Post Card Collection

Buffalo Bills Wild West
Promotional postcard for Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World featuring the Union Jack flag and the Stars and Stripes

Igor Stravinsky / Postcard
Russian musician, IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882-1971)

Laika the space dog postcard. Artwork on postcard of Laika, the bitch who became the first animal in space. She was launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft

Pan & Wendy Fly / Postcard
Peter Pan and Wendy fly to Never-Never Land

Coastguards and civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey
Commemorative postcard, Heroes All! Five brave coastguards and two civilians of Leysdown, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, who rescued 20 members of the 2nd Walworth Boy Scouts Troop who got into difficulties

Mauretania Postcard
Steam ship of the Cunard line at New York

Lacrosse
A run up the field. From a postcard published by CW Faulkner Date: 1903

Karl Marx / Postcard
KARL MARX German radical political thinker

Sophia Loren / Postcard
SOPHIA LOREN Italian film actress, in a glamorous pose

Chopin / Polish Postcard
FREDERIC CHOPIN Polish composer

Grace Kelly / Postcard
GRACE KELLY American film actress, seen here in an elegant dress

Ww1 Postcard Bulldogs
Patriotic British bulldogs: We re Ready !

Anti home Rule Postcard
KING WILLIAM III Propaganda against home rule in Ireland, celebrating William of Orange as " of glorious, pious and immortal memory" and victory at the Battle of the Boyne

Orient Express Postcard
near its eastern terminus at Constantinople (Istanbul) Date: 1907

Paul Newman / Postcard
PAUL NEWMAN American film actor Date: 1925 -2008

A sketch of a cabaret at the Theatre des Westens, Berlin, 19
A sketch of a cabaret at the Theatre des Westens, (Barberina at Palais des Westens) Berlin, 1920s Date: 1920s

St Mary the Virgin, Willingdon
Coloured post card of church, bell tower and churchyard. Square tower with clock and small spire. Hordern Collection General Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No PH6130

Royalist cavalry, Battle of Naseby, English Civil War, 1645 (colour litho)
7153969 Royalist cavalry, Battle of Naseby, English Civil War, 1645 (colour litho) by Stewart, J. A. (19th Century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Royalist cavalry, Battle of Naseby)

St Marys Church, Sidlesham
Post card with bordered print, matt finish. Picturesque scene with church in the background. Hordern Collection General Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No Ph5944

Victorian flower fairies
Flower fairy dancing on a bed of poppies and lilies from a postcard published by Raphael Tuck Date: 1900

Market Reports - English Country Squire carves the beef
Market Reports illustrated (Postcard series): MEAT: " English beef was in fine condition." This report on English beef (as a commodity traded on the Stock Exchange)

Getting Off at the Seaside
If you want to " Get Off" at the seaside, do it THIS way - not THIS way! A man has more success getting off with the ladies than he does from an irate beach donkey! Date: circa 1910s

Fancy Meeting You by George Ranstead
Humorous illustration by George Ranstead, an amateur artist of the Great War who served in the Army Pay Corps, depicting a rascally little boy wriggling through a fence after stealing apples

French maid taking a break and enjoying a cigarette before her next duty calls.... Date: 1910s

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - A Duel
A duel - three street urchins help their friend to mimic the statue! Manneken Pis (Dutch for little pee man ), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a very famous Brussels landmark

Sentimental German wartime postcard
You, Only you alone are my true love - a sentimental wartime postcard sent from a German soldier to his girl back home in Munich

Titanic
A postcard with an illustration of the ill-fated Titanic ocean liner

Joan Crawford / Postcard
JOAN CRAWFORD American film actress looking haughty

Rain in Troon
Troon, in Scotland, must be one of the wettest places to be found, if this postcard can be believed

First airmail letter delivered, Windsor Castle
The first airmail letter ever to be delivered is handed to the Postmaster of Windsor, to whom it is addressed, on the East Lawn of Windsor Castle

Gagarin and Tereshkova, souvenir postcard
Gagarin and Tereshkova, Soviet cosmonauts, souvenir postcard. Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968) was the first person in space. On 12 April 1961

Postcards of the Grand Prix, Monaco, Europe

Menuhin / Yehudi / Postcard
YEHUDI MENUHIN Violinist as a young man

Polaire / Boyer Postcard
POLAIRE French music hall entertainer, in an elegant white dress

Groucho Marx / Postcard
GROUCHO MARX (Julius Marx) American comedian with his characteristic cigar and painted-on moustache

Ww1 Postcard Soldier
Tommy guards the flag with bayonet in hand and pipe in mouth!

Riding, 1936 Olympics
Czech postcard, probably sold to raise funds for the Czech equestrian team in the Olympics

Elgar out Walking
EDWARD ELGAR Postcard, Circa 1905

Titanic Postcard
Passenger liner of the Cunard White Star line, she is the largest and most luxurious ship afloat : thanks to her well-designed interior, she is considered unsinkable

Curling at Crans Montana, Switzerland
Postcard showing a scene at the Swiss ski and winter sports resort, Crans Montana in the Swiss Alps with some presumably well-known curling experts of the 1930s, including Walker and Worthington

Schopenhauer / Postcard
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER German philosopher

Saint Patrick
SAINT PATRICK postcard commemorating his coming to Ireland 1500 years previously

Js Bach / Postcard
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH German organist and composer

Wartime postcard for soldiers to send home, with options to delete or retain. For example: I am quite well, I have been admitted into hospital, I am being sent down to the base

Apres la Guerre No. 3 - WWI postcard by George Ranstead
Humorous postcard drawn by amateur soldier artist of the Great War, George Ranstead, who, in a series of illustrations suggesting what life might be like at the end of the war

Sputnik 1 postcard. Artwork of Sputnik 1, the worlds first artificial satellite, on a postcard issued by the communist government of the former Soviet Union

Manneken Pis Postcard Album - Nun and Children
Embarrased nun: " Look to the left my children". The nun leads a group of schoolgirls (one snubbing her nose), holding an umbrella to shield their innocent eyes from the little boy statue

Airmail postcards at Gamages, London
People at Gamages in Holborn, Central London, addressing postcards and posting them in the special London Aerial Postbox, in time for the first aerial mail service from Hendon to Windsor

Traditional Turkish fezes and postcards for sale, Istanbul, Turkey, Europe

Irish Postman 1930S
A country postman in Ireland delivers a postcard to a lucky boy

Lombroso / Cesare / Postcard
CESARE LOMBROSO Italian physician and criminologist

Schweitzer / Postcard 1956
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar with his antelopes at Lambarene, Africa Date: 1875 - 1965

Schweitzer / Postcard
ALBERT SCHWEITZER French theologian, philosopher, missionary physician and music scholar

St Louis World Fair / 1904
This postcard, which shows the Blanke Aerial Globe, was launched to promote the St. Louis World Fair in 1904, but the postmark on the back indicates it was sent in 1902!

Greenwich Observatory
Greenwich Royal Observatory, with its dome to the forefront of the postcard

Postcard / Minister
A Minister assailed by Suffragettes outside the House of Commons

Bela Bartok / Postcard
BELA BARTOK Hungarian composer

Max Reger / Nauer Postcard
MAX REGER German composer

Advertising card for Singer Sewing Machines. One boy is so entranced by the new Singer in the shop window, he is unaware his friend is pinching some of the berries from his basket! However

Singer Factory / Postcard
Workers leaving the Singer factory, makers of the famous sewing machine

Tommy Dorsey / Postcard
TOMMY DORSEY Jazz musician

Emily Davison
The Late Miss E.W Davison Postcard published in commemoration of EMILY DAVISON showing her in academic garb

Edward Vii / 1910 Postcard
EDWARD VII, BRITISH ROYALTY head and shoulders profile of King

Alain Delon / Postcard
ALAIN DELON French film actor who appeared in British and American films

Gaby Deslys, French actress and singer (coloured photo)
8635454 Gaby Deslys, French actress and singer (coloured photo) by French Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Gaby Deslys, (1881-1920), French actress and singer

A view of the Karsino at East Molesey, 1910-1920
A view of the Karsino on Taggs Island at East Molesey (near Hampton Court), 1910-1920. Famous summer resort and entertainment palace on an island in the river Thames first run by Fred Karno

Saucy Postcard - Lady lovers bemoan (?) bad weather
Saucy Seaside Postcard - Two lady lovers bemoan (?) the bad weather, which opens up new opportunities for fun... Date: 1946

Portrait of a beautiful young woman with a rose (b/w photo)
8655801 Portrait of a beautiful young woman with a rose (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Portrait of a beautiful young woman with a rose)

St Peter ad Vincula Church, Wisborough Green
Post Card print of exterior of church and churchyard. Hordern Collection General Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No PH6147

War Horse - illustration on postcard by George Ranstead
Lovely illustration of a noble looking horse, with a plough harness around its neck. Drawn by amateur soldier artist, George Ranstead, at the time of World War One

WOMENs RIGHTS. What a Woman may be and yet not have the Vote : English postcard, c1910
WOMENs RIGHTS. " What a Woman may be and yet not have the Vote" : English postcard, c1910

Napoleons skull
Satirical French postcard from 1903 depicting Napoleons laughing skull. Sadly, the exact meaning of this rather grim image is not shared

The Hay crop from Suttons Grass Seeds
A promotional postcard for Suttons Seeds, Reading - showing women harvesting the hay crop, grown from Suttons Grass seeds

Kitsch Greek Greetings Postcard
A kitsch Greek Greetings card, featuring a rather unusual bird (cross between a swallow and a dove!?) carrying a message of good wishes across the sea, surrounded by a border of red and pink flowers

Greeting from Ireland - postcard
Greetings from Ireland - a souvenir postcard

British and Indian soldiers - WWI allies (2 / 3)
Comrades at Arms British and Indian troops fighting together during WWI

Freak Show poster - Legless Woman
A poster for a freak show exhibit of a legless Englishwoman, Miss Gabriele The English Halfwoman. Postcard from Germany

Josef Scheffel / Postcard
JOSEF VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL German poet and novelist

Pandita Ramabai / Postcard
PANDITA RAMABAI DONGRE MEDHAVI Indian reformer and educator, " Friend of the child widows"

The Lawns and Brunswick Terrace, Hove, East Sussex, England. 1904

St Andrews Church, Oving
Black and white post card. Full view of church and churchyard. Square tower with porch and spire. Hordern Collection General Photographic Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No PH5740

McKinley Monument at Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York. Photopostcard, c1910
BUFFALO: MONUMENT, c1910. McKinley Monument at Niagara Square, Buffalo, New York. Photopostcard, c1910

Canadian World War One Patriotic Postcard. " Here Comes Canada!" Date: circa 1916

Pier and sands, New Brighton, Merseyside (colour litho)
7153953 Pier and sands, New Brighton, Merseyside (colour litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Pier and sands, New Brighton, Merseyside)

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Travel through time and space with these captivating postcards. From the iconic Laika, the brave space dog, to the enchanting Sophia Loren, each postcard tells a unique story. Discover the musical genius of Chopin through his Polish Postcard or embark on an adventure with Pan and Wendy as they fly high in the sky. Dive into history with Karl Marx's thought-provoking message or experience luxury aboard the legendary Orient Express. Grace Kelly's elegance shines through her charming postcard while WW1 Bulldogs remind us of bravery during difficult times. Join Elgar on his leisurely walk or catch a glimpse of Paul Newman's timeless charm captured in a single picture. Uncover political sentiments with an anti-home rule postcard or explore Greek-Turkish relations through intriguing propaganda artwork. Each postcard is a window into another world, inviting you to imagine, reminisce, and connect across borders.