PICTURE POSTCARDS
Auction # 136
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PICTURE POSTCARDS :
South Australia.
950
Set of 12 different early colour postcards showing views of Adelaide issued by the State Tourist Bureau and Intelligence Office Phone 2538 series. One with tear, otherwise in superb condition.
80
180
sold
Australia.
951
Small early advertising postcard for a Mellor Cycle Powered Reaper, with text exuding it's somewhat dubious virtues including 72 points out of 75 for Reaping at the Royal Agricultural Society's Trail at Smithfield on 5th December, 1901. Most intriguing subject matter. Slight trace of aging.
75
80
sold
952
Selection of 182 early postcards mostly related to Victoria including attractive range of Building, Street and Nature scenes. Noted Hans Irvine's Great Western Vineyard, Victoria Australia, "Man Tree" Whitelaw, J.Hutchings Australian Series "The Sundowner and "The Prospectors", P.Campbell Australian Series "Watering The Cattle", Pyp "The Wearing of the Green" and Bob "Terrors of the Pier!". Some faults, but many in fine condition.
250
500
sold
Australia and Foreign.
953
Selection of 20 early postcards including Neville Cayley Lyrebird and "The Same Old Story" Kookaburras, J.M. Cantle Catch Your Own Breakfast, Advance Sporting Budget Eurythmic (F. Dempsey), Etona A Mission Steamer, River Murray, SS "Marian" At Kingston Landing River Murray. S. Australia, Mia Mia Aboriginal card with miniature cork boomerang, Y.M.C.A. Red Triangle Appeal, May, 1919, An Historic Souvenir - Ten Australian V.C. Winners returning Home, Miss Edith Cavell Murdered October 12th 1915 REMEMBER!, Cavern Supply Co Comfort Station Lunch Room miniature card and several attractive Building and Street scene cards. Also Malaya censor cover to South Australia tied by Field Post Office S.P. 501 29 MY 1941.
250
250
sold
Great Britain.
954
Bamforth WWI era "Song" cards series 1, 2 and 3 complete sets of 33, series 4 (3 cards) and "Song Greeting" cards (5 cards). Attractive and rarely seen in complete sets. Odd fault, but mainly in excellent condition.
250
180
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World.
955
Selection of 196 early postcards mainly from Australia and Great Britain including Harding and Billing Series 57 Types of Australasian Beauty/Languor, Series 459 Pretty Polly, Dr. Sheldons Digestive Tabules "Digest What You Eat" They cure Indigestion, Bon Marche Stores "Mundaring Weir", A Handful of Australia "A Shady Nook" Here's a Hand Ma' Trust Friend, Weston "The Teamster", A. MacInnes Australian Series "Nearing Camp", A Gum Leaf From The Golden South, Ice Skating, Snowy Mountains Series 17 - Australian Alps, Johnstone's Australian Pictures "The Evening Task", The Hornsby Light and North Head Sydney with Australian Aborigines on reverse, "Gum Leaf Series" Queensland Treasury Building and more. Many with squared circle cancellations including Bool Lagoon, Buckingham, Hummocks Hill, Lilydale (poor strike), Mundalla (2), Mutooroo Type II, Penneshaw, Peterhead, Red Hill, Stewarts Range and Wild Horse Plains. Some faults, but many in fine condition.
350
650
sold
956
Selection of 130 early postcards mainly from Great Britain including "The Gamma Army Airship", "Bristol Monoplane", Henri-Farman Biplane", "The Breguet Tractor Biplane", New Zealand Football Team On Tour 1905, Roald Amundsen [Polar Explorer] and crew, The Aberdeen Line T.S.S. "Miltiades" by artist H.B. Freer, Tuck's "Oilette" At The Front - Writing Room, Carlton Hotel, Military Novelty Card News & Views from Tidworth - Camp Silhouettes Pull Out, British Armoured Seaplane and more. Mainly fine condition and several with South Australian squared circle cancellations.
225
300
sold
957
Selection of various sized old postcard books and souvenir folders, old photographs and range of miscellaneous items including Caledonian Railway Scottish Tourist Map folder and Louis Geisler Les Vosges Gerardmer booklet of 12 photographic views. Also Great Britain selection of 115 Wills cigarette and 51 Typhoo Tea trade cards including Wills 1924 Merchant Ships of the World (47/50), 1925 Flower Culture in Pots (48/50) and Typhoo Tea 1937 Characters from Shakespeare (15/25). Murray's Catalogue Value $272.00.
100
80
sold