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1900 · 000186 — 1900. Japanese Lacquer. Very Good. Oblong Quarto. Large Japanese Lacquer postcard album with bone and mother-of-pearl onlays. Undated circa 1900. With 22 total postcards 18 of which are hand-colored collotype postcards 2 are actual black and white photographs most measuring 3½"x5½" and are laid into 6 thick leaves with silk covers each hand-painted with flower prints in watercolor. Oblong 4to 9¾x13¼ Japanese lacquer album in black front cover with carved bone & mother of pearl inlays showing a Japanese man rowing a boat and transporting two Japanese women black leather spine. Collection of hand-colored postcards of the Nagasaki area. All inside surfaces and end papers are of silk and hand painted with soft colors and a delicate hand showing country-side huts rivers lakes birds and sprays of flowers. Each page is prepared to accept 4 post cards with orange threads intact. The hand-colored postcards are over a collotype photograph some are with messages and have early postmarks most not used. Showing a wide variety of Nagasaki views including: temples street scenes the Mogi hotel Holy Bronze Horse at Suwa temple Isenomiya Inasa and Kotaji temples Inasa Church; coal being loaded on a foreign vessel at Nagasaki port plus a U.S. Army transport being loaded by a hoard of workers. A fascinating look at Nagasaki in the late nineteenth century. A nice addition to any collection. Front cover lacking a piece of the carved bone near the middle of the boat of which one of the women appears to have been holding possibly a musical instrument or just part of the boat. Condition: Spine had been damaged has been repaired; light wear to album edges mild rubbing slightly affecting hand-painted decorative margins; crack in lacquer on back cover; faint foxing to silk pages paper residue on front inside cover some of the postcards with minor edge wear; a clean and bright piece; about very good overall. See sample scans. LBB-B <br/> <br/> unknown