Post Card Collection (page 3)

Slow Coach and infuriated passenger
A lovely postcard by Lance Thackeray entitled Urgent - featuring a carriage being pulled by a very tired old nag and being driven by an old soak of a driver

Lady at dressing table - WWI postcard by George Ranstead
Lovely, decorative illustration by amateur, soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead, depicting a lady at her dressing table. circa 1916

Two women chatting in a kitchen, one thin and one fat. One says: I just seen young George the worse for drink again. The other replies: I ain t surprised. You may depend e in aled it from is father

Pretty Lady military drummer
A lady military drummer - the slightly saucy caption reads: " I wouldn t need a drum to follow you" ! A propaganda card from WWI. Date: circa 1916

A pair of lovebirds
Austro-Hungarian Empire souvenir tourist postcard of a pair of lovebirds

Woman and Turkish Flags
A veiled oriental beauty with pretty eyes set in a frame beneath two Turkish flags - patriotic postcard

Camel driver at Petra, Jordan
A beautiful postcard depicting a camel driver with his camel train sheltering at Petra, Jordan

Japanese girl playing violin
A stunning photographic postcard depicting a young Japanese girl playing the voilin

Lady Bathers - British - Bathing Chairs
Studio photograph (postcard) of wonderful basketwork bathing chairs occupied by smoking female bathers about to take a dip

Dietrich / Postcard
MARLENE DIETRICH German film actress

Cavalieri / Thais Postcard
Lina Cavalieri in the title role of the Egyptian courtesan who converts to religion and dies as a desert hermit

London Postcard 1905
Postcard sending Greetings from London. The coat of arms in the centre shows two dragons

Can-Can (Postcard)
A girl with skimpier underwear than usual for can-can dancers shows us her matching knickers

Mannekin Pis Postcard
IL PISSE TOUT LE TEMPS Some are moved to emulation, some look with mixed feelings

Port Sunlight Postcard
PORT SUNLIGHT Cottage Homes in Park Road

Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter
The aviator Gustav Hamel posting an airmail letter which he himself will transport by air to Windsor. The first aerial mail service took place on 9 September 1911 from Hendon to Windsor

Gustav Hamel signing receipt for mail, Hendon
The aviator Gustav Hamel in the cockpit of his aeroplane, signing the official receipt for the mail, just before setting out from Hendon Aerodrome to Windsor on the very first airmail flight

N Chamberlain / Postcard
NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN British Prime Minister in 1939

Sarasate / Postcard
PABLO SARASATE Spanish violinist

Rimsky-Korsakov / Postcard
NIKOLAY ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Russian composer in later life

Paderewski / Postcard E&f
IGNACY JAN PADEREWSKI Polish pianist, composer and statesman, with part of his Chant du Voyageur below

Meyerbeer / Efg Postcard
GIACOMO MEYERBEER German composer of Italian operas

Macdowell / Ea / Postcard
EDWARD ALEXANDER MACDOWELL American composer

Pablo Casals / Postcard
PABLO CASALS Spanish cellist, conductor and composer

Marie Lloyd / Postcard
MARIE LLOYD Music hall entertainer wearing a large feathered hat

Teck / Alice / Postcard
PRINCESS ALICE OF ALBANY COUNTESS of ATHLONE Granddaughter of Queen Victoria, wife of Prince Alexander of Teck

Queen Mary / Postcard
QUEEN MARY Wife of George V (as Princess of Wales)

George V / Postcard Sailor
GEORGE V " Our Sailor King", with a picture of the battleship HMS King George V below

George V / Postcard 1910
GEORGE V King of Britain (1910-36)

G Washington / Postcard
GEORGE WASHINGTON First American President

Stradivarius / Postcard
ANTONIUS STRADIVARIUS or ANTONIO STRADIVARI Italian violin maker of Cremona; he also made other stringed instruments

Covent Garden Postcard
Covent Garden on a busy day - the entire space is taken up with stalls of fruit, vegetables and flowers

Female Type / Reading 19C
A young Victorian woman looking at a postcard. Date: late 19th century

Dover Harbour Postcard
A steam train pulled up on the Admiralty Pier alongside a paddle steamer

Schiller (Postcard
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH German writer Date: 1759 - 1805

Chaplin / Postcard Anon
CHARLIE CHAPLIN (Sir Charles Spencer) English comedian and actor

Postcard of Carousel
A merry-go-round at Worthing

Igor Stravinsky / Postcard
Russian musician, IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

A girl says goodbye to War-bound partner
Sweet Jenny Gray (song lyric) Jenny Gray, tis dawn of day, and we two must part, All your tears, dear, that start find their way to my heart; Dear Old England borrows all its sunshine from you

The swimming pool at the Park Central Hotel, New York, 1930s
The swimming pool at the Park Central Hotel at 55th Street and 7th Avenue, New York, 1930s. The largest indoor pool in Manhatten supplied by well water 550 feet under the city

An interior view of a party at Zellis nightclub, Montmartre
An interior view of a party at Zellis nightclub, 16 Rue Fontaine, Montmartre, Paris, 1920s (Zelli on far right) Date: 1920s

Image of young girl. Artist: May Bowley. Image designed as a New Year postcard for the US market Date: circa 1910

World War One Patriotic Postcard - Bulldog
World War One Patriotic Postcard - British Bulldog standing proudly On Guard! on the Union Flag. Date: circa 1916

The Central Powers - Patriotic Postcard
The Central Powers in World War One. Austri-Hungary, Turkey and Germany. Soldiers from each country stand before their flags and join hands in a show of unity

Kim Novak / Postcard
KIM NOVAK (Marilyn Novak) American film actress

National Insurance Card
A postcard to mark the introduction by Lloyd George of the National Insurance scheme

Horse Race / Postcard
A horse race in progress

Children pulling Christmas tree through the snow
A beautiful scene showing four sweet little children pulling a Christmas tree through the snow c.1916

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