Pre WW1 Patriotic Coloured Art Card by Raphael Tuck - What are you doing to guard the homes of England?

A stirring image of volunteers from the Napoleonic times to the Volunteers of 1860s and beyond, cajoling an idle gentleman of means ( or a rake!) to join the territorial / auxiliary forces. References to a quote from George V so this dates to 1912 - 1914 era. The poem on the reverse makes interesting reading. In very good condition, with slight marks suggesting it had been very lightly ...  read more

Code: 58958

WW1 Original Patriotic Postcard - Thumbs Up for the Allies - Under-age smoker!

Postally unused, minor corner wear otherwise good condition, and how politically incorrect! Love it.

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Code: 58957

Scarce WW1 Boots the Chemist Patriotic Postcard - The King's Message to his Army

A thick card in good condition. Postally unused but has a contemporary message on the reverse. Very good condition. Printed in Nottingham, which is still the city which houses the HQ of the Boots Corporation. Scarce.

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Code: 58838

WW1 original Postcard - Aviator prepares his Maxim Gun

Postally unused, French printed card, looks like it came from a set of cards as the left side is perforated. Very good condition. Love the fact the pilot is puffing on a cigarette!

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Code: 58837

Pre WW1 Original Postcard of Rifle Regiment Territorial Cyclist Despatch Riders

Postally unused from the Bill Hopkins postcard collection. Close of up of Cap badges show these to be crowned Maltese crosses. Taken of despatch riders with the cycles and rifles under or "Bivvy". Taken at Crowborough in 1911. no doubt the annual territorial camp. Scarce image. Card in good condition.
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Code: 58562

WW1 Photo of Private Soldier Foreign Service Dress and Wolseley Helmet with Regimental Flash ( Suffolk Regiment ?)

Postally unused, matt finish, name Mrs E Harden to reverse. In very good condition. Crisp image, clothes equally crisp suggesting this was taken before departing overseas. Wolseley Helmet has large regimental flash visible to side. Looks like Suffolk Regiment to me but happy to be corrected. 1st Battalion went to Egypt in 1915 having had a very hard time of it at Ypres.
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Code: 58435

Pre WW1 Group Photograph of Royal Engineers with 1878 Pattern Spiked Hemets, c1910 Chatham

Postally unused and in good condition (some minor staining to reverse). Taken in Chatham, Kent circa 1910. One older soldier wears a QSA and the younger man next to him is wearing a Royal Humane Society Medal on his right breast. A good image.
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Code: 58104

WW1 Patriotic Embroidered Silk Postcard with Swallow and British and French Flags

An attractive card from a soldier to his sweetheart, postally unused, but message on reverse hoping for "a speedy peace". Still fresh and in good condition.

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Code: 58090

WW1 Official Postcard - Practising for an Attack ( No 70 )

Original WW1 official postcard issued by the Daily Mail. Postally unused and apart from minor edge and corner wear in above average condition.
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Code: 57980

WW1 vintage original postcard of Royal Navy Sailor of HMS Vernon posing next a Naval Brigade style gun

Postally unused and in good condition. An interesting image of an older Petty Officer. He is wearing crossed axes on the right arm. A few stains to reverse and the word Navy in pencil.
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Code: 57874