Foster, Eila and Laura.

Scrap Album from Batavia (Jakarta) Indonesia.

[Jakarta Indonesia]: 1886. A wonderful folio Victorian scrap album dedicated to two English expats girls living in Indonesia in the 1880s.  It is profusely illustrated with hundreds of embossed and die cut chromolithographic scraps. These vividly colorful scraps are the products of some of the top lithographers of the day, including Raphael Tuck & Sons; Siegmund Hildesheimer & Co., Helga von Cramm; Wirths Brothers; Marcus Ward & Co.; H. M. Burnside; M. H. Nathan; L. Prang & Co; R.F. Mcintyre; and Bernhardt Ollendorff.  The manufacturers are from England, the U.S. and Germany, amongst others. Item #23935

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