Late Meiji Japanese lacquer postcard album

Late Meiji Japanese lacquer postcard album

This album is a nice example of a Japanese lacquer export postcard album with a Mount Fuji design on the cover, silk pages, and its original wooden box. The inner covers and all six pages are hand painted silk, mounted on richly patterned green cloth. 24 coloured postcards, 21 of Japan and 3 of Hong Kong, are corner mounted with orange thread.  Generally near-fine condition. The album can be dated to the end of the Meiji period – c1910-1920 given the ”hornless gramophone” advert on one of the postcards. The old newspaper packaging in the wooden box is dated 5th November 1919!