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Not been here for a while but what's the point of a dealer going thru a loada cards pricing them at say £4 and then selling them for 50p, who are they trying to kid? (but I did sell such a one for £36 on e bay!)

1907 card postmarked North Shields, I'll say no more to protect the innocent!
Message reads:

Dear Ma, Would you kindly come home at once father is starting his pranks at home come at once. From All

Delcampe is v good for Europe!

Anything on the Francis Frith website?

Again, you might try to see if there are old Bradford Trade Directories on the University of Leicester website or purchase the old directory on CD, Stepping Stones used to do them

Sorry, no luck with my meagre collection of reference books, they might be in Byatts "Postcard Publishers" if someone has a copy (currently about £60 on Amazon!) or you might try to find them in old London Trade Directories, you should be able to find them online on Leicester University's ...

i was looking thru my real (glossy) photo cards of London and arrived at the following tentative conclusions but I'm lost without a copy of Picture Postcards & their Publishers by Anthony Byatt. the technology and the printers may have been German but these are publishers and I repeat LONDON pos...

I found a Cornish Litany card on the AH Hawke of helston website, seen it?

sorry, senior moment, St Andrews University, Special collection, not Dundee, well it's all north of watford!

Nothing to do with porters, even Cole Porter, colportage is the distribution of leaflets, usually religous based. They must have bought and overprinted my (tatty) Misch postcard (remainders?) of Harland & Wolfes Shipbuilding Yard, Belfast (ships being precariously built on flimsy wooden scaffold...

I'm not well in with the collecting fratternity in Cornwall, wonder if any of the leading lights know anything? I can ask John at our stamp club meeting (Tues) and Dougie Luxford who runs the postcard fairs at the next one (6th June) if i can get there, trouble is I've mislaid the card at present! D...

Your post was a while ago but if you look on the post "Edgar Longstaffe" chap gives website for S Hildesmeiser or what ever, sorry I'm not very good at these things! dave

...or, dare I say, postcards that got damp and seperated from the backing? Dave

or will consider other signal stations, radio stations, I have the usual ones, the Lizard and Isle of Wight, anyone got any others? Dave

Not quite! I collect London and couldn't resist a card captioned "Birdseye view of London showing Crystal palace in the distance (very distant!) I think now it was taken from the top of Westminster cathedral, shows the school playing fields and a gasometer in Horseferry Rd (I think) I can pick ...