Chinacdv2. Wing-Chong, Portrait Painter, and Photographer, No. 66 Queen’s Road, Upstairs, Opposite “Australia Bank,” Hong Kong. Image of unidentified military man. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. These identifying studio specifics are present in some of the following CDVs which indicates that they were taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, although they may not have backmarks. This CDV is sold but remains showing for its studio identifying value.


Chinacdv3. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. It is difficult to make out the pencil writing on verso.  Maybe “Wife to Ling Lun ?? Emp. Pek.” VG. $350


Chinacdv4. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. On back “Emp Sister.” VG. $350


Chinacdv5. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. On back “Emp Wife.” VG. $350


Chinacdv6. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. On back “Emperor Pek.” VG. $350


Chinacdv7. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. Unidentified. VG. $325


Chinacdv12. [Wing-Chong, Hong Kong]. Note the border at the bottom of the wall behind the man and the rug. This indicates that this was taken in the studio of Wing-Chong, Hong Kong, although it is without backmark. Unidentified. VG. $350


Chinacdv21. Hing-Qua John & Co., Hongkong. Small corner crease lower left. G. $200


Chinacdv22. Written on verso: “Pagoda in Canton City-as seen from the Yamen of the British Consulate-the scene of the recent reception by H.J.H. Prince Alexis of Russia at the invitation of Sir Brooke Robertson.” A Yamen is an administrative office or official residence of a local bureaucrat or mandarin in imperial China. G. $50

 
PPCDV283. G. Nye Jr. November 1871. Canton China. Gideon Nye, Jr. (1812-1/25/1888). He was the eldest child of Gideon Nye and Sylvia S. Hathaway, born in North Fairhaven, now Acushnet, and died in Canton, China. In 1846 he married Mary Elizabeth Washburn, a daughter of Abiel Washburn of Middleboro, Massachusetts. She died in New York in 1870. Their only child, Ellen Emily Washburn, was born in Paris, France, in 1846 and died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1860. He was a merchant in China for over fifty years and served as American Vice Consul at Canton for the last ten years of his life. He was for many years one of the Vice Presidents of the Medical Missionary Society and was a corresponding member of both the American and English Geographical Societies. His remains were interred in the Foreigners’ cemetery near Fort Macao. Re-interred in Acushnet Cemetery, Acushnet, Mass. Excerpt of the Biographical sketch in “A History of the Town of Acushnet” by Franklyn Howland. G. $50