Two WW1 vintage Postcards connected with HMS Neptune

Two postcards in this lot, one sepia photographic portrait of two sailors with HMS Neptune cap tallies, removed from album with remains of backing page stuck to it, but postally unused, and a side on view of the ship herself, postally unused. Both images in good overall condition.

She was the first Royal Navy battleship that differed in her gun turret layout from Dreadnought. Sh...  read more

Code: 55840

WW1 Propaganda Comic Card - The German Navy Taking Root!

Great fun, German battleship decked out like your local garden centre. Some minor corner wear, postally unused, some foxing to reverse, but an amusing cartoon. Love the spider, its webs, bird nests and the name of the ship " Stikphastz " !

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Code: 55837

Pair of Original Edwardian Mounted Portrait Photographs - One hand coloured - Major R. Allenby, J.P. (York)

A pair of photos, look like wedding photos, the hand tinted one with the name Major R. Allenby 1910. The lady, rather a grand dame, in her wedding outfit, unidentified and unnamed. Some foxing and staining to mounts but images in great condition.

Major R. Allenby J.P. was a magistrate of note in the city of York. Of his two sons, one was killed in WW1 as a Lt Col Augustus He...  read more

Code: 68188

WW1 Red Cross Ambulance No 7 - Gift from the Durham Miners!

Large original WW1 image mounted on card, British Red Cross Ambulance funded by the Denis Bayley Fund and presented by the Durham Miners Association, Ambulance No 7. Photo by Bartolle and Son, 268 Caldedonian Road, N. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). Some corner wear to the mount, blank reverse but has four modern velrco strips for mounting on a display board. Image circa 8 inches wide and 6 1/4 inche...  read more

Code: 68143

WW1 Red Cross Ambulance No 6 - Gift from the Durham Miners!

Large original WW1 image mounted on card, British Red Cross Ambulance funded by the Denis Bayley Fund and presented by the Durham Miners Association, Ambulance No 6. To the side is a Red Cross VAD female driver in uniform. Photo by Bartolle and Son, 268 Caldedonian Road, N. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). A lot of back staining and foxing on the mount, blank reverse. Image circa 8 inches wide and 6 ...  read more

Code: 68144

Original B&W Postcard - Cullercoats Fisher Folk posed with Coxswain Robert Smith, Tynemouth Lifeboat, RNLI

Postcard in very good condition with pencil comments to reverse.

Awarded the RNLI's gold medal in 1916 and two silver medals in 1913 and 1914 respectively for daring and dramtic rescues including saving 50 crew from the stricken war service hospital ship HMHS Rohilla ( British India Steam Navigation Company). There is a wonderful photo of him leaving Buckingham Palace in 1924 ...  read more

Code: 55581

WW2 Original 21st Army Group Communique Ceasefire Command for 0800 Hours 5th May 1945

A scarce folded typed communique on wartime sized and grade paper (pencil / pen annotation '4 May 45') otherwise in good original condition and scarce.

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Code: 68405

Facsimile of the Original 'Heroes of the Victoria Cross': Twelve Reliefs Portraying the Various Deeds of Daring Valour Performed by Britains Soldiers from the Crimean War to the Present Day, In Commemoration of the Jubilee of Queen Victoria 12 plates

In plastic sleeve with coloured card folder, a full set of all 12 embossed coloured plates, or panels. This is a quality reprint produced in 1975 of the 1887 set of 12 colour plates depicting winners of the Victoria Cross from the Crimean War to the 1st Boer War (1854-1884). Originally issued for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 by The Kensington Fine Art Association.

The pr...  read more

Code: 62909

Boer War Vintage Cabinet Photograph Gloucestershire Imperial Yeoman

Gloster / Cheltenham based photographer. uniform looks brand new, no distinguishing badges but with a riding crop and spurs and a slouch hat he can only be an Imperial Yeomanry Trooper, next stop South Africa. In superb condition.

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Code: 63518

CDV Carte de Visite - City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders) Original Sepia Portrait Photograph in Uniform

A scarce Carte de Visite (CDV) showing a rather smart trooper of the City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders). His RR collar badges are clear in the image, the cap badge in the slouch hat, less so. Some creasing to image and back board, some contemporary ink annotations with what looks like the name of the person in the portrait "Tom Bumpus" and an erroneous note on the bottom edge "Uniform to ...  read more

Code: 68192