A box containing more than 150 old traditional greetings car...

Hammer

£75

A box containing more than 150 old traditional greetings cards, album and a bag of photographs with a possible story to tell and first day covers. This lot comprises an album and A4 bound folder together holding more than 150 traditional greetings cards – including eight pretty laced cards (see photos) and a 1917 card of the Royal Naval Division with a coloured sketch side of Tommy with his Hun prisoner. Many of the greetings cards are to new parents congratulating them on the birth of a recent arrival. There is also an album in poor condition with family photos; a half-empty book made to hold cabinet cards which does contain a few, but mostly photos; and a bag of photos and postcards which seem to be related to the Jeffery family of Acomb, York, in the 1945s/50s – including one of the family shopfront (pictured). There are a number of postcards sent to the family address in York – and others to Kent. Two of the photos pictured here come with a newspaper cutting from the Yorkshire Evening Press about the Rev. JW de Graft Johnson’s visit to York – the West African was in England qualifying as a Methodist Minister. There is also an opened packet containing probably more than 30 of the same First Day Covers) of the Chichester Cathedral postcard to honour Sir Francis Chichester’s solo voyage around the world in Gipsy Moth in 1967; and about 16 larger images with two different views of the cathedral, which are also First Day Covers to mark the same event. See photo.