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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICAL #91 - SIAM
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1889
Lithographer: Donaldson Brothers
  
Area: about 250,000 sq. mi
Population: about 6,000,000
Government: A Nominally Hereditary Monarchy
Scenes: Land of the Sacred White Elephant; The Nutmeg;
Floating City of Bangkok - Population 600,000
Although the cards in this
series didn't include any additional descriptive
information for the individual countries, the
subsequently issued
Illustrated Atlas of Fifty Principal Nations of the World
did devote several paragraphs to
Siam
"COPYRIGHT" Text Variations |
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Appears in the
lower left quadrant of the card, in the grassy
area just above the three spears and the words
"SACRED WHITE". (This is the variety
shown in the full-size card, above). |
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Appears in the
far upper right corner of the card, superimposed
over the latticework framing the Bangkok scene. |
Both varieties
shown are known to exist only on cards with the
"Arbuckles'" spelling in the Explanatory text on the
back. (I've never seen a
Siam card with the "Arbuckle's" spelling, and don't currently believe
that that particular variety exists on any cards numbered
91-100 in the series.) |
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