The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)
Sale 346
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showing mostly Swatow and nearby district views. A nice group. Please view.
including views of the Forbidden City, Coal Hill (Jingshan), Beihai, and the Summer Palace, mostly with French captions, several postally used to Europe bearing PEKING or TIENTSIN cancellations.
depicting notable architectural scenes in Beijing, including Chinese-style modern government and institutional buildings with tiled roofs and courtyards, together with street and landmark views such as the Beijing Railway Station clock tower, reflecting the city’s transition from Republican-era to early PRC urban modernity.
including Peking Street View, Flower Pagoda, Canton, Hillside Villas, Hong Kong, and Shanghai Market, each with notes on local life and trade, together with views of the Temple of Heaven, Boxer Rebellion scenes, and portraits titled Emperor of China and Empress of China.
featuring European and American fashion models, movie stars and beauty contestants, most with original press captions and agency stamps.
showing Chinese Ambassador to the United States Dr. Wei Tao-ming (left foreground) speaking with reporters at the U.S. State Department while awaiting official news of Japan’s surrender.
a press photograph showing Baron Gonsuki Hayashi, guardian to Prince Chichibu, the second son of the late Emperor of Japan. The image captures Hayashi’s arrival in New York aboard the S.S. Majestic en route to Japan to attend the Emperor’s funeral.
each bearing typed captions and U.S. Army Press Censor stamps. The first image shows Gen. Chen Ming-yun, Acting Commander of the Chinese 11th Army, addressing troops of the Chinese 1st Army at Panthay near Kunming. The second depicts a luncheon scene at the 11th Army Headquarters in Kunming, with Brig. Gen. Frank Dorn, Marshal Wei, and Maj. Gen. A.C. Wedemeyer.
a pair of vintage prints depicting early Chinese Air Force training and Tank moving scenes. One image shows a group of uniformed pilots posing in flight suits beside a biplane; the other captures Tank moving during maintenance or inspection. Likely taken during the Nanjing decade (c.1930s), when the Nationalist Government was actively developing its aviation program with foreign assistance.
a group of three international press photographs from 1929–1931 documenting figures and events in China’s foreign relations and exploration, including Soviet diplomat L.M. Karakhan signing Russia’s ultimatum over the Chinese Eastern Railway (1929) and American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews before his Central Asian expedition and later dispute with Chinese authorities (1930–1931).
including post-disaster reconstruction in urban and rural areas of northern China; photos of Shanghai streets and fortifications during the war; photos of people's daily lives in occupied areas and scenes of anti-British demonstrations.
comprising images of Hankow (Hankou) waterfront, boats moored along the Yangtze River, and hillside views overlooking temple roofs and the riverbanks; together with one press photo postcard capturing scenes of local residents wading through floodwaters in narrow streets.