Thursday, December 29, 2016



Junk Models in Rotterdam Museum

I was contacted via this blog by a representative of  the Maritiem Museum in Rotterdam which has an ongoing project related to Chinese ship models. They acquired 4 junk models from my grandfather in the 1920s and kindly sent me the photographs below. They will be sending me copies of the related correspondence .




Saturday, December 03, 2016

Two More Watercolours Acquired


Contacted by the family whose aunt had passed away . They found the two paintings in her possession and contacted me via this blog. They  did not know how she came into their posession but evidently she travelled extensively and it seems likely that she met Donnelly when in China.