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 PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low) Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 61-70 of 189. Previous|1...5678910...19|Next 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$1,400StatusSold 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$550StatusSold 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$460StatusSold 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$500StatusSold 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$320StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...5678910...19|Next12345678910111213141516171819 Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next Previous 12345678910111213141516171819 Next
