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LOT 17

Lot 17

Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943

Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943
Lot 17 Details
Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943

being a copy of 'Their Japan' by Frederic de Garis, a common tourist guide, with inner cover inscribed 'To Bilodeau from Kin-Ichi-Kondo, Tokio Prisoners of War Camp #5, July 12, 1943 at Yokohama, Japan' with pen and ink illustrations inside front and back covers and pencil notations throughout
height 96.5 in — 245.1 cm

Estimate $200-$300

Realised: $120
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Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943
  • Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943
  • Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943
  • Japanese POW Gift Presented to Canadian Warrant Officer Albert W. Bilodeau by Japanese Medical Officer Kin-Ichi Kondo, July 12, 1943
Note:

Each fine rice paper leaf of this traveller’s guide to Japan is printed on one side only, leaving blank pages in between. In the first half of the book, these pages have been filled with pencilled lessons in English on the French language, leaving the impression that the Japanese soldier was teaching his prisoner about his county and culture, and the Canadian prisoner was, in return, providing French lessons.

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CONDITION DETAILS

Very worn, silk cover frayed, folding cover bent.

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