Naquin Mosque at Fort Agra
An extremely rare postcard from India where stamps have been cut and pasted on the domes of the mosque.
Postcard
Sir Pertab Singh [Pratab Singh of Idar]
![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
Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta
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
Narsingarh Entrance to Old Fort
[Original caption] Narsingarh–Entrance to Old Fort. Narsingarh is the capital of the state of that name in Central India.
Burma. At the Well.
[Original caption] A well is generally situated in the principal street of a Burmese village.
Moet & Chandon Dry Imperial, 1898
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.
Village Scene
A unusually upturned (emptied) cart with yoke pointing to sky.
Preaching by Riverside, Chittagong Hill Tracts
A rather early real photo postcard from what is now Bangladesh, a part of British India that is vastly under presented in postcard production.
Winter in Gulmarg - Kashmir
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.
Goorkha Soldiers
These Gurkha soldiers were possibly photographed in the firm's Darjeeling studio (opened 1890) or Simla a few years later.
