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Click here to subscribeA postcard album containing approximately 440 cards, with naval and military origins and interest, including cards from Bermuda, Sierra Leone, North America, Egypt, India, Gibraltar, Ceylon, South Africa and various other places, with a good collection of over fifty early naval ships (prints, RP and artist-drawn), and a fine baker's cart from Winchester (see illustration for Winchester cart)
A small batch of approximately 75 postcards, predominantly topographical and with a good proportion of real photographs, including two fine RPs of Jericho and the Wheal Friendly Mine at St. Agnes, the Post Office at Poltimore. the Rectory at Wanstrow, and good street or village scenes of Holcombe, Boscastle, Bicknoller, Wadebridge, and other West Country cards; also two packs of cards of the Tidworth Tattoo (see illustration for St. Agnes cards)
An album and assorted loose postcards totalling approximately 250 cards, including a few Devon scenes by Chapman, various merchant ships (66 with eleven art cards by Nicholson, Garman, North etc), an RP of Winchfield Station and other railway cards, a few artist and comic cards (six Quinton, two Reg Carter, Mabel Gear etc), a good RP card with traction engines at Swathling, a few other RPs of Odiham, Dereham, Barmouth and Fetcham war memorial, and a set of six late prints of the Wright Brothers and a further nine from the same series depicting Andree's 1894 balloon expedition (see illustration for two RP cards)
A good mixed batch of over ninety postcards, with artist cards by A.R. Quinton, Jotter, C.T. Howard, Mabel Gear, Lance Thackeray, Tom Browne and Rene Cloke, other subjects including aircraft, ships, fairies, a dog "Fratton Jim", the Portmadoc narrow gauge station, and assorted topographical views with several good RP cards including Croydon Aerodrome, an Imperial Airways aircraft, the launch of the "Queen Elizabeth", St Chad's new church and vicarage under construction, and a Southampton vs Gillingham football crowd scene (see illustration for Croydon aerodrome card)
An original batch of approximately 140 postcards, with comic, greetings and other subject cards together with many topographical views including good RPs of the Great Yarmouth lifeboat crew, James Street in Bury, North Street in Keighley, and several street scenes of the Halifax and Triangle areas (see illustration for Yarmouth lifeboat card)
Twenty-nine postcards of Lambourn, mostly RP views including 1912 church parade (2), Mill Lane (2), Walkers Road, Goose Green, Newbury Street (two different), High Street, The Vicarage, Riverside Cottage, the Almshouses, a military camp, Up Lambourn, and a Cynicus comic of "The Last Train from Lambourn"; also a small group of local cards of Newbury and Oxenwood
A small original batch of 28 postcards, including shopfronts of T. Atkins' Remenham Dairy, A. Fowler & Sons' Aylesbury Farm Dairy in Tooting, and H. Reeves Boot & Shoe Maker; also RP cards of The Trafalgar public house (2), 1908 snow at Henley, Westbourne Park Road in Bournemouth, the Cavendish Syncopated Dance Orchestra, and workmen at Kelvedon railway station
A small postcard album containing approximately 95 cards, including several liners (Union Castle, Shaw Savill, P & O, Cunard, Orient Pacific, White Star, L & NWSS), 1937 Coronation celebrations at Portsmouth including illuminated ship, bus and trams, royalty, naval shipping, a few street scenes, and a good cat by Persis Kirmse
Two small postcard albums containing approximately 190 cards, mostly topographical, including various good RP cards of West Somerset (Weacombe, Williton, St. Audries), also some of Wanstrow (including the GWR station), several art-drawn views by Wimbush and others, a print of the GWR station at Pilning, two prints of the Berks and Bucks Stag Hounds, various views of Almondsbury, St. Annes, Liverpool, Chester, etc.
Two small postcard albums and various loose cards, approximately 230 cards in all, including two good RP views of Dargaville (New Zealand), artist-drawn views by Quinton (11) and others, a novelty leather card, a Mabel Lucie Attwell pullout, two Donald McGill smoking-related cards and a batch of later comic cards by McGill, Taylor, Tempest and others
A postcard album containing approximately 280 cards, assorted topographical and subjects with naval origins and interest, individual cards noted including good RPs of Simonstown, a charabanc at Bournemouth and SMS Dresden on fire, foreign interest including Cape Verde, the Falklands, Canada, South America, South Africa, and others
A postcard album containing approximately 200 cards, topographical views and various subjects, cards noted including several of Savernake forest, various printed village or street scenes, a Louis Wain cat (Davidson 9055), other artist and comic cards, two GWR views, and an RP of oxen ploughing at Chedworth
An original album containing 204 postcards, comprising various topographical views, theatre and music hall cards, artist cards including Tom Browne ("London Streets" policeman), Raphael Kirchner (Tuck 4024), A.K. Macdonald ("At The Theatre"), Lance Thackeray (table tennis and leap year), and Louis Wain (Tuck monochrome "Last of the Dandies"); also Tuck Celebrated Posters (1500 Pears Soap) and the winner of the Stock Exchange 1903 London to Brighton walk
A postcard album containing approximately 260 cards, mixed subject and British and overseas topographical views, including military (with seven by Harry Payne), the King at the Front, Bruce Bairnsfather (12), Ellam "For Home and Beauty" series (5), street scenes of Fermoy, Quinton (4), a print of Trawsfynydd station, RP views of Church Walk in Hayes, Holywell Hill at St. Albans, Didcot Camp (from the air), and the troopship "Braemar Castle"
A good postcard album containing approximately 300 cards, strong in the Portsmouth area and naval shipping, with many good RP cards, including the windmill at Southsea, Fratton & Southsea railway station, 1911 launch of HMS King George V (3), 1912 launch of HMS Iron Duke, illuminated tramcar, 1912 Empire Day, a horse-drawn float for the Mayor's War Relief Fund, 1912 In Memoriam for A3 submarine and various funeral cards, the Theatre Royal, a Short seaplane, the Portsmouth tank, 1918 U-Boats, various floods (1911, 1912, 1924), 1919 Great Silence, 1913 Dockyard fire, and a number of good street scenes; also various cards of the Isle of Wight and good RP street scenes of Bembridge and Gosport (see sample illustration)
A postcard album containing approximately 260 cards, mostly topographical, including groups of Arley, Dudley, Birmingham and Harborne, each featuring good RP street scenes etc, also other RP cards of Shatterford, Habberley Valley, Saintbury, Trimpley Green and Harting, other cards noted including the Birmingham tank, Kidderminster war memorial, hop picking, and the King's Head Hotel in Hagley Road
A large postcard album containing approximately one thousand cards, mostly foreign, from Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malta, Ceylon, China, Malaya, North Africa and a various continental countries, with a few from the UK; also a number of embossed stamp cards and two Tuck "Fighting the Flames" art cards of firemen
Three postcard albums containing approximately 460 cards, mostly assorted topographical, cards noted including a print of stone quarries at Tytherington, a set of eight cards of the 1902 Leckhampton Hill rights of way dispute, a print of the Cirencester & District Motor Omnibus, a print of the New Cheltenham Steam Fire Engine, four embossed Tuck Empire cards of battleships, a print of the Brendon Hill incline, a scene of early submarines in dock, four good RPs of Wanstrow (including the GWR station), and a good selection of other village and street scenes.
A collection of approximately 550 topographical postcards, in two modern albums, all of printed type and covering most areas of England and some Scotland, with general and seaside views, castles and other buildings etc; cards noted including several early vignettes (one of Reading postmarked 1899), a batch of thirty-seven LL cards, stations at Heads Nook, Woodborough and Aviemore, and a variety of good village or street scenes
A postcard album containing approximately 90 real photographic cards, including fairs at Mitchell and Hull, three shopfronts (one early Sainsburys), an aeroplane at Tunbridge Wells in 1914, a Cycle Arch for royal visit (possibly Coventry), a St. Albans Grammar School Masonic procession in 1907, the Pytchley Meet at Guilsborough, a parade of policemen, the Venture coach leaving Reigate for London, Kings Lynn mart in 1906, the locks at Mildenhall; various good views of Winterbourne Dauntsey, Hempton Green and Woodchurch (with windmills), Brixham, Yalding (flood), Bolton, Handcross, Woodbridge, Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury, Emsworth, Altrincham (station exterior), Newdigate, Smarden and Wimbledon; and others
An assortment of cigarette cards, mostly contained in eleven albums, by various makers, cards noted including Player "Birds of Brilliant Plumage" (10), Wills "Pirate" Chinese characters (20), a few from the Hwaching Tobacco Co. of Shanghai (10), Wills Ruby Queen "Birds of the East" (10), anonymous "Aeroplanes" (10 with gold borders), anonymous etchings of dogs (40), Carreras "Christie Comedy" girls (10), Carreras "Cricketers" (20), anonymous "Modern Beauties" (45 large photographic), and two small albums of sportsmen (mainly footballers and cricketers from the Champion, the Gem, Boys' Magazine and Sport & Adventure)
Master T. Ward's scrap book: a Victorian scrap album containing a wide variety of scraps, prints, advertisements and greetings cards, many chromolithographed, and also twelve colour hand-painted postal covers with monogram HC, postmarked for Christmasses between 1865 and 1876. (see illustration for 1873 cover)
An English Porcelain Loving Cup, circa 1850, of cylindrical shape, painted with numerous overlapping playing cards in enamel colours, applied internally with two small spotted frogs, within coral and gilt bands, {16cm}, (hairline cracks, and gilding rubbed on handles). See lot 108 for illustration.
JEU DE L'HOMBRE (LE), AUGMENTE DES DECISIONS NOUVELLES SUR LES DIFFICULTEZ ET INCIDENS DE CE JEU, woodcut illustrations of cards, title with part of surface rubbed and repaired, E5 & B11 outer margins torn and repaired, lacks front free endpaper, slightly browned, hinges weak, contemporary calf, rubbed, upper joints split, 8vo, Paris, Pierre Ribou, 1709.
H.P. Parker (thought to be Henrietta Parker) - "The Fortune Teller" - Interior scene with young woman seated at a circular table holding a miniature portrait of a soldier with the elderly fortune teller reading the playing cards, 12ins x 16.75ins, inscribed on rear of picture, in modern gilt frame