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1900 [TONKIN – PORTRAITS, EVERYDAY SCENES AND LANDSCAPES]
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10
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1900 [TONKIN – PORTRAITS, EVERYDAY SCENES AND LANDSCAPES]
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
1900
[TONKIN – PORTRAITS, EVERYDAY SCENES AND LANDSCAPES]
A collection of approximately 350 postcards.
Collections of P. Dieulefils (Hanoi), R. Moreau and Co. (Hanoi), V. Demange (Hanoi), P. Dufresne (Haiphong), V. Fauvel (Haiphong), Albert Porlail (Saigon), Fleury, Union Commerciale de l’Indochine.
Photographic portraits, female subjects (Congai women, Tho women, women drinking tea, others smoking Kédillot, young female cigar makers, sand-carriers), family scenes.
Market scenes, sculptors, street musicians and singers, actors, scenes from the countryside.
Landscapes, Ha Long Bay, sailing ships, torrents and rivers, the Silver Waterfall, a Tonkinese idyll, pagodas…
Some of the colour cards feature reproductions of paintings by André JOYEUX (1871–1929) and Gustave Martinien SALGE (1878–1946).
The collection also includes colour postcards from the 1950s.
(Some postcards show signs of travel).
Included are:
- An album of 30 detachable postcards entitled ‘Souvenir de Chapa, Tonkin’, featuring the region’s most beautiful sites: the waterfalls and rice fields of the Muong-Xen Valley, Villa Tocco, the Villa of the Superior Residence…
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