[SINGAPORE - 1920S] CARPENTER, PERCY (AFTER).

Singapore from Mount Wallich at Sunrise. [Caption Title].

(London). G. Delgado Ltd., circa 1920s. Stock ID #199465

Colour print 7.4 x 17.7cms tipped onto an oblong folding cream greeting card 12.5 x 20cm, single copper coloured rule, captioned at the foot, and a printed on the opening "Christmas Greetings for the New Year from Engineering Department Guthrie & Co. Ltd.", foxing to the mount, but the image in very good bright condition.

Image after the famous mid nineteenth-century view of Singapore by Percy Carpenter (1820-1895) decorating the corporate Christmas card for the successful Singapore-based Guthrie & Co. Ltd. Founded in 1823 as importers and exporters, the company expanded to include agriculture and from the early 20th Century rubber harvesting and manufacture.

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Price: $150.00 AU

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