RICKSHA MEN USED AS TRANSPORT CARRIERS RUSSO - JAPANESE WAR JAPAN POSTCARD. FRONT IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH ALBUM MARKS AND SOME LIGHT AGE YELLOWING/SURFACE WEAR. CREASE TOP LEFT CORNER. LIGHT CORNER AND EDGE WEAR/BUMPING. BACK IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME AGE YELLOWING/SPOTTING.

 ##### LISTING CHINA-NORWAY AND SOUTH AMERICA NEXT. WILL POST 1 OR 2 MORE LOTS OF JAPAN FROM THE NETTIE RUPERT COLLECTION. AS MOST APPEAR TO BE COMMON NON COLLECTED POSTCARDS. ##### THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR BIDS. #####

^^^^^ I HAVE TO SAY THE DESCRIPTIONS THAT NETTIE WROTE ON THE BACK ARE FASCINATING. THEY BRING YOU BACK TO THE TIME PERIOD SHE TRAVELED THERE. 1913 TO 1930. ^^^^^^^^ DEFINITELY MAKES THESE POSTCARDS 1 OF A KIND FOR COLLECTORS. ^^^^^

+++++SELLING THE NETTIE LORENE RUPERT COLLECTION. I SAW SIAM- BANGKOK- CHINA- JAPAN- KOREA. LOTS OF PACKAGES OF 10 OR MORE POSTCARDS. ALSO FOUND REAL PHOTOS SHE TOOK. GOING TO TRY AND GET THEM DEVELOPED AND SELL THE ORIGINAL WITH A COPY OF IT. STILL GOING THROUGH THE 2000 CARD COLLECTION. LOTS OF THE POSTCARDS HAVE HER HAND WRITTEN DETAILS ON THE BACK. FEELS SPECIAL KNOWING SHE HANDLED THEM HERSELF. +++++

^^^^^Handed down in the family of Nettie Lorene Rupert, (b. 1882, Ohio) who lived in Japan from 1913 to 1930 as teacher and missionary, deeply involved with the Chinese (and to a lesser extent, the Korean) population of Kobe as well as the Japanese. She traveled widely, and, as an educator and, clearly, a woman of lively intelligence and vast curiosity, took copious notes. This lot comprises her postcards, brochures and photographs from her travels in China, Japan, Cambodia, Thailand (then Siam,) and Korea. Many are still in sealed envelopes. Those that are not are in very good to near-mint condition. Many have notes on the backs or on the envelopes, with information about the place represented.^^^^^

*****PLEASE NOTE I COMBINE SHIPPING. YOU ONLY PAY ONCE FOR MULTIPLE LOTS. MAXIMUM OF 3. ***** THANK YOU. *****
 
*****ANY ITEM CAN BE RETURNED FOR ANY REASON. IF I MADE A MISTAKE IN THE LISTING I WILL PAY FOR THE SHIPPING BACK TO ME. ***** THANK YOU. *****
 
***** I'M SELLING A 75 YEAR, 15,000 POSTCARD COLLECTION ALONG WITH MANY PAPER COLLECTIBLES. ***** I HAVE MENTIONED IT BEFORE BUT WANT TO LEAVE IT IN ALL MY AUCTIONS. THE OWNER OF THIS COLLECTION BOUGHT LOCALLY AND FROM MANY OTHER PLACES. HE RESEARCHED MANY OF THE POSTCARDS AND WROTE THE LOCATION PLUS OTHER INFORMATION ON THE BACK. MOST OF THE POSTCARDS WERE SEPARATED IN BOXES. HE HAD 12 ALBUMS THAT HE CONSIDERED PREMIUM AND I WAS CHARGED A MUCH HIGHER PRICE FOR. SOME OF THE COUNTRIES INCLUDED ARE SINGAPORE-ASIA- CHINA-JAPAN-BRAZIL-NORWAY- RUSSIA-JAMAICA-AFRICA-ALASKA-HAWAII-BERMUDA-TRINIDAD- ETC. PLUS MANY OF THE REAL PHOTO POSTCARDS. IN MY 40 YEARS OF COLLECTING THERE ARE SO MANY I'VE NEVER COME ACROSS MYSELF. HENCE THE REASON I HAVE TO LIST SOME AT A HIGHER PRICE. *****THANK YOU. *****