Ceylon Post Cards – Topless Rodiya Girl

Rodiya Woman

I quite like this postcard. Printed in early 19s. My guess is most probably between 1900 – 1910. Printed by The Colombo Apothecaries Co. Ltd and product number is 36. I don’t know if that company still exists. But there is good collection of color postcards by them out there. Most of them are black and white photographs, hand painted in color, and then Lithographed. So does this card. Most probably Lithographed in Europe.

I quite like the cloth this girl is wearing, or not. She looks very confident and lovely. I don’t know if those colors are real or not, if not, artist has picked very good matching colors for her cloths and jewelry. This card is not very difficult to find, in color and black & white version. Value is between 30$ - 40$. I purchased this from a UK seller, which is always the best place to find Ceylon postcards.