Description
comprising fifty-eight black and white and coloured postcards of China and a photograph of A. Mills, the former collector of the postcards, most of the postcards with captions such as 'Country Club, Shanghai' & 'Ming Tombs, Nanking', both by Denniston and Sullivan, and "Mohamedan and Chinese Temples, Singapore', each postcard with dedication to Miss Jane Drummond MacDonald by Mr Mills on the reverse, most of the postcards with an original postage stamp from Hong Kong, the album cover inlaid in mother-of-pearl and ivory with a cockerel and a hen amongst flowering chrysanthemum, fitted Japanese wooden box
Dimensions
album 27.5cm high, 36cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
Sent by A. Mills (policeman in Hong Kong, whose portrait is on the second page of the album) to Jane Drummond MacDonald (1888-1950s) around 1908; thence by direct family descent.