Palmerston Philatelic Auctions
01387 255508
Public auctions held in an ancient Scottish burgh since 1974
Loreburn Chambers, 11 Great King Street, Dumfries, DG1 1BA
Postcards for sale
102 postcards for English towns and countryside
ID#10607. Beige album with sleeves holding two cards per page. Collection of African postcards. (13 used, 1907- 1948). Native hut scenes. Durban & Cape Town. Congo, Aden, Casablanca. Tangier & Algiers. Publishers SPG, Oribi Publishing, Rittenberg (Durban), Lynn Acutt, GWW, GSJ, Newman Art Publishing, ARPO, Fuesslein, Valentine, Budrick's (Cape Town), Sapra Studio, Dick Ketchian (Aden), Cumbo (Gibraltar), Aqua Photo (Paris). Est. value £30.
ID#10613. Dark blue Prinz ring-bound album with plastic covers. Catalogued collection of pre-WW2 German postcards. 1914-1939. 20 used cards. Est. value £70.
ID#10615. Dark blue ring-bound album. Irish-themed collection including 18 coins and a œ5 Central Bank of Ireland banknote. Irish humour. James Joyce, Dublin & Killarney. Limerick & Belfast. 15 used cards, 1930-1960s. Est. value £25.
ID#10598. Green cardboard folder. Folder with 29 pages. Mounted, mainly used 1970s postcards of Scotland, London, France, Greece, USA, Australia. UK publishers include J. Arthur Dixon, Photo Precision Ltd, Kardorama, Intercolour Vision Photo Ltd. Est. value £10.
ID#10610. Green card-bound album with decorative printed page borders. Unused series of mainly monochrome scenes of Venice and the Veneto, publisher Edit. Brunner & Co (Como & Zurich). Also Rome. (1 used, 1922). Est. value £10.
ID#10606. Large brown skin-effect card-bound album with corner slots. Album collection of unused cards, some annotated. European, English and Middle East postcards. Netherlands, Belgium (WW2 period), Palestine & Jerusalem. English towns including Norwich, Wakefield, Portsmouth, Southampton, Chichester, Winchester, Ely, Eton & Windsor, Canterbury & Sandringham. French & Belgian publishers include Firma FB Middelburg, DBM Holland, Ern. Thill Bruxelles, Star Helioart, Phototypie Desais Paris, Marco Marcovici Bruxelles, Edition J. Revyn Bruxelles, Antony Ypres, L. Adler Sluis, F. Mat Forest, Andre Tarzis Jerusalem, B. Livadas Cairo. British publishers include Photochrom, W.H. Barrett Chichester, Kingsway, Judges Hastings, Frith's, Valentine's, H. Porter Thaxted, W.J. Nigh Ventnor, H. Coates Wisbech, Cotswold Publishing, Wright & Logan Southsea. Est. value £150.
ID#10614. Lilac album with sleeves holding two cards per page. Miscellaneous collection of foreign postcards. Singapore, Shanghai, Burma, Ceylon, Bangkok, Egypt, South Africa, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta, Canada, Madeira, Colombo, Paris, Marseille. Approx 40 used cards, 1906-1960s. Est. value £95.
ID#10608. Old green album with floral decoration to cover. London (1 used card, George V stamp). Tower Bridge. Set of 23 unused cards depicting Tower of London (Wellington Series). Monochrome. Est. value £18.
ID#10612. Old string-bound brown album with corner slots. Narrative collection of listed cards depicting ports of call on a 1920s journey from Singapore to Scotland. Penang, Ceylon, Aden, Port-Said & Suez. Marseille & London. 12 used cards, 1920s-1970s. Est. value £50.
ID#10592. Red photo album with transparent pockets: Collection of mainly Scottish scenes: mostly monochrome 1930s to 1950s. The Borders, The Trossachs. Glasgow & Edinburgh. Argyll, Fife, Angus, Pitlochry, Orkney, Bute, Arran & Iona. Scottish publishers include J.B. White (Dundee), Davidson's, Caledonia, Hendry & Sons, J. Clapperton & E.T.W.Dennis. Other publishers: Valentine, Photochrom, M&L National, Raphael Tuck & Sons, Judges Ltd, Lilywhite, Munro, A.R.Edwards, A.C.Burns, Reliable, Milton. 67 used (1925-1949, 1951-1981). Est. value £60.
ID#10643. 1942-1944. Red Cross/Deutsches Rotes Kreuz letters between GB and German-occupied Guernsey during WW2. Standard form, meant for two-way correspondence. All letters properly stamped by German, Swiss, and British authorities. Est. value £24.
ID#10622. Clear plastic pack. Film-star postcards and photos in variable condition. Some signed or autographed: Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis etc. 6 used (1908-1945). Est. value £25.
ID#10603. Kwikzip clear bag. Humour. Seaside and child humorous postcards, 1970s-1980s. 9 used, 3 unused. Publishers: Sapphire Publications, J. Salmon Ltd, Bamforth & Co, Cardtoon. Est. value £12.
ID#10642. Belarus and Latvia. 1941-1943. Genuine and unusual covers posted in neighbouring countries during German occupation; including three covers (two with letters) to the Mayor of Poznam and others to the ‘K Werk’ car factory in Minsk, and a university bookshop in Berlin. The stamps and registration marks illustrate the brief history of the Greater German Ostland. Est. value £25.
ID#10625. Clear plastic pack. Collection of personal greetings postcards, birthday & Christmas etc. 32 used (1905-1947). Est. value £25.
ID#10646. 1940-1944 P.O.W. cards sent by British soldiers from camps in Italy and Germany, most using the standard Kreigsgefangenpost forms and franking. Also two corresponding letters from the UK equivalent with printed KGV stamps. Est. value £60.
ID#10597. Clear plastic bag. Two small photobooks by unidentified publishers. Cabinet Album ""Land of Scott"" (Melrose, Abbotsford & Dryburgh) containing 18 photos. ""Picturesque Scotland"" contains 90 photogravure photos of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, the Highlands and Borders with a text introduction." Est. value £10.
ID#10630. Clear plastic pack. Private photographs, unindentified, mainly military. Mostly 1940s and 1950s. Est. value £10.
ID#10624. Clear plastic pack. Small themed collection of railway and locomotive postcards, mostly unused modern. UK Heritage Railways. One used (1955). Est. value £10.
ID#10626. Clear plastic pack. Historical figures, Royal etc. Funeral of King Leopold II (1909). Edward VII, George V, Princess Margaret. Three used (1904,1906, 1934). Est. value £5.
ID#10645. 1851-1934. A good collection of Iberian covers (one Portuguese) in two main periods: 1851-1869 (15) and 1929-1934 (10). The cancels and backstamps span most of Spain (Madrid, Barcelona, Motril, Seville, Valencia etc.) and four foreign countries (Austria, Denmark, Germany, France, and America). The covers are addressed to businesses, the Governer of the Bank of Spain, and at least on Philatelist (Miguel Blanes, Valencia, during the ‘Premier Stamp Exhibition’ there in 1909. Est. value £180.
ID#10628. Clear plastic pack. Pre-war, inter-war and modern unused reproduction British postcards. France WW1. Two covers (1932 & 1967). 19 used (1903-1923) 5 used (1930s). Est. value £60.
ID#10601. DB Footwear shoe box. Holiday postcards of Europe, all 96 used. 1960s-1980s. Miscellanous European publishers include: Alfred Ziethin, Paris, Ultraforlaget, Stockholm, Editions Chantal, Paris, Ediz Giusti, Florence, Perfecta Malta, Printex Malta, Ediz Gerlin, Venice, Lyna Paris, Fotocolor Rome. UK Publishers: J. Arthur Dixon, E.T.W.Dennis. Est. value £16.
ID#10602. Green Clarks shoe box with gold lid. Holiday postcards, all 40 used, 1960s-1980s. USA, Canada, South America, West Indies, South Africa, Rhodesia, Western Nigeria, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Russia. Miscellaneous publishers include: Sapphire, Garrick Cards, Melbourne, Phorn Thip, Bangkok, PPI Spicers, Rhodesia, Constantia Greetings, Johannesburg, Bon Genie Ltd, Trinidad, Colourpicture Publishers, Boston, International Graphics, Hollywood, Plastichrome, Canada, Tootons, Newfoundland, Traveltime, Ontario. UK publisher: John Hinde. Est. value £10.
ID#10599. Green Clarks shoe box. Mostly used holiday postcards of Scotland, 1960s-1980s. 83 used, 14 unused. The Highlands, West Coast, Trossachs, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dumfries & Galloway. Publishers include E.T.W Dennis & Sons, Photo Precision, Colourmaster, Whiteholme Ltd Dundee, J. Arthur Dixon, Charles Skilton, G. Cornwall & Sons Aberdeen, Braemar Films Ltd Duns, Dalling & Henderson Maybole. Est. value £30.
ID#10654. Langholm. A small lot of fairly good PCs showing images of pre WW1 and WW2 Langholm, town and environs. The best PC is probably the tinted pairs of the Toll Bar and Watchknowe, both by Nicholson & Carter of Carlisle in partnership with R. Scott of Langholm. Est. value £10.
ID#10649. Moffat and Beattock. 1878-1983. Golden Age PCs apart 9 post WW2 PCs. Scenes of Moffat, Beattock, and surroundings. Fifteen from local publishers. The best PCs may be those of Moffat and of the Mineral Well, posted 1906-1909, Beattock Bridge 1911, and Raehill Glen (1906-1925) Est. value £125.
ID#10619. Tesco box. American & British postcards. Souvenir packs of Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Santa Catalina, Chicago, Oregon, Colorado, San Francisco, St Louis and Seattle. Also Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Ireland. Jamaica and Aden. 190 used cards, mainly pre-1939. Est. value £110.
ID#10616. Tesco box. Collection of "Celtic" postcards including Welsh, Irish and Cornish. Also Isle of Man and Breton. 63 used. Mainly 1940-1970, some pre-1930. Est. value £40.
ID#10620. Tesco box. Topographical postcards of Scotland. Publishers include J.B.White Ltd Dundee, W.S. Thomson Glasgow, Valentine's, Photo Precision Ltd, L&NWR Railway, Art Publishing Co Glasgow, E.T.W.Dennis & Sons Ltd, R. Dinwiddie (Dumfries) & Wm C. Gill (Dumfries). 61 used cards (1904-1963, many pre-1930). Est. value £100.
ID#10595. Zeus packaging cardboard box. Modern new unused natural history postcards published by Michael MacGregor & Ardnamurchan Natural History Centre, Argyll, & Stirling Gallery. 11 designs, with multiple copies of the same card. Highland cattle, ponies, blackface sheep, puffins, mute swan, white duck, Isle of Skye. Also 5 unused Tomb Raider postcards published by eidos.com. Est. value £20.
ID#10629. Clear plastic pack. Aircraft: BOAC Jet-Prop Britannia, Short Sunderland Mk 1 flying boat, Iberian Airways jet. All unused except one (1975). Est. value £4.
ID#10621. Tesco box. Miscellaneous European and non-European topographical postcards: Europe, Britain, Australia, Afghanistan, Africa, Egypt, Canada, USA, Russia & Japan. 240 used (1902-1973), with a good proportion 1900-1930. Est. value £180.