Posted Collection

The first aerial mail is posted

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on postcard (back)
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, rare original postcard by Walton of Belfast, either 1910 or 1911 - as seen here, it was posted from Northern Ireland much later, in 1939

White Star Line, RMS Olympic, with crane, on a postcard
White Star Line, RMS Olympic, rare original postcard by Walton of Belfast, either 1910 or 1911 (posted from Northern Ireland much later)

Titanic postcard from passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - postcard written by Third-Class passenger and victim Alfonzo Meo-Martino from Queenstown, Ireland, on 11 April 1912

Ocean Liners - four postcards
Ocean Liner: four postcards, including American Bankers Association, showing Titanic/Olympic posted Pennsylvania July 1912 advertising traveller's cheques

White Star Line, Titanic lettercard written on board
White Star Line, RMS Titanic - Second Class passenger and victim Henry James Beauchamp, rare Titanic lettercard written on board and posted with original one penny stamp

Marabout Oasis near Misrata, Gulf of Sidra, Libya Date: circa 1940s

Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot Date: circa 1905

Belgain Internal circulation Postcard
The card carries extra printed strips at each end that give instructions in French and Flemish about where the card can be used. It was posted in Louvain on 5 June 1874 Date: circa 1870

First Belgian Postcard
This postcard is entitled Carte Correpondance. It was posted on 4 September 1872 to Amvers and carries a 5 Centimes printed stamp. Date: circa 1870

The card that pleased Ireland
This card for overseas mail replaced the one issued on 1 April (unfortunate date!) which had left Ireland off the title. It was posted from Hull to Magdeburg

Superb four horse fire engine with firemen
This magnificent highly polished fire engine with six helmeted firemen standing to attention on top, is outside its Fire Station. The card was posted in Bootle so the Station is probably there

Pit pony with handler underground in Lanarkshire mine
Pony is pulling trolleys, known as hutches, of coal along small railway lines. From a postcard posted from Hamilton to the French Legation in Tangier Date: 1902

Elegant French ladies dancing at a masked ball
This is an advertising postcard for Ruinart Pere et Fils, the oldest French Champagne house in Reims.The ball is one of two which will take place at the Theatre Royal de la Monnai

Thomas Cook Vesuvius Postcard pictures & map
Cook had the Funicular built for their growing tours. Travellers rushed to the kiosk at the top to buy and then post right there a postcard

Cameo portraits of seven Allied Generals
Posted from the BEF in France the card shows the team United against the Barbarians'. Passed by Censor 1332. WW1 Date: 1915

Sir Richard Douglas Powell (1842 - 1925), British physician, M.D. medical adviser to the Royal family and present at the death of both Queen Victoria in 1901 and Edward VII in 1910

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Good Night, Forces
The Caption is Good Night Forces. This is a play on the closing words of BBC Forces Radio which broadcast to the BEF. It began in 1940 and finished in 1944 well before this card was posted

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Something Accomplished
The Caption says Something accomplished, something done, has earned a nights repose! The card was posted on the third anniversary of the start of WW2. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1942

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wool without coupons
The Caption is Wool without coupons. Although the card was posted in 1947, the drawing is about wartime clothes rationing which did not finish until 1949. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1947

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I C I. O. U. A P. C
This is a particularly interesting card. The girl with the pen is writing a message in a simple code. The card was posted from Bletchley - the hub of the code breakers of WW2

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Dreamin of thee
The caption is Dreamin of thee. The card was posted on 24 September 1944 just three months after D-Day, and the war has almost another 8 months to run

Pillar where Jesus Christs death sentence was posted
Pillar where Jesus Christs death sentence was affixed, Jerusalem 1800s. Colonna su cui fu appesa la Sentenza di morte di Gesu Cristo

Passed by the censor. Article in Britannia & Eve, 1942, giving advice about writing to men posted abroad in wartime. Date: 1942

Crowds outside Buckingham Palace, London 1902
Date: June 1902

Switzerland shown as a mother shielding her children
This is an official Swiss Red Cross Card posted in Switzerland on 1 August 1917. The reverse has a picture of Henri Dunant the founder of the Red Cross. WW1 Date: 1917

Callsign postcard for Puerto Rico, North Atlantic Ocean
Callsign postcard KP4BC for LM Rundlett in San Juan, Puerto Rico, North Atlantic Ocean, with handwritten details filled in, dated 17 November 1947

Fire Engine & Hospital, Chipping Norton, England
Fire Engine & Hospital, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England. Also posted 1910. Date: 1910

Suffragette Militant Money Box 1914
A suffragette money box in the form of a papier mÔú¿Úá▓ed pillar box with removable base. When a penny is posted in the letter box a figure of a woman pops up

Suffragette Militant Money Box 1913
A suffragette money box in the form of a papier mache red pillar box with removable base. When a penny is posted in the letter box a figure of a woman pops up

A Japanese general election, results being posted up
A Japanese general election. Election results in Tokyo are posted up on a board outside a newspaper office during the cleaner politics general election, in which the left made important gains

Marchese Di Villamarina
Marchese di Villamarina. Italian diplomat, posted to Paris. Date: 19TH CENTURY

France (1901). Departure from Paris of French
" France (1901). Departure from Paris of French soldiers posted to Algiers. Picture by Achille Beltrame for " La Domenica del Corriere". Etching."

Christian Baron Bunsen 2
CHRISTIAN CARL JOSIAS, baron BUNSEN Prussian diplomat, drawn while posted to England. Date: 1791 - 1860

Dog Good Luck Card
Good luck card featuring a dog. Date: posted in 1946

Service Overseas booklet
Cover of " Service Overseas", a booklet issued to British servicemen about to be posted overseas, and containing useful and practical information

Election Results at the Carlton Club, London, 1892
Engraving showing the hall of the Carlton Club, with a large group of members watching the notice boards for news of the General Election of 1892

Wylds Great Globe, Leicester Square, London, 1851
Engraving showing the building built for Wylds Great Globe in the early 1850 s. This building housed a 10, 000 sq. foot painting of planet Earth

Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace. Crowds w
Night scene outside the gates of Buckingham Palace during the illness of King George V, showing a queue of people waiting to read the latest bulletin

Napoleon Opposed
Not everyone is thrilled by the popularity of Napoleon : a gardien de la paix tears down his manifesto when it is posted on a Paris wall

The Time of Anxiety
Illustration showing crowds reading the successive bulletins posted outside Buckingham Palace stating the condition of Edward VII who died at 11:45pm on May 6th 1910

News from the War
Citizens of St Petersburg read notices posted on walls, telling them how the war with Japan is going

News from the War 2
Due to press censorship, residents of St Petersburg learn how the war with Japan is progressing from notices posted on walls

Tattooing, Japan
An English officer posted to Japan has his arm tattooed by a native operator

New Orleans - Canal St
Canal Street

New Orleans - Aerial
Aerial view of the Mississippi river as it winds through the city

Paris / Eiffel Tower 1921
The summit of the tower - note postmark confirming that this postcard was posted at the top

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