Name/Title
Chinese Letter WriterEntry/Object ID
CHSA-01139Scope and Content
Front: A Chinese man wearing a traditional Chinese gown in yellow blue and green is wearing a pair of glasses as he writes out a letter in Chinese characters. On the table, where he is working, there are three different size vases, two candlestick holders and a container filled with caligraphy brushes. On the lower left hand corner there is a stamp for Lichtenwald and written on the lower right hand corner is the word Chinese Letter Writer next to a paper fan.
Back: Object ID# and the following: Postage Stamps Packed in Duke's Cigarettes. We pack in each box our Cigarettes on eof this series of fifty handsome picturecards, illustrating mail,...matters, and paste on each. A genuine foreign postage stamp from a collection of over thousands varieties, ranging in value from one cent to two dollars and fifty cents each...W. Duke Sons & Co. Durham, NC & New York