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Ivory Statuette

Postcard showing an ivory spear thrower found at the Madeleine caves in Dordogne, France. Adressed to Major Edgar Jones, Barry from Gareth Vaughan Jones. Some cyrillic characters in amoung the English handwriting. Partial postmark.

View From Hearst Castle.

View from Cas Del Sol, Hearst Castle. Inscription on reverse reads,"View from my west windows at the Hearst Ranch - looks out towards the pacific, Jan1-2 1935."

Bengal Tiger

Image of a caged tiger. Inscription on revers of print reads, " I took this inside a man-eating Royal Bengal Tiger's cage at the Hearst Ranch. The trainer stood by my side with a pitch fork. Jan 2 1935."

Teh Wang himself

Prince Teh Wang sitting on the ground with a small bowl of food in his hands. He is looking over his left shoulder towards the camera, which is slightly behind and to his left.

[Gareth Vaughan Jones & friends]

An out of focus group portrait printed on a postcard back. Gareth Vaughan Jones is on the extreme left, in company with two Chinese girls and three young Chinese men. These may be some of the people mentioned in Chapter Ten of 'A Manchukuo Incident ' by Margaret S Colley (Newark, 2001). The young man squatting in the front of the photo bears a striking resemblance to one of the men on a picture reproduced on p130 and titled "The daughters of General Tsai and General Chen"

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