When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.
AS IS, AS SHOWN in the photos. Please review all images closely prior to purchase. **1904 Monarch Viewer:
** Includes the iconic stamped aluminum hood with the stag/deer medallion. Lenses are intact, the wood handle is secure, and the sliding wire mechanism functions. Features normal vintage metal oxidation and edge scuffs from age.
Viewer functions fully, but please note there is a clean structural split along the right side of the sliding wooden crossbar (see photo)
**95 Keystone Cards:
** Primarily a sequential educational trade and geography series (running from the No. 214 sequence with gaps in #s upward to No. 599).
**Card Condition:
** Overall Good to Very Good vintage condition. Photos retain excellent 3D contrast. Expect typical light handling wear, corner softening, and standard paper amber-toning due to age. Major specific condition flaws are openly disclosed in the checklist below. ---
● PREMIUM HIGHLIGHTS CHECKLIST ●
The following premium, high-value key cards are verified and included in this 96-card lot:
**Presidential / Military**
**No. 10520** - President McKinley & Admiral George Dewey reviewing troops in Washington D.C. (1899 presentation of the sword ceremony). | Clear contrast, light edge wear.
**Rare Portraits & Ethnography**
**No. 20601** - \"Korean Charcoal Carriers\" showing pre-modern Joseon Dynasty / Korean Empire era laborers with wooden A-frame backpacks. | Excellent, clean condition.
**Rare Portraits & Ethnography**
**No. 6149** - \"A Bedouin Bride, Syria\" showcasing traditional bridal garments and ornate jewelry under the Ottoman Empire. Crisp clarity, sharp borders.
**Rare Portraits & Ethnography**
**No. 20703** - \"A Sheik and His Bodyguard, Syria\" featuring tribal leadership, robes, traditional weaponry, and a saddled horse. | Clean, flat mount.
**Industrial / Textile**
**4-Card Meiji Japan Silk Production Sequence** (Nos. 539, 541, 546, 14757) mapping the lifecycle from gathering mulberry leaves and silkworm trays to automated Mitsui spinning factories and heavy American mechanical weaving looms. Very clean, high-contrast. **Industrial / Food Production**
**6-Card Canadian Manufacturing Master Class** (Nos. 274–286) tracking early linen fabric calendering, leather tanning, and a complete 5-card walkthrough of a Sugar Beet Processing Refinery floor. Crisp factory floor details.
**Industrial / Trade**
**4-Card Philippine Trade Sequence** (Nos. 251–254) showing the complete step-by-step Manila Hemp Industry (extracting, drying, hackling, and factory rope twisting).
**Agriculture / Livestock**
**3-Card Meiji Japan Rice Cultivation Trilogy** (Nos. 14729, 14730, 14789) mapping the complete season from plowing a wet field with a bull ox to manual planting and sickle reaping. No. 14730 has corner peeling.
**Agriculture / Luxury Trade**
**No. 14008** - \"Gathering Tea, Uji, Japan\" documenting women harvesting green tea leaves on a world-famous terraced plantation. Excellent condition. **Agriculture / Occupational**
**No. 12516** - \"A Water Carrier, Mount Abu, India\" capturing a traditional worker with a massive water-bag bullock ox. | High visual detail.
**U.S. National Parks**
**3-Card Western Wonders Suite** including Yellowstone \"Devil\'s Race Course\" (No. 13057), Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone waterfall (No. 13577), and Arizona\'s Grand Canyon \"Titan of Chasms\" (No. 13519). | Crisp, sharp canyon depth.
**Historic Disasters**
**No. 14327** - The catastrophic 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée in Martinique, showing a lone figure standing in the gutted stone ruins left by the volcanic flow. | Strong historical record.
**Global Warfare & Conflict**
**2-Card Russo-Japanese War Set (1904-1905)** including Port Arthur Naval Harbor Overlook (No. 14500) and Japanese Military Supply Transportation Carts (No. 6567) moving through Manchuria. | Clean, sharp military views.
**Imperial Russia**
**3-Card Pre-Revolutionary Romanov-Era Russia Group** (Nos. 378, 379, 381) featuring bustling horse carriages on Nevsky Prospekt, the Senate on Vasilyevsky Island, and the Moscow Kremlin. | No. 381 (Kremlin) has a vertical tear.
**Open-Air Markets**
**No. 6650** - Great Saturday Market in Helsinki, Finland during the Russian Empire era, packed with horse-drawn wagons and shoppers. Bright, sharp cobblestone detail.
**Middle East History**
**Nos. 11054 & 11107** - Ottoman-era Holy Land views including Jaffa Harbor oarsmen and travelers floating effortlessly in the Dead Sea. High-depth maritime scenery.
**Oceania / Commonwealth**
**No. 15903** - Elizabeth Street, Hobart, Tasmania street scene with an early electric double-decker tram car, and **No. 15915** - Lyttelton Harbor Port for Christchurch, New Zealand.
Set final cards (Set No. 598/599).
Please reach out prior to purchase if you have any questions.
