Title
Six patterned ties
Year/Period
Late 1940s to 1950s
Region
Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Various
Accession No.
2018-01361
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the C.K. & S.Y. Kwok Family
These patterned silk ties belonged to and were worn by Kwok Chan Kwan, and possibly his sons in the late 1940s and 1950s. Kwok was a banker who was born in Hong Kong. He worked at the Bank of China (BOC) as a manager and later, country manager in Indonesia before the war and was interned as a prisoner of war for three and a half years during the Japanese occupation. After the war, he was reunited with his family and continued to work for BOC in Kuala Lumpur, Sydney and Penang till 1952 when he joined Lee Wah bank in Singapore. He retired in 1967 and passed away the following year.
