The Picture Postcard as Art: Images from the Golden Era (#85MG) Closed Auction Info View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBidsViews Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-100 of 189. Previous|12|Next Lot 57 ADVERTISING: Mostly British & American Cards for alcohol & other beverages including an unusually stout (pardon the pun) set of 6 "My Goodness - My Guiness", Cadbury Chocolate x6, Pears' Soap x3, "Girls Own" Magazine x6, French Neerlando-American Line Card, political campaign Card, "Montana Bill" promotional Card, Australia mostly post-WWII x8 but including early Wertheim Pianos x2 & 1924 Bridestowe Lavender Farm (Tas), etc, condition rather variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Wat Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 58 ADVERTISING: Group of mostly British Cards for Hotels Charterhouse, Cecil and Imperial (all in London), Hotel Redcliffe (Paignton, illustrated on both sides), Metropole (Brighton), French Grande Hotel du Parc & Russian Hotel Victoria, also for Dominguez Cafe (Mexico) & 1951 multi-view for Lyndhurst Guesthouse; for Publications "The Great Home Journal", "TAT", "John Bull", "The Gentlewoman" & Russian "Pravda"; and for the Play "A Little Bit of Fluff" (Art Nouveau); also & delightful real photo of Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 59 ADVERTISING: ALCOHOL: Group of mostly British Cards including "poster" Cards for Black Swan Distillery ("Private Horse Parade..."), "Black & White" Scotch Whisky (Polo, with Indian agents' details added), Old Orkney Whisky (Love Boat), W&A Gilbey's Ports ("Leaving the Vineyards", toning on address side) & Japanese Asahi Beer x2 (pro-British subjects), also for J&F Martell Cognac (1908 Franco-British Exhibition), Messageries Maritime Card with 'Whisky Dewar, White Label' overprint (Nile River at Symbolc View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot 60 ADVERTISING: CHEESE: French Société des Caves et des Producteurs Réunis a Roquefort series of c.1901 Topographicals with illustrated advertising on the address side, on pale blue Card x22 or pale yellow Card, very fine to superb unused; plus the original packet in far above-average condition for a set of 24. Ex Keith Harrison. (24 items) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$120StatusUnsold Lot 61 ADVERTISING: CHOCOLATE: British Nestlés Swiss Milk chromolithos with military scenes, a little aged, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (4) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 62 ADVERTISING: POSTCardS: Mostly British bundle of mainly Topographicals overprinted handstamped or roneo'd on the address side for postCard wholesalers including Owen Meredith, John Thridgould, GW Wilson, Sandle Brothers, Rock Bros (including a discounted Card!) or the German firm Gustav Liersch; others soliciting original business including a marvellous real photo Card for FR Hinkins & Son (Alton); another offering Card-stock plus a Wellington & Ward packet with illustrated packet-label & four s Symbolc View details Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot 63 ADVERTISING: SEWING MACHINES: c.1910 (?) American postCard-size Cards with advertising for the Singer Manufacturing Co being artist Cards featuring National Costumes & Sewing Machines used in some unlikely places including Albania, Georgia & Turkestan, some aging/toning on the reverse does not affect the very fine facial appearance; also a large-part packet for the set of 18; and Australian "Familiar Australian Singers" (Birds), unused. (18 items) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 64 ADVERTISING: SHIPPING LINES: Group of mostly British artist Cards including "poster" Cards for Union-Castle x3 (gorgeous Cards, superb unused) & Belfast Steamship Co, also for Aberdeen Steam Navigation x2, Carron Line, Natal Line, American Colonial Navigation Co, Italian Florio-Rubattino and Dutch Batavier Line (little Dutch girl), a couple of others plus for Royal National Life-Boat Institution x3, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (16) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 65 ADVERTISING: TOBACCO: British WD & HO Wills Tobacco & Cigarette Brands chromolithos with young ladies x2 (not smoking!), Old Salt with Pipe or American Indians with Peace Pipe, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (4) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 66 ALCOHOL: Selection of mostly British Cards with "Hop Picking Series" x12, a couple of real photo types including a multi-view of 28 different pubs!!, a few advertising Cards & some amusing comics including Austrian 1912 "Drunken Village", etc, also Rudolf Blind Aggressive Temperance set of 6 artist Cards (superb unused), condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Very entertaining. Ex Keith Harrison. (51) Symbolc View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 67 ARTIST CardS: A mounted collection of British, French & American "Glamour" Cards by various artists including Phillipe Boileau, Earl Christy, Harrison Fisher, Pearle Fidler Munyon (and a few in her maiden name Alice Luella Fidler), WA Barribel, Kathryn Elliott, Angelo Asti & many unattributed including a divine series of sumptuous hats, also a couple of Tuck chromolithos, virtually all unused & all those we checked are very fine to superb. A delightful study of "Edwardian" haute couture. Ex Joe Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 68 ARTIST CardS: Album of beautiful Japanese art Cards in various media, some soiled on the reverse which does not affect the view sides. Ex Derek Pocock. (97) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot 69 ARTIST CardS: Non-British collection mostly from France & other European countries with some really beautiful Cards notably Art Nouveau designs by R Jafuri set of 6 (all used in Egypt), "LM/1901" Water Birds x5 (addressed but unused), D Mastroianni x14 mostly based on Classical themes & two superb Russian Cards, others including Swiss Mountain Trolls x3, Belgium Impressionist Scenes by H Lassier x16, Italian Pointilist/Impressionist Paintings by Alfonso Corradi set of 10, Greece Views of Salonik Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 70 ARTIST CardS: Delightful selection of early Glamour/Nudity Cards by various French artists including several sets of 6 & A Jarach set of 7 with the original packet, mostly unused, condition variable but generally fine to very fine with some being superb. Ex Keith Harrison. (81) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 71 ARTIST CardS: French Lévy et Neurdein Réunis (LL) bundle of sepia Museum Cards of French masterpieces including Medieval & Napoloeonic themes, also Franco-Prusiian War, etc, mostly unused & generally very fine. (61) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 72 ARTIST CardS: EVA DANIELL: British Raphael Tuck "Modern Art" complete set of 6 with Undivided Backs, unused. Superb! Magnificent Art Nouveau Cards. Ex Keith Harrison. (6) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 73 ARTIST CardS: CHARLES DANA GIBSON: Mounted display including "Gibson Girls" (some coloured), sepia studies from various series, some with coloured borders, many with romantic content, others with cutting commentary on social climbing & the class system, some are quite humorous, virtually all those we checked are very fine to superb used or unused. Ex Joe Duif. (47) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 74 ARTIST CardS: One-frame exhibit of the "Gibson Girl" from various series including "The Education of Mr Pipp", "Pictorial Comedy" & "Life's Comedy", also a couple of WWI patriotics & a superb "Golf" set of 6 in the original packet (which, unusually, is very fine), many with entertaining/humorous social commentary, mostly unused & generally very fine to superb. Ex Joe Duif. (41 + packet) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 75 ARTIST CardS: Another unmounted selection again from various series including "The Education of Mr Pipp" x2, on pale blue Card & with coloured borders, some minor duplication noted, some minor problems but many are very fine to superb used or unused; also an almost very fine Ward Lock & Co (Melbourne) envelope for "Pictorial Comedy Set A7". Ex Joe Duif. (45 + envelope) Symbolc View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 76 ARTIST CardS: Gibson Cards for James Henderson & Sons (London), "Gibson Girl" sepia prints with embossed oval frames, a few minor blemishes, unused. (8) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 77 ARTIST CardS: JEAN JAM: early-1900s Libraire de l'Estampe "Les Baigneuses" (Ladies in Bathing Costumes including with a Crab, a Camera & two with a Bathing Box) set of 7, very fine unused; also the original wrapper in unusually fine condition. Ex Keith Harrison. (8 items) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 78 ARTIST CardS: RAPHAEL KIRCHNER: 1897 Undivided Back "Gruss aus Wien" (Music Hall) with overprinted advertisement for Dalmatian Red Wine, light damp spotting on the address side, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [From Kirchner's first postCard series] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 79 ARTIST CardS: "Santoy" Numbers I III V & VI with Undivided Backs, unused. Gorgeous series. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 80 ARTIST CardS: "Légendes" Numbers I to VI complete with Undivided Backs, minor corner blemishes, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (6) SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 81 ARTIST CardS: Austrian edition Half-Views of Fashionable Ladies & their Accoutrements with Grey Border at Right, unused. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. (5) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 82 ARTIST CardS: Austrian edition Fashionable Ladies with Eggs, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (4) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 83 ARTIST CardS: ditto, two further designs for PM & Co (London) but "Printed in Austria", unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$200Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 84 ARTIST CardS: ESW (Austria) Pierrot & Clown in red & white, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$75StatusUnsold Lot 85 ARTIST CardS: Flowers in the Hair Series set (?) of 9 with Undivided Backs, light damp spotting on the address side, all locally used at 'ISMAILIA' (Egypt) in 1900. Ex Keith Harrison. (9) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot 86 ARTIST CardS: SEW (?) "Enfants de la Mer" set (?) of 10 with Undivided Backs, a few with minor spotting, unused. Saucy frolicking at the beach. Ex Keith Harrison. (10) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$350Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 87 ARTIST CardS: Leroy et Cremieu (Paris) "Les Péchés Capitaux" (= The Seven Deadly Sins) set of 7 with Undivided Backs, unused; also the original packet (part of the flap is missing). Gorgeous & superb! We like the expressive Pierrot. Ex Keith Harrison. (7 + packet) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$600Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 88 ARTIST CardS: HM & Co (London) "Marionettes" with Undivided Backs, different designs of a scantilly clad female puppet-master manipulating a courting couple, minor blemishes, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [These Cards feature geometric symbol "perfins" that are evident from the address-side but don't quite puncture the stock. We have never before seen the use of this technique] (6) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 89 ARTIST CardS: French "Vieux Temps" set of 6 erotic nudes, all used with French 'ST GERMAIN EN LAYE A PARIS/13/JANV/01' railway datestamp, ink notations on the view-side still very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (6) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 90 ARTIST CardS: Leroy et Cremieu (Paris) "La Mer fleurie" (risqué bathing costumes), unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$75StatusUnsold Lot 91 ARTIST CardS: Reinthal & Newman (New York) "Expiation" (Pierrot's Head on a Platter), unused. Great design! Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 92 ARTIST CardS: M MUNK (Vienna): early-1900s Divided Backs Erotica "Ah! qu'on s'ennuie!" & "Petit dejeuner matinal", set (?) of 8 with Topless Ladies & Amazing Hats (a few minor blemishes), six of Stylish Ladies with Plain Backs (proofs?, plus one of these designs - Divided Back - used under cover in 1907), unused. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. (17) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 93 ARTIST CardS: A PENOT: early-1900s R et Cie Glamour & semi-Nudes x12 from various series, plus Leroy et Cremieu saucy "Tennis" Cards x5, a few blemishes, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (17) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$250Price Realized$190StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 94 ARTIST CardS: K VON MERIZZI: British PM & Co "Months of the Year" Art Nouveau complete set of 12 with Undivided Backs, unused. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. (12) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 95 ARTIST CardS: LOUIS WAIN: c.1902 Undivided Backs British "Write-away" Cards of a Cat Swimming (very fine used DE23/02), Drinking (a bit grubby, 1903 usage on the Isle of Wight), or Fishing (French edition, very fine used in 1903); also Raphael Tuck "Marie Dainton in the Chinese Honeymoon" (corner stains, very early usage AP28/02). Ex Keith Harrison, who noted the earliest recorded date for a Louis Wain Card is 5/3/1902. SymbolcGradea/c View details Estimate$250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 96 ARTIST CardS: c.1902 British Hartmann embossed Cat (Horse Racing) Cards with Undivided Backs "In the Weighing Room" & "Welsher" (a reneging bookie), superb unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200Price Realized$240StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 97 ARTIST CardS: British Divided Backs Raphael Tuck Cats "You Will Be Lucky In Love" (soiled on the address-side, used in 1908); Valentine's "Isle of Man: We won't go home till morning" (Dancing, unused) & "Be It Ever So Humble, There Is No Place Like Home" (Rooftop Orchestra, used at Douglas Isle of Man in 1912). Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 98 ARTIST CardS: British pre-World War I Max Ettlinger & Co Three Cats "Fishermen" and "Motorists", unused. Ex Keith Harrison, who noted these are among the scarcest Cards in Louis Wain's catalogue. SymbolcGradea-/a View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot 99 ARTIST CardS: British Davidson Brothers Strutting Owls "We shall be home at...", unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot 100 AVIATION: Mostly British group with real photo types 1912 Daily Mail "Mr BC Hucks on his 70hp Bleriot", c.1921 of very stylish Aviators & Their Biplane with a Crowd Behind, Topical PostCard Co "Handley Page Monoplane" & 1929 "The Schneider Trophy Race" set of 6 (contemporary notes on reverse otherwise superb) & the original packet (faults), also c.WWI Austrian Emperor Inspecting Biplane, etc, a few 1970s reprints of early aircraft, a few artist Cards plus humorous group x6 including "A Peep Into Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 101 AVIATION: Turbo-prop aircraft with Pan Am flying boats & their Bases with many of the famous "Clippers", seaplanes, artist Cards & a good selection of real photo types including two "Graf Zeppelin" Cards (one used) and Southern Cross being guarded by natives in Albert Park Suva, small group of aerial photographs, many countries & airlines including groups for Chalk's (West Indies) & Avianca (Colombia), aircrew (mostly hostesses), some very unusual aircraft noted, also an unusual batch of cockpit SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,000StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 102 AVIATION: Turbo-prop aircraft by airline from America, Africa, Russia, Asia, Europe, mostly "moderns" but many useful Cards from 1950s & 1960s and some earlier, lots of smaller carriers many of which we have never encountered elsewhere, fine to very fine and mostly unused. (1500 approx) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 103 AVIATION: Carton of mostly jet aircraft with array of airlines including freight carriers, mostly modern types but some better 1950s & 1960s Cards and many tiny/unheard of carriers, generally very fine unused. (1000 approx) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 104 CHILDREN: Mounted group with studio portraits, groups at play, artist Cards by Milicent Sowerby x4, Agnes Richardson x6 & Margaret Tarrant etc, good Australian - especially South Australian - content including Miniature Railway Adelaide Exhibition Grounds, "Eileen Bernard Champion Girl Athlete", "Little Daisy Harding Gold Medallist", "Maggie Bevan...Winner of 115 Eisteddfodic Prizes" & "Lulu Benstead Young Coolgardie Singer", Children on Elephant at Wonderland City Bondi, also German fairy tale Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 105 CHILDREN: Large album of mostly artist Cards from many countries, lots of variety including activities, friendship, siblings, games, animals/anthropomorphism (animals in human guise, including a set of 6 greeting Cards - not postCards - designed by Shirley Jones), fairy tales, Christmas etc, also Mason Firth & McCutcheon (Melbourne) advertising Cards for MacRobertson's Chocolate x2, lots of humorous & fantasy Cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A beautiful collection. Ex S Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 106 CHILDREN: the continuation of the collection with many better Cards noted including Fairman Co (USA) Red Indians x6, Austrian Prof Cizek's Juvenile Art Class & similar x18, Art Nouveau including by Willebeek Le Mair x5, lots of Humour including some very non-PC subjects!, Turner & Sons (Sydney) "Please, Sir, is this where we enlist...?", May Gibbs "We'll all be there to meet you", Maisie Carte "By Gum dearie..." & French "Joie des Enfants" x4, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000StatusUnsold Lot 107 CHILDREN: Artist Cards by S Barham mostly published by CW Faulkner (London) with a good range of subjects, lots of Lanterns plus a fair dose of whimsy & fantasy including a few Peter Pan types, generally fine to very fine. A beautiful series. Ex Shirley Jones. (35) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 108 CHOCOLATE: Artist advertising Cards for Fry's Milk Chocolate x4, Cadbury's Cocoa, Chocolat Suisse Zürcher (gorgeous but with a heavy crease) and Bensdorp's Royal Dutch Cocoa x4, condition variable but several are very fine. A great subject. Ex Shirley Jones. (9) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 109 CHOCOLATE: France 1900 Exposition Universelle de Paris, lovely advertising Cards for Chocolat Express Grondard, all different, unused. (10) SymbolcGradeA/A- View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 110 CLIMATE: Large album of Snow subjects including snow falls, snowmen, snowball fights, skiing etc, with a marvellous Ballarat group x60+ including the delightful "Arresting the Snow man", other Victorians from Beechworth, Hamilton (!), Daylesford, Mount Buffalo, Omeo & Woods Point, interstate including Mount Lofty/Crafers (SA) x20 & Snowy Mountains (NSW), British & European group with strong Christmas element, sleighs & toboggans & even a snow-bound Adolf Hitler (!), condition variable but genera Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot 111 COIN CardS: Undivided Backs for Mexico and Turkey, Divided Backs x14 including for Japan x2 different, Brazil, Turkey, British India and Ceylon, Dutch Indies, Bulgaria etc, all with inset exchange rates, fine to very fine, mostly unused. (16) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 112 COIN CardS: Mounted collection of mostly embossed Zieher-type Cards with coin sets from numerous large & small nations, some with exchange rates & others with inset photographs, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (83) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 113 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: German coloured artist Cards depicting medieval punishments with Stocks, Ducking Stool & various other humiliations, victims include quarrelsome women, an under-performing musician, a Card cheat, etc, various publishers, unused. Delightful, if somewhat over the top. Ex Derek Pocock. (8) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$160StatusUnsold Lot 114 CRIME & PUNISHMENT: Sobering mostly British group with Instruments of Torture, Ducking Stool, Chinese Beheadings, "Portland Prison: Bootmakers at Work", Rotophot Undivided Backs of Old Newgate Prison x9, "Convict Ship Success" etc, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine+. Ex Keith Harrison. (30) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 115 CYCLING: Mostly British group including Star Series "Bicycle Race - a Hot Pace", EFA "Scottish Cyclists resisting Cavalry" (hilarious!, superb unused), real photo types x7 of Proud Owners - including Suffragettes (?) x3 - & their Mounts, a few humorous Cards, also German 1897 artist Card by H Hildenbrand used in Holland, a few problems but generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (23) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 116 DEATH: Outstanding collection of death-related Cards from many countries, lots of blood & gore including executions in China & Mexico, some military-related, also religious themed subjects including catacombs some with skeletons in priests' robes & others with massive piles of bones, also religious artist Cards of martyrs, funeral processions, graveyards, noted Italy 1908 Messina Earthquake, Japan 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake x9, Canada 1917 Great Halifax Explosion plus a booklet with 31 postCard Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 117 DEATH: and as if that weren't enough, there's a second volume!! with very little duplication of the Cards in the previous lot & this time including a very good Funeral of Edward VII group, also real photo types including some startling images, generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (260 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,200Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 118 DEATH: Two-frame (30 pages) exhibit with some marvellous Cards including GB "Old Coffin House, Brixham", Italy "Catacomb of Cappucine Monks" (five skeletons in priestly vestments!), Ossuaries in Hythe (GB) & Rome, Indo-China "Annamite Burial Ceremony", Ceylon "Cremation of Buddhist Priest", Cuba Glass-Sided Hearse, etc, also a gruesome selection of Chinese beheadings & strangulations, "Mexican Federal Prisoners lined up for Execution" (shot in the back), Cuba "Bone Pile" (more like a hill than a Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 119 DEATH: Album of Graves from Britain, India including elaborate Mughal Tombs, China/Hong Kong, Russia, Tonga etc, one Peruvian "headstone" is surmounted by an automobile (!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Fascinating stuff. Ex Derek Pocock. (126) Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 120 DEATH: German FA Ackerman set of Cards bearing c.1848 woodcuts by Alfred Rethel in the style of Albrecht Durer depicting "Death" as a Skeleton waiting for people to die or assisting their death, unused. Frightening stuff. Ex Derek Pocock. [Alfred Rethel was a 19th century artist who suffered from severe mental illness. Like many artists, his best work flowed from his darkest periods] (8) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 121 ENTERTAINMENT: British William Shakespeare group with artist Cards by G Demain Hammond x10 and John Gielgud as Richard II by Elizabeth Montgomery, Stratford-on-Avon Tuck set of 6, 1912 "Shakespeare's England at Earl's Court", etc; also 1901 Empire Theatre Old China Ballet set of 12 Cards by C Wilhelm; generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (36) Symbolc View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 122 ENTERTAINMENT: British Actors & Actresses mostly studio shots but a few more interesting photographs, all autographed & some dated, generally fine to very fine, mostly unused. Top lot for the autograph hunter. Ex Keith Harrison. (120+) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 123 ENTERTAINMENT: Substantial box of mostly British Actors & Actresses mostly studio shots including "The Biograph Post Card" Undivided Backs x36, "Madame Clara Butt" & "Madame Sarah Bernhardt", some family shots including "Miss Edna May's Wedding Party", "Mr & Mrs George Robey & Children" and "Mr & Mrs Harry Lauder", some multi-views including "Ellen Terry" & "Marie Studholme", also a good range of "stills" from stage productions, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. A much better than ave Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 124 ENTERTAINMENT: the continuation of the collection on display pages, the highlight is a selection of the statuesque Camille Clifford (the original "Gibson Girl") being leered at by caricature characters including a rather obvious Salvador Dali, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (800 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$800StatusUnsold Lot 125 ENTERTAINMENT: Box of mostly movie stars real photo Cards, the majority from Hollywood with many Silent Movies stars including Charlie Chaplin (two excellent Little Tramp poses), Rudolph Valentino x15 (some of his "brother" Rodolfo!), Mary Pickford, Tom Mix, Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks & Dorothy Gish (Lillian's little sister) etc, plus 1930s Talkies stars including Jane Withers, Shirley Temple, Jackie Cooper, Clark Gable (without moustache!), Greta Garbo, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Robert You Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 126 ENTERTAINMENT: Mostly stage performers including "Houdini" (endorsed "the handcuff king", Cat £100), "Chaffer's Wonder Midgets" (they're all children!), "The Troupe of Royal Midgets", "Abomah, the African Giantess", "Mariedl, the Tyrolean Giantess", "The smallest conjuring couple..." signed "E Gondin", "Klein Family", "Stella Troupe of Dancers", "The Mystic with the X-Ray Eyes", "The Champion Fasting Man" signed "Sacco", "Ladies Pompadour Orchestra" etc, condition variable but generally fine to Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 127 ENTERTAINMENT: Great Britain 1916-20 real photos of performing troupes comprising "Jack Sheppard's Entertainers, Brighton 1917" & similar for 1919 & 1920, and various groups of Pierrots including "Bert Grapho and his Jovial Jollies" & c.1916 Australian Comforts Fund "The Anzac Coves", unused. (8) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 128 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted mostly British group of theatre buildings mostly the larger venues but including "Penge Empire Theatre", "Super Cinema, Ilford", "Picture Palace, Heytesbury", "Picture Playhouse" (Birmingham), "Garrison Theatre, Tidworth Barracks" x2, Melbourne's "Melba Theatre" x2 & "Rickards Tivoli Theatre", some are real photo types including 1922 "Hillside Picture Pavilion" (Australian ?) after being destroyed in a storm x2, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 129 ENTERTAINMENT: Extensive mounted collection of theatre actresses (mostly) & actors, mostly studio portraits but some more interesting studies noted, mostly names unknown to recent generations but including "household names" Lily Langtry, Clara Butt, Lillian Russell, Sarah Bernhardt, Anna Pavlova, the delightfully named Tittell Brune, the infamous Mata Hari and a Portrait Bas-Relief Card of Nellie Melba, some cross-dressing noted, also a 1900 mourning Card for Madmoiselle Henriot, condition varia Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 130 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted mostly British group of scenes from and advertising for stage productions including Slough...Operatic Society "HMS Pinafore" & "The Mikado", "The Dairymaids" x3, "Crossing the Great Sahara", "The Fatal Wedding", "The Sentry & the Maid", "Chung Ling Soo & Company" x2 & "The Ugliest Woman on Earth", also various Pierrot Groups & Anglo-American Exposition "Wild West" x5; then a selection of entertainment venues & amusement centres including various grand piers, Luna Parks & H Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 131 ENTERTAINMENT: Mounted collection of mostly Hollywood movie actors & actresses with earlier celebrities including Rudolph Valentino, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, Ramon Navarro, Adolphe Menjou, Al Jolson (in white-face), Ethel Barrymore, Jackie Coogan, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers, Maurice Chevalier, Gloria Swanson, Sonja Henie, Hedy Lamar, a swag of Shirley Temple including as a teenager (probably rare) & Rin Tin Tin (!), Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 132 ENTERTAINMENT: Fascinating bundle with sideshow freaks including Siamese Twins x2, Tattooed Ladies x2 & "Jang, the Tailed Boy of Borneo", lots of midgets/dwarfs including Tiny Town group, "Chaffer's Midget Revue" & "Mrs General Mite with her tiny pony and cab", also "Dan the Original Drunken Dog" x2, "The Original World-Famous Fasting Man" (seriously!), magicians The Great Thurston x4 & Leslie Maxwell x2, etc, many are real photo types, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. A truly Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$375StatusSold Lot 133 ENTERTAINMENT: French set of Undivided Backs of Sarah Bernhardt as Cleopatra, Pauline Blanchard, Frou-Frou, a female Cyrano de Bergerac (really) etc, in drag as Hamlet & Aiglon, and as herself, minor corner impressions otherwise very fine unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (12) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 134 ENTERTAINMENT: Marie Studholme collection of mostly studio portraits in stage costume or "civvies" including sumptuous gowns & extravagant hats, also Exhausted After Tennis, Learning Ju Jitsu & with Second Billing to an Elephant!, many real photo types, some photos used for multiple editions, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [Marie Studholme, born Caroline Marita Lupton, was a prominent Edwardian stage actress more noted for her beauty than her talent] (160 ap Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 135 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Mounted group with good representation from 1897 Columbian, 1900 Paris & 1908 Franco-British plus many smaller or less well-known exhibitions including 1897 Hamburg, 1902 Dusseldorf, 1903 Zurich, 1906 Milan, 1907 New Orleans Mardi Gras x6, 1910 Brussels, 1929 North-East Coast (England) x7, etc, many unusual subjects & numerous beautiful types including chromo-lithos & real photos, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (190 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 136 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Useful selection from Great Britain with 1891 Royal Naval Exhibition with special postmark (faults but the Lighthouse side is quite presentable), 1904 Earls Court x10 including "Sir Hiram Maxim's Captive Airships" (the same guy who invented the Maxim Gun), and 1904 Midlands artist Card of the Exhibition Ablaze & one other; Europe with 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle x9 including "Station des Fauteils roulants" (a Row of Wheelchairs!!), 1902 Dusseldorf x3, 1910 Bru Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 137 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: Gorgeous group from Paris 1900 x2, St Louis 1904, Dusseldorf 1904 x2, Liège 1905 x7, Amiens 1906, San Francisco 1909, Turin 1911, Leipzig 1913 and San Francisco 1915 x2, mostly unused, generally very fine. (18) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot 138 EXHIBITIONS - NON-PHILATELIC: 1900 Exposition Universelle de Paris, beautiful group comprising chromolithos x23, and others x19, mostly unused and generally fine to very fine. One of the most attractive lots in the sale. (42) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 139 GLAMOUR: Mounted group of mostly tasteful Cards from Britain USA & Europe with many artist Cards including delightful Art Deco & Art Nouveau types, lots of romance Cards & some very mild nudity, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 140 GLAMOUR: Bundle of artist Cards from Great Britain x60 approximately, Austria x8, Germany x13, Italy x12, Russia x3 & a few others, generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [See also Lots 141 629 & 793‹] (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 141 GLAMOUR: Stimulating Art Nouveau group from Britain & Europe with many exceptional designs & exquisite printing, Undivided Backs x44, a few sets (?) of 4 or 6 Cards including Pierrot & the Ballerina x6 (superb), Lecherous Moon x4, Carl Josza "Vor dem Spiegel" Numbers II IV & VI and Albert Langen set of 6 (some soiling), also noted at least one by Henri Meunier, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. A wonderful lot. Ex Keith Harrison. (81) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,250Price Realized$1,300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 142 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Raphael Kirchner in various styles including Art Nouveau, Art Deco and two faux Japanese, publishers include Le Coq Matheral & Bernard (Paris) x3 & Bruton Galleries (London) x7 (two are damaged at the base), some are quite saucy & there is some very mild nudity, mostly fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (16) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 143 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Suzanne Meunier in various styles mostly of ladies in various stages of undress, one of a nude encoiled by a python, one rather knocked-about, the others with minor soiling/blemishes. Ex Bronte Watts. (10) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 144 GLAMOUR: Artist Cards by Xavier Sager in various styles including a few racy/suggestive types, mostly good to fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (10) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 145 HANDS ACROSS THE SEA: Five albums of HATS & similar themes with numerous Hand Shakes, lots of flowers & schmaltz, shamrocks & kitsch but some better content, noted six "silks" including "Hands Across the Sea/RMS Cymric", 1908 Visit of the American Fleet, 1910 Union of South Africa, a few with aviation theme (one with a Zeppelin!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (500 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 146 HOSPITALS: Ancient album of Cards probably half from Great Britain including WWI Convalescent Hospitals, India Canada & New Zealand all well represented with smatterings from many other Colonies & a small number from foreign countries, also a few Hospital Ships, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A remarkable collection that weighs 2.7kg. Ex Derek Pocock. [NB: None from Australia or the United States] (440 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 147 HOSPITALS: A fascinating collection with strength in Great Britain, New Zealand, India & Canada (including a 2-panel panorama of Sacred Heart at Montreal), others from South Africa, Kenya, St Lucia, Tanganyika, Panama, etc, many real photo types including aerial views & an unidentified asylum destroyed by fire, Hospital Ships x2, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [We suggest avoiding "The Guest Hospital, Dudley" - what did they feed them? - but you might enjoy Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 148 HOTELS: Attractive mostly British group including Undivided Back for Portpatrick Hotel Scotland (superb unused), "The Old George Hotel, Salisbury. Built about 1320..." x2, "Micawber's Little Inn, Canterbury", "Park Hotel, Preston", "Tewkesbury, The Bell Hotel" & advertising Card for Gresham Hotel (Dublin), USA including a lovely poster Card for "The Roosevelt/New Orleans/...", condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex "Cartophile". (60 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 149 HUMOUR: Amusing range of mostly British Cards with a one frame exhibit "Where Did You Get That Hat?", some others mounted plus a bundle of loose Cards with cycling, motoring, relationships, inebriation, children including patriotics etc, many by the prolific Tom Browne & Donald McGill etc, generally fine to very fine. An attractive lot. Ex Joe Duif. [Also books "Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill" (1966) & "The Grown-Ups Nursery Book" with illustrations by Donald McGill (2009)] (90 app Symbolc/l View details Estimate$250Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 150 HUMOUR: Old album of British double entendre Cards, lots of Donald McGills & others by Brian Perry, "Taylor", "Pedro", "Fitzpatrick" etc, generally very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. [Parental permission required to view on-line!] (260 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$300StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 151 HUMOUR: Folio of mostly British Cards with lots of double entendres, picaninny Cards x6, classic "The Husband, and How to Train It" x2, superb GE Shepheard "Man & Horse" types x6, etc, also a couple of American dumb humour Cards & French risqué group x12 including by Xavier Sager, condition a bit mixed but most are fine to superb. (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 152 HUMOUR: "Are You a Mason?" British Cards National Series x6 & Savoy Series x3, an American type dated 1907 & two later types one by Donald McGill, lots of goats & odd handshakes, generally fine & mostly unused. (12) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot 153 HUMOUR: British "Police" group by various artists & producers, some rippers noted, condition variable but most are fine to very fine. (44) Symbolc View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 154 HUMOUR: British World War I postCards with original patriotic cartoons by Fred Gothard, all initialled "FG" & with 'Original Sketch by FG' handstamp on the address sides, a little aged. (6) SymbolcGradea-/b View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 155 HUMOUR: World War II American Beales linen artist Cards by Max Halverson featuring various Women's Army Corps subjects with lots of then acceptable sexism & a fair dose of feminism, plus a few anti-Axis, unused. Superb! (28) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 156 HUMOUR: Great Britain 1960s double entendre Cards by David Phillip Millar for D Constance Ltd under the pseudonyms "Pedro", "Carlos", "Bob" & "Flip" being modern reprints "using the original Letterpress Printing Plates", each numbered '0243/250', plain backs. (30) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next
