Tag Archives: Japan

Antique Japanese Albumen Photos for sale

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2 Japanese Girls. Tinted Albumen Photo

We have added a new venue: Antique Japanese Photos. We will be adding some 100 related photos in the near future. They will include works by Raimund Freiherr Stillfried von Rathenitz, Adolfo Farsari, Felice Beato, Kusakabe Kimbei, Ogawa Kazumasa and others.

Antique Japan Photograph: Albumen photo, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners. The photo depicts two pretty, young Japanese girls in attractive Kimomo.

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Japan: Poster Style Postcard China Dept 1920ies

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Japanese Poster Style Postcard China Dept 1920s

 

Very decorative propaganda postcard from Japan, promoting a “China Revolution Dept – campaign”.

The postcard shows a Chinese boy and silhouettes of workers and soldiers.
Printed text in Japanese at the reverse.

Very fine condition.

More old Japanese Postcards: HERE

Old Japanese Albumen Photo: Bell of Kammakura. app. 1885

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Old Japan Albumen Photo, Bell of Kammakura. app. 1885

Old Japan: Large albumen photo, depicting the famous Bell of Kamakura. Antique Japanese albumen Photo, tinted, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners.

Size: 7.8 x 10,4 inches. Fine condition, app. 1885.

The bell from the Kamakura Hongaku-ji Temple, built in 1410, initially belonged to a temple from Chiba Prefecture, but one day, Nisshutsu, the chief priest from Hongaku-ji Temple, won a religious debate with the priests from Chiba and, as a prize, he received the bell.

More Japanese Albumen Photos at: HERE

collect.at Antiques and unique Collectibles Japanese Occupation in Malaysia. Registered Mail

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Japanese Occupation in Malaysia. Registered Mail: Great cover with 7 surcharged stamps Japanese Occupation in Malaysia.

2 x 50 Cents, 2 x 1 Dollar, 3 x 2 Dollars. Mixed franking with stamps from Straits Settlement, Selangore, Johore. Japanese Censor-mark at the back side.

Syonan – arrival strike. Clean and fresh, very fine condition, ready for display.

Japanese Occupation in Malaysia Registered Mail
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Japan: Ladies, personal Hygiene. Albumen Photo 1880. Stillfried

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Japan: Ladies, personal Hygiene. Albumen Photo 1880. Stillfried

Antique Japanese Photograph: 2 Japanese ladies, one cleaning her face, one puts her face on.

Albumen studio-photo, thin paper, fixed on paper with small glue spots at he corners.

5,2 x 3,4 inches, fine condition, app. 1885.
Photo by the Austrian Baron Raimund von Stillfried.

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Japanese Zeppelin Postcard from 1910 Embossed and Lithographed

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Embossed Japanese Zeppelin Postcard from 1910

old Japanese Zeppelin Postcard

 

Japan 1910: Lithographed, embossed vintage postcard with portraits of 3 highly decorated officers. Image of a Zeppelin airship beyond.

The postcard has been distributed in China, published in 43th year of Meiji era.

Unused, good condition.

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collect.at Antiques and unique Collectibles Postcard to Military Attaché in Tokyo, 1903

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Postcard to Military Attaché in Tokyo, 1903: “Vintage postcard sent to the Imperial & Royal Dragoon, Mr. Erwin Franz, at the Imperial Austrian-Hungarian Embassy in Tokyo.

In Japan a label has been attached “ Military Legate Austrian Hungarian Military Office “. 2 different Tokyo arrival marks. Fine condition, scarce.”

Postcard to Military Attaché in Tokyo
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