Postcards

LIBERIA - 1899 GERMAN SEEPOST (August) picture postcard of Krootown, Monrovia, addressed to Germany and bearing 3c tied clear code XVII oval cancel, arrival mark alongside.

SOUTHERN NIGERIA - 1901 redirected postcard from Hamburg to Klein Popo, Togo posted on at Badagry Lagos and franked with pair ½d green tied by barred ovals with transits of Badagry Ap 30th, Porto Novo Dahomey 4th May, Agoue 6th May, Grand Popo 6th May, Lome 7th May. Well travelled and somewhat grubby.

LIBERIA - 1908 GERMAN SEEPOST (Sept) picture postcard multiview of Monrovia, addressed to Germany and bearing 3c tied clear oval cancel, violet "Deutsches Schutzgebiet" cachet and arrival mark alongside.

LIBERIA - 1910 GERMAN SEEPOST (June) picture postcard of Cape Palmas, addressed to Germany and bearing Official 2c tied clear oval cancel, arrival mark alongside.

COOK ISLANDS - 1911 (April) picture postcard of Black Rock, Rarotonga Island, bearing 1d deep red watermark upright, SG 38, tied by cds, and sent to USA.

COOK ISLANDS - 1914 (June) an attractive picture postcard of Rarotonga road scene, bearing 1d rose-red Queen tied by neat Rarotonga cds, posted to New Zealand.

GREAT BRITAIN - 1920's PICTURE POSTCARDS of the Royal Family,vf mostly unused(16)

GERMANY - DANZIG - 1923-24 a most attractive range of Stengel and Co printed picture postcards with seven of Ostseebad Zoppot, and two of Oliwa, three of Danzig, Ostseebad and Neufahrwasser, each bearing on picture side a stamp tied by Danzig cds. (14 cards)

FRANCE - 1937 30c and 55c Museums set, each very fine used on unused "Musees Nationaux" picture cards. (2 cards)

CANADA - BEAUTIFUL GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY POSTAL STATIONERY. A collection of 1c & 2c postal cards with QV, KEVII & KGV stamp impressions alongside glorious illustrations of beauty spots along the Grand Trunk Railway System. Displayed and informatively annotated on album pages (photo corner mounts) occasionally with an unused + used example of the same card. A lovely collection (20 used & 9 unused = 29 p/cards)

SOUTH AFRICA - BOER WAR Reconciliation post cards, circa early 1900's, two different printed in colour by Raphael Tuck & Sons, featuring Boer Generals Botha, De Wet, and De La Rey, unused and in fine condition. (2 cards)

SOUTH AFRICA - COLONIES & REPUBLICS - CAPE OF GOOD HOPE 1901 postcard (picture of Parliament Hose, Cape Town) to USA, Cape squared circle 8.11.01 pmk, triangular "Passed Press Censor" marking & New York arrival mark.

BURMA - EDWARDIAN POSTCARDS 1903-07 group with three to England and one incoming, includes three different Burmese native views incl nice GANGAW squared circle, plus one from England with PEGU arrival cds. (4 cards)

GUERNSEY 1940 (27 Dec) post card to Jersey bearing GB 1935 2d orange KGV photogravure stamp BISECTED diagonally and tied Guernsey (St. Peter Port) cds. Very scarce provisional wartime bisect of a KGV stamp.

ARGENTINA - JULIO ARGENTINO ROCA SIGNATURE. Circa 1900 postcard with attached picture, signed JULIO A. ROCA, president of Argentina 1880-1886 & 1898-1904, and BENITO VILLANUEVA, an Argentinian politician.

CANADA - PATRIOTIC POSTCARDS Circa 1900 group of three different unused Private Post Cards in colour with "Rule Britannia", "Anglo-Saxon League", and "The Flag that Braved", plus 1901 illustrated envelope in colour "Soldiers of The Queen" used bearing 1c green pair tied by "CH'TOWN & SOURIS" cds of JA 7, 01. (4 items)

SOUTH AFRICA - POSTCARDS two sepia, real photographs, each of a military Hockey team, inscribed on reverse "N.M.R. versa D.G.A." which would be the Natal Mounted Rifles team playing the Durban Garrison Artillery team, additionally dated "Oct 14th 1914" in manuscript.

GERMAN COLONIES - SOUTH WEST AFRICA 1898 (15 Jun) Uprated privately printed 5pf PPC to Berlin with two additional 3pf diagonal opt stamps, these all cancelled by "OUTJO" cds postmarks, with arrival datestamp on the front. Picture side shows a coloured view of the Kommissariat at Windhoek and a portrait of Major Leutwein.

GERMAN COLONIES - SOUTH WEST AFRICA 1899 (16 Mar) monochrome picture postcard of "Native Women" to Germany bearing 10pf carmine with diagonal opt tied by very fine "WINDHOEK" cds cancel with Wiesbaden arrival cds alongside.

AUSTRALIA - USED IN AMERICAN SAMOA 1930 plain postcard endorsed "Printed Matter," franked ½d orange KGV head, cancelled twice by different "Pago Pago" 24.9.30 cancels, philatelic, but still an unusual piece.