Postcards

Two albums containing approximately 500 postcards of bridges from around the world, including photographic postcards titled ‘Wolsey’s Tower Esher’, ‘Handle Bridge, Mockbridge’, ‘Kemishford Bridge’, ‘Military Bridging on Canal, Aldershot’, ‘The River Bridge, Rochester, Built 1913’, ’Iping’, ‘The Bridge, Boroughbridge’, ‘C.P.R. Bridge, Carmangay, Alta’, ‘Puento 2 de Abril Saltillo [Mexico]’.

An album containing approximately 197 postcards of bridges in the UK, including photographic postcards titled ‘Bledington Bridge’, ‘Avon Bridge, Ringwood, Hants’, ‘Spring Bridge, Whitewell’, ‘Penny Bridge Caton’, ‘Sutton Bridge, Nr Potton’, ‘Houghton’, ‘Bell Inn & Bridge, St Claves’, ‘Claypole Bridge’ and ‘The Bridge, Littlebourne’.

An album containing approximately 174 postcards of bridges in the UK, including photographic postcards titled ‘The Suspension Bridge, South Stack Lighthouse, Holyhead’, ‘Avonwick’, ’Weycroft Bridge, Axminster’, ‘Appleby Bridge’, ‘Felton’, ‘Dunsford Bridge’ and ‘Chollerford Bridge, Humshaugh’.

An album containing approximately 380 postcards of West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘Cocking 1913’, ‘Midhurst Road, Cocking’, ‘Post Office and Hills, Cocking’, ‘Station Road, Cocking’, ‘Station Road, Elsted’, ‘Harting’, ‘South Harting’, ‘The Ship, Harting’, ‘Rogate Village’, ‘Rogate, Sussex’, ‘Nyewood’, ‘Recreation Ground, Stedham’ and ‘Queen Street, Stedham, Sussex’.

An album containing approximately 130 postcards of Heyshott, West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘Heyshott Post Office’ and ‘Heyshott, Midhurst’, the album also including some photographs and ephemera of related interest.

Two albums containing approximately 800 postcards of West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘Lickfold, Lodsworth’, ‘River House’, ‘Upperton, Sussex’, 'Stopham Bridge’, ‘Houghton Bridge’, ‘Singleton’, ‘Easebourne Village’, ‘The Rectory, Easebourne’, ‘Driving from 13th Tee, Cowdray Park, Golf Course’, ‘98th Surrey & Sussex Yeomanry, Queen Mary’s Fld Brigade RA 1932 at Cowdray Park, Midhurst’, and four postcards titled ‘Royal Visit to Midhurst June 13th 1906’.

An album containing approximately 500 postcards of Midhurst, West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘North Mill, Midhurst’, ‘Station Road & Rumbolds Hill, Midhurst’, ‘Petersfield Road, Midhurst’, ‘Lady Leconfield Opens Welfare Centre at Midhurst’, ‘Granville College, Midhurst’, ‘Wool Lane, Midhurst’, ‘Chichester Road, Midhurst’, together with another album containing approximately 140 postcards of related interest, but all multiviews or modern postcards.

An album containing approximately 480 postcards of Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘Sussex Imp Yeomanry, Arundel Park 1911’, ‘Bramber Floods’, ‘Wiston Park and Chanctonbury’, ‘Blue Idol, Coolham’, ‘Cowdray Park Polo, Midhurst’, ‘Venture Coach, Cowfold’, ‘Bolney Road, Cowfold, ‘The Village, Cowfold’, ‘South Street, Cuckfield’ and ‘High Street, Cuckfield’.

An album containing approximately 350 postcards of Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘The Town Hall, Horsham’, ‘Broadbridge Heath, Horsham’, ‘Knepp Castle, Destroyed by Fire… 1904’, ‘Rebuilding Knepp Castle… 1905’, ‘Knepp Castle Ruins, Shipley’, ‘West Lodge, Knepp Castle, Shipley’, ‘Paddockhurst’, ‘West Grinstead Park’ and ‘Swallows Farm, West Grinstead’.

An album containing approximately 400 postcards of hunting interest, including photographic postcards titled ‘A Meet at Selworthy Church’, ‘Meet of Hounds at Pickering’, ‘Hounds Please at Minehead’, ‘The Arrival, Cloutsham’, ‘The Meet, Chipperfield’, ‘The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with the Hounds at Badminton’, ‘Meet of the Badminton Foxhounds, Westerleigh’, ‘At a Meet of the Crawley and Horsham Hounds’, ‘At Wiston Park’, ‘The Eridge Fox Hounds’, ‘Exmoor Foxhounds, Malmesmead’, ‘Earl Fitzwilliam’s Fox Hounds’, ‘Lord Galway’s Hounds, Abley Head Lodge’, ‘Meet of the Garth Hounds at Wentworth’, ‘The Meet of the Heythrop Hunt at Addebury’, ‘Hutton-Bonville’, ‘Buckhounds at Boltons Bench’, 'North Durham Hounds, Deanery, Lanchester’ and ‘Oakley Harriers at Boyton Farm, Shadbroke’.

An album containing approximately 455 postcards of deer parks, including photographic postcards titled ‘Deer in Badminton Park’, ‘The Deer in Battersea Park’, ‘Brancepeth Castle from the Park’, ‘Charlecote Park’, ‘Cowdray Park Deer’, ‘The Deer, Denne Park, Horsham’, ‘Deer House Dunham Park’ and ‘The Deer, Kimberley’, together with three further albums containing approximately 680 postcards of hunting interest.

Four albums containing approximately 1200 postcards and postcard-size photographs of risqué, erotic and pornographic interest, including fantasy heads, female nudes, works of art, women in dishabille and bondage.

An album containing approximately 320 postcards published by Gale & Polden, including many from the ‘History and Traditions’ and ‘Soldiers Pay’ series and illustrated by Ernest Ibbetson and John McNeil.

Lot number unused.

An album containing approximately 81 postcards and a few items of ephemera of aviation or military interest, the majority relating to airships and zeppelins, including postcards titled ‘Zur Erinnerungimder Weltkrieg 1914-15, Biala, Russland’, ‘Capt P. Phillips D.F.C. (Pilot), Cornwall Aviation Co’, ‘Bron-Aviation – Souvenir du Meeting du 24 Juin 1928’, ‘Am Bodensee, Dornier Grossflugzeug und Luftschiff’ and ‘Army Airship, Beta’.

An album containing approximately 300 postcards of shipping or naval interest, including postcards titled ‘H.M.S. Swiftsure’, ‘HMS King Edward VII’, ‘HMS Hogue’, ‘HMS Bedford’, ‘HMS Britannia’, ‘HMS Leviathan’, ‘HMS Hindustan’ and ‘HMS Ocean’.

An album containing approximately 85 postcards of Balham, London, including photographic postcards titled ‘Hearnville Rd Balham’, ‘Haverhill Rd’, ‘Honeybrook Rd’, ‘Heron Rd’, ‘Hydethorpe Rd’, ‘Manville Rd, Balham’, ‘Marius Rd, Balham’, ‘Pentney Rd, S.W.’, ‘Rossiter, Rd, S.W.’, ‘Telford Avenue’ and ‘Clapham Park Riding School’, the album also including photographs and reprints. Provenance: The Ron Elam Collection of Local Yesterdays.

An album containing approximately 137 postcards of Yorkshire, including photographic postcards titled ‘Whitby, New Quay’, ‘Getting Busy, Scarborough Harbour’, ‘Bridlington’ and ‘Royal Barge, Merrie England, Scarborough’.

Two albums containing approximately 256 postcards of East and West Sussex, including photographic postcards titled ‘B&H Albion v Southampton’, ‘Barcombe’, ‘Bramber’, ‘High Street, Cuckfield’, ‘The Broadway, Crowborough’, ‘Cottage Hospital, Crawley’, ‘High Street, Crowborough’, ‘Broad Oak, Heathfield’, ‘Floods at Henfield’, ‘Schools, Lower Beeding’, ‘Steyning Church Parade’ and ‘Norfolk Terrace, Framfield Road, Uckfield’.