1900 - Lot 10

Lot n° 10
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1900 - Lot 10
1900 [TONKIN—PORTRAITS, EVERYDAY SCENES, AND LANDSCAPES] A collection of approximately 350 postcards. Collections of P. Dieulefils (Hanoi), R. Moreau & 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 kedillot, young cigar makers, sand carriers), family scenes. Market scenes, sculptors, street musicians and singers, actors, scenes from the countryside. Landscapes, Halong Bay, sailboats, streams and rivers, the Silver Waterfall, a Tonkinese idyll, pagodas... Some color postcards feature reproductions of paintings by André JOYEUX (1871–1929) and Gustave Martinien SALGE (1878–1946). The collection includes color postcards from the 1950s. (Some postcards show signs of travel.) Included are: - An album of 30 detachable postcards titled “Souvenir de Chapa, Tonkin,” featuring the region’s most beautiful sites: waterfalls and rice paddies in the Muong-Xen Valley, Villa Tocco, and the Villa of the Superior Residence...
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