Card Collection (#232)

Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton, 1st Baronet (18481931) - Scottish self-made man, merchant, and yachtsman. He created the Lipton tea brand

Sir Harry Lauder - Scottish entertainer
Sir Henry (" Harry" ) Lauder (18701950) - internationally-renowned Scottish entertainer. Date: 1926

Herbert Henry Asquith - English politician
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith (18521928) - Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. Date: 1926

Sir William Joynson-Hicks - Conservative Politician
William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford (1865-1932) - English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving (and controversial) Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929

Augustus Edwin John - Welsh artist
Augustus Edwin John (18781961) - Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. Date: 1926

Sir John Martin-Harvey - romantic actor
John Martin Harvey (18631944) (" Sir John Martin-Harvey" ) - romantic actor of the English theatre. Date: 1926

Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen - English Industrialist
Sir Hugo Cunliffe-Owen, 1st Baronet (1870-1947) - English Industrialist. Date: 1926

Lord Hawke - 7th Baron Hawke of Towton
Martin Bladen Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke of Towton (18601938), (" Lord Hawke" ) - English amateur cricketer who played major roles in the sports administration. Date: 1926

Sir Jack Hobbs - English cricketer
Sir John Berry " Jack" Hobbs (18821963) - English professional cricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934 and for England in 61 Test matches between 1908 and 1930. Date: 1926

Steve Donoghue - English flat-race jockey
Steve Donoghue (18841945) - a leading English flat-race jockey in the 1910s and 1920s. Champion Jockey 10 times between 1914 and 1923. Date: 1926

Sir Gerald du Maurier
Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier (18731934) - English actor and manager. Date: 1926

Douglas Fairbanks - American actor, director & producer
Douglas Fairbanks (18831939) - American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. Date: 1926

Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes - British politician
Sir Eric Campbell-Geddes (18751937) - British businessman and Conservative politician. Served as First Lord of the Admiralty (1917-1919) and First Minister of Transport (1919-1921). Date: 1926

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862-1933) - British Liberal statesman. Foreign Secretary from 1905 to 1916. Date: 1926

George Grossmith Jr. - British actor and theatre producer
George Grossmith, Jr. (18741935) - British actor, theatre producer and manager, director, playwright and songwriter, best remembered for his work in and with Edwardian musical comedies. Date: 1926

Admiral of the Fleet - Earl Jellicoe
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (18591935) - British Royal Navy admiral who commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in World War I. Date: 1926

Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee - Artist
Sir Francis Bernard Dicksee (18531928) - English Victorian painter and illustrator. Date: 1926

Sir Alan Cobham - English aviation pioneer
Sir Alan Cobham (1894-1973) - English aviation pioneer. Date: 1926

Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (18651948) - British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat and racehorse owner

Lord Charles Darling - High Court Judge
Lord Charles Darling (18491936) - English lawyer, politician and later a High Court judge. Date: 1926

Winston Churchill - British Politician
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) - British Conservative Politician - Prime Minister 1940-1945 and also between 1951-1955. Date: 1926

G K Chesterton - English writer
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) - English writer. Date: 1926

Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson (18541935) - an Irish barrister, judge and unionist politician. Date: 1926

Charlie Chaplin - English comic actor
Charles Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) - English comic film actor, director and composer, most notably of the silent film era. Date: 1926

Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) - British Conservative MP, a member of the war cabinet and appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer by Lloyd George in the aftermath of the First Wold War. Date: 1926

Sir Hall Caine - Novelist and playwright
Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine (18531931) a Manx author. Best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. Date: 1926

Rt Hon. Earl of Birkenhead - Frederick Edwin Smith, noted lawyer and Conservative politician. Occupied the posts of Solicitor-General in 1915

J M Barrie - Scottish Author and Dramatist
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (18601937) - Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan. Date: 1926

Aga Khan III - Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah
Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, Aga Khan III (18771957) - the 48th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. Date: 1926

Victorian clown greetings card
Back design of a greetings card from the Victorian era featuring three clowns wearing colourful, striped knickerbockers, clambering over the edge of the card

Art Deco party game card
Cover of a card for a party game called gooseberries, featuring a lovely art deco illustration of people in evening dress thinking deeply about the game. Date: c.1933

American 4th of July postcard. Stars and stripes greetings card

Bringing Christianity to China - Missionary Card
The quest to bring Christianity to China - Missionary Card Date: circa 1910

Greetings card with cherubs watering heart flowers
Christmas and New Year card featuring a jolly scene as winged cherubim water heart flowers with green watering cans. Date: circa 1910s

Halloween Greetings Postcard
On Halloween, the witches night, If YELLOW is the lantern light Your future surely will be bright. A witch flies across the moonlit sky on her broomstick

Cherub playing the violin. To My Valentine. Postcard

The winner. Theres no need for luck when a man has pluck, A smile and a cheerful song, and passes on strife in the game of life to help the world along

American patriotic postcard, commemorating the civil war. Honour the Brave! 1861- 1865 Date: 1908

Yankee Doodle came to town, riding on a pony. Fourth of July Greetings card

Fourth of July Greetings card, featuring the stars and stripes

Book cover design, La Vanghetta del Fante
Book cover design by Duilio Cambellotti, La Vanghetta del Fante by Giuseppe Zucca, showing an Italian light infantryman carrying a spade (the title also means Jack of Spades). Date: circa 1920

Bridge Party Cake. Speciality Cakes. Date: 1936

Poker Playing Pig of Colonel Wood
The American showman Colonel Woods large pig taking part in a game of poker. Date: 1872

Postcards - St Petersburg, Russia
A popular postcard seller in St Petersburg, Date: circa 1910

E. M. Sturgess, Stage Illusionist
E.M. Sturgess a heavily moustached illusionist, standing behind an assortment of his performance paraphernalia. Date: cica 1900

Hollywood woman on pin-up greetings card
Hollywood woman on a pin-up greetings card, kneeling on a sandy beach in a swimsuit. Date: 20th century

Queen Victoria - Diamond Jubilee - Italian Opera Invitation
Invitation to a State performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, London on 23rd June 1897 to celebrate Queen Victorias Diamond Jubilee

Button card with little girl and mirror
Button card, depicting a little girl in a red and white coat and hat, looking in a mirror. There are four real white buttons stitched to her coat, and four green ones on her leg. Date: 20th century

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