Postcards

An original watercolour and ink by Reg Maurice for the postcard ‘Warning or no warning, I’m not shifting!’, signed, 23.5cm x 33.5cm.

An original watercolour and ink by ‘Bamforth’ [Douglas Tempest] for an unpublished postcard of two people at a nudist colony, overall 25.5cm x 20.5cm, the reverse stamped ‘Blackpool Post Card Censorship Board Disapproved’ and dated '20 Jul 1963’.

An original watercolour with gouache by ‘Trow’ for the postcard ‘Morning Miss, Have you an opening for a young man with plenty of energy?’, overall 25cm x 19cm, together with the finished postcard.

An original watercolour with gouache by ‘Trow’ for the postcard ‘I think I shall start a collection of cacti. I don’t mind a little prick here and there’, overall 21cm x 16.5cm, together with the finished postcard.

An original watercolour with gouache by ‘Trow’ for two postcards ‘Oh! George, you big soft thing!’ and ‘Did you say you were scuttled during the war?’, overall 22.5cm x 15cm, together with the finished postcards.

An original watercolour and ink by Percy H. Matthews of a Tom Browne postcard titled ‘Taking a mean advantage’, signed, titled, inscribed and dated 1907, 12cm x 19cm, together with the original postcard.

An original watercolour and ink by ‘Cynicus’ [Martin Anderson] ‘How happy could I be with either’, signed, 21.5cm x 17cm, together with another watercolour and ink by Murdock Stimpson.

An original watercolour and ink by ‘Mike’ for the postcard ‘Thanks Boy! That’s What I Call Service’, signed, 14cm x 27cm, together with three further postcard designs by the same hand, and the finished postcards for those three.

An original watercolour and ink by Arnold Taylor for the postcard ‘Peace at Last! On Holiday!’ 25.5cm x 20cm. Note: Taylor was a prolific Bamforth Comic postcard artist. Provenance: Christies sale of The Bamforth Archive of Original Artwork for Comic Postcards, February 1994.

An original watercolour and ink by Dudley Graham Buxton for the postcard ‘Hallelujah! I’m a Bum’, 24cm x 17cm, together with the finished postcard published by Inter-Art.

An original watercolour and ink by Dudley Graham Buxton for a postcard ‘SIR!’, signed, 24.5cm x 16.5cm.

An original watercolour and ink by Dudley Graham Buxton for the postcard ‘What you’re looking at now George belongs to the Duke of Rumpford!’, 16.5cm x 25cm, together with another postcard design by the same hand ‘Looks a Bit Dirty Do They?...’, 17.5cm x 25cm, and the finished postcards for both published by Inter-Art.

An original watercolour and ink by Dudley Graham Buxton for the postcard ‘This Place is Packed, but I’ve got a room to myself!’, 23.5cm x 17cm, together with three further postcard designs by the same hand, and the finished postcards for each, published by Inter-Art.

An original watercolour and ink by Dudley Graham Buxton for the postcard ‘You’ll be alright, mister, there’s a noodist colony on top of the cliff!’, 22.5 x 16.5cm, together with three further postcard designs by the same hand, and the finished postcards for each.

A group of three Inter-Art archive images featuring Felix the Cat, probably illustrated by Dudley Buxton, together with 17 postcards by Reg Maurice.

An original watercolour and ink by Donald McGill for a postcard, 10cm x 16.5cm, together with a pencil drawing attributed to McGill.

A group of three novelty cut-out postcards by Donald McGill, together with four further novelty postcards by McGill, including one with a match-strike.

An album containing 26 Donald McGill postcards and proofs, most collected for their censorship interest, including two Blackpool Approved signed by George Allan, 3 Isle of Man disapproved 1933 all with ‘R’ on front, 2 further Isle of Man disapproved 1951, one with Australian Imperial Force passed by censor inkstamp to reverse [ex-Rodney Perry Collection], and five with First World War patriotic obliterations covering ‘Germany’ or ‘Bavaria’ [ex Robert Scott Collection], together with a Donald McGill showcard, a ‘Stop Tickling Me’ promotional brochure, and letters from Mary Tumbler (McGill’s daughter).

A collection of approximately 210 artist postcards, the majority of Britain and Continental Europe, including postcards by F. Ranol, Manuel Wielandt, M. Zeno Diemer, Kley, Kenneth Shoesmith, and Carlo.