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by davidnugget
Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:38 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Edwardian parking meters??
Replies: 4
Views: 8511

Re: Edwardian parking meters??

One might need a bigger house! Another topic I have looked up, with only partial success, is identifying and dating old street lights in postcards, and I came across web sites of people who have quite extensive collections of lights, including complete lamp standards. When I started collecting postc...
by davidnugget
Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:00 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Edwardian parking meters??
Replies: 4
Views: 8511

Re: Edwardian parking meters??

Thanks! Quoting from the last response by Lesley Ramm "These are street fire alarms and became common in the second half of the 19thC after the Telegraph system was installed." I'll buy this as the answer, though the examples in close up all have a rather different shape at the top. Intere...
by davidnugget
Mon Feb 08, 2016 11:00 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Edwardian parking meters??
Replies: 4
Views: 8511

Edwardian parking meters??

What are these things by the edge of the road which look like parking meters? They are red, postalheritage.org.uk says "In 1897, to answer the demand for more convenient posting facilities for London squares (around which were the houses of some of London’s more influential residents), small bo...
by davidnugget
Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:43 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: AS Series
Replies: 1
Views: 4842

Re: AS Series

From an ebay sale I see the name Andrew Smith .
As usual, this produces nothing easy to find on the web.
by davidnugget
Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:06 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Postcard copyright... front and back!
Replies: 5
Views: 10601

Re: Postcard copyright... front and back!

I should have said "posted cards and catalogues".
by davidnugget
Wed Jan 27, 2016 3:02 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Postcard copyright... front and back!
Replies: 5
Views: 10601

Re: Postcard copyright... front and back!

The only difference is that (I think for Tuckdb, and certainly for many similar sites including most on Wiki commons) you are supposed to credit them as the source and in principle to enjoin that condition on anyone who copies it from you, whereas if you scan it yourself you don't. I read your post ...
by davidnugget
Wed Jan 27, 2016 9:28 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Postcard copyright... front and back!
Replies: 5
Views: 10601

Re: Postcard copyright... front and back!

Can't answer the general points, but Tuckdb has no connection with the Tuck firm so a credit to Tuckdb only applies if you use their scans, as opposed to scanning a card you own yourself for example. Having said this, Tuckdb is great and if only similar sites existed for other publishers- if they do...
by davidnugget
Wed Jan 20, 2016 6:21 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: AS Series
Replies: 1
Views: 4842

AS Series

I have a number of 1910-ish cards, places generally southwest of London, published as AS Series. Is there information about this publisher?
Incidentally, I tried searching the forum, but the search was rejected as these are two common words!
by davidnugget
Thu Nov 12, 2015 7:34 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Postcard Archives
Replies: 2
Views: 6861

Re: Postcard Archives

https://tuckdb.org/ (also mentioned below) is by far the best online collection of postcards, good size images and a creative commons type license. You would have to search by country name, eg Persia, Iraq or whatever in the Middle East (which here used be called the near east?). It would be great i...
by davidnugget
Mon Sep 21, 2015 9:55 am
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: When is a Misch & Stock card NOT a Misch & Stock card?
Replies: 2
Views: 6889

Re: When is a Misch & Stock card NOT a Misch & Stock card?

The logo indicates it is a "PFB"card,see
http://www.tpa-project.info/html/body_p ... nrath.html

I don't know of any connection between these publishers but the dates of their trading may give a clue. See Misch & Co in
http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersm2.html
by davidnugget
Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:39 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Wrench London Checklist?
Replies: 38
Views: 86302

Re: Wrench London Checklist?

Hi Alan
just to mention 2 cards in your 14569 to 14582 range:
14574 Richmond Park
14578 The Museum, Kew Gardens
which are now in London but weren't then!

Someone else listed 14573 London Bridge (which I haven't seen) so maybe this was a mixed bunch.
by davidnugget
Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:37 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Van Gink Poultry Postcards
Replies: 4
Views: 10511

Re: Van Gink Poultry Postcards

You have got me interested! The reference work is C S TH Van Ginks Poultry Paintings 1890 1968, World Poultry Science Association, 1992. Beekbergen, The Netherlands: Dutch Branch of the World's Poultry Science Association, 1992. Pictorial Hardcover. Outstanding poultry illustrations produced between...
by davidnugget
Wed Apr 22, 2015 2:17 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Van Gink Poultry Postcards
Replies: 4
Views: 10511

Re: Van Gink Poultry Postcards

The cards come up from time to time on ebay, or you could buy some original prints, eg from http://www.heatons-of-tisbury.co.uk/poultry5.html Apparently in 1930 C. S. Th. Van Gink was Vice-President of the World’s Poultry Science Association, Voorburg, The Netherlands. He lived until 1968 and is fre...
by davidnugget
Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:20 pm
Forum: Postcard Collecting
Topic: Another logo question - dog reading
Replies: 2
Views: 6585

Another logo question - dog reading

I would be grateful if someone could identify the publisher of cards where the logo looks like the head and shoulders of a dog holding up a paper or slate and reading it. http://rthcards.co.uk/blog/dogreadinglogo.jpg . The cards are 1910-ish views of home counties. The logo is on the back of the car...