Western Ephemera

JPC 828

Large 1855 illustration from L’Illustration, Journal Universel of a procession for a patron saint. B

Price: $60.00

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Gum card from the set UNCLE SAM by Philadelphia company Gum Inc (now defunct), published in 1941 shortly before Pearl Harbor. The focus of the set was directed to US preparedness for hostilities, and it is devoid of the vivid and horrifying details of the overseas warfare which was already taking place. This card pictures an East Asian, likely Japanese, with the caption on the back “At these times the regulations are tightened and the marines have to be on the alert to prevent suspicious looking individuals from gaining any information that would be harmful to Uncle Sam’s interest”. A rare card. B

Price: $30.00

JPC 827

Collection of 8 illustrated pages from English and French periodicals relating to the tycoon of Japan and the English. Included are Sir Harry Parkes and the tycoon’s bodyguard at Osaka; official reception of Parkes at Osaka; Mim-Bou-Tayou, brother of the Japanese tycoon, Stots Bashi, the new tycoon of Japan; Prince Tokugawa Minbutaiho, brother of the tycoon of Japan, Prince Mim-Bou-Tayou disembarking at Toulon; the attack on the English legation at Kioto; named Japanese ambassadors. B

Price: $220.00

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Collection of 11 illustrated pages from English and French periodicals relating to pre-Meiji Japan. Included are a pagoda in Kioto; a rare image of a Japanese lighthouse and sailing on the Tenosau river; a Japanese funeral at the pagoda of Dzizo-do and a scene alo Outsima streei in Hakodadi; the French warship COLBERT at Nagasaki bay; interior of the pagoda Meoken-Do a pagoda converted to a French hospital; the French warship CONSTANTINE in Singapore and the Japanese port of Hakodadi; a street scene in Hakodadi; a Japanese barber and a Japanese hamam; different Japanese types: military, women and a condemned yakunine;; execution of the author of the attack committed in Hiogo-Kobe against foreigners; Japanese soldiers in Yokahoma; a refreshment stall in Yokahoma; Aral, the station of the Great Jeddo Guard; entrance hall to a Japanese inn; Commodore Perry and the steam frigate “Mississippi”; Japanese articles; reception of Japanese and Moroccan ambassadors at the French Palace of Industry. B

Price: $280.00

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Six early German chromo cards on the Russian Japanese War. MB

Price: $200.00

JPC 825JPC 825

Collection of 8 illustrated pages from English and French periodicals relating to the Shimonoseki campaign. B

Price: $180.00

Note: The Shimonoseki campaign refers to a series of military engagements in 1863 and 1864, fought to control Shimonoseki Straits of Japan by joint naval forces from Great Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, against the Japanese feudal domain of Chōshū, which took place off JPC 825JPC 825and on the coast of Shimonoseki, Japan. Right after the foreign interventions, the Shogunal government also launched its own preparations for a punitive expedition against Chōshū, the First Chōshū expedition. The expedition was aimed at punishing the 1864 Kinmon incident in which Chōshū forces attacked Shogunal forces in Kyoto. The expedition was however cancelled after a compromise was brokered, involving the beheading of the leaders of the rebellion. At the same time as this campaign, the British Royal Navy engaged Satsuma samurai at the Bombardment of Kagoshima, one of the several engagements of the Japanese conflict of 1863 and 1864.

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Unusual advertising brochure by Lloyd Triestino for the upcoming 1940 Olympic Games in Tokyo. It is written in Polish. The games were cancelled as Japan prepared for war. M

Price: $400.00

JPC 824

1885 Punch illustration 'An English Village from a Japanese Point of View'. B

Price: $20.00

JPC 767

Complete set of 5 cards by Berliner Morgenpost, 1904, "Japanese Habits".

Price: $150.00

JPC 763JPC 763

A set of 21 American strip cards titled The Nightmare of Warfare. This subset focuses on the Japanese invasion of China. Rare. m

Price: $630.00

Note: The anonymous strip card series entitled “The Nightmare of Warfare” was a copycat version of Gum, Inc.’s more elaborate “Horrors of War” set. The design on coloration of the cards and the intentional pirating of titles and text from a competitor all point to the W.S. Corporation as the producer. The artwork is limited to black silhouettes set against yellow backgrounds, with an occasional red accent thrown in. The vertically-aligned backs have the set title, card number, a “series of 48” line, card title, and text – all printed in black ink on gray stock. Since these are strip cards, one or two edges on all cards will be rouletted.