Postcard Collection (page 19)

Victorian Greeting Card - Mice Musicians
Four mice musicians sitting on a bench playing musical instruments. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - The Mouse Ball
Five mice dancing at a ball. Date: circa 1890

Victorian Greeting Card - Hungry Guinea-Pigs
Mother guinea-pig carring a bowl of food being chased by three young guinea-pigs. Date: circa 1890

Birthday Greetings Postcard - Cockchafers call on Froggie
Birthday Greetings Postcard - Mr and Mrs Cockchafer (May Bugs or Doodlebugs) call on Froggie (who appears to be running an inn or pub) and present him with a bouquet of daisies on his Birthday

Queen Elizabeth II, Trooping the Colour
Queen Elizabeth II on horseback, returning from the ceremony of Trooping the Colour. Date: circa 1954

German Easter postcard with eggs and flowers. Date: circa 1960s

Cupid in a boat on a New Year postcard
Cupid in a boat drawn by two swans on a New Year postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Cat and kittens with a red umbrella on a postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Santa Claus with girl and presents on a Christmas postcard. circa 1890s

Santa Claus on skis on a French Christmas postcard
Santa Claus with his sack of presents, travelling on skis on a French Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1900s

Santa Claus with his sack on a Latvian Christmas postcard
Santa Claus with a sack full of presents in the snow outside a log cabin on a Latvian Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Santa Claus with his sack on a Christmas postcard
Santa Claus with a tree and a sack of presents in the snow on a Christmas postcard. Date: circa 1890s

Angel with star on a Christmas postcard, with tree and rural snow scene below. Date: circa 1890s

Louis Wain cats
Cat in spotted bow tie and feathered hat. Postcard. Artist: Louis Wain Date: 1920s

Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, USA
Postcard booklet, workers in the cotton fields, Dixieland, USA. Date: 1937

The Pantiles, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
circa 1910s

German East Africa - a Mango Tree full of fruit
circa 1910s

Aerial View of Richmond, Indiana, USA
circa 1910s

Chief of the Shilluk Tribe - Southern Sudan
circa 1910s

Tangier, Morocco - Gate of the Casbah
circa 1910s

Comic Postcard - feeble Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl
Comic Postcard - ( My Word !) Get Thee behind me Temptress - a feeble and effete Vicar not tempted by a pretty girl, although one wonders if she is quite his type anyway... 1910

Anti-suffrage satirical postcard - Leap Year Goods - " Will wear well". A woman in full tweed suit of jacket and plus fours standing with her motorbike. 1908

Comic postcard - arrival of a new baby
Humorous comic postcard - arrival of a new baby. Mother and Child doing well - Not a word about Father....!! 1909

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

The Railway Children
Publishers postcard advertisement for The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit. Artist: Charles Brock

Ethel Parkinson
Christmas postcard advertisement for Four Castles Tea depicting happy children bearing sheaves of holly and mistletoe. Artist: Ethel Parkinson. Date: 1904

Comic Postcard - WW1 Home Front - Air Raid Alert - Take Cover - an eager volunteer
Comic Postcard - WW1 Home Front - Air Raid Alert - " Take Cover" - an eager volunteer warden shouts down an alert of any occupants of a Ladies Public Convenience! Date: circa 1917

Greetings Postcard - Palermo, Sicily, Italy. Date: circa 1908

Zuyder Zee, a revue, Cardiff and Swansea, Wales
Zuyder Zee, a revue by R E Jones Ltd, in Cardiff and Swansea, Wales -- None but the Brave Deserve the fair. early 20th century

The Youngest of Three, New Theatre, Cambridge
The Youngest of Three, a play by H F Maltby, at the New Theatre, Cambridge, with a scene from Act 3. First performed in Jersey in 1905. circa 1911

Would-Be Actors, Palace Theatre, London
Would-Be Actors, at the Palace Theatre, London, with Carter Livesey, Albert Mason and Lilian Rosebery. 1906

The Woman in the Case, Kennington Theatre, London
The Woman in the Case, at the Kennington Theatre, London, a Frank Weathersby production, previously at the Garrick Theatre and the New Theatre. 1915

The Whirl of the World, Palladium Theatre, London
The Whirl of the World, Charles Gullivers revue in 25 scenes, by Albert de Courville, Edgar Wallace and William E Wells, at the Palladium Theatre, London, with a chorus of sixty. circa 1920s

The Walls of Jericho, Garrick Theatre, London
The Walls of Jericho, a satirical comedy by Alfred Sutro, at the Garrick Theatre, London, starring Arthur Bourchier as Samson. 1904

Uncles Troubles, with William Pardoe, a musical absurdity. circa 1917

Scene from Tom Jones, comic opera by Edward German
Scene from Tom Jones, a comic opera by Edward German, based on the 18th century novel by Henry Fielding, with a libretto by Robert Courtneidge and Alexander Thompson, and lyrics by Charles Taylor

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies in Tess of the D Urbervilles, based on the novel by Thomas Hardy, at the Barnes Theatre, Richmond, SW London. 1925

Lily Brayton as Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew
Lily Brayton as Katharina in Shakespeares comedy, The Taming of the Shrew at the Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, West London, with Oscar Asche. The couple were also performing in Othello. 1900s

Teddy Tail, Duke of Yorks Theatre, London
Teddy Tail, a childrens fantastic musical play by Charles Folkard, music by Frederic Norton, based on the Teddy Tail comic strip in the Daily Mail newspaper, at the Duke of Yorks Theatre

Frank Tinney in Sometime, Vaudeville Theatre
Frank Tinney in Sometime, at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, with Desiree Ellinger. 1925

The Second in Command, Metropole Theatre, Camberwell
The Second in Command, a military comedy by Robert Marshall, at the Metropole Theatre, Camberwell, SE London. Previously at the Haymarket Theatre, London. circa 1900

Rose Marie, Pleasure Gardens Theatre, Folkestone, Kent
Rose Marie, a musical romance of the Canadian Rockies, at the Pleasure Gardens Theatre, Folkestone, Kent, and at the Empire Theatre, Liverpool. Previously at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Peg O My Heart, Marina Theatre, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Peg O My Heart, a play by Hartley Manners at the Marina Theatre, Lowestoft, Suffolk. circa 1910s

Martin Harvey as Sydney Carton in The Only Way, based on Charles Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities. circa 1900s

The Vic-Wells Season & Dance, Waterloo, London, with portraits and signatures of creative staff, actors and actresses, including Tyrone Guthrie, Athene Seyler, Charles Laughton, Flora Robson

No No Nanette, Theatre Mogador, Paris, France
No No Nanette, an American operetta in three acts, at the Theatre Mogador, Paris, France. circa 1926

Mercenary Mary, New Theatre, Cambridge
Mercenary Mary, a musical comedy at the New Theatre, Cambridge, previously at the London Hippodrome. circa 1925

The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, New York, USA
The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife, by Anatole France, with Lillah McCarthy and O P Heggie, at Wallacks Theatre, Broadway and 30th Street, New York, USA. circa 1923

All Professionally Made to Order for Quick Shipping