Lot 342
Japanese lacquer photograph album
Naval Operations in China and Japan, 1930s-40s
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST
£475
Description
The album entitled "China and Japan via Suez" containing 161 photographs showing ships, sailors and naval personnel, the people of China and Japan and daily life, and a selection of postcards of Japan, held in a contemporary lacquer album showing a Japanese scene with Mount Fuji and a painted mother-of-pearl woman being carried in a foot-drawn-carriage
Footnote
Provenance: George Edward Smith. The album is accompanied by Smith's Naval papers and 39 additional photographs showing life in the Navy from the late 1930s until the 1950s.