showing Sikh policemen, mounted troops, and Chinese officers serving in the International Settlement and French Concession. Includes both hand-tinted and real photo types, several inscribed “Shanghai” or “Police”. Fine and varied visual documentation of the cosmopolitan policing presence in treaty-port Shanghai.

showing Military Soldiers, Ruins and War Scenes, including Hsin Hai Revolurion and Japanese Invasion in China. A nice group.

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.”

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.

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.