TRADE CARDS.

Inquire · Offered by Peter Harrington

Collection of examples from Hong Kong and other Chinese cities. Surviving traces of businesses otherwise lost to time, including 19 cards from Hong Kong advertising curio merchants, tailors, photographers, cobblers, and jewellers. The remaining 6 were issued in Weihaiwei (2), Shanghai (3), and Beijing.Though unmarked as such, these cards - with the exception of the Beijing example - were assembled by Arthur Hacker (1932-2013), a historian of China and a civil servant in Hong Kong from 1967 to 1989.

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