Lot# 7345
The 2025 December Auction - Sale 346 (December 13 - December 16, 2025) December 13 - December 16 2025, Hong Kong
Lot# 7345
Starting Price: 4,000 HK$
Unsold
Souvenir of the Shanghai Defense Forces, Volume 1, a photographic portfolio featuring images by Ariel L. Varges, Far Eastern representative of the Newsreel Corporation, New York.
Most photographs were originally published in the North China Daily News. This volume documents the 1932 Shanghai Defense Campaign (the January 28 Incident), capturing rare and vivid scenes of military operations and urban conflict. A historically significant and visually compelling record of early Sino-Japanese hostilities and Shanghai’s wartime history.