Item #85546 British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]. Postcard Album.
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]
British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]

British Sailor on the HMS Suffolk in the Far East (China Station) and West Indies in the Late 1920s. [our title]

Hardcover. Approximately 275 postcards glued down, generally four to a page, on both sides of the album leaves. All of the cards are commercial and almost all have printed captions in English, Japanese, French or some combination of those languages. Most are black and white, some are color and a handful are blue tinted. There are several blank leaves at the end. Oblong Japanese lacquer-style album (35 x 26cm.) The album cover is in decent shape but the album leaves open a bit stiffly (probably because the backstrip was recently reglued). The HMS Suffolk was a county class heavy cruiser in Great Britain's Royal Navy which was commissioned in 1928 and spent her first 11 years on Britain's "China Station." The album includes (in this order) 4 postcards of the HMS Suffolk, 4 of Colombo (Sri Lanka), 4 of Singapore, 18 of Hong Kong, 8 of Shanghai, 198 of Japan, 25 of the West Indies, and 19 of France and Monaco. Almost all of the Hong Kong cards are in color, ten of which feature the Peak Tram and Peak related views. The Shanghai cards are real photo black and white views, three of which are captioned. The Japanese cards are a mixture of color and black and white -- they depict several locales including Inland Sea (8), Shimizu (12), Mt. Fuji (10), Kobe (30), Ritsurin Koen in Takamatsu (12), Beppu (26), Japan with the Duke of Gloucester in 1929 (9 plus a free tram ride ticket), Tokyo (66), and 1923 earthquake damage in Yokohama and Tokyo (18). The West Indies cards depict Grenada (6 black & white) and Trinidad (19 -- all but a couple in color). The French cards are black and white and are of mostly coastal scenes in Cannes, Nice, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Beaulieu, Monte-Carlo, Antibes, and Menton. Good. Item #85546

Price: $375.00

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