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Postcards

Wed, 20th August 2025
In the morning
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 The morning session starts at 12:00.
 Lots from this department will follow:
  • Stamps (80 lots )
  • Cigarette and Trade Cards (25 lots )

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LOT 3115
LOT 3115
An original watercolour and gouache design by Donald McGill for the postcard ‘Good Morning, Miss Jones!’, 15cm x 24cm, within a modern window mount.
Estimate: £80 – £120
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LOT 3116
LOT 3116
An original watercolour and ink by Donald McGill for the postcard ‘There was a young fellow of Crewe, who swallowed a bottle of glue…’,  overall 19cm x 13.5cm. Provenance: ex Robert Scott collection.
Estimate: £70 – £100
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LOT 3117
LOT 3117
An original watercolour with gouache by ‘Trow’ for the postcard ‘Can I have a red one, Mister?’, overall 24.5cm x 18cm, together with the finished postcard.
Estimate: £60 – £100
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LOT 3118
LOT 3118
Two original watercolours with gouache by ‘Trow’ for postcards, one with a cat and dog, the other with rabbits and a huntsman, overall 33.5cm x 23.5cm and 33cm x 22.5cm respectively.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3119
LOT 3119
Two original watercolours with gouache by ‘Trow’ for the postcards ‘It’s my little Rosie behind, I want photographed, and ‘Gosh Mary…’, overall 23.5cm x 18cm and 17cm x 12.5cm respectively, together with the finished postcard for each.
Estimate: £60 – £100
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LOT 3120
LOT 3120
An original watercolour with gouache by ‘Trow’ for the postcard ‘The way these men stare, anyone would think they could see something!’, overall 25cm x 18cm, together with the finished postcard, and two pencil sketches by ‘Trow’.
Estimate: £80 – £120
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LOT 3121
LOT 3121
An original watercolour and ink by ‘Pedro’ [Phil Millar] for the postcard ‘What can I enter you for? …’, overall 26.5cm x 19cm, together with the finished postcard. Provenance: Lot 66 in Warwick & Warwick, August 12, 2009.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3122
LOT 3122
An original watercolour and ink by ‘Pedro’ [Phil Millar] for the postcard ‘But leap-frog seems such a childish game to play, Mr Thomas’, overall 19cm x 26.5cm. Provenance: Lot 76 in Warwick & Warwick, August 12, 2009.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3123
LOT 3123
An original watercolour and ink by ‘Pedro’ [Phil Millar] for the postcard ‘Why have you never told me about these other amusements before?’, overall 19cm x 26.5cm, together with the finished postcard.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3124
LOT 3124
An original watercolour and ink by ‘Pedro’ [Phil Millar] for the postcard ‘Don’t Apologise, Mr Brown – It takes more than a little poke to offend me’, overall 19cm x 26.5cm, together with the finished postcard. Provenance: Lot 70 in Warwick & Warwick, August 12, 2009.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3125
LOT 3125
An original pencil sketch with wash by ‘Bamforth’ [Douglas Tempest] for the postcard ‘He said if I didn’t give in he’d sink the ship! What did you do?, I saved six hundred lives!!’, 25.5cm x 20.5cm, together with three further pencil drawings by Bamforth.
Estimate: £120 – £180
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LOT 3126
LOT 3126
A pen and ink cartoon by ‘Furnival’ titled ‘The Writing on the Wall’ of Second World War interest, overall 23cm x 36.5cm, together with three further cartoons.
Estimate: £50 – £80
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LOT 3127
LOT 3127
A rare Donald McGill colour postcard titled ‘A Stick of Rock, Cock?’ number 1736, the reverse with Blackpool Post Card Censorship Board Disapproved ink stamp dated 22 Nov 1951 and signed by the chairman G. Allen. Provenance: ex Robert Scott collection.
Estimate: £40 – £60
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LOT 3128
LOT 3128
Two postcards with early Isle of Mann rejected censorship stamps both featured in ‘The Mail of Mann’ by Robert Kelly, together with two later postcards, one with Passed stamp the other with an R stamp for rejection. Provenance: ex Grenville Wilson collection.
Estimate: £50 – £70
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LOT 3129
LOT 3129
An album containing 45 postcards and related research material relating to postcard censorship, most with approved and rejected stamps from Blackpool, Cleethorpes, Great Yarmouth and Isle of Mann.
Estimate: £60 – £100
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LOT 3130
LOT 3130
A collection of 67 artist postcards, including glamour and art nouveau interest, and many relating to the seaside.
Estimate: £80 – £120
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LOT 3131
LOT 3131
An album containing approximately 19 Art Nouveau postcards of glamour interest, many published by Raphael Tuck.
Estimate: £120 – £180
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LOT 3132
LOT 3132
A set of 10 colour Art Nouveau postcards by E. Louis-Lessieux from ‘Les Opéras’ series.
Estimate: £60 – £100
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LOT 3133
LOT 3133
Two Kentish Independent Football Cartoon colour postcards, both for ‘Newcastle United v. Woolwich Arsenal, September 3rd, 1904’.
Estimate: £60 – £100
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LOT 3134
LOT 3134
A collection of 30 postcards advertising Mazawatee Tea and chocolates, including shopfronts, a delivery van, a youth in fancy dress, and other advertising postcards, together with two Louis Wain cards with advertising overprints to the reverse.
Estimate: £100 – £200
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