The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)
Sale 346
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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.
including early commemoratives of the German seizure of Kiautschou Bay on 15 November 1897, patriotic/satirical designs (“Kiao-Tschau,” “The Japs to the Front – China”), and East Asia Squadron warship/crew views; several postally used with Reichspost/Kiautschou cancels.
plus a coloured big photo, including German/French anti-Boxer caricatures, patriotic propaganda, and orientalist scenes; several postally used.
including issues by Ying Fong, Misiones Dominicanas de Foochow, and Dutch missionary societies; depicting rural labor, weaving, child workers, itinerant vendors, and life in orphanages and mission schools in Amoy, Foochow, and North China; several tinted or hand-colored, a few postally used.
including Catholic and Protestant issues (Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan, Lazarist, Missions Étrangères de Paris, etc.), showing churches, mission schools, orphanages, catechumen classes, dispensaries, women’s training centers and group scenes across North/South China; some hand-tinted and several postally used.
including lithographed and missionary issues depicting Chinese trades, rice cultivation (Pontificie Opere Missionarie series), lantern and silk workshops in Peking, and domestic scenes such as itinerant cooks and silk-spinning. Several bear Italian and French inscriptions or postal usage.
pair of early missionary-related portrait postcards — one depicting Dr. Timothy Richard (1845–1919), renowned British Baptist missionary to China, credited for famine relief and educational reform; the other titled “A Friend of the Society — Military Mandarin of Ching Chin”, issued by the London Missionary Society. Both printed in England, the first with biographical notes on reverse. Fine and uncommon examples reflecting early Western missionary engagement and representation of Chinese officials.
including Bishop Yu Pin attending a luncheon and Catholic conference in the United States, Chinese children participating in Easter services at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, and clergy preparing vestments and ceremonial items for church use. Each photograph bears contemporary typewritten captions and press agency stamps.
featuring numerous Shanghai and Hong Kong film actors, along with several late Qing dynasty portrait photographs. Well-preserved and visually striking, the collection offers a vivid record of changing social and cinematic landscapes across decades. It holds significant historical and photographic value, making it a valuable resource for the study of Chinese film culture and modern portrait photography.
including architectural views, street scenes, and family portraits, together with images of female performers and postwar actresses.
Includes both color and black-and-white prints, some with autographs or studio imprints or bearing signature. Subjects feature Cantonese and Shaw Brothers actresses, 1960s–70s popular singers and stage performers, and 1980s screen celebrities.