Dutch East Indies Commercial Bank Dinner Party (back of photo)

Sun, 11/05/2017 - 23:59

Dinner party of - most likely - staff of the Dutch East Indies Commercial Bank (aka Dutch India Commercial Bank, the 'Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank') 1920-23 era. No clue what the Chinese text means. 

Date picture taken
1920s
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I guess the characters written on the back were Chinese and Chinese numbers written in traditional character.

The Chinese character on the left top is 欠[owe in English],the middle top is semi colon,the characters on the left low is 2 号[guess].号 is the simplified Chinese character of 號。2 号 means the second day of the month.

The character in the middle of the back is not Chinese, but a group of characters.The character on the right top is nine,while  others unknown..

The Chinese character on the top right is 十, meaning ten.The other one is unknown.

I guess someone owe another money and this is a guarantee to repay the owed  money later.

Greetings.  I have this wild guess that these words were written before all the dinner guests have arrived, hence Table 2 needs one more chair, and the middle line is similar to the left line but with either 11 or 2 (Chinese) at bottom and subsequently crossed out with an X.  The third line looks like "Tenth Auntie No Words" - someone expected to show up.  Corrections welcome.  Regards,  Peter