The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)
Sale 346
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showing Military Soldiers, Saving injuries, War Scenes and Dead Bodies, etc. A nice group.
showing Military Soldiers, Ruins and War Scenes, including Hsin Hai Revolurion and Japanese Invasion in China. A nice group.
including Allied officers with Qing officials, Tientsin parades (e.g., “Fête du 14 Juillet, Tientsin”), German and Russian detachments, naval gatherings, and a hand-tinted mounted-officers view; several postally used.
including Chinese Navy vessels Yung Hsiang (永翔) and Haiqi (海圻), each with printed ship data cards; plus three views of Chinese warships at sea and four invasing China European naval postcards including S.M.S. Kaiserin Augusta. One card annotated “Belfast, Shanghai, China, Oct. 23rd 1945.”
two used and other all unused. VF-F.
depicting British Naval Light Battery units during the January–April 1932 Shanghai Incident. Scenes include gun crews in position (“All Ready,” “Loading Up,” “Behind the Guns”), observation posts, burning buildings, artillery operations, and group portraits of officers and staff. Each card captioned in manuscript with detailed identifications. An important visual record of British involvement and foreign defense forces in Shanghai during the early stage of the Sino-Japanese conflict.
including portraits of missionaries William and Lina Englund in Lantien, She, China; Boxer Rebellion and German military-themed cards such as “Kämpfender deutscher Krieger in China,” the 1900 Prince Heinrich commemorative issue, and views of Tsingtau. Several cards bear printed inscriptions or publisher imprints from Berlin and Hamburg.
Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in China during the Boxer Rebellion, 1900–1902, comprising portrait and commemorative issues published in Berlin and Leipzig, showing Waldersee in uniform or studio settings, some inscribed “General-Feldmarschall Graf Waldersee, Oberbefehlshaber der verbündeten Truppen in China.” Six of them postally used.
including early chromolithographed cards depicting “Types d’Enfants Étrangers,” Western caricatures of East Asian costume figures, a Chinese imperial family portrait, and a composite design showing Qing dynasty stamps and motifs. Several postally used examples bear French and German addresses with period cancellations.
including German/French caricatures (e.g., “Germanisierung Chinas,” allied punishment scenes); some postally used.
including views of the German leasehold Kiautschou Bay and Tsingtau, warships of the East Asia Squadron, naval maneuvers, and patriotic commemoratives featuring the German flag and officers. Several addressed and postally used to Europe, showing markings from Tsingtau and other treaty ports.
including German, French, and Russian issues depicting naval forces at Taku, street fighting in Peking, and troop movements. Notable examples include S.M.Y. Hohenzollern – Return of Victorious Troops, Die Panzerdivision in Sicht von Taku, and Combat de Chang-Kia-Wan. Several postally used.