�Auctions � A commemorative postcard for the flight of the Graf Zeppelin between the USA and Germany was the star item at Trevor Vennett- Smith’s postal auction in October. The postal history interest took the price to £208. Another aviation item, a postcard of Alcock & Brown’s 1919 Atlantic flight published by Beagles, made £74. Topographical and social history cards included a Catholic Congress parade at Brighton (£64), decorated van at Chipping Norton (£50), and Co-op interior at Lesmahagow £93. Best embroidered silk postcards were an HMS Inflexible design at £154 and 17th Lancers at £137. A novelty Boer War card satirising Kitchener realised £90, and a scarce RP of Winston Churchill with village scene and stirring quotation £50. Advertising cards included Shell ‘More miles on Shell’ at £137, while a Mucha Months of the Year made £125 and two Kirchner Fleurs d’hiver cards £71 each. A set of 12 Months of the Year by Guggenberger looked good value at £77. An Irish Gruss Aus-style card of Cork sold for £43. Naval collection sells for £891 October’s Warwick and Warwick auction included a number of large collections offered intact, which all sold in excess of estimate. A collection of 700 British Naval cards, estimated at £240, steamed to £891 and 174 miscellaneous shipping, made £690, almost quadruple estimate. Sports cards are perennially popular and a miscellaneous collection of 180, including a few Olympics, estimated at £200, made £517. A collection of Post Office, postalrelated and postal stationery cards, appealing to philatelists as well as postcard collectors, realised £690 after a £200 estimate. Best results, though, were in the topographical section. There were two large Scottish collections, making £1,437 (400 cards) and £1,322 (450 cards). 320 London and suburbs, with a pre-sale estimate of £550, made £1,064 and 100 Manchester and suburbs, estimated £250, made £460. A Coventry city centre collection contained a good range of real photographic cards showing the city prior to the WWII bombing. The 300 eBay notes Suffragette comics were much in demand on the internet sales site in the past month, with cards selling for between £52 (an Ellam design) and £122 (five different cards achieved close to this figure). An artist-drawn Titanic made an astonishing £387 - but it did have an overprint for a showing in Tonypandy of the film of the disaster, and further information on the reverse. A different art card made a more orthodox £59. Louis Wain came in with a £235 result for a Wildt & Kraypublished ‘Song’ design - there were six bidders and 58 bids on this one, which started at £4.95. A huge number of large one-country or one-town large lots were sold last month, including 1,000 Portugal, which made £1,054, 400 China (£748), 800 Spain(£921) and 700 Salonica (£610). Most, however, remained unsold. Other hhighlights: Swanscombe, parade at football ground £271 Capt. Smith of Titanic RP £255 Embroidered silk satirical, The Iron Grip £255 Olympic/Titanic sizes cf. world’s biggest buildings £250 Holmsley, railway station exterior £190 Aviation, Hall Caine aerodrome at Ramsey 1930s £144 Embroidered silk, Dragoon Guards £137 Football, Man Utd team 1911 ptd (tatty & torn!) £133 Pellon (Halifax) rly station £132 Bonzo, radio/golf theme £131 Warrington, street scene RP £123 Emb’d silk Queens Royal Lancers £123 Ireland, RUC at Donegal RP £122 WW2, Japanese card, UK surrender of Singapore £122 cards, estimated at £550, realised £920. County selections included 350 Yorkshire (£977) and 300 Sussex (£471). A wide-ranging accumulation of 950 cards, with Africa, the Far East and the Caribbean well represented, sold for £1,275 against a conservative estimate of £320. A fine collection of Irish rural cards was on offer, including village and countryside cards as well as the more common city views. The 280 cards were estimated at £320 and realised £1,064. 28 <strong>Picture</strong> <strong>Postcard</strong> Monthly December 2009 Arthouse postcards score Wiener Werkstatte postcards were again headliners at Markus Weissenbock’s latest auction in Salzburg, with prices as high as 6,500 euros a card. Artists Oskar Kokoschka and Rudolf Kalvach were among the most sought-after. Unsigned WWs, on the other hand, made around 500 euros. Embroidered silk, Rugeley Camp £115 White Star Line, crew RP £103 Titanic, Nearer My God To Thee hymn cards (6) £102 Trapani, Italy, fiesta £102 Louis Wain A Cat’s Matrimony £91 Kuwait, customs 1960s £90 Ebberston village scene RP £87 Rudyard Kipling RP £81 Hong Kong, Queens Road £81 Blandford, gypsies £80 Kuwait, street scene 1958 £79 Knocklong, Co. Limerick, RC church £78 Guernsey, LL postcard booklet (12) £77 X-Ray postcard £77 Lundy Island beach £75 Alloa, ferry boat £74 Roscommon Castle £73 Southwick, oil depot £72 Turkey, postman & telegram £68 Crawley, marching troops RP £66 Bruntingthorpe, pub £65 Liskeard, sheep fair RP £65 Golf, Cruden Bay course £62 Liverpool FC 1914-15 £62 Pauli Ebner (2) £56 RP Phillimore signed card £52 Shirley Temple on greetings card £52 Original artwork Fitzpatrick £178 Arnold Taylor £117 Trow £107 Above: an unusual embroidered silk postcard that sold for £255. Below: lots of suffragette comic cards have proved popular on eBay in the past month. 1930s German collection at Warwick A comprehensive 19-album collection of German Third Reich cards of the 1930s and early 1940s will be offered as a single lot in Warwick and Warwick's December 9th auction. Included are official postal stationery cards, portraits of leaders and soldiers, Nuernberg Rallies, propaganda cards, Hitler Youth, 1938 and 1939 Motor Show poster adverts and many more. In the subjects section, a Punch and Judy collection of 61 cards will go under the hammer, along with a rare Louis Wain Ettlinger 5256 series, including the desirable Golfers, all offered as single cards. The poster adverts section has a collection estimated at £850 and several attractive single card lots, including Fry's Cocoa With Captain Scott at the South Pole. Topographicals include 500 Banbury for £1,200 and a wonderful collection of 400 New Zealand, with many real photographic cards, estimated at £900. A good roomful of bidders at Birmingham Auctions’ sale in Worcester in October saw most postcard lots pass their room estimates, with a Titanic silk making £825 despite a corner stain. Among the topographicals, five cards of a Barnsley paperworks fire hit £100 and canal disasters made £30 each. Glamour and nude postcards sold well, though advertising cards struggled a little. Anything of quality was in demand, but ordinary printed British topos were shunned. Overseas cards from the Pacific Rim and Africa were also popular. �� A couple of court size Bristol cards caught the eye at Dalkeith’s sale in Bournemouth last month. One showed a sketch of Clifton Suspension Bridge, with the card cancelled by an 1895 Bristol squared circle postmark. The other featured Bristol College Green used in 1901 with a Queen Victoria stamp. �� Star item at Reading Card Club’s October auction was a rare Edwardian real photographic postcard of a scene at Pinkneys Green, near Maidenhead, which sold for £26. Sounds a bargain! PPM keeps you iin ttouch with tthe ppostcard wworld!
Sale date 9th December 2009
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