~ Superb collection of 19 real photo postcards: Portsmouth warships & launches 1906-1913 ~
Loose mounted using album corners on seven pages with type written titles.
The collection includes some postcards we have never seen before. It comprises, with photographers or publishers in brackets:
HMS Thunderer 1911, HMS Iron Duke 1912 (1 x no publisher, 1 x Reginald Silk)
HMS Queen Elizabeth 1913 (2 x J. Welch, 1 x A.E Carrett)
HMS Bellepheron 1907 (1 x Gale & Polden, 1 x Topic, 1 x Stephen Cribb)
HMS King George V 1911 (1 x Humphries, 1 x Hopkins)
‘A Dreadnought Oct 21 1912’ = HMS Queen Elizabeth laid down (2 x Cribb, 1 x Silk)
HMS Dreadnought 1906 (2 x Chadwick & Allen, 1 x Gale & Polden)
HMS St Vincent 1908 (3 x Stephen Cribb)
Some rare and wonderful images of the launch of British battleships.
~ Dimensions ~
Traditional size postcards – approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.
~ Condition ~
A little edge and tip wear to some cards, and a little discolouration at the corners of one of the HMS Queen Elizabeth cards, but the collection is in very nice overall collection.