Elephants Hauling Logs Colombo Ceylon Sri Lanka Antique Picture Print 1897 QE#77

Description: Elephants Hauling Logs Colombo Ceylon Sri Lanka 1897 Antique Print A print from a disbound book of the British Empire published 1897. With an unrelated picture on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold. Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border. Average image size approx 9" x 6.25" or 22.5cm x 16cm This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description. 1897 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier. All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection. While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item. Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used) AN ELEPHANT TANDEM, COLOMBO. It would be hard to leave out of the category of workers in the Queens Empire that most painstaking, intelligent, and powerful toiler, the Indian elephant. Thoroughly well acquainted with his business, apt to learn, docile, and obedient, he rarely, if ever, goes on strike, and may be trusted to do a good day's work fora good day's wage, which he expects to receive in the form of a liberal allowance of green food. We here see four of the giant elephants of Ceylon dragging the heavy timber logs through the forest. The hard woods of Ceylon are famous, and some of the finer specimens form most exquisite material for artistic cabinet-making. It is pleasant to note that the elephant, who without any love for war has been compelled to drag the 40-pounder guns, has here found a more congenial and peaceable occupation.

Price: 3.99 GBP

Location: Dereham

End Time: 2024-12-25T08:35:54.000Z

Shipping Cost: 20.81 GBP