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 101-189 of 189. Previous|12|Next Lot 157 HUMOUR: Belgium c.1920 Mannequin Pis Meets Charlie Chaplin "Tiens...il Pleut!" (= Blast! It's Raining!) by Marco Marcovici. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 158 INDIGENOUS SUBJECTS: Fascinating group of mostly African women & girls - many topless - plus a few from Dutch Indies including "Tattooing", "Dyak Warriors, Borneo" & "A Native Grave-yard, British North Borneo", etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (32) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 159 LIBRARIES: Collection in two volumes with strength in British Cards but with useful Australian, American - including 1906 Earthquake Damage to Stanford University Library - & French content and many other countries represented, buildings range from the massive to the modest, some Interiors & others of ancient books etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A fascinating lot that should appeal to a wide audience. Ex Derek Pocock. (340 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot 160 MILITARY - VARIOUS: Mostly pre-World War II group of mostly British naval ships with many real photo & artist types, also HMS "Powerful" - the Australian Flag Ship - x2, on-board training & signalling, several submarines including "Submarine EII Returning from the Dardanelles", portraits of Admiral Jellicoe x3, Admiral Patey - the Australian Commander in Chief - & Captain Glossop of HMAS "Sydney", etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. A very good lot. (90 appr Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 161 MILITARY Album with a mostly French collection of World War I Cards focusing on war damage to towns & buildings, with bilingual captions (100 approx); also some Waterloo subjects & a few World War II; then Australian War Memorials in Canberra Sydney & Melbourne x47; and "moderns" including WWI German Uniforms x24; etc, condition of the earlier material is variable otherwise generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex "Cartophile". (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 162 MILITARY BOER WAR: Troops in Camp (NZ 1d Postal Card, unused), Troops Departing for South Africa x5 including one from New Zealand, British Forces in South Africa including "Hlangwane - The Line of the Guns 15 Dec 1899", "The Post Office - Military Encampment - Bloemfontein", "Bluejackets with Maxim Gun", "Old Fort at Mafeking", "During the Siege of Kimberley..." (Cecil Rhodes & his fortified lodgings), "Shell-Proof Shelters at Beaconsfield", "Armoured Train", "Boer Guns Captured at Bloemfontein Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 163 MILITARY Bundle of British propaganda & patriotic Cards mostly featuring Generals and Flags & two with patriotic verses, mourning Card for Sir Hector Macdonald, artist Cards "Well done, Gallant little Mafeking..." (unused) & "Majuba/Paardeberg/Ladysmith" (scribbling on view side), court-size 'Peace Commemoration Post Card' with photo of General de Wet in violet, "Peace - Lasting Peace" with map of Southern Africa & General Kitchener inset, etc, condition variable. Ex Bronte Watts. (29) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 164 MILITARY Underwood & Underwood stereo Cards including "Destroyed Railway Bridge over the Vet River", "Royal Engineers Building Temporary Railway Bridge", "Getting a Transport Wagon up the North Bank of the Modder", "Ex President Kruger's Home at Pretoria", etc, fine to very fine. (6) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$60StatusUnsold Lot 165 MILITARY St Helena three-view Cards featuring Broadbottom & Deadwood Boer Prisoners of War Camps, minor faults, unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (2) SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 166 MILITARY Boer/pro-Boer group with President Kruger x19 including his house, funeral & grave, Kruger with his Executive Committee, portraits of De Wet & Du Plessis, then a range of mostly European Cards with pro-Boer & anti-British propaganda including a superb set of 8 artist Cards by Victa with the original envelope, French petition Card pre-addressed to the Tsar of Russia etc, some are real photo types, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (52) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 167 MILITARY German & Dutch pro-Boer propaganda Cards including humorous types, heroic portraits, etc, generally fine to very fine, several are unused, (14) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 168 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in South Africa x26, Canada x6 and New Zealand x8, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. [This & the next two lots comprise the most extensive such collection we have encountered] (40) Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 169 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in Australia with New South Wales x6, Queensland, South Australia x13, Victoria x10 & Western Australia x3, several are of unveiling ceremonies, a few are real photo types, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (33) Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 170 MILITARY Boer War Monuments in Great Britain several are of unveiling ceremonies, many real photo types, a few related but non-monument Cards, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts. (90 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 171 MILITARY WORLD WAR I: Interesting group of mostly British Cards including Nurse Edith Cavell x3 (one printed on material), "The Paravane...for Destroying Hun Mines", "Shakespeare Hut: Lounge enlarged for Concert", "Hartlepools [sic] Bombarded by Germans Dec 16th 1914", humorous group including a few rib-ticklers & a couple of Australian-related subjects, generally fine to very fine. (48) Symbolc View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 172 MILITARY WORLD WAR II: 1945 series of five photographs of the execution of Benito Mussolini & his mistress Clara Petacci & another that appears to be an effigy of Adolf Hitler. Gruesome stuff but they are not first generation prints so are very grainy. [With the original envelope in which they were bought by a US soldier at the Esso gas station in Milan where the bodies were hung from meathooks] (7 items) SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot 173 MOTORCYCLES: British group of real photo types comprising New Hudson "GX9819" x6 (three with children on the bike), Triumph "ALL364" with Sidecar x4 (one with child on the bike), two others with unidentified brands (one with sidecar on a beach!, the other creased), and an unusual type again with sidecar, three passengers & a dog, very fine to superb unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (13) SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 174 MUSIC: Bundle mostly of Classical Music Subjects including real photo Cards of composers Tchaikovsky, Gounod, Berlioz, Debussy, Bizet, Greig, Paderewski and performers Enrico Caruso (as Pagliacci) & the acclaimed pianist Wilhelm Backhaus, also brass bands "The Royal Besses o' th' Barn", "Munn & Felton's Works Band" (creased) & Salvation Army "The Norwegian Staff Band" etc, Carlton Publishing Co Lute Player set of 6 (very fine to superb used) & Tuck's "IIustrated Songs" set (?) of 24 (mostly supe Symbolc View details Estimate$240StatusUnsold Lot 175 MUSIC: Alliance Series Bas-Relief Card "Mdme Melba", unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [Born Helen Porter Mitchell, Dame Nellie Melba was Australia's greatest opera singer] SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot 176 MUSIC: c.1962 Dutch Uiig Takken (Utrecht) "The Beatles" (in Concert), unused. Ex Keith Harrison. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 177 NATIONAL SYMBOLS: Raphael Tuck Heraldic Emblems of the Nations x5 (superb) & British Imperial Orders set of 6 (superb, with original packet), RPPC "Arms of Schools" etc x6, Oxford University x5, EFA "Coats of Arms & Flags" x11, German "National Flags" x8, etc; "Stamp Cards" x16 including unusual Menke Huber (Zurich) types x4; and "Coin Cards" x13 including a few unusual types, & OA&S "Coinage Series" art Cards x5; mostly unused & generally fine to very fine. An unusual lot. Ex Keith Harrison. (7 Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$440StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 178 NOVELTY: Extensive collection of weird stuff including postCards made from or incorporating timber, cork, peat moss, metal, glass, celluloid, human hair, fur, a lump of granite, felt, feathers, sand paper (for lighting a match!) & so on, others with moving parts!, also fantasy Cards x10, a few stamp montage Cards & a group with novelty subjects including sand sculptures & models of an underground opal mine & the Sydney Harbour Bridge, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 179 NOVELTY: Fantasy Heads/Visual Illusions including Napoleon, Schiller, Bismarck, Liszt, Leopold II and Wagner all with hidden nymphets cavorting in their cerebrums, some minor faults. Ex Bronte Watts. Clever! (14) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$100Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 180 NOVELTY: Selection of mostly British Cards including Hold to Light types, many embossed Cards including unusual types, "Silks" including "King Edward" (ship) and Grant & Co "A Curious Love Letter", others including with fabric, appliqué (including an extraordinary peacock) or moving parts, made from peat leather metal wood or plastic (!, used under cover in 1915 in a glassine envelope that is included!), a wonderful Tuck's postCard size Jigsaw Puzzle in its original packet, French Fantasy Heads Symbolc View details Estimate$350Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 181 NOVELTY: "Instalment Cards" from Great Britain "Progressive Courtship" set of 4 (used in 1904); Austria "Flower Delivery Boy" set of 8 (used in 1899); and Germany "Mountain Village" set of 4 (used in 1898), embossed "Valentine" set of 4 (unused) & World War I "Weltkrieg 1914-16" set of 10 (three used from German Field Post Offices), fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. [Basically simple jigsaw puzzles; placed in order, the individual Cards create a larger picture. See also Lots 461, 504 & 609] Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 182 NOVELTY: Great Britain c.1910 (?) Rotary Photographic Co four Cards with postCard-backs each with 12 (2) or 20 (2) perforated real photos of actress Gladys Cooper (3) or "Mother and Child" with large-part original gum!!, some gum blemishes but facially superb. Weird & wonderful! and the only such "Cards" we have seen. Ex Keith Harrison. [Apparently, it was intended that these "Cinderellas" would be separated & used on other correspondence] (4) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 183 NUDITY: Riveting group of mostly reasonably tasteful nudes - many masquerading as high art - including many full frontals, some lesbian content & a few bondage/domination suggestions, most are real photos - many with plain backs - but a good number have postCard backs especially the significant French content which includes several "sets" of between 4 & 8 shots and British "The Seldoms at the London Pavilion" set of 6, virtually all unused but we noted a lone example that passed through the Brit SymbolcGradea/a+ View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 184 NUDITY: Mostly attractive indigenous group from Malaya x6, Indo-China x3, Africa x7, Philippines & Japan (geisha), condition a bit variable, mostly unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (18) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$150Price Realized$160StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 185 NUDITY: Mounted group - terrible pun! - including couples, French Harem set of 10, Lesbians, a couple of really smutty shots (no, they're not on the website!), etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. (44) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$180StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 186 OLYMPIC GAMES: 1908 London Stadium x2, Marathon x2, Swimming (the outside pool was within the athletics track!) & French/Italian teams sightseeing in tights; and 1912 Stockholm Opening Ceremony, Athletics finish of 200m, hilarious dancing by the Finnish gymnastics team; two other non-Olympics; mostly unused & generally very fine. (11) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 187 OLYMPIC GAMES: 1912 Stockholm nine official real photo Cards with Swedish/English captions including "Inauguration of the stadium", "The football final: a turned-off attack", a Canadian swimmer who set 4 world records, a Swede diving into a sandpit, a Russian sculler (rowink, not drinkink), a lovely group of fine to superb quality; also Nordisk Kunst soccer match (adhesions on reverse) & a Russian Card of the finish of the 1500m race (a bit soiled). (11) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 188 PANORAMA CardS: Two-panels "Sierra Leone - Barracks of...West African Regiment" (unused), "Busteni" (Rumania, used), Bulgaria x2 (unused) & Germany "...Winterfeste des Oberharzer Skiklubs in Braunlage 1905" (superb unused); and three-panels "Panorama de la Serena, Chile" (very fine used), "New York Water Front..." (used, faults), "...Vladivostok" (unused but worn) and "...Budapest" (unused). A rare & desirable group. Ex Keith Harrison. (9) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 189 POLITICS & PROPAGANDA: Mounted group with US Presidents, UK Prime Ministers, French Ministers x3, Benito Mussolini & Adolf Hitler, election Cards, in memoriam Cards, French & German 1898-99 Affaire Dreyfus x12, World War I group including Nurse Edith Cavell x4, & a group of British & French satirical anti-German Cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine; also a range of American moderns from JF Kennedy to George W Bush (not included in the count or estimate). Ex Bronte Watts. (1 Symbolc View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot 190 PORTRAITS: Collection of real photo candid & studio portraits including many weddings, a few events including a ship-board Jam-Licking Contest (!), some tourist groups including several charabancs, mostly (?) Australian content including school classes x27 - Eddington (Vic) with 45 students, more than the entire population today - some British, American & European Cards noted, some with identifying captions or notes on the reverse, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley J Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 191 PORTRAITS: Collection of real photo Cards of Ladies that can be sub-categorised as Glamour, Costumes including Hats & Bathing Suits, Romance & Nudity (including a few full-frontals), some highly suggestive subjects for the era, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (180) Symbolc View details Estimate$180Price Realized$135StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 192 POSTCard CENSORSHIP: 1950s Constance and Bamforth Cards by Donald McGill and "Taylor" respectively both with large 'ISLE OF MAN/PostCard Censorship Act 1933/Disapproved for Sale/...' handstamp on the reverse; also 1939 Dudley Buxton original artwork on artboard (170x228mm), the printed Inter-Art Comique Card with printer's notations & WB edition with similar notations, similar handstamp in rosine on the reverse & large 'R'-in-circle for "Rejected" on the face; the last stained on the reverse oth SymbolcGradea+/b View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 193 POSTCard CENSORSHIP: a similar Constance reprinted Card by John King ("Rex") "Look what I brought back from my holiday abroad, Dad", plus King's original artwork on artpaper (178x228mm) with the artist's notations & the original Card as printed with 'Cleethorpes/Comic Card Censorship/Committee/DIS-APPROVED' handstamp on the reverse. Superb trio! (3 items) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 194 RAILWAYS: Mounted selection of mostly overseas Cards with strong British content including Trains, infrastructure, staff & Railway Company Cards, Old Tay Bridge Disaster 1879 x2, Miniature Railway at Crystal Palace etc, better Australian Cards including real photos of "Bridgewater Junction Tas", 1916 & 1917 trains decorated for Australia Day etc, others include artist Cards & a lovely real photo of Royal Train arriving in a Burmese village, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. A g Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 195 RELIGION: Mostly British group of preachers & evangelists etc including "Gipsy" Smith x3, "Rev S Schor as Eastern Scribe", "Miss Helen Coulthard: The Girl Preacher", "FC Sackett: Children's Evangelist" etc, also "Partick Congregational Church" (3 ministers), 1908 "Wesleyan Conference Souvenir" with 26 separate photos!, "Installation of the...Bishop of Worcester", British Bishops & their Arms x5, "Six Presidents of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints", Catholic group of Cardinals & Po Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 196 RELIGION: Box of mostly British Cards including a small selection of Churches & a good array of Ministers & Bishops, also "Gipsy" Smith & Pope Leo XIII x2, excellent Salvation Army group including an Indian Mission Card (a great shot!) & five different Bands including "Salvation Army Mexican Band, Garston" (Liverpool!!) & "The Norwegian Staff Band", etc, also several sets of devotional Cards including The Lords Prayer two different sets of 8, "The Volunteer Organist" set of 4 & Misch & Co "The H Symbolc View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot 197 RELIGION: SALVATION ARMY: British group including portraits of officers, 1899 cameos of General & Mrs Herbert Booth to Germany, superb real photo of Salvos & ambulance (?) at a military camp, etc, plus India real photo of turbaned Punjabi Salvos!, and New Zealand "Wellington South Salvation Army Band 1907" & c.1915 "Salvation Army Soldiers' & Relatives' Hostel Featherson" (Military Camp), a couple are defective but most are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. [See also Lot 309] (17) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$260StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 198 ROMANCE: Mounted group including couples, humorous including double entendres, some ghastly hand-tinted types, bathing costumes, suffragettes, a French set (?) of five underwear shots, etc, condition rather mixed. Ex Bronte Watts. (56) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 199 ROMANCE: Ancient album with a visually delightful collection of mostly British Cards with Language of Flowers x80, Language of Vegetables (we kid thee not) x7 & of Fruit x3, Proverbs x23, French group including Language de Parapluie x5, some very suggestive captions, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (120+) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 200 ROYALTY - VARIOUS: A veritable portrait gallery of mostly European Rulers and their Families from Great Britain x10, Austria x23, Bulgaria x3, Denmark x11, Ethiopia, Greece x2, Indian States x3, Italy x2, Japan, Luxemburg x2, Mexico x3, Montenegro, Netherlands x46 with many Undivided Backs & a good range of processions & commemorations, Norway x49, Ottoman Empire x3, Persia, Portugal x16, Rumania x6, Russia x13 notably two with Grand Duchess Anastasia, Serbia x6, Spain x37 & Sweden x41, mostly s Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 201 ROYALTY BELGIUM: Bundle including 1908 of Leopold II arriving at the King's Reception, 1909 of his Funeral, and Investiture of Albert II, 1915 Belgian Relief Funds, otherwise mostly portraits including of the formidable Queen Elisabeth, her beautiful daughter & rather effeminate sons, also 1936 In Memoriam group for Queen Astrid, mostly unused & generally very fine to superb. Ex Keith Harrison. (80 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot 202 ROYALTY GERMANY: Collection about 60% of the Kaiser & his Family with many quite informal shots (plus some contrived group "portraits"), 1913 Silver Jubilee selection & a couple of overtly militaristic shots, many of the Empress, their children & grandchildren, then a significant group of under-Kings, Grand Dukes & the like from Bavaria, Brunswick, Saxony & Wurrtemburg etc including Weddings & Jubilees, mostly unused & generally fine to very fine with many being superb. A very attractive lot. Ex Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 203 ROYALTY GREAT BRITAIN - QUEEN VICTORIA: 1897 Diamond Jubilee two court-size, an intermediate-size Card & a ½d Postal Card overprinted for the Jubilee, also 1900 "Long to Reign Over Us" & an embossed Card without caption, a couple of insignificant blemishes otherwise very fine to superb unused. Gorgeous! Ex Keith Harrison. [Although Queen Victoria features on numerous Cards, most were published after her death. Thus particularly desirable] (6) SymbolcpsGradea/a+ View details Estimate$300Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 204 ROYALTY 1900 Wrench "Links of Empire" Numbers 1 to 10 for the Royal Visit to Australia, Numbers 5 to 10 posted at the appropriate Australian ports of call, the last "Posted in Melbourne on the day of Opening of the Federal Parliament" but actually one day later, Numbers 1 to 4 cancelled in London MR30/01, a few minor blemishes but fine to very fine. A very scarce set. Ex Keith Harrison.[See also Lot 247] (10) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 205 ROYALTY 1900 Wrench "Links of Empire" Numbers 11 to 20 for the Royal Visit from Australia to Canada, all posted at the appropriate ports of call including 'ASCENSION/AU30/01' & 'ST JOHNS/OC25/01/NEWFD', a few minor blemishes but fine to very fine. Another very scarce set. Ex Keith Harrison. (10) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 206 ROYALTY KING EDWARD VII: Interesting range with Coronation selection including Stewart & Wolf set of 10 embossed chromolithos (superb unused) & the original packet (faults), Lemco sumptuous set of 6 (superb unused) etc, Portraits of the King & Queen Alexandra & many with or of their children & grandchildren, others including his mother Queen Victoria x3, ANN Jones & Co "Queen Alexandra's Photographs" x6, "Sir Frederick Treves" (the surgeon who performed the King's apendectomy), Visits by Oversea Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$340StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 207 ROYALTY 1902 Current Event PostCards for the Coronation with photo of Westminster Abbey & lengthy facsimile "written" letter datelined "London, June 26,1902" but overprinted in red "June 14, 1902. The world was gravely shocked...the King had undergone an operation for perityphilitis...the Coronation has been postponed and all arrangements...have been upset, including our own", postally used at London 'JU24/02' (the First Day of Issue!). Ex Keith Harrison. [Perityphilitis affects the caecum at th SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 208 ROYALTY KING GEORGE V: Coronation selection including Rotary Photo set (?) of 12 plus ten elaborate Coronation Souvenir Cards by various publishers plus LL Coronation Scenes x4, Portraits of the King & Queen Mary including WH Grant pair of "silks", also pre-Coronation group including portraits of the Royal offspring notably two with Prince John (the family embarassment; he was epileptic) & 1905 Royal Visit to India x3, then Silver Jubilee x5, Funeral x2 & In Memoriam x3, condition variable, most Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 209 ROYALTY KING EDWARD VIII: Group as Prince Edward of Wales x13 including with Queen Victoria, with his siblings (two with an unnamed Prince John) & one as a very young midshipman; one as the Duke of Cornwall; as Prince of Wales x19 including a few quite candid real photo types & one for the National Relief Fund; and as King x7 - one Broadcasting to the Empire - plus of the "Proclamation...Procession...from St James's Palace", two are a bit knocked-about, otherwise very fine to superb unused. Ex K Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 210 ROYALTY KING GEORGE VI: Useful group x34 mostly by Raphael Tuck including superb Coronation set of 6 on unusually thick Card & many of the Princesses, also Clarke & Sherwell State Regalia set of 6; and QUEEN ELIZABETH II x41 mostly of the Coronation or Studio Portraits, a few with or of her progeny, also two identical photos of Trooping the Colour (one with a second horse & rider airbrushed out!); mostly unused & generally very fine to superb unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (77) Symbolc View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot 211 SCOUTING: Australia 1934 Centenary Jamboree (scout & koalas; central fold), 1949 Wonga Park "Bank of New South Wales" & three real photos including of 1st Ascot Park (WA?); Great Britain "The British Scout" hand-tinted group x6, "Awaiting the Dinner Call", "The Enemy discovered" & "The Officers' Mess", and J Salmon patriotic "Britannia's Hope"; Egypt "A party of Scouts, Victoria College, Alexandria"; Japan "...camping on the seashore"; also two humorous types & a greeting Card; mostly unused & g Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$320StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 212 SCOUTING: Dutch group comprising 1914 of a "Padvibnder" (= scout) on his bicycle, 1937 Jamboree five real photo types (four with the Jamboree cds, the other soiled on the address side) & 1950 idyllic scene; also Sweden 1935 real photo "Scoutchefen Major Ebbe Lieberath" and British 1929 Birkenhead Jamboree "A view from an aeroplane of the opening..."; all but the last are used. A very scarce group. (9) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$400Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 213 SHIPPING: Album with strong Australian content including 16 beautiful AUSN Cards, Jolley 1901 Federation "The Royal Arthur", 1905 "Wreck RMS Orizaba...off Fremantle", superb real photo of University Rowing Eights alongside HMS Psyche, several chromo-litho advertising types, etc, British array including many warships, "The Mystery Ship/HMS Suffolk Coast", two 9-view Cards including "Souvenir of the Special Service Squadron World Tour 1923-24", lovely "Souvenir of the Visit of Admiral Jellicoe to Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$900StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 214 SHIPPING: Modest but generally fine to very fine range including Canadian Pacific x16, United States group, a couple of real photo types of New Zealand ships etc. (77) Symbolc View details Estimate$125Price Realized$100StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 215 SHIPPING: Mounted collection of mostly British Cards including many real photo & artist types, a good selection of shipping lines' Cards including many P&O and Royal Mail Steamers, a few Japanese Cards, also plush interiors, divers, dry dock, Suez & Panama Canals etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$420StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 216 SHIPPING: Extensive ten-volume collection in two cartons with perhaps 75% being "moderns" - including many reprints of "Golden Age" Cards - & covering everything from dinghies to aircraft carriers & paddle steamers to submarines, many better Cards with strength in British shipping including artist Cards & advertising Cards for shipping lines, many other Ocean Liners including Interiors, some Naval content, some very good Australian Cards including "Wharf & Ferry Tas", "SS Loongana Leaving Wharf, Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 217 SHIPPING: the balance of the collection with a similar 75:25 split between "moderns" & vintage Cards, condition of the earlier material is a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Our quick assessment is that this lot may have more "meat" than the Cards in albums: perhaps our vendor had intended to put all these in albums too. [This lot also includes some unrelated stamps, Falklands First Day Covers, etc] (1000+) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 218 SHIPPING: Mostly British collection of predominantly Passenger Vessels from famous Ocean Liners to cross-Channel vessels plus about 20 Paddle Steamers and some Commercial Vessels, all the major British Lines represented plus a number of smaller &/or less well-known companies, numerous artist Cards including a few "poster" types & real photo types including Dry Docks and the ill-fated "Suevic" (1907, of the wreck), "Empress of Ireland" (sank in May 1914, more than 1000 lives lost), "Lusitania" (t Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 219 SHIPPING: Box of mostly British Cards concentrating on passenger vessels with a good range of early-1900s Cards including a few "poster" types & a selection of attractive artist Cards, then a strong group of 1930s to 1960s Cards for many lesser &/or overseas shipping lines, a lovely array of 1970s reprints by Pamlin Prints & others (some with plain backs) of photographs going back to the 1890s including numerous Paddle Steamers, and a range of "moderns", some duplication noted, mostly unused & g Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 220 SHIPPING: 1912 Rotary Photographic Series "White Star Liner Titanic...Perished on Monday April 15th 1912", unused. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. We are mindful of the fact that many posthumous Cards are actually of her sister-ship "Olympic" with "Titanic" captions. Our comparison with on-line images of both ships is inconclusive, hence the conservative estimate. SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$100Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 221 SMOKING/TOBACCO: Selection with people of all ages & both genders having a puff, "glamour" & romance types, artist Cards including nicotine-induced reveries, etc, also comic Cards that generally aren't very funny, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. An instructive lot. Ex Keith Harrison. (37) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$220StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 222 SPORT - VARIOUS: Selection of mostly British Cards with Cricket x8 including 1905 Australian Test Team (faults), "Derby day Church 1905" match in progress & English players AE Relf, JJ Kelly, Syd Gregory & Lord Hawke; Golf x15 including Links Courses, Club Houses etc; Field Hockey x9 mostly of Womens x4 or Mens Teams; Roller Skating x4 including "The Premier Skating Rink, Clapton NE"; Lawn Bowls x4 including 1930 "Australians v mid-Wales Bowling Asstn"; and a few others, condition variable. Ex K Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 223 SPORT CRICKET: English Test Teams of 1904 ("Plum" Warner's XI) & 1907-08 x2 different all taken in Australia, Test players Dr WG Grace, Wilfred Rhodes, Syd Barnes & Jack Hobbs x2 different, County Teams Kent x2 (one dated 1906) & Surrey x2 (one used in 1906), a range of County players including Prince Ranjitsinjhi (used in 1907), two real photo types of matches in progress, also 1907 Card of the South African Team, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 224 SPORT HORSE RACING: Sets of 6 comprising British Tuck Oilettes "A Famous Racehorse", British Charities Association "Leading Racehorses of 1926" with the original packet - faults - & inserts, and GD&D Star Series Jockeys & their Colours (bumped corners), plus German artist Cards by C Becker (one used), fine to superb unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (24) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 225 SPORT RUGBY: 1929 Beagles real photo of the English Test Team "The Men who Won back the Ashes" with Percy Chapman (Captain), Harold Larwood, Jack Hobbs & Wilfred Rhodes etc, unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$75StatusUnsoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 226 SPORT TENNIS: Mostly British Cards but many from European countries & a couple from America, many of matches in progress at Wimbledon, schools, factories & castles, about a third are real photo types - many taken at Wimbledon, a few autographed - of players including Fred Perry, Norman Brookes (Australian, noted as 1913 Davis Cup), Jean Borotra & Suzanne Lenglen, also several of early Tennis Teams & a few really unusual subjects, condition variable but generally fine to very fine & many are supe Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 227 SPORT Real photo Cards of 6-time Wimbledon Ladies Champions "Mrs Hillyard" (with trophy) & "Mdlle Lenglen" autographed "Blanche Hillyard" & "Suzanne Lenglen", unused. Superb duo. Ex Keith Harrison. (2) SymbolcGradea+ View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot 228 SPORT WINTER SPORTS: Selection of mostly European Cards from Germany Norway & Switzerland etc, predominantly Skiing but also Ice Skating, Mountaineering, Bobsleighing & a lone Curling Card, many are real photo types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (93) Symbolc View details Estimate$160Price Realized$120StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 229 STAMP CardS: Mounted selection of mostly Zieher/VSM embossed or flat-plate types with stamps of many countries, some including several of the Australian States with inset views or maps, some by other producers, generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts. (60) Symbolc View details Estimate$450Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 230 STAMP CardS: Comprehensive collection of Ottmar Zieher Cards for most of the countries of the world at that time, some apparent duplication but that's because of inclusion of both embossed & flat-plate versions, many also with Coats of Arms & some with Maps Added, mostly unused but we noted San Marino used in San Marino!, condition rather mixed but many are fine to very fine & a few are superb. Ex Derek Pocock. [Spot the error on the British Card] (103) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$950StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 231 STAMP CardS: 1906 Sanatoria Home for Consumptive Women complete set for the 6 Australian States plus New Zealand, all but Tasmania are postally used, Queensland has a little damage at lower-right otherwise fine to very fine (NSW & Victoria are superb!). Very rare used. Ex Bronte Watts. (7) SymbolcGradea/b View details Estimate$350Price Realized$500StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 232 TOURISM: Large album of Hotels - mostly interiors - cafés & restaurants, gardens & palm houses, etc, some real photo types & some artist Cards, also several advertising Cards, condition a bit variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,500Price Realized$1,400StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 233 TOURISM: Album of Bathing Beaches mostly from Great Britain - including 1901 court-size chromolitho "Sandown/Isle of Wight" - Belgium & France but many other countries noted, many with Bathing Boxes, Tents etc, some bathing costumes, segregated beaches, etc, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Derek Pocock. (200+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot 234 TRAMS: Mostly Australian collection plus from NZ, UK & Europe, some are real photo types; also some moderns; generally fine to very fine. A very attractive lot. (54 + moderns) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$480StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 476 Scarce group mostly of Sofia including many real photo types & a lovely group of artist Cards printed in Italy, mostly unused but three used in Bulgaria, generally fine to very fine; plus two illustrated wallets of unused comic Cards that we think are Bulgarian, and one Albanian Card. Ex Keith Harrison. (58) Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot 691 Two albums with an array of attractive Cards including from Argentina, Bolivia (one for the Australasian South American Mission), Brazil, Colombia (including three for Centenary of Cartagena's Independence), Costa Rica, Mexico (the best-represented), Uruguay & Venezuela, some to Australia & New Zealand, also some postal stationery & covers including registered & airmails, postmark potential, condition variable but many are fine to very fine & a few are superb. Ex "Cartophile". [See also Lot 9] ( Symbolcps View details Estimate$300Price Realized$380StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 692 Large bundle including from Argentina x37 mostly Undivided Backs, Bolivia x14 witn many UBs, Chile x14 with three Mission Cards, Costa Rica x16, Cuba x23, Guatemala x11 including three after the 1918 Earthquake, Mexico x34 with several UBs, selection of real photo types & a beautiful 1910 Card for Centenario de la Independencia, Panama/Canal Zone x20 with several of the Canal under Construction, Paraguay x13, Uruguay x11 with several UBs, etc, also Captain Besley's Amazon Expedition x6 (superb u Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$800StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 694 PERU: 1911 Sanmarti y Ca commemorative aviation Card "Llegada a Lima del aviador peruano JUAN BIELOVUCIC/ENERO 8 DE 1911", vertical fold that has caused minor splitting on the face but it's not easy to see, unused. Rare. [Despite all the attention given to the various flights in 1911, this is the first we have learned of a flight in Peru. All Google results are in Spanish] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot 749 Universities Mission to Central Africa Cards with black & white photos x11, black & white "linocuts" x4, coloured artist Cards x26 & others x7, a few are duplicates, two are captioned "Zanzibar", generally fine to very fine unused or used. Ex Derek Pocock. (48) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$360StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 754 Group mostly of Warsaw but also Cracow, Lodz, Lwow & Tatra Mountains, several Undivided Backs & a few real photo types, attractive artist Cards mostly of Regional Costumes & Musicians, good postal history/postmark content including five with Russian stamps/postmarks & others with Austrian or Polish stamps & postmarks, many unused including National Commission for Protection of Nature in Poland set of 12 & historical "Panorama Raclawic" set of 12, condition variable but generally fine to very fin Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$700StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 760 Box with many better Cards including Undivided Backs & real photo types, mostly of Bucharest but also Braila, Constanta, Galati & Sinaia, mostly unused but good postal history/postmark content, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Keith Harrison. (100+) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$280StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 770 Album with attractive Cards from Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Norway & Sweden, & a few covers, lots of postmark interest, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Ex "Cartophile". (150 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 773 NORWAY: Box with many Undivided Backs, some chromolithos including four with 'Use Mustad's Horsenails and Frostnails' Advertising on the address side, many real photo types, only a few of Christiania/Oslo, many of Bergen & Fjordland, a few of Lappland & Reindeer, good postal history/postmarks content including 1909 'FJORDENES POSTEXE/ A ' & 1912 'HARDANGER-SONDHORDLANDS POSTEKSP/ H ' cds, condition variable but generally fine to very fine with many unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (160 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$600StatusSoldBidding historyBidding history Lot 775 Bundle of mostly undivided backs with Lisk-Carew Brothers upper case captions x9 including "Women Washing Clothes", "Ant Hill", "Susans Bay" (boats stranded at low tide), "Wilberforce Barracks" and "Threshing Rice", Lisk-Carew lower case captions x6 include "Palm Oil Making", "Dancing Girls", "Westmoreland Street" and "Artillery carrying armament", also UMCA "Washing day at Magila" and Johnston & Sons "Threshing Huts for Rice", unused or used under cover, generally fine to very fine. [See also Symbolc View details Estimate$175StatusUnsold Lot 781 Attractive batch with Undivided Backs including an unusual embossed group of 6 used in 1901, topographicals including Moorish buildings, Majorca wallet of 20 coloured scenes & a couple from Andorra (one postally used in Andorra in 1950), attractive artist Cards etc, 22 used at 'GIBRALTAR' with QV to KGV stamps; also Canary Islands x7 (two used at Gibraltar) & Spanish Morocco x28 with a nice group of real photo types, mostly unused; condition variable but most are fine to very fine unused or used Symbolc View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Items per page 102550100 Previous|12|Next Previous 12 Next Previous 12 Next
