Russian-Japanese War: Decorative mocking postcard with Russian and Japanese boats, naval battle with Russian marines winning.
Used as postcard in 1904, Prague cancellation.
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Korean Water Post Sellers. Postcard with Ninsen Cancellation.
Old Korean postcard, depicting a seller of water pots. A huge wooden frame with huge water bowls on his back.
b/w postcard, bilingual text.
½ Sen stamp, tied by Ninsen (Chemulpo) Chosen 18. 7. 18 – cancellation.
Unused, fine condition.
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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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Old Korean postcard with view at a wing of the Imperial Palace in Seoul.
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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.
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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.
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Japanese vintage postcard 1910: Special Grand Military Manoeuvres. Embossed postcard with crane and 2 scenic images, silver stamp. Unused, fine condition
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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.
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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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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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