Stamps, Postal History & Picture Postcards (#130MG) 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)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1001-1100 of 1322. Previous|1...7891011121314|Next Lot #1069 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: JACK ABEILLE: Undivided Backs comprising 1898 Bathing Costumes x3 (two are Swiss editions), and 1899 Bathing Costumes x3, all with Undivided Backs, superb unused; and 1899 Caprice Flowers with Undivided Back "La Tulipe" & "La Violette", unused; Cat £60 each. Ex Keith Harrison. (8) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/a+ View details Quantity8Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1070 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: 1898 JWH a B Fashion Through the Ages set (?) of 7 with Undivided Backs, unused. Undercatalogued at £60 each. Ex Keith Harrison. (7) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea-/a+ View details Quantity7Estimate$340StatusUnsold Lot #1071 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: BASCH ARPAD: c.1900 "National Women" (Very Fashionable Ladies with their National Emblems) set of 10 embossed designs with gold highlights & Undivided Backs, unused. Très magnifique! Ex Keith Harrison. (10) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/a+ View details Quantity10Estimate$650Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1072 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: CHARLES DANA GIBSON: Mounted display including "Gibson Girls" (some coloured), sepia studies from various series, some with coloured borders; and 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 romantic content, others with cutting commentary on social SymbolcGradea-/a+ View details Estimate$450StatusUnsold Lot #1073 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: Selection 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". (45 + envelope) Symbolc View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1074 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: RAPHAEL KIRCHNER: Selection comprising 1899 ESW (Austria) Pierrot & Clown in red & white, unused; 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; Leroy et Cremieu (Paris) "La Mer fleurie" (risqué bathing costumes), unused; and Reinthal & Newman (New York) "Expiation" (Pierrot's Head on a Platter), unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (12) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity12Estimate$450Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1075 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: French Art Nouveau/Glamour/Erotica group comprising 'ROMA' x2, Bijoux (gold backgrounds with semi-perfin geometric shapes) x8, Wafting Smoke, Leering Mask & British "Harlequinade" (girl on Pierrot's shoulder), a few minor blemishes but generally fine to very fine unused x9 or used x4. Beautiful cards. (13) SymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity13Estimate$750StatusUnsold Lot #1076 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: "Santoy" Numbers I III V & VI with Undivided Backs; and "Enfants de la Mer" set (?) of 10 with Undivided Backs, a few with minor spotting; unused. Two beautiful series. Ex Keith Harrison. (10) [The description & illustration in the catalogue are only partly correct. Tis lot contains the four "Santoy" cards plus HM & Co (London) "Marionettes" with Undivided Backs, different designs of a scantily-clad female puppet-master manipulating a courting couple x6, GSTex GSTSymbolcGradeA/B View details Quantity10Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #1077 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: E LOUIS LESSIEUX: 1900 Dancing Through the Ages set of 6 with Undivided Backs, a little nudity, unused, undercatalogued at £40 each. Superb! Ex Keith Harrison. (6) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea+ View details Quantity6Estimate$260StatusUnsold Lot #1078 Picture Postcards - ARTIST CARDS: M MONTEDORO: c.1904 set (?) of six stylish vamps; also Kirchner "Ménage à trois" (3 young ladies in joyful poses) x3; unused. Gorgeous cards professionally framed for our vendor's boudoir. (9 cards) SymbolCGradeA View details Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot #1079 Picture Postcards - 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) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea+ View details Quantity17Estimate$340StatusUnsold Lot #1080 Picture Postcards - AUTOMOBILES: Album of mostly British cards but also some very good Australia & New Zealand plus a few others from France, Dutch Indies, Aden, USA & Canada etc, a few humorous types, many real photo types & better subjects including 1905 "The Start of the Isle of Wight Motor Omnibuses", c.1905 three women in vintage car, Darwin "Sir Ross Smith Arrival 1920" (spectators in cars), c.1915 old jallopy (Fiat) outside Aussie barn, c.1920 car with RACV badge on river ferry, also many Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1081 Picture Postcards - AVIATION: RAF & US Army aircraft mostly by Real Photograph Co and Valentines showing bombers, fighters, transport, cargo and surveillance planes, WWII period Airgraphs (11) and German aircraft (9). (250+) SymbolcGradeA/B View details Estimate$100Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #1082 Picture Postcards - AVIATION: Mostly British group featuring many flimsy machines including a few bizarre contraptions, several from early Blackpool Exhibition flights, famous aviators, a few Zeppelins including two disasters, also Pamplin Prints reprints of classic cards, generally fine to very fine used or unused. An exceptional lot. (97) Symbolc View details Quantity97Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1083 Picture Postcards - 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 in GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1084 Picture Postcards - AVIATION: 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. See also Lot 1365 under India] SymbolcGradeb View details Estimate$100Price Realized$75StatusSold Lot #1085 Picture Postcards - CHILDREN: Karton of Kids Kards mostly British with everything from real photo studies to schmaltzy greeting cards, lots of WWI patriotic subjects, games & sports, pets & anthropomorphic subjects including some early Mickey Mouse cards, nursery rhymes, "crime & punishment", etc. Noted D & Co sets of 6 "A Breach of Promise Case", "An Orchestral Rehearsal" & "The Doctors" and "Sunshine House for Blind Babies" set of 6 etc, some ethnographic & "negro" studies including delightfu GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$1,200StatusSold Lot #1086 Picture Postcards - CHILDREN: 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, and by S Barham x35 mostly published by CW Faulkner (Lon Symbolc View details Estimate$800Price Realized$600StatusSold Lot #1087 Picture Postcards - CHILDREN: Complete series - six sets of 6 - of British "Kinsella Kids" comprising Cricket, Tennis, Soccer, Golf, Cycling & Diabolo, condition variable but generally fine. A delightful series. Ex Derek Pocock. (36) Symbolc View details Quantity36Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1088 Picture Postcards - COSTUMES & OCCUPATIONS: Attractive bundle with national/regional attire from Wales, Korea, Japan, Europe, Scotland etc plus ethnic types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (65) Symbolc View details Quantity65Estimate$300Price Realized$230StatusSold Lot #1089 Picture Postcards - COSTUMES & OCCUPATIONS: Mostly British group with excellent subjects including hop-pickers & other agricultural workers, fishermen, stonemasons, mechanics, musicians including several brass bands, beefeaters, street vendors, firemen, policemen etc, generally very fine to superb with many unused. (120+) SymbolcGradebox View details Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #1090 Picture Postcards - COSTUMES & OCCUPATIONS: Display collection with many highly desirable cards from around the world, very few stock-standard types & many excellent subjects throughout including real photo types, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (220 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1091 Picture Postcards - COSTUMES & OCCUPATIONS: Three large albums of mostly British & Australian cards providing wide coverage of Edwardian fashion, a high percentage are studio shots including many of women & children, family groups, nurses, soldiers x50 approximately, many less formal snaps including larger groups, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Gold for costume designers! Ex Shirley Jones. (500+) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$750StatusSold Lot #1092 Picture Postcards - CRICKET: Australian Batsmen 'DRA Gehrs' on Wilson Autograph Series sepia PPC postally used 1904 and 'V Trumper' & 'MA Noble' on Valentine's Photo E Hawkins & Co, Brighton colour PPCs postally used 1905 all with Adelaide d/s, a few minor corner marks but otherwise fine. (3) SymbolCGradeA- View details Quantity3Estimate$100Price Realized$100StatusSold Lot #1093 Picture Postcards - 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) GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Quantity30Estimate$160Price Realized$140StatusSold Lot #1094 Picture Postcards - 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; also 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; and FA Ackerman set of cards bearing c.1848 Symbolc View details Quantity142Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot #1095 Picture Postcards - DEATH: World War I Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell one-frame exhibit with artist cards of the execution, Belgian Soldiers Fund card, gruesome exhumations of Cavell and the German soldier who was shot for refusing to execute her, memorials to her & Nurse Gabriel Petit who was similarly executed, etc, many are real photo types; plus a bundle of loose cards with a few duplicates. Ex Derek Pocock. [Includes extensive background notes] (65) Symbolc View details Quantity65Estimate$400Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1096 Picture Postcards - ENTERTAINMENT: Mostly British Actors & Actresses 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, also 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; plus 1901 Empire GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1097 Picture Postcards - 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 chromolithos & real photos, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Bronte Watts Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1098 Picture Postcards - 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 Dus GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Quantity63Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1099 Picture Postcards - HANDS ACROSS THE SEA: Album of mostly photographic types many with inset photographs of ships etc. (96) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Quantity96Estimate$100Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1100 Picture Postcards - HORSE-DRAWN COACHES: Single-volume collection of cards & postcard-size photographs from Britain with advertising & military subjects, New Zealand & Australia including stagecoaches, etc, many real photo types, others from France, Egypt including 1914 photograph of horse towing Daimler car!, Italy etc, also Burma "Festive Cart, Mandalay" drawn by bullocks, many animated streetscapes & overladen vehicles, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. Certai Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1101 Picture Postcards - HUMOUR: Box of mostly British cards arranged by illustrator including Lance Thackeray x60+, Felix McGlennon x40+, Tom Browne x60+ including Soccer & Diablo sets, Lawson Wood x40+, Dudley Harry x17, Phil May x40+ & Cynicus x17 (including court-size x6), etc; then by subject including "My word..." x30+, Leap Year x20+, Inebriation x60+, Sport x60+, Military/Patriotic x100+, Constabulary x100+, Negroes x30, etc, others with printed message starters x80+, generally fine to very f GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$750Price Realized$700StatusSold Lot #1102 Picture Postcards - HUMOUR: Delightful pre-WWI British batch of cards by "Cynicus" with many amusing drawings especially on his favourite subjects of the Scots, Tourism & Religion, also a few Fantasy Cards & a couple of very skillful - but not funny! - Landscapes that display the artist's real talent, many are Undivided Backs, condition variable but most are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. [Scottish artist & political cartoonist, Martin Anderson, was far better known by his GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$340Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1103 Picture Postcards - HUMOUR: World War II selection of mostly British cards with many risqué types, a couple published in Egypt, also anti-Mussolini cards x6 (very scarce but down on condition), etc, mostly unused. (37) Symbolc View details Quantity37Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot #1104 Picture Postcards - HUMOUR: Belgium c.1920 Mannequin Pis Meets Charlie Chaplin "Tiens...il Pleut!" (= Blast! It's Raining!) by Marco Marcovici. GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea View details Estimate$60Price Realized$40StatusSold Lot #1105 Picture Postcards - 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 ver Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1106 Picture Postcards - MILITARY Box with many artist cards of pre-20th Century conflicts & uniforms etc, about half are for particular Regiments including Uniforms, Badges, Pipers/Bands, Mascots & "How He Won His Victoria Cross" set of 6, etc, also real photo types including Entertainments, "The Majors" (Sandridge Military College ?), 1905 Shooting Competition at Bisley Camp x2, Changing of the Guard, "The Chelsea Pensioner" etc, plus 50+ comic cards mainly from World War II including a few America GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$340Price Realized$260StatusSold Lot #1107 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Album of Warships from GB x84 including a few submarines, USA x6 & Japan x8 plus a few others, some real photo & artist types, a couple of disasters, condition variable but most are fine to very fine unused. (100+) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$320StatusSold Lot #1108 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Box about 50% non-British cards principally from Germany Italy Spain & France but also some Greece & America, mostly of ships but also some more engaging subjects, about 60 are real photo types; the other half of mostly British & foreign artist cards including many attractive issues; condition variable. (250 approx) SymbolC View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1109 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Great Britain mostly real photo types of Naval Operations including "HMS Medina with TM the King and Queen Outward Bound for India/...", "Our Navy - Physical Drill", "Return of Men/from a Naval Review/Gibraltar 29.3.28", "HMS Renown Heliographing to the Terrible", etc, also 1921 Royal Visit HMS "Renown" group with handwritten captions on the back including impressive photo of the ship's company, Suez Canal x6, Aden, "Our Band Playing to Crew...at Bushire" & GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity81Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1110 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Box of real photo cards by British publishers - many very small operators - from all over the country including Valentine's x50+, all manner of naval vessels plus Dockyards, Armaments, Manoeuvres etc, a high proportion captioned, condition variable but many are very fine to superb, mostly unused. A very good lot. (350+) SymbolC View details Estimate$750Price Realized$950StatusSold Lot #1111 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Box of post-WWII real photo cards mostly by Gale & Polden or Real Photographs Co, mostly uncaptioned but some with ships' names hand-written or handstamped on the face, generally very fine to superb unused. (300 approx) SymbolCGradeA-/A+ View details Estimate$100Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1112 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Shoebox of real photo cards by amateurs though many are very skilfully produced, mostly British & the vast majority of warships from capital ships to lighters many captioned or identified on the reverse, plus some of shore stations, Life at Sea, Dry Docks, Armaments etc, some captioned including "Basra Captured from the Turks 1916", "Marine Cutters Race", "Salving German Battleship", etc & one with "Not Passed by Censor" on the negative! (probably because th SymbolC View details Estimate$4,000StatusUnsold Lot #1113 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - NAVAL: Collection of PPC-size British naval photographs with captions & handstamps of Imperial War Museum or Navpic on the reverse, very fine to superb throughout. About half with the official listings. (1000 approx) SymbolCGradeA/A+ View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot #1114 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - WORLD WAR I: Extensive mostly World War I collection partly on display sheets with numerous At the Front views, patriotics, humour & artist cards, subjects include Leaders, excellent Aeroplane content especially French cards, good Naval selection, Tanks, "Anzacs in France" group, Victory Marches, Spoils of War etc, many real photo types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. An outstanding basis for expansion. (many 100s) Symbolc View details Estimate$2,000Price Realized$1,500StatusSold Lot #1115 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - WORLD WAR I: Extensive collection of "silks" in five large albums with lots of flags & other patriotic symbols, many featuring Belgian or French subjects including a dozen Bombed Towns, many British Regiments including Royal Navy and Royal Flying Corps, and some American content, etc, a few with photographic inlays. A large number have sentimental or greeting messages & about 270 - a remarkable number - have the original insert cards. This is by far the finest suc SymbolC View details Estimate$4,000Price Realized$5,000StatusSold Lot #1116 Picture Postcards - MILITARY - WORLD WAR II: United States military propaganda cards with lots of V for Victory, girly pinups & humour cards, the inevitable racist types, D Robbins & Co "Slam the Axis" set of 6, plenty of Air Force & Navy types, generally very fine used or unused. (100+) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$360StatusSold Lot #1117 MISSIONARIES: French Catholic Missionnaires Oblats de Marie-Immaculée (Missions du Sud-Afrique) complete set of sepia/cream cards with captions for Natal, Transvaal and Zululand but the majority for Basutoland, many terrific subjects including Basutos on Horseback, the Bassuto King at Church, Group of Lepers, Missionaries Roughing It, Boys' Gymnasium Class, Zulu Warriors, Women Building Huts, etc, a few problems noted but generally fine to superb, apparently all unused. SymbolcGradeb/a+ View details Quantity90Estimate$500StatusUnsold Lot #1118 Picture Postcards - 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) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/a+ View details Quantity13Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1119 Picture Postcards - MUSIC: Single-volume collection of cards & postcard-size photographs mostly from GB with brass bands, bagpipes, church organs & numerous bandstands, a few European cards featuring ridiculously garbed musicians plus many art cards, some unusual instruments & child performers, also Allan (Collingwood) mounted cabinet card of a male flautist, some modern types (not included in the count), condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. An interesting lot. (112 Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$115StatusSold Lot #1120 Picture Postcards - 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 (? GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Quantity111Estimate$240Price Realized$180StatusSold Lot #1121 Picture Postcards - NUDITY: Box of mostly European cards but some African/Arabian types noted ranging from the tasteful and classical to the lewd and smutty including a few risqué cards that actually went through the mail, also a good number of bathing costumes, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (200+) SymbolC View details Estimate$500Price Realized$550StatusSold Lot #1122 Picture Postcards - 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) GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Quantity9Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1123 Picture Postcards - 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). Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$300StatusSold Lot #1124 Picture Postcards - POSTCARDS: Annotated single-volume collection "The First 40 Years" with a range of early Postal Cards including Hungarian 2kr used 29.11.1869 & GB first ½d used on First Day of Issue with London cds of OC1/70, many other mostly European Postal Cards including German 5pf Reply-Half from Vienna with outstanding Wien Museum cachet, Hamburg 1898 with celluloid window bearing portrait of the Kaiser! & 1900 Turkey-Queensland with Crown Seal cancel, PPCs with court cards of Ayr (190 Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #1125 Picture Postcards - 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 gro Symbolc View details Estimate$260StatusUnsold Lot #1126 Picture Postcards - 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 GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$340StatusUnsold Lot #1127 Picture Postcards - ROMANCE: Box of British American & European cards mostly of courting couples but some more interesting subjects & many beautiful items. Noted lots of Bamforths including sets & numerous tasteful Reinthal & Newman types, also many humorous types, generally fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (500+) GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1128 Picture Postcards - ROYALTY: Great Britain KGVI 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!); and Belgium including 1908 of Leopold II arriving at the King's Reception, 1909 of GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot #1129 Picture Postcards - 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. (10) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity10Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1130 Picture Postcards - 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) GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity10Estimate$250Price Realized$200StatusSold Lot #1131 Picture Postcards - SHIPPING: Mostly British group featuring ocean liners, coastal vessels, paddle steamers, merchant ships, pleasure craft, tugboats, etc, also inland canals & canal boats x30, plus some modern reproductions of classic cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1132 Picture Postcards - SHIPPING: Shoebox of mostly British cards with a strong naval flavour, also groups from Gibraltar x20+ & Suez Canal x30+ plus some foreign - mostly Eurropean - content, a good number are Undivided Backs including a court-size of HMS "Magnificent" & scarce intermediate-size of "Officers HMS Camperdown", condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. An interesting lot. (300 approx) SymbolC View details Estimate$600StatusUnsold Lot #1133 Picture Postcards - SHIPPING: "Titanic" selection comprising Hurst & Co (Belfast) "real photo" "The Titanic before the Launch at Harland & Wolfe's North Yard" (used under cover with message from a crew member on "Titanic"s sister ship the "Olympic"), pre-disaster Tuck's artist card of the ship, AGJ & Valentines cards commemorating the disaster, National Series "Nearer My God to Thee" with the ship & sheet music, Bamforth's "Nearer My God to Thee" x5 different, and 1998 Dart Flipcards complete se Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$420StatusSold Lot #1134 Picture Postcards - SHIPPING: GB real photo "SSTitanic leaving Southampton on her Maiden Voyage April 10th 1912/Foundered April 15th 1912 with loss of 1635 lives", unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1135 Picture Postcards - SHIPPING: Huge carton with the largest collection we have seen of PPC-size shipping photographs split about 50:50 between naval & commercial subjects with paddlesteamers x400 approximately & many unusual craft, a great many with captions &/or technical details written on the reverse, very fine to superb throughout. Very heavy! (8000 approx) SymbolCGradeA/A+ View details Estimate$800Price Realized$850StatusSold Lot #1136 Picture Postcards - SPORT: 1912 Japanese "Base ball in East recreation Ground, Kobe", tinted, to Melbourne with 2s tied by Japanese cds & 'OSAKA/3.5.12/JAPAN' backstamp. A rare card. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$250StatusUnsold Lot #1137 Picture Postcards - SPORT: 1908 London Olympics Stadium x2, Marathon x2, Swimming & French/Italian teams sightseeing in tights; and 1912 Stockholm Olympics Opening Ceremony, Athletics finish of 200m, hilarious dancing by the Finnish gymnastics team, 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, and a Russian sculler, a lovel GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity22Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot #1138 Picture Postcards - SPORT: 1924 France VIII Olympiade "Le défilé des athlètes (Australie).../The defiling of the athletes (Australia)", unused. A rare card, with a fabulous caption! SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$100StatusUnsold Lot #1139 Picture Postcards - TRANSPORT: Extensive array of charabancs, trucks, bicycles, trams, trains, ferries, canal boats, rowing boats, rickshaws, donkeys, all manner of horse-drawn vehicles, cable cars, and some really bizarre contraptions, includes an array of Pamlin Prints reprints of classic cards, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (500 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1140 Picture Postcards - TRANSPORT: Collection of mostly British Trams from many cities plus a good range from Australia & others from New Zealand, South Africa, Malaya, Jamaica, France etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. Very good lot. (180+) Symbolc View details Estimate$1,000Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1141 Picture Postcards - TRANSPORT: Engaging collection of early Tram cards & some postcard-size photographs mostly from Britain but including a good American selection plus Canada including two snow-bound scenes, Japan, Germany etc, several commemorations noted, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. An appealing topical collection. (63) Symbolc View details Quantity63Estimate$300Price Realized$240StatusSold Lot #1142 Picture Postcards - WATERFALLS: Collection of Niagara Falls cards, mostly American but some Canadian cards noted, includes unusual views, bizarre "illuminated" cards, the aero-cable, trolley cars, "Maid of the Mist", barrel survivors Bobby Leach (1911) & Jean Lussier (1928 real photo, in a rubber ball!!), etc, many moderns, 115 are mounted & annotated, condition of the earlier material is variable but many are fine to superb unused or used. (250+) Symbolc View details Estimate$200Price Realized$150StatusSold Lot #1143 Picture Postcards - ZEPPELINS: 1917 British real photo of a crashed & burned-out Zeppelin, postally used with message "...I saw this Zepp burning, It was brought down at Cuffy [?], they are huge things..." SymbolCGradeA View details Estimate$100Price Realized$80StatusSold Lot #1144 Australian Commonwealth - Album with many better cards including "Main Stoke Hole, Tasmania Gold Mine, Beaconsfield", "Diver Hughes finding the Entombed Miner, Westralia and Extension Mine", real photo types including Dookie Agricultural College, 1920 Hobart Royal Visit x2, stranded Sperm Whales at Perkins Island x2 & "Hotham Heights" (the lodge snow-bound), also artist cards of Wildflowers by Margaret Flockton x11 & JS Pty Ltd illustrations by Douglas Pratt x19, plus some non-Australian cards & Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$400StatusSold Lot #1145 Australian Commonwealth - Interesting bundle with Bush Scenes including artist cards, Military including Anzacs in England, one apparently of a mass grave & an "Emden" card, Shipping with beautiful advertising types for AUSN & Howard Smith x2, Patriotics, Australian Emblems & Wildlife, etc, some real photo types, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. (100 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$400Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1146 Australian Commonwealth - Box with many better cards with New South Wales x100 approx including 1917 real photo of "Red Triangle Day Parade", 1d Postal Cards "Iron Cave Bridge" & "Katoomba Falls", good Blue Mountains group; Queensland x13 including 1906 real photo of flooding in Toowoomba; South Australia x32 including real photos of Norwood-Kensington stagecoach & "American Boys Tour 1913"; Tasmania x8 including real photos of 1924 naval ship's departure & "Corra Lynn" stereo card; and Victoria Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1147 Australian Commonwealth - Box of cards with many better subjects including World War I, Advertising, Railways, Thursday Island x5, Festival in Clare (SA) x7, Coles Book Depot, "Ferns of Australia" set (?) of 6, good Tasmania content including "Shipwrecked Men from King Island" & Mount Lyell Clock & Chimes types x3 (faults), etc, also Papua x7, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. A good lot. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$500Price Realized$1,600StatusSold Lot #1148 Australian Commonwealth - Collection on leaves from Queensland x115 including a few Offshore Islands, Tasmania x79 & Western Australia x48, a good number of Undivided Backs (probably more than we noted), some better subjects & real photo types, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. (242) GSTex GSTSymbolc View details Quantity242Estimate$400Price Realized$800StatusSold Lot #1149 Australian Commonwealth - Scarce group of Undivided Backs comprising Victoria 1890s chromolithos x3, Jolley "Rowing Sheds, Lake Weeroona", & two Bendigo multiviews; New South Wales Kerry Jenolan Caves x9 & two Parramatta views; South Australia Gresham Series and Austral Series x3; and Western Australia Austral Stores x2 including "Weighing in Paddock, Perth Racecourse"; a few faults but most are fine to very fine. (23) Symbolc View details Quantity23Estimate$350StatusUnsold Lot #1150 Australian Commonwealth - Box of mostly studio real photo portraits of men, women, children & family groups plus a few cartes de visites, also less formal shots including weddings, school classes, sporting teams, etc, condition variable but most are good to fine used or unused. An interesting insight into Edwardian fashion & lifestyle. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$150Price Realized$120StatusSold Lot #1151 Australian Commonwealth - Box with many interesting cards including a few early ACT views, Ships x18 including a few advertising types, Railways group including flood damage to a country line (Trans-Australian Railway ?) x6, Scout Jamboree x2, many real photo types including early motoring & aviation, a rare 1911 shot of Ball's Pyramid (off Lord Howe Island) & 1920 visiting English Test XI, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. (250+) Symbolc View details Estimate$600Price Realized$1,100StatusSold Lot #1152 Australian Commonwealth - "The Way It Was" extensive collection of real photos depicting life in Edwardian times including Occupations, Habitation, Agriculture, Cycling, Motoring, Sport, Picnics, Celebrations, Apparel, Bathing, etc, many with the locations identified or suggested, condition variable but generally fine to very fine used or unused. A terrific lot. Ex Shirley Jones. [Careful inspection required because many are photocopies or photographs of postcards] (200+ cards) Symbolc View details Estimate$2,500Price Realized$1,900StatusSold Lot #1153 Australian Commonwealth - Medium box with a quantity of unused Rose cards mostly of Mount Gambier (SA), some better cards including a few Gippsland, real photos types of four properties called "Shirley", 1910 Brigadine Convent Ararat multi-view, 1916 Soldiers at Wangaratta Camp in fancy dress, & a terrific shot of road-making, etc, also Talma "Miss Amy Murphy/Moon Dear" x4 different, generally fine to very fine & mostly unused; also c.1920s S Jamieson Bros (Olinda) saleman's album with 47 Danden Symbolc View details Estimate$300Price Realized$460StatusSold Lot #1154 Australian Commonwealth - Packet of better cards including a few Queensland Tourist Bureau types we haven't seen before, Kerry "Rose Bay" & "Harvesting Tobacco Leaf" (actually curing it), Samuel Wood (Sydney) real photos "Vaucluse and Heads" and "Sydney Harbour from Edgecliffe", Kitch & Co (Katoomba) real photos x2, Swain & Co (Sydney) Undivided Back "National Park", Harding & Billings "Sundowners" (= Swagmen) x5 different, TCK "Western Australia's Phenomenal Gold Yield" (corner crease), Fellowe GSTex GSTSymbolcGradea/a- View details Quantity49Estimate$500Price Realized$380StatusSold Lot #1155 Australian Commonwealth - Box of plastic pages with a good range of South Australia including a few better cards notably some Undivided Backs, many addressed to Western Australia with some postmark interest. (200 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$250Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1156 Australian Commonwealth - 1901 "Links of Empire" Series for the Royal Visit by the Duke & Duchess of York to Open the First Federal Parliament in Melbourne on 9th May 1901 comprising No 6 (kangaroo), 7 ("Parliament House, Adelaide"), 8 ("Sydney Harbour") & 9 ("Brisbane"), the first with Melbourne cds of 6.5.01, the others with cds of the relevant cities. Very scarce. (4) SymbolcGradea/a- View details Quantity4Estimate$150StatusUnsold Lot #1157 Australian Commonwealth - 1907 Regal Post Card "The Kelly Gang - From an original Photograph", unused. SymbolcGradea View details Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1158 Australian Commonwealth - 1908 Visit of the American "Great White Fleet" superior selection of scarce cards comprising WTP chromolithos x5 (two used), Empire hand-tinted and two anonymous hand-tinted cards, plus Postal Cards NSW 1d & Victoria 1d, unused. (10) SymbolcpsGradea View details Quantity10Estimate$350Price Realized$270StatusSold Lot #1159 Australian Commonwealth - 1924 British Empire Exhibition (Wembley) Australian Pavilion group issued for distribution at the Exhibition including James Scott x4, floral arrangements by Ellis Rowan x3, Australian High Commissioner x3, Commonwealth Immigration Office, etc, a few different editions of the same photo, generally fine to very fine, a few are used including with Exhibition 1d x3. (34) SymbolcGradea/b View details Quantity34Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1160 Australian Commonwealth - ADVERTISING: Pre-WWI selection including for "Earl's-Court/Woy Way" (multi-view), "Corrick Family Entertainers", ANA "Kew Bot's [sic] Naval Brigade" (1907, multi-view), The King's Theatre "Sailor Jack", Barraclough's Ostrich Farm "A Fighting Ostrich", Grand United Order of Oddfellows, John Bridge & Co Wool Brokers, etc & postcard-size advert card for Wesley Church Melbourne "Dr Guiness' Last Lecture", a few are a bit knocked-about but all are presentable to very fine us Symbolc View details Quantity9Estimate$200StatusUnsold Lot #1161 Australian Commonwealth - ARTIST CARDS: Album of cards by ET de Closay x6, Leslie Board x4, Charles Hammond x13 including "How We Beat the Favourite" x6 (horse racing), LH Davey x18 mostly Tasmanian scenes, C Young x15, R Riches x4, AH Fullwood x16, Arthur Streeton (creased), etc, lots of Bush Scenes, Landscapes & Seascapes but other subjects noted, condition variable but generally fine to very fine. Ex Shirley Jones. (170 approx) Symbolc View details Estimate$550StatusUnsold Lot #1162 Australian Commonwealth - ARTIST CARDS: Selection of hand-illustrated postcards or postcard-size cards from Australia, UK, Germany etc, plus some that we can't convince ourselves are done by hand, condition variable but many are fine to very fine. Inspection recommended. Ex Shirley Jones. (70+) Symbolc View details Estimate$340StatusUnsold Lot #1164 Australian Commonwealth - ENTERTAINMENT: Large album of mostly Australian Actors & Actresses with numerous studio portraits including elaborate theatre costumes plus extravagant Edwardian dresses & hats, plus "stills" from stage productions, some Singers noted - a couple of overseas visitors - including four gorgeous Art Nouveau cards of Blanche Arral, some facsimile signatures, a few advertising cards for local productions & FS Pacey (Sydney) movie stills from the 1912 film "From the Manger to Symbolc View details Estimate$650Price Realized$480StatusSold Lot #1165 Australian Commonwealth - ENTERTAINMENT: Group of mostly Talma cards plus a few Falks & others of actors & acresses - several of the delightfully named Tittell Brune - plus Madame Melba and JC Williamson, several of Art Nouveau types including with gold backgrounds, also a few "stills" including the cringeworthy "There's a New Coon in Town" & "The Golliwoggs", condition variable but most are good to fine used or unused. A very scarce group. (33) Symbolc View details Quantity33Estimate$400StatusUnsold Lot #1166 Australian Commonwealth - HUMOUR: Entertaining selection including Bulletin cards "Bridget Fixed Him" by Hop & "I was up to see Bill at the Orsepital..." by Tom Durkin, "110 in the shade" - 3 fatigued fairies - by Ida S Rentoul (Outhwaite), others by Fred Booty, Hal Gye etc, also Collis (Sydney) x10 including "Military Terms" x4, a nasty photo of two children holding a Chinaman's pigtail "I Can a Tail Unfold", etc, condition variable but most are good to very fine used or unused. A very scarce g Symbolc View details Quantity43Estimate$600Price Realized$500StatusSold Lot #1167 Australian Commonwealth - MILITARY: Naval group including 1908 Visit of the American Fleet x34 with some better types, "Submarine AE2", three "Emden"-related cards, etc, generally fine to very fine used or unused. (47) Symbolc View details Quantity47Estimate$500Price Realized$650StatusSold Lot #1168 Australian Commonwealth - MILITARY: 1920s real photo navy cards mostly from HMAS "Adelaide" including visits to Rabaul, Misima, Noumea, Vila etc, many with captions on the address side otherwise mostly fine to very fine unused. (47) Symbolc View details Quantity47Estimate$300StatusUnsold Lot #1169 Australian Commonwealth - MILITARY: WORLD WAR I: Dardenelles Campaign/Gallipoli group with "Scenes of Anzac" x3, real photo "Bomb Proof Shelter at Anzac, Gallipoli", handdrawn "...from/Gallipoli/Christmas/1915" & two modern reproductions; also Le Deley "Aux Dardenelles/In the Dardenelles" x7 with French/English captions; generally very fine unused. (14) Symbolc View details Quantity14Estimate$300Price Realized$340StatusSold Items per page 102550100 Previous|1...7891011121314|Next1234567891011121314 Previous 1234567891011121314 Next Previous 1234567891011121314 Next
