Lot# 7227

The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025)   December 13 - December 16 2025, Hong Kong

showing Sikh policemen, mounted troops, and Chinese officers serving in the International Settlement and French Concession. I
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Lot# 7227
Starting Price: 1,600 HK$
Hammer Price: 1,600 HK$
c.1910–1930s group of 12 postcards depicting foreign and Chinese police or guards in Shanghai,

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.

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