541 Ex 555 541 PC. AGRICULTURE & TRAVEL?: An illustrated postcard issued by WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & Co. Ltd., Sydney, (wool brokers, stock and station agents) depicting a family of rabbits at a “First Class” ticket office, dated 1909, with the additional information “Passengers booked last year - 41,629,672”; the scene overlooked by a koala and the ticket agent a kangaroo. Printed message verso. What’s going on here? Was the company also involved in travel, or is this a card celebrating the number of rabbits “dispatched” during the height of the rabbit plague? The only example known to us.����������������������������������������$100–150 542 PC. ADVERTISING: A group of four illustrated postcards: “Nicholson & Morrow’s Union Harvesters at work, Tamworth, N.S.W.”; “The Home of the BUNCLE Chaffcutter, Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne; “Capewell Nails” for Harrold, Colton & Co., Adelaide; and, “Pineapple Brand Bacon & Hams” for Prescott Limited, Sydney”; the last 3 used, 1905-11. (4 items).������������������������������������������������$200–250 543 PC. AGRICULTURE: A group of six postcards with printed messages from MASSEY-HARRIS Co., Ltd., dated 1906-08; all additionally with “The Golden Rule” printed in gold “Show your patriotism by buying only British made machinery and implements.” (6).�����������������������������������������������������������������������$100–150 544 PC. AUSTRALIAN & others, postcard range including two from the “Robbery Under Arms” series by Charles Hammond; two nursery rhyme types by Muriel S. Nicholls; a Victorian Railways OHMS “Jubilee Lake - Daylesford” card (Unused); plus several WW1 “Daily Mail Battle Pictures” and two early Fijian RP types “Preparing for a Feast” and “Nasinu Bridge”, etc. (22).������������������������������������������������������������������$200–250 545 PC. SPECIAL OCCASIONS: Group of more than two hundred and seventy postcards, mostly c.1910s, comprising Christmas/New Year’s/Birthday greeting motifs, mostly from overseas publishers but used and addressed within Australia. (270+ items)���������������������������������������������������������������������������������$100–200 546 PC. BRITISH ISLES: Group of more than two hundred and sixty postcards, issued in decades spanning the 1900s to the 1980s, featuring mostly London-centric views, but also the United Kingdom more broadly, as well as Ireland. (260+ items)�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$200–300 547 PC. BRITISH ISLES AND OTHERS - PICTORIAL FOLDERS: Group of twenty pictorial folders, mostly c.1950s and 60s, featuring mostly England, but also New Zealand and Japan. (20 items)����������������������������$80–120 548 PC. CONTINENTAL EUROPE: Group of more than ninety postcards, issued in decades spanning the 1900s to the 1970s, featuring views of France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and others. (90+ items)��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������$150–200 549 PC. MELBOURNE & SURROUNDS: A collection, mainly early RP cards in a large brown album, (150+); mixed condition. [Not included in the count are some film/stage personality types at the end.].��$500–750 550 PC. BRITISH ISLES, IRELAND & EUROPE: Group of more than seventy individual postcards and nine postcard packets (noted Valentine’s London 5028 complete set of 12), generally unused c.1920s, with many views of London, Dublin, and Bournemouth, and others.���������������������������������������������$100–150 551 PC. THEMATIC POSTCARDS - GREETINGS: Group of more than two hundred and sixty mostly early 1900s cards (mainly printed in Europe), including birthday, Christmas, New Year, best wishes, and religious types, as well as some greeting cards. (260+ items)���������������������������������������������������������������������$150–200 49
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