1917 CHINA SAILOR USS HELENA GUN BOAT HONG KONG 130, PHOTO ALBUM, SCRAPBOOK

This is a fantastic and historic 1917 China scrap book and photo album group from one sailor on the USS Helena a monitor or ocean going gun boat. The scrap book has tons of tickets, cartoons, hand written log/diary type entries as well as ships menus ect. Please see the photos after this description for more images of both pics and scrap book. There a 110+ photos in the album and another 23 loose that either fell out or were on damaged pages and salvaged at some point. The total photo ...count is 133 or so. There are some typical tourist type street scenes and lots of shots of Hong Kong, parks, street scene and houses, mostly everyday life as well as sailors seeing all the sights in china and SE Asia Overall a fantastic log of history and photo album could easily be restored with a little care and the original pics returned to holes that are on the pages where the pictures either fell out or were removed due to poor care of the album at some point. Please see all the pictures both ebay 12 and many more below this description, these photos are a major part of the auction description. Buyer to pay 15.00 for USA and I will ONLY use the Ebay Global shipping program for any overseas shipping!  PLEASE NO SILLY OFFERS based on my low starting bid, this is a rare grouping of history and I am aware what these can sell for. (130 pictures at 2.00-25.00 each?)sting.
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