Back

Tooveys: Post Cards, Cigarette Cards, Photos, Autographs and Ephemera

Auction Reports

Auction Name Post Cards, Cigarette Cards, Photos, Autographs and Ephemera Total Sales (GBP) 30,966.00
Auction Date August 08, 2017 - August 08, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 12,960.00
Sale Number #1528 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 20,010.00
Total Lots 175
Sold Lots 156 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 15,500.00
% of Lots Sold 89.14% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,870.00
Unsold Lots 19 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 129.73%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3132

THREE ALBUMS CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 184 FIRST WORLD WAR PERIOD EMBROIDERED AND WOVEN SILK POSTCARDS AND GREETINGS CARDS

 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,700.00
3176

A LARGE QUANTITY OF POSTCARDS IN ALBUMS AND LOOSE OF VARIOUS SUBJECTS

 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,400.00
3186

A SET OF 50 ALLEN & GINTER 'CELEBRATED AMERICAN INDIAN CHIEFS' CIGARETTE CARDS

 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,100.00
3220

AUTOGRAPHS. A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF KING GEORGE V AND QUEEN MARY MOUNTED ON PAPER SIGNED BY BOTH SITTERS AND DATED JUNE 22ND 1911

 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 850.00
3131

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 440 POSTCARDS RELATING TO THE THEATRE

 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 800.00
3178

A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS OF MIXED SUBJECTS

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 800.00
3189

A SET OF 50 ALLEN & GINTER 'PIRATES OF THE SPANISH MAIN' CIGARETTE CARDS

 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 700.00
3095

A SET OF 10 RUSSIAN POSTCARDS BY SERGEI LODYGIN EACH DEPICTING A FEMALE NUDE AND PRINTED IN BLACK AND ONE OTHER COLOUR

 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 600.00
3165

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 1250 POSTCARDS OF ACTORS AND ACTRESSES

 GBP 50.00 - 90.00 GBP 600.00
3180

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 681 POSTCARDS IN FIVE ALBUMS AND LOOSE OF MIXED SUBJECTS

 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 480.00
3213

A LARGE COLLECTION OF CIGARETTE AND TRADE CARDS IN FOUR ALBUMS AND LOOSE

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 480.00
3135

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 440 POSTCARDS OF MILITARY INTEREST

 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 440.00
3175

EIGHT ALBUMS CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 620 POSTCARDS OF BOGNOR REGIS AND ITS ENVIRONS

 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 440.00
3108

A GROUP OF 6 PHOTOGRAPHIC POSTCARDS OF 1920S TENNIS PLAYERS

 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 420.00
3172

AN ALBUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 230 POSTCARDS OF SHIPPING INTEREST

 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 420.00
3154

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 120 POSTCARDS IN AN ALBUM AND LOOSE

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 400.00
3157

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 209 POSTCARDS OF ARTIST

 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 380.00
3158

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 670 POSTCARDS IN THREE ALBUMS AND LOOSE

 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 380.00
3219

AUTOGRAPH. A SILVER PRINT PHOTOGRAPH OF MARY OF TECK

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 380.00
3133

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 262 POSTCARDS OF HONG KONG

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 340.00
3214

TWO ALBUMS CONTAINING LIEBIG TRADE CARDS AND A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS RELATING TO THE OPERA

 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 340.00
3261

PHOTOGRAPHS. AN ALBUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 59 ALBUMEN-PRINT PHOTOGRAPHS

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 340.00
3134

A COLLECTION OF APPROXIMATELY 148 POSTCARDS OF BRITISH TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS AND SOCIAL HISTORY INTEREST

 GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 320.00
3174

AN ALBUM CONTAINING APPROXIMATELY 297 POSTCARDS OF WORTHING

 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 320.00
3181

A LARGE COLLECTION OF POSTCARDS IN 30 ALBUMS

 GBP 50.00 - 100.00 GBP 320.00
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
Ask Questions