The River Teesta descends from Sikkim at an elevation of over 20,000 feet through Darjeeling and then merges with the Brahmaputra in Bangladesh . This postcard is a good example of how a collotype, well-tinted and with a glossy finish can almost look
An extremely rare postcard from India where stamps have been cut and pasted on the domes of the mosque.
![Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]](https://www.paperjewels.org/sites/default/files/styles/square_thumbnail/public/slides/pratap-singh-colour.jpg?itok=uXeXaXC1 "Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]")
A stunning example of what a well-tinted, non-discoloured postcard looks like some 120 years later.
Sir Pratab Singh (1845-1922) made it on to many postcards as one of the best known Indian officers in the British Indian army, having served from the
Around the time this postcard was published, H. St.J. B. Philby, the father of the famous British spy Kim Philby (born in Ambala in 1912) and then serving in India, wrote in his memoir Arabian Days (Robert Hale, 1948):
"The Great Eastern Hotel of
[Original caption] Narsingarh–Entrance to Old Fort. Narsingarh is the capital of the state of that name in Central India.
[Original caption] A well is generally situated in the principal street of a Burmese village.
A very early advertising postcard for a fine French champagne from a brand that persists today by a distributor with a monopoly in the Bombay Presidency. Moet & Chandon would ikely have offered these cards to its distributors.
A unusually upturned (emptied) cart with yoke pointing to sky.
A rather early real photo postcard from what is now Bangladesh, a part of British India that is vastly under presented in postcard production.
David Mordecai (1909-73) was a photographer in Kolkata from the Iraqi-Jewish community who had a commercial practice which published postcards in color. Note the man on skis in the foreground.
