Live auction - Lot 638
[China]
14 photos documenting the Belgian legation in Beijing.
€ 60 / 80
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Lot description
14 original photographs, albumen prints, b/w, pencil legends on verso.
Insight into probably the life of Hubert-Joseph Ramaekers, guard at the Belgian legation in Beijing ca. 1914 of whom a memoriam card is included in this lot. On the photos: a suburb of Shanghai, a tea house, a pagoda, a characteristic Chinese cove, a typical village scene, a market scene, houseboats, etc. One picture of manoeuvres of the Shanghai volunteer Corps with cannons. One portrait of Ramaekers ?