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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A PICTURE POSTCARDS - SUBJECTS
Ex Lot 70 70 C ARTIST CARDS: Delightful selection of early Glamour/Nudity cards by various French artists including several sets of 6 & A Jarach set of 7 with the original packet, mostly unused, condition variable but generally fine to very fine with some being superb. Ex Keith Harrison. (81) 1,000T
Ex Lot 93 93 C A/B - A PENOT: early-1900s Ret Cie Glamour & semi-Nudes x12 from various series, plus Leroy et Cremieu saucy "Tennis" cards x5, a few blemishes, unused. Ex Keith Harrison. (17) 250T Page:2 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Dec 14, 2015
PICTURE POSTCARDS - SUBJECTS (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
Ex Lot 226 226 C SPORT TENNIS: Mostly British cards but many from European countries & a couple from America, many of matches in progress at Wimbledon, schools, factories & castles, about a third are real photo types - many taken at Wimbledon, a few autographed - of players including Fred Perry, Norman Brookes (Australian, noted as 1913 Davis Cup), Jean Borotra & Suzanne Lenglen, also several of early Tennis Teams & a few really unusual subjects, condition variable but generally fine to very fine & many are superb. An excellent lot that gives real insight into the development of tennis & on-court fashions in the first few decades of the 20th Century. Ex Keith Harrison. [Tennis was one of Keith's passions. For many years he was heavily involved as both player & official in his local Westside (Wimbledon) Tennis Club. (150 approx) 600T 227 C A+ - Real photo cards of 6-time Wimbledon Ladies Champions "Mrs Hillyard" (with trophy) & "Mdlle Lenglen" autographed "Blanche Hillyard" & "Suzanne Lenglen", unused. Superb duo. Ex Keith Harrison. (2) 100T COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Lot 275 275 C A+ ARTIST CARDS: "Hope you're still going strong" (tennis, or badminton), unused. Superb! 200 Page:3 Website:www.mossgreen.com.au Dec 14, 2015
COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
Ex Lot 312 312 C SPORT - VARIOUS: Mounted group with Tennis x16 mostly real photo types including the Darwin (?) Tennis Club (used at Darwin in 1911) and 1933 ABC Wimbledon card of Jack Crawford & Ellsworth Vines, also basketball, women's hockey, fishing, cycling, wrestling, boxing, running, swimming & rowing x5 including 1907 for the Australian Championships x2 & 1924 Olympics the Australian Eight, etc, condition variable but many are fine to very fine used or unused. Ex Bronte Watts.(39) 500 GREAT BRITAIN - Postal Stationery Postal Cards The world's first Postal Card was issued in Austria on 1st October 1869. Great Britain "joined the club" exactly one year later. 587 PS A- 1885 Reply Card ½d+½d with Fabric Join and printed notice for fundraising for a new gymnasium & tennis court comprising Assault at Arms, Smoking Concert and Newport Amateur Minstrels, locally used in Wales with superb 'NEWPORT/NO20/90/MON - 561' duplex, the Reply-Half still attached, very minor blemishes. Ex Keith Harrison. 100T