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.....
15 vintage postcards with Irish themes, all in very good condition. In no particular order we have "Erin Go Bragh" postmarked Cleveland 1910, Erin Go Bragh with scene of Dalkey with short pencil message from 1911, "Scenes from Irish Life" with young woman on donkey carriage, "Barney O'Hea" with 1904.....
Germany: n/a, ca. 1900s-1920s. Group of 16 circus and troupe postcards, ca. 1900s-20s, printed in Germany. Includes clowns, troupes of various sizes posed together, portraits of female performers- including Asta Westerguard and Paula Piquet, and other notables. Each measures 6 by 4 inches, most filled out. Very good. Clown post.....
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.
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.....
NP: 1880s. 4.5 x 3.25 inches, very good or better, with chromo front and printed text with illustration on verso, touting the advantages of using the product. Bloom of Youth was subject of an 1869 pamphlet produced by the American Medical Association, warning that the product, had caused lead poisoning.....
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.