348 resultados
1930ref. 91724n.p. 1930. Very Good. Approx. 14 x 9 cm. Unused and undated. Glossy Sepia-toned. Modest soiling and wear mostly on non-photo side. Decent detail. Indistinct background. Wearing dead birds as hats was apparently popular in the late 19th and early 20th century although this postcard seems later than that. unknown
ref. 86859Good. 167 Postcards on a variety of subjects inserted 1-4 to a page in pre-cut slots. Oblong album. Some cover soil and wear. Small illustration of two Dutch girls on cover. Cards in nice shape. Some are postally used; other unused. Several from Pennsylvania. unknown
1970ref. 223347Beijing. 1970s. Collection of six items. Two postcard sets by the Peking Post Office: 北京风光 Bei jing feng guang: 8 postcards. 北京风景 Bei jing feng jing: 9 postcards. Both in original envelope 8 x 15cm. Two copies of the large colour folding map "北京游览图 Beijing Youlantu" showing with detailed maps of major tourist destinations and bus routes in Beijing. Text in simplified Chinese characters 73 x 51cm folded 18 x 12.5cm. One in original paper case. A trifold brochure with colour map of Beijing text in English 25 x 12cm. "Visitors Guide to Peking" booklet in stapled wrappers folding maps one at rear and another loosely inserted 43pp 23.5 x 10.5cm. Prepared by members of the Australian Embassy for Australian tourists in Beijing. Some minor wear at extremities overall in very good condition. . unknown
1919ref. 227911919. Painting. Very good condition. A group of 12 hand-painted postcards depicting women's fashion in the 1920s. The 5 artist signatures include "Rucio" "Orcina' and "Susie" with 2 undecipherable. All are in the style of the pochoir fashion magazine "Le Gazette du Bon Ton". On the verso is the standard postcard information for France "Carte Postale. La Correspondance au recto n'est pas acceptee par tous les pays etrangers Se renseigner a la poste" with a split back the address on the right and room for correspondence on the left. Two cards by "Susie" are charming - one woman is dressed in a blue sailor's suit the duffle bag slung over her shoulder with the notation "U.S.A.". In the other the young woman is wearing a short pink and blue striped outfit holding a nest of eggs the suggestive caption saying "Nous aussi nous retrouverons bientot notre cher petit nid!" We will also soon find our own little nest! The outfits are charming. Pencil inscription on some identifying the buyer as 'Mich' an American serviceman perhaps who presented the cards to his lady friend who is as "pretty as" the pictures. The postcards are unused printed on heavy rag card with untrimmed edges. unknown
1938ref. 24708Japan 1938. Ephemera & postcards. Very good overall. Album comprising 100 cards with embossed illustration of a gun-toting soldier on the cover and with a map printed inside the cover showing Japanese territory in China. The postcards are mostly colored artist postcards many stamped and mailed and almost entirely of Chinese locations. Presumably put together by a Japanese soldier with the occupation force in China. Fortunately the album consists mainly of artists' cards of places and doesn't have any of the images of atrocities committed against the conquered Chinese. Illustrated printed color postcards include many of military life: cavalry units soldiers bathing in hot tubs soldiers relaxing in courtyards a soldier standing in city street soldiers at drill and a seaplane. One card with printed signature T. M. Kauri ; another signed T. Hazma and dated 1938. Other printed color post card subjects include landscapes both Japanese and Chinese Mt. Fuji temples temple gates Japanese beauties one waving a Japanese flag lake and mountain views pagodas industrial river sites river families in their junks Japanese gardens and Chinese walled cities. Color and b&w printed photographic post cards include: mountain landscapes waterfalls temples cherry trees in blossom and traditional architecture. A real albumen picture post card shows a seated group in Western clothes the man at the left a military figure in an outdoor thatched roof gazebo. Oblong 8vo 8 1/2 x 5 1/4" cord bound. Dark blue pictorial embossed boards with red embossed entry gate in fortress wall embossed Japanese soldier and Japanese lettering. Faint damp stain mostly top edge early leaves only; chipping to lower corners of album pages only; the postcards clean and bright. unknown
2000ref. 514654Adams Media 2000. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Like New/No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Published by Adams Media 2000. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Adams Media paperback
1950ref. 294601950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Wyoming postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 121 postcards 19 RPPC 102 regular 18 full back the rest split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Wyoming from: Yellowstone National Park Cheyenne Laramie Sheridan Green River Jackson Hole Fort Russell Col. W. Cody's Pahaska Teepee Shoshonee Irrigation Reservoir. unknown
ref. 69552All are from the twentieth century but from decades spanning that period with black and white sepia toned early chromolithographic and later full color images included. A small percentage perhaps 20-25 have been used with messages and addresses penned on verso and some show a little storage soiling but overall remain in very good condition. For the lot unknown
1947ref. 681331947. Forty-two photo postcards 9 x 14 cm. One has been used and postmarked which is where the date comes from. unknown
1950ref. 294611950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of African American postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 57 postcards 25 RPPC 32 regular 9 full back the rest split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. All kinds of imagery photo illustration cartoon some politically incorrect from Southern states Puerto Rico Nigeria etc. unknown
1950ref. 294621950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Native American postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 20 postcards 6 RPPC 14 regular 4 full back the rest split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Native Americans: some photo illustrated RPPC and colorized; Pueblo family Cherokee Reservation Indian Chiefs Lonetree Hollow Horn and Red Feather Canadian Stony Indians Yawaygamug and Ute Indians. unknown
1950ref. 294561950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Montana postcards dating from 1910-1950. A total of 24 postcards 1 RPPC 23 regular 3 full back the rest split-back both used with franked postage from 1905 1907 1908 1942 and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Butte Glacier National Park RPPC of State Capital at Helena Deer Park Livingston. unknown
1950ref. 294591950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Utah postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 31 postcards 6 RPPC 25 regular all split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Utah from: Zion National Park Mormon architecture in Salt Lake City Promontory Ogden Bryce Canyon National Park Kaibab National Forest 1 card with salt sample from Great Salt Lake and 1 with ore sample from a copper mine. unknown
1950ref. 294581950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Texas postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 33 postcards 1 RPPC 32 regular 5 full back the rest split-back used and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featuring views of Texas from all over: Fort Worth El Paso San Antonio Paris Sherman Beaumont Gainesville Corpus Christi ;Temple and Dallas. unknown
1950ref. 294511950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of California postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 222 postcards 61 RPPC 161 regular 28 are full backed the rest split-back both used with franked postage and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights and sounds of Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Mendocino Santa Clara Catalina Island Modesto Yosemite Monterey Mt. Shasta Long Beach Lake Tahoe Redondo Beach Auburn Santa Maria Santa Monica Hollywood Eureka Santa Maria Sacramento etc. Some with interesting messages postage or destinations e.g. 1946 Roosevelt/Hyde Park stamp; 1906 earthquake postcard sent to New Zealand and cancelled in 1908; 1944 1 cent Statue of Liberty "Industry Agriculture for Defense" stamp; uncancelled 5 cent "Toward United Nations April 25 1945"; 3 RPPC from Fort Ross showing Russian Officers Building built in 1934 chapel built by Russians in 1811 etc. unknown
1950ref. 294521950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Washington postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 34 postcards 3 RPPC 31 regular 17 are full backed the rest split-back both used with franked postage and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights of Seattle Spokane Tacomah Yakima Longview Snoqualmie Falls Glacier National Park also Ginkgo Petrified Forest Cedar Stump Residence and two folding postcards one a panorama of Mt. Tacoma 2 panels and the other a panorama of Camp Lewis 4 panels. unknown
1950ref. 294541950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Nevada postcards dating from 1910-1950. A total of 24 postcards 7 RPPC including 1 of Pres. Harrison and entourage in Virginia City 17 regular all split-back both used with franked postage and unused cards. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights in Reno Las Vegas Virginia City and Boulder Dam. unknown
1950ref. 294501950. Postcards. Very good overall. A collection of Oregon postcards dating from 1900-1950. A total of 42 postcards 19 RPPC 22 regular 1 postcard sized silvertone snapshot of Crater Lake 23 are full backed the rest split-back mostly unused cards with some used with franked postage. Priced to sell. Featured views showing the sights of Portland Salem Mt. Hood Multnomah Falls Columbia River Lake Marie Newport and Gold Beach. unknown
1928ref. 222277Singapore. circa1928. Booklet of 9 only captioned sepia postcard views lacks 3 postcards 15.3 x 6.1cm each perforated at margin final card with tissue guard versos divided in two printed in green with the studio reference numbers at top right otherwise blank; original stiff attractive grey card covers title printed in black within a foliated triple-ruled border cover soiled and marked. A very interesting suite of views. An appealing suite of twelve historic views. We have been unable to source the printer or studio but they are likely to be after M.S. Nakajima the influential Japanese photographer who first advertised on the island in 1911. The image of the trolleybus on New Bridge Road would date the whole compilation to around 1927. The views are: Hindoo Temple Singapore Government House Singapore Battery Road Singapore Singapore River East Coast Road Singapore High Street Singapore Traveller Palm Trees Singapore Connaught Drive Singapore Cocoanut sic Plantation Singapore. . unknown
1954ref. 222612Australia. Circa1954. An album of 128 black and white photographs and 12 colour postcards detailing a trip to Ceylon in 1954 cord tie. 25 x 33cm. Few postcards loose leaves trifle friable cloth-covered boards little shelf worn overall in good condition. Although the album begins with aerial shots of the P&O Stratheden in Sydney and includes a few non-contemporary studio photographs of Ceylon the majority of the album is comprised of private photographs with handwritten captions and dates. Loosely inserted at the rear is the original photographic film within a Kodak-branded sleeve a 14-page stapled booklet introducing guests to the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo and an itinerary of a motor tour of Ceylon presumably undertaken by the album's creator. . hardcover
1992ref. 004416Enka North Carolina: Colonial House 1992. 6" wide by 9" tall. A bright clean square tight and unmarked copy. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat uncreased spine. First printing with complete number row 10 987654321 on the copyright page. From the rear cover: "Discovered! The Harrison Fisher Finnish Connection. 82 Postcard Variations of 43 Different Images; 12 Different Named Series; 8 Totally New Fisher Postcards; Prices!; Fully illustrated with b/w photographs of all the cards in each series. Includes photos of the reverse side for easy identification.". First Printing of the First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine condition. iv 68pp. Colonial House Paperback
1915ref. 29358Trier Germany: Schaar & Dathe 1915. 85 b&w postcards printed by Schaar & Dathe of Trier who were one of the biggest German postcard printers and used During W.W.I the company had 15 presses and employed 150 workers & used letterpress lithograph and collotype processes. Creating postcards during the war was an easy affordable way to spread the news visually about the areas most affected by combat through images of ruins life in the camps and the cleanup efforts of soldiers and civilians. See the collection held by the Library of Virginia. The postcards are numbered & captioned on the verso. Slightly dusty overall very good condition. Schaar & Dathe unknown
1915ref. 29359Paris: A. Ternois 56 rue d'Aboukir Paris 1915. Very good condition. 45 b&w postcards highlighted in white illustrating W.W.I from the point of view of children. The postcards are captioned in French & numbered on the verso. The interchanges between the children speak to shortages of candles the destroyed family clock marching with guns children lined up for military service babies grown big enough for going to the war. Split backs unused most in sleeves. The series starts with no. 3 and goes to no. 87 with gaps. A. Ternois, 56 rue d'Aboukir, Paris unknown
1940ref. 33059N.p. 1940. Very Good. N.p.: ca. 1940s. Original unused pictorial wooden postcard 8.5x14cm. Wood rather bowed some scuffing and shallow scratches small hole at top edge not touching text else Very Good. Humorous postcard showing a seated and down-in-the-dumps woman accompanied by the quote "Everything I like is immoral illegal or fattening!" Verso text stamped in brown urging the user to "please use pencil. unknown
1950ref. 214096Japan. No date. 1950s. Six colour post cards 14.5 x 10cm pictorial folder measuring 16.5 x 11.5cm captions in Japanese and English on reverse. Minor wear paper folder but otherwise very good. Six colour post cards featuring Ainu people in their traditional costumes performing their rituals and dances. The Japanese text on the envelope says that the Ainus are the only "primitive people" in Japan and they need to be studied. . unknown