Ephemera June - July 2006
MILITARY & AVIATION
1. GRANT OF COMMISSION to Frederick Whinney to be Ensign in the 14th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps and signed by (Lord) Gascoyne Salisbury, 16th February 1866. Very good condition £18
2. MILITARY CYCLING Black and white print 5in x 8in with six illustrations of cycling soldiers including Hampshire Regiment and Warwicks from the early part of the 20th century. Professionally mounted £7
3. DOCUMENTS CONCERNING GERMAN-POLISH RELATIONS AND THE OUTBREAK OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND GERMANY ON SEPTEMBER 3 1939 published by HMSO 195pp. The official version, very detailed with a useful Contents section, good condition. Seldom seen £12
4. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS Handbook number 1, PERSONAL PROTECTION AGAINST GAS, issued by the Home Office, HMSO 1938, 124pp illustrated including how to put your gas mask on and other essential procedures. Good condition £7
5. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS Handbook number 2, FIRST AID FOR GAS CASUALTIES, issued by the Home Office, HMSO 1938, 48pp, good £5
6. AIR RAID PRECAUTIONS Handbook number 14, THE FIRE GUARDS HANDBOOK, issued by the Ministry of Home Security. HMSO 1942, 46pp illustrated, good £5
7. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN: August – October 1940 Air Ministry Account, HMSO 32pp, very good condition £4
8. EUROPE SINCE VERSAILLES BY LOW A history in one hundred cartoons with a narrative text by the famous cartoonist David Low, published by Penguin in 1940, with world leaders of the 20s and 30s including Churchill, Roosevelt, Hitler, Stalin, Chamberlain, Lloyd George, Molotov, Hoover, Eden, Benes, Franco, Deladier, Goring, Mussolini, and others. A little cover wear but good for this scarce item £10
9. EUROPE AT WAR BY LOW A history in sixty cartoons with a narrative text by the famous cartoonist David Low, published by Peguin in 1941. All the political and military leaders of 1939 and 1940 are here. In good condition although the cover has come adrift but this could easily be repaired £8
10. ROYAL AIR FORCE VOLUNTEER RESERVE Large mounted photograph of airmen and airwomen at Accountant Officers’ School, Bulstrode Park, Sept-Nov 1941, 44 personnel are pictured and each one named. Image size approx 9,5in x 6in (overall 14in x 10in). Excellent condition £12
11. WOMENS AUXILIARY AIR FORCE Three photos each with large groups of WAAFs, one with 68 personnel (photographer John Burton & Sons, Leicester) 11in x 4.5in; one with 35 personnel (photo by Herbert & Sons, Windermere) of similar size; and one with 25 personnel (photo by King & Hutchings, Uxbridge) 8in x 6in. A marvelous study in expressions – and only one out of 128 women wearing glasses! Interesting trio for £20
12. ‘SALUTE TO VICTORY’ How State Express cigarettes helped to win the war 1939-45. Lavish booklet with gold embossed covers, very well illustrated in colour. It states: ‘Tobacco has become an increasing solace and refreshment to the fighting man. A good cigarette supports morale. It cheers the weary. It soothes the wounded…. It produces a large revenue to finance the war effort…’ Illustrated with wartime and bombing scenes, also shows the manufacturing process and State Express mobile canteens. Cover has faults but contents good. A scarce booklet – the first I have ever offered £15
13. WARTIME HANDY POTMENDER When your saucepan sprang a leak you used a potmender to repair it, simply a tin washer, a cork and a screw. Just follow the instructions on the card and your problem’s solved. Three potmenders on card although rather rusty now but should still work! £7
14. INFANTRY TRAINING Volume 1, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Rifle & Bayonet (all arms) published by the War Office in 1948, 123pp, illustrated with correct positions to be taken up. Cover tatty but contents generally good £4
NAVAL & SHIPPING
15. THE ROYAL MARINES: The Admiralty Account of Their Achievement 1939-43 HMSO 1944, 80pp illustrated in good condition £4
16. NAVAL MENUS Luncheons for gold-braided ones including a couple of U.S visits to Portsmouth in 1947, Royal Albert Yacht Club 1948, U.S training ship 1949 and NATO visiting fleet 1960. Four have been hole punched. 5 menus £6
17. ‘BLAKE DIVISION’, HMS ST VINCENT Large mounted posed photograph by Lawrence of Gosport of 116 uniformed sailors at the naval base in November 1957 (total size approx 13in x 10in), good condition £12
18. RMMV STIRLING CASTLE Sheet of notepaper embossed with Union Castle Line £1
19. RMS TITANIC Folding chart of the deck plans with illustrations of the various types of cabin, a very good modern reproduction from the original of 1911 £4
RAIL TRANSPORT
20. LONDON & SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY Selection of early luggage labels in very good condition including stations which no longer exist. I can offer: BIRMINGHAM, BLANDFORD, BROADSTONE JUNCTION, CHICHESTER, CHRISTCHURCH, CIRENCESTER, EASTBOURNE, EXETER QUEEN STREET, EXETER ST DAVIDS, FARNBORO, FARNHAM, NETLEY, NOTTINGHAM, POOLE, POKESDOWN, PUTNEY, ST LEONARDS, SALISBURY, SHAWFORD, SHAWFORD & TWYFORD, SHOREHAM, STURMINSTER NEWTON, SWINDON TOWN, TOTLAND BAY, TOTTON, WORCESTER. Each 80p; 10 for £4; 20 for £7
21. SOUTHERN RAILWAY Selection of early luggage labels in very good condition: ANDOVER JUNCTION, ANDOVER TOWN, BANBURY, BOSCOMBE, FORDINGBRIDGE, FRESHWATER, READING, SOUTHAMPTON WEST, SWANAGE, TOTLAND BAY. Each 80p; 10 for £4
22. SOUTHERN RAILWAY PUBLICATION ‘Walking at Week-ends’ by S P B Mais, 128pp illustrated. Gives return fares from various Southern Railway stations, nice condition £9
23. LONDON & NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY Selection of early luggage labels in very good condition comprising STIRLING, HARROGATE, LUTON, HUMBERSTONE, CROMDALE, BARNHAM plus three unspecified, lot for £4
24. ABC OF SOUTHERN LOCOMOTIVES AND ELECTRICS One of the famous Ian Allan books for loco spotters, fully illustrated with all the numbers, 1946. Good condition for this book – they have usually been well used £8
25. CHESHIRE LINES RAILWAY Set of six postcards in illustrated envelope issued by Dalkeith in 1980s, limited edition now obsolete, also Cheshire Railways In Old Photographs by Mike Hitches, 1997 reprint, 128pp. Very nostalgic with steam locos at Crewe, Chester, LNW routes, North Staffs, Cheshire Lines Committee etc. £10
ROAD TRANSPORT
26. NORTH AMERICAN TRAVEL Greyhound Lines illustrated envelope showing principal connecting lines and tour info, folding brochures for Adironack Trailways with route map and timetable, Gray Line covering Philadelphia special tours from $2.50 and Lake Placid ski resort. 1950s era, 4 for £5
STAGE & SCREEN
27. PICTURES AND PICTUREGOER July 27 1918 issue with a full page of ‘Impressions of Charlie Chaplin by Leading Caricaturists’, various articles and adverts, illustrations, a selection from Pathe’sAnimated Gazette etc, good condition for this early picture paper £10
28. BOYS’ CINEMA A weekly magazine, this is number 93, Sept 17th 1921, including ‘A Peep Behind the Scenes’ showing how some stunts are performed and the precautions taken. Also stories and articles of Westerns, Sport, Adventure, School etc, also adverts. Staples have now rusted and are missing but magazine intact and good £9
29. PICTURE SHOW for Jan 28th 1928 with illustrated article ‘The Future of British Films’ (‘Pictures that will help break American supremacy’), ‘Round British Studios’, stories, adverts, plus a free souvenir booklet featuring Ronald Colman and Vilma Banky. Good condition apart from rusted staples £10
30. PICTUREGOER for December 24th 1932, ‘How to Achieve Beauty’ by Joan Crawford, ‘On the Screens Now’ and other well illustrated articles, missing staples, otherwise very good £4
31. PICTURE SHOW Two copies from the 1950s including Trevor Howard life story, New Releases etc, fair condition, pair £3
32. FRENCH THEATRE PROGRAMME Le Theatre de la Porte Saint-Martin programme for Madame Sans-Gene, a comedy in four acts, with super black and white adverts and a coloured artist drawn cover c1924, good but for rusty staple £4
33. PATRIA, A CORONATION ICE CRUISE Programme of this production at the Sports Stadium Brighton 1937, good condition £3
34. PLAYBILL His Majestey’s Theatre, 26th August 1946, with Dave Willis ‘Scotland’s Favourite Comedian’ (really?). Also on the bill was Beryl Reid. Very good condition, folded £5
35. BOURNEMOUTH PAVILION A selection of programmes 1942 – 1950. Includes Vivien Leigh in Doctor’s Dilemma, Anglo-Russian Merry-Go-Round, International Ballet, Halle Orchestra (Barbirolli), Glamorous Night etc. Good condition except for the inevitable rusty staples. 20 programmes, only £16
AUTOGRAPHS
36. ROSE LECLERCQ 1845 – 1899, actress. signed mourning letter £10
37. WILSON BARRETT 1846 – 1904, actor/dramatist, signed letter 1889 requesting his autograph – his reply includes a quote from Hamlet. A little stained £6
38. GEORGE EDWARDS 1852 – 1915, theatrical producer (mainly musicals), signed typed letter on Daly’s Theatre notepaper March 1911 £12
39. MARGERY MAUDE early Music Hall, signed piece, a little stained £2
40. JOHN LONGDEN actor b 1900, actor, signed piece ‘Yours sincerely £3
41. BEN WELDEN actor c1901, signed album page to Fred, reverse with J LOVELOCK £3
42. ROBERTSON HARE Large piece signed and personalized (‘Bunny to you!’), with other inscribed signatures including ALFRED DRAYTON, VERNON SYLVAIN, RUTH MAITLAND, LESLIE BROOK, interesting item from 1945 £9
43. OLAF POOLEY actor, signed piece £2
44. BILLY MILTON b 1905, West End actor, also New York, after the war joined BBC, signed album page with newspaper photo, reverse signed by JEAN PORTER £8
45. G H ELLIOTT ‘The Chocolate Coloured Coon’ and LEON CORTEZ autographs on piece, reverse with MARIE BURKE and HAL MONTY £8
46. NORMAN ALLIN Bass singer, first broadcast 1922, signed piece Feb 1944 £3
47. PATRICIA BURKE actress, signed and personalized large piece to ‘Robin’ £3
48. MARYAN RAWICZ pianist (of Rawicz & Laundaur), signed album page ‘with best wishes’ £4
49. JANET LEIGH signed cut-down photo, signature on dark background £3
50. JULIE ANDREWS Page with signature ‘Sincerely’, crease and small tear, reverse with 3.5in x 5in photo of MARGARET LOCKWOOD with printed signature £7
51. LESLIE SANDS British actor, signed piece £4
52. ROY BOULTING film producer, signed 1983 typed letter to a 12-year old girl (‘I am older than God!) £4
53. ALAN BATES British actor, signed card with a magazine cutting £3
54. TONY BRITTON signed 3.5in x 5in photo ‘To Mick’ £2
55. PRUNELLA SCALES signed and inscribed 3.5in x 5in photo £2
56. EDMUND HOCKRIDGE singer, signed album page, reverse with a photo of Arthur Askey, also a publicity photo £3
57. SPIKE MILLIGAN 1978 typed letter signed ‘Spike’ £3
58. NAT MILLS AND BOBBIE small signed photo of the comic pair £4
59. CORBETT/YANA autograph page with ‘Best wishes, Harry Corbett & Sooty’, reverse with the vocalist Yana £4
60. CHICK MURRAY & MADGE signed small piece £2
61. TERRY WOGAN signed card, also a magazine photo £2
62. MICHAEL ASPEL publicity photo holding the Big Red Book! Signed and inscribed £2
63. GEORGE MELLY Jazz singer, signed card and a couple of magazine photos £2
64. JOHN SESSIONS signed autograph page, also a printed caricature £3
65. JOHN NETTLES (Bergerac) signed card and a magazine cutting £2
66. JOE BROWN with guitar, signed publicity photo £2
67. NIAMH CUSACK actress, television, signed card ‘best wishes’ £2
68. RICHARD WILSON (Victor Meldrew) signed card with a magazine cutting £2
69. BONNIE LANGFORD 32-page programme of Me and My Girl (Adelphi, Strand) signed by her £3
70. COMEDIANS piece with REGINALD DENNY (personalized) and KEMBLE KEAN, reverse with GLADYS HAY £5
71. CHILDREN’S TELEVISION PRESENTERS Signed photocards 4in x 6in (majority coloured) of children’s presenters including Wild Bunch, Sue Hodge, Andy Crane, Melanie Joseph, Natalie Poyser, Brian Cant, Neil Buchanan, Johnny Ball and others. Nice little lot of 23 signed cards in very good condition £12
72. BARGAIN BASEMENT! TIM RICE, ELAINE PAIGE, BOB HOLNESS, JOHN MILES, JOANNA FIELD, MARGARET TYZACK, GARY WILMOT, SU POLLARD, MAUREEN LIPMAN, PATSY BYRNE, ANITA DOBSON, BELLA EMBERG, LESLIE PHILLIPS, LORRAINE CHASE, MICHAEL GAMBON, BERNIE CLIFTON, BARRY SINCLAIR, TONY WARREN all at £1 each
73. SIGNED HANDBILLS/PLAYBILLS Attractive selection including Alan Davies, Rosemary Squires, Barbara Dickson, Prunella Scales, Danny La Rue, Russ Abbot, Hannah Gordon, Vicki Michelle, Kim Hartman, Rodney Bewes, Anita Dobson, Steven Houghton, James Chadwick, Andy Sheppard, Rustie Lee, Gregory Floy, Maddy Prior, Bernard Wenton, Ben Whitrow, David Suchet, Ruth Madoc, Danny John Jules, Richard Thompson, Bonnie Langford, Gwen Taylor, William Franklyn, Maureen Nolan, Mike Doyle, Peter Barkworth, Cheryl Kennedy, Charley Pride, Dennis Lotis, Josie Lawrence. £1.50 each or 10 for £10
SPORT
74. MELBOURNE OLYMPIC GAMES 1956 The British Olympic Association Official Report published by World Sports, 112pp, illustrated. All the results are here plus articles £7
| 75. 1958 BRITISH EMPIRE AND COMMONWEALTH GAMES Official Athletics programme illustrated in very good condition, some results have been penciled in £5
76. 1970 WORLD CUP Daily Express publication of England’s defence of the World Cup brought out just before the final 16 teams did battle (and England knocked out), 48 pages with many black and white and colour photos including Alf Ramsey holding the Cup, Jeff Astle smoking a Woodbine, Alan Ball ‘More than a runner’, Hurst wearing his terylene baracuta. Good condition £8 77. 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS 12-inch stereo record by Polydor with ‘Folk Songs of the World’ by Kurt Edelhagen and his Orchestra with songs from twenty different countries (England is represented by Mr Big Ben). Very colourful sleeve with flags and football. An unusual and scarce item £20. 78. FOOTBALL LEAGUE v REST OF THE WORLD Official souvenir programme Wembley Stadium 8th August 1987. Famous players including Bryan Robson, Chris Waddle, Peter Shilton, Platini, Maradona, Lineker and others. Very lavish and in very good condition £4 79. MANCHESTER UNITED F C Five home programmes from the 1960s/70s in good condition £8 80. MANCHESTER UNITED F C Five home programmes from the 1980s in good condition £8 81. ENGLAND v SOUTH AFRICA TEST MATCH Lord’s cricket score card June 1935 with many famous players (Sutcliffe, Wyat, Ames, Hammond, Nourse etc), scores filled in, printed and hand written. Nice condition for its age £4 82. HAMPSHIRE v HRH DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S XI Score card for National Playing Fields Association 19th Sept 1949 at Dean Park Bournemouth. All scores printed in £5 83. HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Two score cards 1959 for Hants v Middx and one for Hants v Surrey, all played at Portsmouth, some scores inked in. Trio £4 84. NOTTS v DERBYSHIRE 1950 score card at Trent Bridge, some scores printed in, good £3 85. DERBYSHIRE v YORKSHIRE 1968 score card at Chesterfield, some scores printed in, good £2 86. YORKSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB Two 1959 score cards, v MCC (Scarborough Festival) and v Middx, both with scores printed in, good £4 87. SOUTHAMPTON SPEEDWAY Two programmes for 1953, both with results filled in, pair £9 88. HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW at Harringay, I have photo illustrated programmes for the years 1953, 1954 and 1955, all in good condition. Each £5 or all three for £12 EPHEMERA & MISCELLANEA 89. BASTARD CHILD 1802 Printed document on watermarked paper stating that Sarah Lawrance of the parish of Kingsclere in the County of Southampton, a single woman, was delivered of a male bastard child at the Workhouse in the Parish of Kingsclere on the twenty second day of February 1802, and the said bastard child has become chargeable to the Parish, and that Lazerus Piper, late of the parish of St Marys Reading, did get her with that child. Signed with the mark of Sarah Lawrance. Very good condition. Scarce £25 90. BODY WARRANT Two page printed document issued by a Justice for a full or mitigated penalty after a Common Levy Warrant in the sum of £25, signed by Robert Powell, Justice of the Peace in the County of Cardigan (Aberystwyth) 1st October 1850, small tears but very collectable £7 91. THOMAS HARDY COUNTRY Twelve watercolour prints by Walter Tyndale of views of Dorset and Somerset with associations in the novels of Hardy, each location identified, attractive little lot in good condition £8 92. SWANAGE AND ISLE OF PURBECK BY E HASLEHUST Twelve coloured prints, early 20th century, delightful images approx 4in x 6.5in of Mill Pond, Tilly Whim Caves, Swanage Bay, Old Harry Rocks, Ballard Down, Studland Bay, Corfe Castle, Lighthouse etc Very good condition £10 93. A R QUINTON PRINTS Delightful scenes by this renowned artist, mainly of the Thames Valley, 10in x 7in (images approx 6in x 4in), 40 coloured prints in excellent condition, would frame beautifully £30 94. RURAL SURREY PRINTS A lovely selection, some by Sutton Palmer, 9in x 6in (images approx 6in x 4in), 22 coloured prints in excellent condition £18 95. EAST ANGLIA BY HEATON COOPER Lovely selection of coloured prints by this well-known artist, mainly the Broads, 9in x 6in (images approx 6in x 4in), 8 prints in excellent condition £8 96. YORKSHIRE BY HASLEHUST a dozen coloured prints by this artist approx 6in x 8in, York, Harrogate, Scarborough, good condition £7 97. COLOURED PRINTS London and English counties including artists Ball, Haslehust and Quinton, good condition, 10 for £6 98. LOUIS WAIN 4-page article from Boys Own 1892 ‘Expressions in Animals’ with seven small black and white sketches by Wain including one cat, two dogs, two birds, early date £5 99. LOUIS WAIN Another article from Boys Own 1892 Some Animal Thieves with six small black and white sketches by Wain including kittens, birds, rat etc, early date £5 100. LOUIS WAIN ‘At The Pantomime’ black and white print featuring nine cats, image approx 5in x 7in, marginal tear £10 101. LOUIS WAIN ‘A Celebrated QC’ lovely large cat and three cats in background, shows legal papers and quill pen, gorgeous colours, image approx 7in x 7in. A beauty! £25 102. BARTHOLOMEW’S POCKET ATLAS OF LONDON Complete set of 19 plates from this publication, early 20th century with street plans, boundaries of Metropolitan Boroughs, railways (pre grouping), postal districts, roads etc, very good condition £15 103. JERSEY MAP Large scale Ordnance Survey map 12.6ins to one mile taking in St Johns and St Marys, Waterworks Valley, Reservoir, Sorel Point etc, published 1935 and printed during the war on ‘war substitute paper’. Very good condition £7 104. CHRONIQUE DE JERSEY Channel Islands daily newspaper with French text, 4pp. I have a few copies for November 1894 in good condition, each £4 105. GUERNSEY WEEKLY PRESS for May 15th 1945 with the Proclamation from the Lieut-Governor ‘that the German Occupation which we have had to endure since June 30th 1940 is now ended.’ 4pp in very good condition with all the news and interesting articles £6 106. 1926 GENERAL STRIKE Daily Express for May 13, 4pp, a few small tears £4 107. CLIFTON PARISH NATIONAL SCHOOLS (BRISTOL) Salaries and wages accounts for eight different months during the years 1897, 1898 and 1899. Each sheet gives name of head teacher, teachers and P.T teachers and their annual and monthly wages. Each has signed for the monthly amount over a Victorian penny lilac stamp when the amount is over £2. Typical annual salaries were £100 to £200 for a Head, £60 for a teacher, much less for P.T and monitresses. A total of 70 entries. Nice bit of history in excellent condition £20 108. HAMPSHIRE PRAYER AND HYMN BOOK FOR USE IN COUNCIL SCHOOLS Published for Hampshire County Council by Holbrook & Son 1904, small booklet with red card covers containing prayers and 211 hymns plus index, rusty staples but intact and in fair condition £5 109. SCHOOL REPORTS Seven reports of M P Davey 1931-33 in the 5th and 6th forms at Loughton School Essex, all in very good condition, also 4-page Distribution of Prizes for 1933 £7 110. MOVING THINGS FOR LIVELY YOUNGSTERS Written and well illustrated by T S Rowland and L G Smith, published by Cassell 1941, 127pp. Physical ans chemical science made easy with lots of diagrams. A good way of learning. Dust wrapper damaged but book and contents good £6 111. CO-OP Certificate awarded to Olive Thomas in March 1920 by the Co-operative Union Ltd for passing the Junior Grade exam in the subject of ‘Co-operation’. Also Co-operative Insurance Society’s policy details, certificate for a Brace 1931 (to be replaced if broken), and three full books of Saver stamps redeemable by the Co-op. Lot £6 112. PITMAN’S SHORTHAND Two certificates awarded to Phyllis Ward in 1919 for passing examinations, 50 words per minute and 80 words per minute, good condition, pair £4 113. DAILY EXPRESS MINIATURE NEWSPAPERS Nice little collection of momentous events comprising May 19 1900 Relief of Mafeking, June 16 1919 Alcock & Brown Fly Atlantic, December 11 1936 King Edward Abdicates, May 8 1945 VE Day, June 3 1953 Coronation, July 21 1969 Men on the Moon. 6 items in excellent condition £25 114. 1881 ACCOUNT (GLASGOW) receipted with the scarce first 1d Lilac (14 dots) 18.11.81 £3 115. RECEIPTS for rent, mortgage interest, expenses 1796 – 1802, each with embossed duty seal and signatures, 7 for only £4 116. HOME FOR AGED JEWS Programme for 5th Annual Ball of the Brighton and Hove Aid Society 1951 illustrated with lounges, married quarters and synagogue, slightly soiled and punch holes £3 117. THE STORK WARTIME COOKERY BOOK by Susan Croft, issued by the Stork Margarine Company 1939/40, 64pp illustrated, dozens of recipes for cooking in times of emergency, fair £6 118. INN-SIGNIA 58-page hardback published by Whitbread 1948 with seven plates in colour and 33 black and white illustrations, with history and derivation of inn signs. Book in good condition, dust wrapper with small tears £5 119. THE BREWER’S ART 58-page hardback published by Whitbread with seven plates in colour and 31 black and white illustrations. Answers questions about beer, what it is made of, how it is made, how it is sold. Book in very good condition, dust wrapper with small tears £5 120. COOKERY BOOKS Five from Stork (Art of Icing, Cakes, Party Time, Tea Time, Stork’s Tour), four cookery books by McDougall and one other, probably 1950s, lot £5 121. DECORATOR’S PRICE LIST 132-page listing from W S Low Ltd of Wolverhampton with a large section of paint samples as well as brushes, rollers, ladders etc. Some faults but reasonable collector’s condition £4 122. 1925-26 GREETINGS Small ornate embossed envelope with large letter B (Brewer) containing a Christmas card for 1925 from the Brewer family and a celluloid card with calendar for 1926, very good £4 123. THE HOLIDAY FELLOWSHIP 1948 brochure with details of their guest houses, charges (a week at Devil’s Bridge cost £4, sharing), rules and regs (guests to be in bedrooms by 11pm, absolute quiet thereafter) etc. Good condition £3 124. B B C CHORAL SOCIETY 1928 – 1949 Elaborate brochure to celebrate the Coming of Age of the Society. Foreword by Lord Reith, contributions from Sir William Haley, Sir Adrian Boult and Leslie Woodgate etc. Well illustrated and all held together by a fancy gold chord, very fine £6 125. BATH AND WEST AND SOUTHERN COUNTIES SOCIETY Plan of Show Yard, Maidstone 1925, fair £3 POSTAL HISTORY 126. MAP OF THE MAIL ROAD FROM LONDON TO HOLYHEAD ‘Improved under the direction of the Parliamentary Commissioners’ c1800, shows towns stopped en route with distances, 260 miles in total, folded, very good condition £16 127. THE ROYAL MAIL by James Wilson Hyde, published by William Blackwood & Sons, Second Edition 1885, 21 black and white illustrations. Chapters include Stage and Mail Coaches, Postboys, Mail Packets, Shipwrecked Mail, Travelling Post Office, Pigeon Post, Post Office Robberies, Telegraphs, Lost Letters, Mulready etc. Illustrated front cover with TPO, some wear to boards and a few relatively minor faults, but a good collectable copy of this rare book £35 128. TRAVELLING POST OFFICE 8in x 6in photograph of the Ipswich Sorting Tender standing at platform showing the apparatus and pouch and five postal staff. The original photo was taken in 1900, this is an official GPO photo carrying Crown Copyright, excellent condition £5 129. STANLEY GIBBONS PRICED CATALOGUE 1904 containing the stamps of Great Britain and British Empire. The Penny Black was catalogued at 25 shillings mint, six pence used. The hardback covers are creased but the contents are good £5 BOOKS 130. AGATHA CHRISTIE Almost complete collection of her classic murder stories, 77 paperbacks, some now very difficult to find. There appears to be very little duplication. Condition is average. Also her autobiography (Collins paperback, cover damaged), the New Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Agather Christie (Ungar paperback) and The Agatha Christie Centenary 1890-1990 with complete book list, well illustrated. 80 books for £45 131. PAPERBACKS A quantity of popular authors including Plaidy, Herriot, Rhea, Robbins, Herbert, Rendell, Follet, Hailey, Dexter, Le Carre, PD James and others. Over 300 books, average condition, BUYER TO COLLECT £25 PICTURE POSTCARDS 132. MORGAN’S EMPIRE STORES ‘GENERAL PROVIDERS’ Large detached building with wide shop front selling provisions, fancy goods, outfitting and fruit (and probably lots more) at the Packway, Larkhill Camp, Wilts. B&w photographic very good unused £18 133. ROYAL NAVAL BARRACKS CHATHAM Three real photographic cards by Gale & Polden, two exteriors, one interior (barrack room) c1913, all unused in excellent condition £9 134. ROYAL NAVAL AND MILITARY TOURNAMENT The Musical Ride being performed at Olympia before a large audience, real photographic card by Gale & Polden, no date, very good unused £5 135. DORSETS’ MUSKETRY PARTY Lined up on a parade ground, location not given, large building in background, WW1 period or earlier, real photographic card a little faded and a very small blemish on front, otherwise very good unused £6 136. TATTOO SERIES Three cards officially published by Gale & Polden, Musical Drive (photographic), Historical Drill and The Rearguard (both b&w), each unused in good condition £8 137. ‘FEED THE GUNS’ War Bonds Exhibition in Trafalgar Square showing soldiers and a large windmill, b&w card postally used with the Feed the Guns special machine cancel, two small corner creases £4 138. WAR BOND CAMPAIGN POSTCARD issued by the National War Savings Committee, shows heavy gun under camouflage, good unused £4 139. POLITICAL CARTOON from World War One by Bamforth in the ‘War Cartoons’ series captioned ‘I’m in a mess’. The hun is covered in jam from England, France, Belgium and Russia, good used November 1914 £5 140. ROYALTY B&w write-away by Faulkner with portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra ‘LONG MAY THEY REIGN’ postally used May 1901 with a QV stamp £5 141. LANCASTRIA BY SHOESMITH Coloured card of the Cunarder by collected artist Shoesmith, good unused condition £8 142. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY A selection of Official cards including their early passenger and goods locomotives, Aberdeen express on Shap summit, Queen Adelaide’s saloon, Royal suite, Olive Mount and Kilsby tunnets etc, nearly all b&w cards in fair to good condition, 15 cards £18 143. LONDON & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY A selection of Official cards of their early locomotives, Royal coach interiors, nearly all b&w cards in fair to good condition, 14 cards £17 144. MIDLAND RAILWAY Official card ‘The most picturesque route through England’, b&w write-away with Bolsover Castle, undivided back c1900 unused in very good condition £7 145. G W R LOCOMOTIVE Glen compound ‘La France’ in immaculate condition on an official GWR card, photographic very fine unused £5 146. CLASS A1 LOCOMOTIVE ‘W P ALLEN’ British Railways steam loco in all its glory, fine photographic card postally used at Church Stretton 1953 £3 147. CHILDREN Good selection of art drawn and photographic cards, mainly English but some European including Dutch. Some toys, a dolls house, classroom of children etc. Nice lot, 60 cards in generally good condition £20 148. CHILDREN, FAIRIES AND ELVES Four by Attwell (including a golly), three by Barham, and a few other art drawn but the condition is only poor to fair although there is quite a nice Minstrel Boy. 13 cards for £10 149. NORTH END SCHOOL About 70 boys and girls posing for this real photo outside the school with a couple of teachers. Don’t know the town but the period is c1910. Quite delightful except for a heavy vertical crease, unused £2 |
| 150. GIRL GUIDES A photographic group of sixteen of the Salisbury guides, very early in their voluminous skirts and uniforms but they really do look smart, taken by a Salisbury photographer c1910, good unused, minor scuffing £9
151. CHINESE CHILDREN AT PLAY Fourteen of them, each clasping another round the waist, b&w used at London 1907, good condition £4 152. THE COLLIER LAD Smiling miner on this b&w National card with tearful poem, unused, fault on back where it has been stuck down (not affecting front) £3 153. GIPSY ENCAMPMENT in the New Forest, lovely coloured card showing lady and four children outside their tent, one child in a cart, very good condition postally used with Brockenhurst circ date stamp August 1910 £15 154. BLACKFOOT INDIANS A colourful group watching the Scalp Dance, early Canadian card, a little scuffing £5 155. BUFFALO BILL’S WILD WEST B&w of Chief Lone Bear, undivided back card postally used 1903, minor corner crease £12 156. MOUNTED TOWN CRIER ‘The only mounted town crier in England’ on his horse, in uniform and bell, at Ilfracombe in 1910, unused with light crease £15 157. DRESSED CATS Two coloured cards, one with cat washing up in pinny used 1950, other with broom sweeping up. Pair in good condition £5 158. DOG’S CEMETERY Lots of readable grave stones (especially with a magnifying glass) to Nigger and all the other dogs buried here at London’s Hyde Park, good unused photographic card £9 159. TRADESMEN’S HOLIDAY AT SPEEDWELL TOUR HEADQUARTERS 1940 B&w shows Runnacleave Hotel (Ilfracombe) with parked cars outside (some people could get petrol during the war!). Intriguing card, research needed. Good unused £8 160. HARRY PAYNE Two Tuck’s Oilettes from the ‘Dorset Farms’ series, the Old Gate and Sunday Rest, both used 1907-08, a little scuffing at corners, otherwise good, pair £5 161. DIANA WATTS Set of six b&w cards of the actress in different roles, unused in very fine condition £8 162. ‘PLAY PICTORIAL’ Tucks set of ten ‘Monsieur Beaucaire’ played by Lewis Waller, b&w cards each postally used to the same addressee at Roehampton in May 1903 with a few interesting messages, good condition, nice set £15 163. INTER-VARSITY DEBATE Photographic card by Ward of Manchester showing a large group of well-dressed people at the 1913 debate, good unused £5 164. DAILY MAIL IDEAL HOME EXHIBITION 1930 showing arched terrace and pool court, coloured photographic card by Capt EWJ Payne, unused, good condition £3 165. WITH BEST OF LUCK FROM SNOWDON Pull-out illustrated with Scottish tartan and lucky heather; did somebody get their geography wrong? Unused Valentines card in good condition £4 166. RICKSHAWS FOR HIRE Dozens of them on this b&w card, each with a boy attendant, good unused, perforations at left (from a booklet) £3 BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL POSTCARDS 167. BRITISH TOPO BY JOTTER Attractive and colourful selection by this artist including six Derbyshire Peak district including the Rope Walk at Peak Cavern, Eyam Plague House, Dales etc, also a couple of New Forest, Rye etc, 12 cards in good condition £16 168. BRITISH TOPO BY BRIAN GERALD Attractive and colourful selection by Gerald of important beauty spots and historic buildings of England, Wales and Scotland, 58 cards in generally good condition £40 169. BRITISH TOPO BY H B WIMBUSH Attractive and colourful selection by Wimbush of English and Scottish views, fair to good, 11 cards £10 170. BRITISH TOPO BY VARIOUS ARTISTS Attractive and colourful selection by Borrow, Thompson, Trick, Parr, Hassall, Arthur Payne etc, mainly English views with a few Scottish, fair to good, 48 cards £35 171. WATER MILLS Castle Mill and Boxhill, both at Dorking, Old Water Mill Leatherhead, Hemingford Mill St Ives (Hunts), Town Mill Ramsbury, Town Mill Amersham, Abbey Mill Tewkesbury, Cassiobury Mill Watford and Hawes Mill, all early or middle period, condition is good. A very nice selection, 9 cards for £28 172. LONDON Interior of the Pantheon, Head Office of W & A Gilby, b&w of the office with about 20 clerks busy at their desks, good used 1916 £7 173. ROYAL MINT, LONDON with horse-drawn van outside belonging to George Harker of Upper Thames Street, b&w card in good condition, used 1905 £5 174. HOUNSLOW BARRACKS Entrance gates with sentry on duty, several notices such as ‘How to join the Army’, real photographic card used 1925, small corner crease £10 175. HARROW ON THE HILL High Street with good shop views, b&w vignetted card by Wrench, undivided back used at Harrow in 1903 with good shop views including Hartley’s Chemist and Provost’s. Very good condition £9 176. HAMPSTEAD Heath Street with good shop views, in particular Hygienic Dairies where their van emblazoned with HYGIENIC BAKERY is parked outside, nice social history, tinted card, a little foxed £8 177. MILL HILL The Ridgeway, real photographic used 1948, corner crease £3 178. HIGHGATE The Archway with a few distant vehicles, coloured card in the Canon series, postally used 1906, good condition £4 179. EALING New Broadway with shops and approaching tram, postally used 1910, b&w in good condition £6 180. EALING Castle Bar Road with a child and a cyclist, real photographic used c1913, crease at top left £4 181. EDGWARE High Street showing Registry Offices, however the state of the road is appalling, looks more like a cart track. B&w by Reeves, used 1908 in good condition £4 182. ISLEWORTH Spring Grove with shops, notices including Cycle Works, tram number 40 passing by, horse drinking from trough etc, coloured card in fine unused condition £7 183. SHEPHERD’S BUSH TUBE STATION Good exterior with many people and a tram, Beagles b&w card good unused £8 184. CLAPHAM CROSS A busy spot with people, shops, Plough Inn, tram just loading, hand tinted card by Stengel used 1904, very good condition £8 185. HARLESDEN Craven Park Road with a good row of shops and horse carriage c1905, hand tinted card in good condition £7 186. STRATFORD Broadway with approaching tram and a fair amount of activity, postally used 1909, corner scuff and vertical crease £2 187. WOODFORD WELLS, ESSEX The Turnpike with distant horse-drawn vehicles, fine unused photographic card £8 188. ISLE OF THANET Street scene with pub selling Tomson & Wottons ales, newsagent with adverts for Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle, Jennings family butcher and St Peter’s Church, b&w in good condition postally used Sept 1906 with BROADSTAIRS STATION date stamp £5 189. TILLINGHAM Sleepy Essex village although the Feathers Commercial Inn offers ‘Good Stabling’ and is flying a flag. Early b&w card, very good unused £6 190. WATFORD Fire Station, Victorian style architecture, doors closed so no engines visible but quite a scarce card in the Wyndham series, b&w. Used but stamp removed and minor faults but a very good looking card £5 191. WALTHAM CROSS Street scene showing monument, Falcon Hotel (‘Livery Stables’) and a commercial hotel with stabling, nice photographic card by Hunt, creasing barely visible, unused £5 192. HITCHIN Brand Street showing chapel, tea rooms and Game, Fish and Poultry Mart, nice b&w by Photochrom postally used 1913, good condition £6 193. NAPSBURY MILITARY HOSPITAL Large building in its own grounds, used at St Albans 1917, small tear at base £2 194. NEWPORT PAGNELL High Street North with a few houses and shops but no people! B&w from local publisher used at the town 1917, good condition £5 195. HENLOW, BEDS Hartley’s Fruit Farm showing the 50 acre section, ‘A vista of black currant bushes’ as this advertising card puts it. B&w card unused, a little foxing on back £4 196. TURVEY, BEDS Newton Lane with two men chatting and three children posing, cottages in view. Very nice photographic card by local photographer B Wiggins, used with Turvey circ date stamp 1913, two fairly minor corner creases £9 197. READING The Kings Statue and the Great Western Hotel with a policeman posing, b&w vignetted card by local publisher Turner, postally used Christmas Eve 1907, also a b&w of a busy Broad Street with excellent shop views and tram, unused. Both cards in very good condition, pair £7 198. ASCOT High Street with various shops and distant transport, coloured card in good unused condition £6 199. ASCOT VILLAGE Hand tinted card by Shurey with shops, Beenham House Yearlings sign and a group of cyclists, fine unused £5 200. RICHMOND Pigeon’s Hotel beside the river with small craft, real photographic used 1915 at Hounslow, a couple of minor corner creases £4 201. RIVER THAMES views at Caversham (2 including lock), Henley (3 different Marsh Lock), Maidenhead (2 including Boulters Lock) and Surbiton (3 diff by Misch & Co), also a nice coloured Sonning Village. All early cards in good or very good condition, 11 for £20 202. EAST MOLESEY REGATTA Very large crowds at this event in 1906 on a real photographic card, a little faded and a little creasing but an interesting card, postally used same year £4 203. MOLESEY Walton Road with good shop views and shoppers, sepia in very good unused condition £6 204. OUTWOOD, SURREY Two windmills side by side make an impressive sight on this coloured card by Shurey, very good unused £8 205. GODSTONE, SURREY Village pond and Clayton Arms, b&w postally used 1907, minor corner creasing £3 206. REDHILL, SURREY Market Hall, imposing building with 1930s cars outside, used photographic card with machine cancel 1950, top right corner creases £3 207. DORKING Castle watermill, b&w from ‘Wykeham Collection no. 1496’, unused in very good condition £6 208. LIMPSFIELD, SURREY General view of the village taken from an elevated position showing a shop (Post Office?) and the village pump, b&w vignetted card used a Croydon 1903, good condition £9 209. ABINGER HAMMER, SURREY Figure on building uses the hammer to strike the bell to indicate it’s 10 o’clock, Tuck’s real photographic card in fair/good condition £4 210. EAST SHEEN Uniformed sentry on duty at Sheen Gate, real photographic, used 1943, small corner crease £6 211. OXFORD Cherwell Hall showing Milham Ford School and the river with ladies punting, b&w card in very good condition. Interesting message on back, very good condition £5 212. DORCHESTER, OXON Row of High Street thatched cottages and the Tearooms c1906, used but stamp removed, good £4 213. NEWMARKET The Avenue showing Royal Entrance to Jockey Club Grounds, coloured card used at Ipswich 1905, good condition £6 215. CHATHAM Darland Banks windmill, a middle distance view with people promenading on the adjacent lane c1906, real photographic in the ‘Balmoral’ series, slight creasing near edge, unused £8 216. RAINHAM High Street on a quiet day with a horse and cart, a couple of cyclists and a couple of men debating whether to go in Ye White Horse or The Cricketers. B&w by Valentines c1906, fine unused £7 217. HAYES, KENT Botwell Lane with three boys posing in the middle distance but no traffic. Real photographic used at Sevenoaks 1912 in good condition £7 218. HAYES COMMON, KENT Two coloured art drawn cards by S Johnson, attractive, both Tucks Oilettes, backs with a little foxing, pair £3 219. CHESTFIELD, KENT The Barn Tea Rooms, b&w card printed for the proprietress Mrs D Godward (sitting in the garden), unused with a minor indentation, otherwise good £4 220. PEGWELL BAY Convalescent Home by the seafront, Frith coloured card used 1913 with two corner faults £2 221. WALMER Busy scene at the Barracks with naval band marching through the entrance and large crowd of onlookers, obviously some special occasion. The coloured card is in the Wyndham series and postally used 1904, good condition £6 222. BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA, KENT The Green, b&w in good unused condition £4 223. DYMCHURCH Smith’s Stores and a few village people c1905, b&w very good unused £5 224. NEW ROMNEY Photographic multi-view by Valentines with five views including two of the miniature railway, used 1954, good condition £2 |
| 225. CHILHAM, KENT The Square, Frith sepia card used 1924, slight postmark offset on front £2
226. GROOMBRIDGE, KENT Village view showing cottages, this card has been issued by Grey’s Cigarettes (this is number 43), good unused £4 227. SOUTHBOROUGH Pennington Road with church and two little girls, coloured card by Welch, unused in very good condition £4 228. YALDING, KENT The Post Office and three other shops. The sweet shop has a group of children outside! B&w published by RA, postally used c1930 (indistinct postmark), minor crease and slight foxing but an interesting card £6 229. HAWKHURST Highgate with outfitter’s shop, distant horse and cab and signpost, fair/good £3 230. NEWHAVEN The Convent, imposing new building, photographic, used 1915, good £5 231. DITCHLING General view of the village taken from an elevated position, fine unused photographic £4 232. THE STAMP HOUSE AT BOGNOR Exterior view with people and children outside, one with cycle, large advert on side of house for Lloyds News ‘Best Sunday Paper’. This is a lovely sepia photographic card postally used 1912 in very good condition £15 233. THE STAMP HOUSE AT BOGNOR Exterior view with three people posing outside, b&w photographic in excellent condition £12 234. THE STAMP HOUSE AT BOGNOR Interior showing long strings of stamps hanging from the walls and ceiling, real photographic card by local publisher, very minor scuffing £10 235. THE STAMP HOUSE AT BOGNOR View of the stamp room with long strings of stamps and other displays, b&w card used 1906 in good average condition. Message on back states there are over a million stamps and it took five years to do £8 236. BOGNOR The beach at Middleton with families and an artist with an easil set up, b&w used 1933 with machine cancel ‘The Telephone Saves Time and Money’, good £4 237. FINDON, SUSSEX Post Office and Forge both featured on this coloured photographic card by Wardell, good condition £5 238. LANCING The Bell Memorial Convalescent Home, Wardell photographic card used 1956, very good £4 239. BEXHILL ON SEA The Metropolitan Convalescent Home for Women, Sweetman photo used 1956, fine £4 240. BEXHILL ON SEA The Kursaal brilliantly lit up with the moon shining overhead - yes, it’s a HOLD-TO-LIGHT card!. Good unused condition £6 241. BORDON CAMP, HANTS Fire Station, Nissen huts and Lloyds Bank on this photographic card in the Oxford series, c1950s, very good unused £5 242. LYMINGTON B&w write-away of Walhampton postally used 1903, good average £4 243. CHRISTCHURCH High Street showing four beautifully dressed young boys (two with hoops) watching tram number 31 leave for Poole outside the Council House (now Saxon Square), coloured card with good view down High Street postally used Jan 1908, minor staining £7 244. CHRISTCHURCH High Street with shops including tobacconists, chemists, Ship Hotel, horse and cart etc, real photographic card a little faded and a small corner crease, unused £7 245. CHRISTCHURCH Church Street with good shop views including Jerome’s Stationers and Tobacconists, large advertising board for Riverside Tea Gardens, also other shops and Dolphin Inn, b&w card in very good unused condition £7 246. CHRISTCHURCH Bridge Street with buildings, horse and cart and what looks like the Corporation dust cart, real photographic in very good condition £8 247. BOURNEMOUTH The Square with tram, horse drawn cabs, bath chair etc, real photographic used 1918, small corner crease £6 248. BOURNEMOUTH – THE ROYAL BATH HOTEL taking delivery of a huge new boiler by Newlands Haulage, wow, what a tight squeeze! Real photographic with a corner crease £9 249. BOURNEMOUTH AVIATION MEETING 1910 Four separate views of planes on this coloured card by Sydenhams used 1912, small piece missing at base £3 250. BOURNEMOUTH PULL OUT Large airship lifts up to reveal 12 views of the town, good unused £4 251. CHILDE OKEFORD, DORSET The Common with winding lane and cottages, photographic card by local photographer W Diffey c1905, a couple of tiny pinholes but a good collectable card £5 252. SHAFTESBURY St James’ Lane with horse and cart, local sepia by Pearson & Son, unused in very good condition £4 253. WEYMOUTH New Town Bridge in sparkling condition just after it opened. It’s still there of course but looking its age now. Postally used 1932 in very good condition £6 254. ABBOTSBURY Rodden Row with a group (mainly children) posing for the photographer and postally used at Weymouth in 1910, also a deserted Market Street c1922, both b&w cards by local publisher J F Gibbons, fair to good, pair £5 255. CODFORD ST MARY, WILTS Village view with thatched cottages, Church and river. Message on back reads ‘A street in Codford near our Command Depot.’ B&w card unused in good condition £4 256. SHREWTON High Street with houses, thatched cottage and vintage double decker bus loaded with passengers in the middle distance, b&w unused, good but for minor corner crease £6 257. WARMINSTER Market Place with shops, pub and cars of the 1920s/30s, photographic card postally used (1932?) in good condition, small scuff at top £7 258. SALISBURY The Market with cattle and sheep in their pens, also a large marquee and shops in the background, photographic by J Welch of Portsmouth, used at Salisbury 1912, scuffing at corners, otherwise good £5 259. RADSTOCK A general view of this small Somerset town, sepia by Frith, very good unused £3 260. KEWSTOKE Somerset village scene with middle distance pony and trap, real photographic card used at Worle 1913, corner crease £4 261. SELWORTHY GREEN Tranquil Somerset village scene on this coloured Valantine’s card used 1905 with a most interesting message from a soldier in nearby Brigade Camp (We have long marches every day … fights over the hills …have already won many battles … we are attacking Dunster Castle on Friday …), very good condition £7 262. HOLCOMBE Early coloured card by Frith of this attractive Somerset village showing cottages, good unused £4 263. SOMERTON GWR viaduct, b&w used at Somerton 1906, fair £4 264. FROME Cheap Street with workmen outside the fishmongers by a hole in the road (have they finished the job yet?). Stengal coloured card used 1906. Smallish corner crease £4 265. LULINGTON Nice village view, coloured card by Eames of Frome, postally used at Shepton Mallet 1905, good £4 266. MARTOCK Bower Hinton, Frith photographic card with houses and a distant car c1950, fine unused £4 267. BRISTOL Hippodrome Theatre sandwiched in between a row of shops including Brightman’s shoe store, Presley Chemist, Smith & Co, Barnard & Co Tobacconist, opticians, ‘Photos by the Mile’, Ye Priory Dining & Tea Rooms, Drawbridge Hotel, Willway & Sons motor engineers and garage. Postally used at Bristol 1914 in very good condition. Real photographic of great clarity, a gem £14 268. BRISTOL Cumberland Basin with a few ships taken from an elevated position so good view of the area, b&w card used 1906, one small corner crease £4 269. EXETER High Street, early b&w write-away showing Hasrrisons Hotel, shops and horse-drawn transport, postally used to France 1902, clear Bridport and Nice dated postmarks, good condition £8 270. NEWQUAY, CORNWALL Launch of the Lifeboat, Peacock brand coloured card used 1908, some scuffing, fair £4 271. LUSTON, HEREFORDSHIRE Interesting village view with a few villagers and children going about the daily task or some just watching! B&w card in the .’Leominster News’ series, used 1904. Small fault in top margin, otherwise good £6 272. BROADWAY Entrance to the village with a couple of 1930s cars and the Swan Hotel, b&w photographic, good unused £3 273. ARLEY, WORCS View of ferry which is operating, bridge in background, early Valentines b&w card with undivided back used at Bewdley July 1902, good condition £7 274. EAST MOSELEY Cow Common with houses and a pond (is this in the Birmingham area?). B&w used in very good condition £4 275. WOLVERHAMPTON Busy Victoria Street with good shop views, real photographic by Lilywhite, used 1924, good condition £7 276. MATLOCK, DERBYS B&w of The Square used 1953, coloured of Bank Road showing Crown Hotel used 1928 and a coloured advertising card of Chesterfield House Hydro used 1916. Nice trio £8 277. HAMSTALL RIDWARE, STAFFS Watch Tower and Church, real photographic, good unused, minor scuffing £3 278. ELLESMERE Residential Church Street showing houses and church, b&w in the Valentines series, postally used at the town 1909, good £4 279. ELLESMERE PORT Whitby Road showing shops and cars and the Knot hotel in the 1950s, Frith’s photographic, very good unused £4 280. STALYBRIDGE Stocks Lane with two people, real photographic by Wilkinson of Manchester c1910, good unused £3 281. SOUTHPORT The Touring Car loaded with passengers and driver on its Grand Tour of Southport c1910, unused, back has minor foxing, otherwise good £6 282. LIVERPOOL Busy Church Street with crowds of shoppers, big shops including Piano and Organ Emporium, b&w very good unused £5 283. LIVERPOOL Castle Street, Town Hall and Queen’s Monument, pedestrians and two distant trams, real photographic used 1929, very good £5 284. MERSEY DOCKS AND HARBOUR BOARD A pair of official cards issued by the Board, both photographic, one shows Langton and Canada Dock entrances, the other Mersey Dock Estate at Birkenhead. Fine unused aerial views, lovely pair £15 285. ST ANNES ON THE SEA St Annes Road West with shops, shoppers and horse transport, b&w card good unused £4 286. BLACKPOOL Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an extensive collection of buildings on the North Shore including Tea Rooms, ‘American Portraits While You Wait’ etc, b&w card in good unused condition £8 287. CLEVELEYS, LANCS Promenade Terrace, a row of large three storey houses, fine unused photographic £7 288. BURNLEY Collapse of Greenhalgh’s Dye Works July 1908 and a sorry mess it looks. It is situated underneath a viaduct from which masonry has broken off and fallen on to the roof of the dye works. Real photographic in very good condition £20 289. MILNTHORPE, WESTMORELAND Dallam Tower Avenue, looks like a path through the woods, postally used 1910 in good condition £4 290. WISBECH Pull-out with Postman dipping into his large bag, with 12 views of the town, postally used 1918 in good condition £4 291. GRANTCHESTER, CAMBS Village view with cottages and 1950s car, real photographic unused in very good condition £4 292. CLEETHORPES Pull-out with train and 12 views of the resort, used 1928, corner crease £3 293. GRANTHAM Old Grammar School on early undivided back b&w card postally used at the town in 1906, good condition £5 294. MABLETHORPE Crowds of people at the railway station, some crossing by the footbridge for their week at the seaside, photographic by Lilywhite used in the 1920s (postmark indistinct). Has a surface mark but quite collectable £3 295. YORKSHIRE Street scenes at Harrogate (3), York (4), Sheffield (3), Ilkley, Knaresborough, Barnsley, Hull, Ripon plus village scenes at Pateley Bridge, Gunnerside. Haworth, Thornton Dale (with Mill). Grassington, Forge Valley, Glaisdale, Reeth, and Coxwold and others of interest. Generally good condition. 38 cards £40 296. YORKSHIRE COATS OF ARMS Ja-Ja cards for Barnsley, York, and Harrogate, also the famous Yorkshireman’s Arms (‘May we niver want nowt…etc) £8 297. LEEDS Two busy street scenes at Boar Lane and Briggate, both with good shop views, shoppers and trams, also a wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial. All photographic, one coloured, trio in good condition £11 298. LEEDS City Square with large buildings, horse traffic and a tram, used 1912, small surface blemishes £3 299. BRADFORD Children’s Hospital, coloured card, good unused £3 |
| 300. SHEFFIELD Two of Whiteley Woods, one showing the large convalescent home in its own grounds used 1915, other Forge Dam with small boats for hire unused, good condition £6
301. RIPON Market Place with just a few stalls, early b&w vignetted card, undivided back unused in good condition £6 302. ILKLEY The Grove with horse and cart, shops, bank, church and Hargreaves’ Toilet Club (what’s that?)` postally used 1909 in very good condition £9 303. PONTEFRACT Race Course from Starting Post with large crowds on race day, Wrench coloured card, slight corner scuffing, otherwise good unused £4 304. HORNSEA, YORKS Market Place with pub and a few shops, real photographic in very good condition postally used 1905 with a fine HULL SORTING CARRIAGE double ring £9 305. SILSDEN, YORKS Bolton Road with houses and church, b&w used at Leeds 1904, small repair, otherwise good £4 306. SKIPTON High Street with crowds of people and horse traffic, probably a special occasion as there are two large flags flying. This is a b&w novelty pull-out card with 12 views of the town, postally used 1912 at Gargrave. Two minor corner creases – considering it’s been through the post this is very good condition £8 307. SUNDERLAND Roker Pier with footbridge over railway, coloured card in the Star series, good condition £3 308. NORTHUMBERLAND Thirteen Newcastle including a few street scenes, three Whitley Bay, three Tynemouth, also a few villages including Warkworth, Bamburgh, Acklington Falls, and a Wooler pull-out. Condition is mixed. 34 cards moderately priced at £20 309. NEWCASTLE ON TYNE ‘The New Tyne Bridge’ so presumably just opened, photographic card used at Morpeth August 1931, corner crease £4 310. NEWCASTLE ON TYNE The Sandhill, b&w artist’s impression of the 5-storey building including the firm of J W Newton & Co, good average unused £5 311. ALNMOUTH Nether Grange, Sea Bank House and Vicarage on early vignetted b&w card, postally used 1903, good average condition £6 312. OTTERBURN Street with car filling up with petrol, real photographic, probably 1950s, good used £5 313. BLYTH Import Dock with shipping, real photographic by Glen of Leeds, very good unused £4 314. BLYTH The Harbour with ships, one a sailing vessel, early b&w write-away with undivided back postally used 1902, good condition £6 315. HOUSESTEADS, NORTHUMBERLAND Real photographic of the Roman Fort, ‘Eastgate’ and ‘Borciricus’, minor crease, otherwise very good £4 316. ROTHBURY, NORTHUMBERLAND Silverton Terrace, middle distance view taken from an elevated position showing various buildings and a bridge (railway?). Photographic, light crease £4 317. ROTHBURY Early b&w view showing shops, houses and war memorial used 1904 with GO4 duplex cancel, also two photographic cards, one a general view of the village from an elevated position, the other of Lovers Walk. Trio in good condition £10 318. CARDIFF The Sailor’s Home with a group of cloth-capped men lounging round the entrance, fine unused b&w card £6 319. PORT TALBOT Photographic aerial view of the docks with shipping interest by Aerofilms Ltd used 1933, very good condition £6 |
