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Auction No 409, Category: Ephemera

14 Lots (displaying 1 - 14)

A folio size Scrap Album 1870s/1890s of United States origin with an impressive range of chromo-litho Trade Cards, greetings cards with novelty types,

Lot: 4

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £250
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A folio size Scrap Album 1870s/1890s of United States origin with an impressive range of chromo-litho Trade Cards, greetings cards with novelty types, bookmarks, prints etc. Includes Church & Dwight Beautiful Birds of America 1894 (6, size M) and other better. All laid down but o/w VG/Fine. Many attractive items. Some pages removed. (abt. 260 items)

A large format 19th Century Scrapbook of American origin, with bas-relief cover, containing chromo-litho Advertising ephemera and scraps,

Lot: 5

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £240
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A large format 19th Century Scrapbook of American origin, with bas-relief cover, containing chromo-litho Advertising ephemera and scraps, many issued by companies based in Troy, New York. Includes impressive large showcard for Laird's Soap and many other attractive items. In addition the album contains around 80 calling cards, many with chromo-litho artwork. All laid down o/w VG/Fine. Two items removed. (over 350 items)

Victorian to 1930s Greetings Cards (55), few Trade cards, and some Bookmarks in modern album, some of the greetings cards with PC backs.

Lot: 6

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £46
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Victorian to 1930s Greetings Cards (55), few Trade cards, and some Bookmarks in modern album, some of the greetings cards with PC backs. Includes a 19th Century paper lace types and many other better designs. Mostly VG/VF (71)

Mid-19th Century to 1930s Ephemera including Victorian hand-coloured fashion plates (18), 1920s/30s Advertising interest with give-aways

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £52
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Mid-19th Century to 1930s Ephemera including Victorian hand-coloured fashion plates (18), 1920s/30s Advertising interest with give-aways, booklets, leaflets etc; plus few cuttings & scraps. Fair to VF (49 items) 

Victorian Scrap Album, quarto, gilt pictorial cloth,worn, with 78 sides filled with 100s of attractive 19th Century to early Edwardian greetings cards

Lot: 8

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
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Victorian Scrap Album, quarto, gilt pictorial cloth, worn, with 78 sides filled with 100s of attractive 19th Century to early Edwardian greetings cards, and chromo-litho scraps, all laid down. VG internally. Includes some cigarette cards. (over 500 items)

Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps,

Lot: 10

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £200 - £250
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Victorian Scrap Album, large format, elaborate decorated cloth, including an impressive range of large and some giant scraps, with a superb full-page Father Christmas, plus clowns, children, animals, caricatures etc, together with chromo-litho greetings cards, and cuttings from a children's book. Includes set of six of The Derby spread over two sides. Inner hinging cracked. 46 sides with 100s of items. 37 x 27.5cm.

Licence for a 2-wheeled Cart, 1785, issued by the Stamp Office to Thomas Adams of Alnwick, signed by Joseph Roberts, controller of stamps,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £80
SOLD £105
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Licence for a 2-wheeled Cart, 1785, issued by the Stamp Office to Thomas Adams of Alnwick, signed by Joseph Roberts, controller of stamps, Northumberland. Single sheet, 34 x 21cm. Together with 1784 receipt issued to Adams for £1 in Duty payment for Two Saddle Horses, similarly signed. Folds o/w VG/Fine. (2)

Patriotic Flag celebrating the Coronation of George VI with inset portrait of the King. VG

Lot: 13

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Patriotic Flag celebrating the Coronation of George VI with inset portrait of the King. VG

Stage Carriage Licence of 1835 issued to John Burn of Alnwick & Joseph Burn of Berwick upon Tweed, signed by Robert Thorp, Distributor of Stamps

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £34
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Stage Carriage Licence of 1835 issued to John Burn of Alnwick & Joseph Burn of Berwick upon Tweed, signed by Robert Thorp, Distributor of Stamps for part of Northumberland. 37.5 x 24cm. Some light foxing and folds o/w VG.           

Collection of Wax Seals, 18th and early-19th Century, culled from letters and documents, housed in a modern album;

Lot: 15

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Collection of Wax Seals, 18th and early-19th Century, culled from letters and documents, housed in a modern album; one seal attached to the engraved frontispiece of the music publisher Louis Leoni Lee. A few items damaged but mostly VG/VF. (171)

"Flowers and Views of the Holy Land", 1900s/1920s, a selection of four different all with pressed flowers and coloured views,

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Flowers and Views of the Holy Land, 1900s/1920s, a selection of four different all with pressed flowers and coloured views, all bound in olive-wood boards, two showing slight cracking to the boards o/w fine. (4)   

J. A. Cole (compiler, freeman of Norwich): large Scrap Albums, two volumes, compiled 1845-1880s, with numerous chromo-litho scraps,

Lot: 19

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £120 - £180
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J. A. Cole (compiler, freeman of Norwich): large Scrap Albums, two volumes, compiled 1845-1880s, with numerous chromo-litho scraps, steel and wood engravings with many hand-coloured, few photos, etc, some pages removed, 564 sides remain, a few items removed or damaged but very largely intact. Includes complete sequence of 10 hand-coloured plates “The old woman tossed up in a basket”. Many attractive items. Bindings are worn half-leather. (These are Vols 2 and 4 of four or more volumes)

"Life in the A.T.S". and "Life as a Nurse", Raphael Tuck, WW2, in the Tuck’s ‘Better Little Books’ series, pictorial wraps, VG, scarce;

Lot: 20

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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Life in the A.T.S. and Life as a Nurse, Raphael Tuck, WW2, in the Tuck's ‘Better Little Books' series, pictorial wraps, VG, scarce; plus 5 greetings cards. 

"The Bath Rose", Joseph Myers & Co, 1860s, a fold-out multi-vignette novelty with illustrations both sides, complete with its original packet;

Lot: 36

  • Auction Date: Wed 18th May 2022 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £150
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The Bath Rose, Joseph Myers & Co, 1860s, a fold-out multi-vignette novelty with illustrations both sides, complete with its original packet; together with The Cheltenham Rose, The Southampton Rose and a similar item showing coloured lithograph views of Germany (these lacking the packets). A rare group. Cheltenham with some light foxing o/w fine. (4)