10 Ca. 1900s Real Photo Postcards RPPCs of Men in Couples or Groups
All very good, some with light stains or wear, showing guys in a variety of places and activities. All with lots of character.
All very good, some with light stains or wear, showing guys in a variety of places and activities. All with lots of character.
All very good, 3 with postmarks from the late 1920s, the rest unused, minor occasional blemishes.
11 postcards, very good overall, one with glue residue on verso, 3 with messages, stamps, postmarks, 2 with messages but not postmarked. Black Head, Monhegan (that's the one with glue residue on rear), cabin at Boothbay Harbor (1930), Moore's Rest on Moose River, Hillcroft at York Harbor, 2 from Moosehead.....
Mainly American, a few from other countries, all with great character or evocativeness, some with inscriptions or messages on the back.
All unused, very good or better, one is of Kenilworth Castle, a few miles away, most are of Warwick Castle and the town.
12 postcards, mainly with postmarks and messages, generally very good, dating from 1905 to 1915, one with a goat nursing a baby from Cuba.
French, Canadian, American, Scottish, mainly very good, only a few have messages or dates or some kind of identification. Some with soil or stains to versos.
Richmond: W. R. Thompson, Ca. 192. A series of cards numbered 1-10; we're missing no. 7 but have five duplicates: nos. 2, 3, 5, 8 and 10. Very good, minor occasional soil; unused. In original envelope. Scenes of life in the barracks-like center. New Cumberland is in the Harrisburg metropolitan.....
On parchment, 24.5 x 16 inches, very good, usual folds, minor wear. Large old indenture of land transfer for property in Widford, but we are having a hard time reading the names of the participating parties.
17 postcards celebrating Thanksgiving, with postmarks from 1906-1916. Generally very good.
All very good, not written on or postmarked, occasional light wear, tanning, soil. We have: "The Old Man in the Mountain;" The Old Dutch Church near Sleepy Hollow; Gov. Clinton's House, Poughkeepsie; "The Old Beverly House" Below West Point; "The Verplank House" Fishkill on Hudson; General Knox's Headquarters, New Windsor.....
With embossed gilt borders very similar to Thomas Nelson penny cards of the 1850s-60s, the 8 smaller cards measure 3.75 x 2 inches, the three larger cards measure 6 x 4 inches. All are good with some abrasions to versos from having been in an album. On glossy paper, or.....
Hardcover. Probably assembled in Tamaqua PA. Quarto, about 70 pages filled in with various die-cuts, floral, cats, paletts, animals, sometimes kind of fun. A few trade cards, not many, and some of the die-cuts are full page. Very good overall. Probably over 250 individual images, some rubbing and wear to.....
Receipt measures 9 x 6.25 inches, with the final destination Austin Texas in 1881 for the passage in steerage of Caroline Bruckner of Reuth in Saxony, including passage in one of the North German Lloyd steamers to NY and train fare from NY to Austin. Very good.
14 x 7.5 inches, very good, light wear and tanning, some minor pencil notes.
Each measures approx. 6 x 5 inches and are mounted either singly or in pairs on tan or black old craft paper. Probably German. In some cases, the caption strips are gone or half there.
Mounted to old sheet of black paper. Charming image.
Mounted to old sheet of black paper. Charming image.
Measures approx. 5.5 x 4.5 inches, mounted on embossed bordered sheet that itself is mounted on a black sheet. Probably Austrian or German.
Very good, signs of removal from an album on verso, a couple tiny flecks to front side.
Very good, mounted to a sheet of now yellowed paper.
Roughly 12.5 x 10 inches, light wear, mounted on old black craft paper. The cat looks a little like Trump getting a dose of hydroxychloroquine.
12 x 10 inches (roughly), on a clipped out album page, thus there are some die-cuts on the other side, too. Light wear.
Measures approximately 13 x 8.5 inches, mounted to an old sheet of black paper, some light rubbing and wear.
Approx. 12.5 x 6 inches, mounted on turquoise old paper, with acetate covering, very good with light wear, including top quarter inch of the broomstick detached from the rest (but still there).