Postcards and Cigarette Cards

18 Mar 2009, starting at 11:00 GMT .

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This sale is now finished. If you are interested in consigning in future sales, please contact the specialist department. If you have queries about lots purchased in this sale, please contact customer services.

Sussex A collection of loose, used and unused, cards inc. undivided backs, real photographs, street scenes, seaside etc., P-VG.

Theatrical An extensive collection of loose, mainly Edwardian actors and actresses in a carton, sorted alphabetically with a list of contents inc. Gladys Cooper (146), Marie Studholme (88), Dare sisters (179) etc., F-EX.

Theatrical A collection in eight Scrap Albums inc. theatres, actors, actresses, play scenes, advertising, Ellen Terry, Vesta Tilley, Sir Henry Irving, Heddle Nash, Tibetan Dancers, book post, midget post cards, Elgar, Hereford Music Festival 1903, Beerbohm Tree etc., G-EX.

Theatrical A collection of Edwardian play scenes, mainly real photographs. List enclosed.

Titanic A White Star Titanic (Olympic) picture postcard - said to have been sent from "Jack" a ships steward, with Belfast postmark, APL 1 12, the day before it sailed to Southampton. The difficult to read message, ends "some trouble with the ship". Provenance: the owners great grandfather was a steward for White Star and received this postcard from a colleague working on the Titanic. Rather grubby.

Transport A collection of British and foreign in two albums and four scrap books inc. shipping, Titanic (2), Olympic in Floating Dock, Southampton, Bremen in same, paddle steamers, Furness Line, P & O, railways, officials, engines, Chathill Station, Moniaive Station, Royal Oak Station, GWR, correspondence cards etc., F-EX.

Tuck A collection in six albums and loose inc. undivided backs, sets, Oilettes, Oxford Pageant, Van Hier, Charles E. Flower, Shepheard, Hiawatha, Illustrated Songs, Town Life, In Dickens Land, George Washington, Wagner, Kings & Queens of England, shipping etc., F-EX.

Turkey A collection of used and unused in a modern album inc. undivided backs, the Sultan's children, ethnic, Constantinople, Smyrna, paddle steamer etc., F-VG.

A collection of sets, part sets and odds mostly in albums inc. Thomson The World's Best Cricketers (72), Football Stars of 1959 (44), A & BC Gum All Sport Series (M62/120), Chix Famous Footballers, No. 2 Series (X48), Carreras Turf Famous Footballers (50), Brooke Bond Animals of North America (Rolland Back, 48), Gallaher The Great War VC Heroes, 3rd Series (25), Players A Nature Calendar (L24) etc., P-EX.

A collection of loose, mainly part sets and odds inc. Churchman Boxing Personalities (30), Ogdens Poultry (10), 2nd (20), Players Aeroplanes (81), Football Caricatures by MAC (52), Poultry (55), Uniforms of the TA (159), Wills Railway Engines (56), Ardath, Carreras etc., P-VG.

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