkyukai, calling Shanghai the “most busiest international harbour in Orient.” Clear blue skies and no traffic! Album indents on reverse corners, and minor edge abrasions. Grade: 2

Code: 20307106
Price: $34.00
Shanghai, view of Bund
Affordable and unused old B&W card. It is unattributed, and has shadowy album indents on reverse corners. Grade: 1

Code: 20307107
Price: $19.00
Nanking, Flourishing Taiping Road, Japanese section
Strange, it almost looks like parts of New York City in the same era. Well, except for the rickshaws. Unused card, heavily aged and atmospheric. Grade: 2

Code: 20307109
Price: $9.00
Amusing Room of Cooly, Fushun Colliery
Just a little bit lost in translation on this vintage China postcard, but we get the idea. Unused and the picture is nicely clear. Grade: 1

Code: 20307110
Price: $12.00
Shanghai, Yung-an Kungsuu department store
In Hong Kong, at least, this company is known as Wing On (if it’s the same, and we think so), the largest local department store. The card is unused and appropriately aged. Grade: 2

Code: 20307111
Price: $12.00
Joyful farmers in melon field
You may compare this with our earlier card having the same picture but produced by a different company and in a completely different way. This one is more the real-photo, unused, but with some pencil abrasion on the front. Grade: 3

Code: 20307112
Price: $6.00
Harbin, Kitaiskaya Street
This unused card either started out purple of turned that way over time. It is captioned bilingually in Russian and Japanese only, but we know this to be Kitaiskaya Street, now Zhong Yang Street (Central Street), one of the main business streets in the city. Harbin’s rich mix of international influences suggest this view could have been almost anywhere in the world. Grade: 2

Code: 20307113
Price: $11.00
Kungchuling and Kaiyuan, soya beans
Heavily aged two-views-for-one card issued by the South Manchuria Railway Co. of Dairen. It’s unused, and because the stock paper is quite rigid, each of the corners is bumped a little bit. If you are into soya beans and railroads, this card should definitely be on your list. Grade: 3

Code: 20307114
Price: $9.00
Port Arthur, Refloated blockader
Another unused Russo-Japanese War card, another battle aftermath. Grade: 2

Code: 20307115
Price: $6.00
Nanking, city view
Nanking and its river, with English identification on the reverse. Unused vintage Chinese postcard. Grade: 3

Code: 20307117
Price: $9.00
Great Wall
Unused 1970s card from Peking Publishing House. One side note: not only can’t you see the Wall from outer space, you can’t see it from many airplanes either. That doesn’t make it any less magnificent, though. Grade: 2

Code: 20307119
Price: $2.00
The Curiosity Shop
This card was mailed, has its stamp and full postmark. We’re not sure whether the postmark’s 6.11.20 means it was sent in the 20th year of the Japanese Emporer’s reign, or in 1920, but if you’ve read this far, we know it’s something you will know. There is a full message, and address, in Japanese. Grade: 1

Code: 20307120
Price: $12.00
Dokugunno Giho
We’re thinking the Japanese caption reveals some secrets because the western one tells us nothing. Google has no entries for Dokugunno, and if you enter Giho you get something with a totally different direction. (Try it and see!) The card is unused and very heavily aged, but undamaged and unquestionably a curiosity. Grade: 3

Code: 20307121
Price: $11.00
Shanghai, Hongkew Market
Unused card issued by Toyo Murakami Art and Curios, Palace Hotel Building, Shanghai. The sepia tone adds glamour to the congested and busy market scene. Album indents on corners are noticeable. Grade: 3

Code: 20307122
Price: $12.00
Shenzhen, golf course
Unused card from Guangdong Travel and Tourism Press in early 2000s or thereabouts. Grade: 1

Code: 20307123
Price: $2.00
Yinchuan, Imperial Tombs of Xixia
Published by Foreign Languages Press in Beijing, in the 1980s or earlier, this card was mailed from Beijing in 1991, and has three stamps, two of which are magnificently large and scenic; two full postmarks; and a bilingual red par avion chop as well. This card would be a prize for your collection. Grade: 2

Code: 20307124
Price: $9.00
Sampan
We know it’s a sampan, and someone long aso also wrote “sampan” in Japanese on the back of this otherwise uncaptioned real-photo card. It doesn’t indicate that the setting is China but we believe that to be the case. Grade: 2

Code: 20307125
Price: $5.00
Bound feet (photograph)
This is not a postcard. It’s an original photo, 3″ x 4-3/8″, of a close-up of a woman’s bound feet. Her face can be seen blurred in the background. It’s been in an album, and on the reverse is a fading round blue “chop” dated either 1911 or the 11th year of the Japanese Emperor’s reign, we’re not sure which. And no, we’re not even certain if this photo was taken in PRC or in Hong Kong. Ungraded.

Code: 20307126
Price: $59.00
Old book
Another card made mysterious to us because we don’t know the languages. The card itself is very heavily aged, but unused. Grade: 3

Code: 20307127
Price: $4.00
Japanese club in Chinese garden
We need to verify where this is, and would change this description if we ever found out, which now seems unlikely. Meanwhile, it’s an unused card. Grade: 2

Code: 20307128
Price: $2.00

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