Post by pilot on Jul 8, 2020 22:53:39 GMT
The following seven postcards were found in an out-of-the-way non-postcard or stamp collectors' shop in Glasgow circa 1991, when I was visiting that city during my residency in English countryside of Wordsworth from late 1989 to 1994.
Alas! The Glasgow tiny shops' lady only had seven cards left, the remainder of a group of postcards that came from a house clearance, the house clearance of the remaining possessions of an old lady, who had died recently.
The cards were all postmarked at the small town of Shelford, some 20 miles west and slightly north of Geelong, Victoria Australia.
The postcards were all addressed to Miss H. Tullock at 296 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland, some 12,000 miles by ship from Victoria.
The postcards I have are over a 6 year period.
Apart from the social history involved it was the George V Head stamps that was my primary interest, for such stamps on original correspondence, especially from the early years of commonwealth of Australia postage stamps are indeed hard to find and quite valued, doubly so when found in such fine condition.
Because the postcards were all from the same person, M. Mitchel, to the same person, Miss H. Tullock, over a 6 year period it was decided to keep the seven covers together, rather than distributing them throughout in the stamp collection where the relative stamp was located.
It seems that the two correspondents were not related as one of the cards is headed ‘Dear Friend’.
One card suggests that the writer wrote up to 4 cards at the same time an sent them all individually. Three other cards seem to part of a ‘set’ too but alas the rest are missing.
So, here is the remaining evidence of a long friendship from, long, long ago, almost a century ago, and worthy of remaining intact for another century!
Alas! The Glasgow tiny shops' lady only had seven cards left, the remainder of a group of postcards that came from a house clearance, the house clearance of the remaining possessions of an old lady, who had died recently.
The cards were all postmarked at the small town of Shelford, some 20 miles west and slightly north of Geelong, Victoria Australia.
The postcards were all addressed to Miss H. Tullock at 296 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland, some 12,000 miles by ship from Victoria.
The postcards I have are over a 6 year period.
Apart from the social history involved it was the George V Head stamps that was my primary interest, for such stamps on original correspondence, especially from the early years of commonwealth of Australia postage stamps are indeed hard to find and quite valued, doubly so when found in such fine condition.
Because the postcards were all from the same person, M. Mitchel, to the same person, Miss H. Tullock, over a 6 year period it was decided to keep the seven covers together, rather than distributing them throughout in the stamp collection where the relative stamp was located.
It seems that the two correspondents were not related as one of the cards is headed ‘Dear Friend’.
One card suggests that the writer wrote up to 4 cards at the same time an sent them all individually. Three other cards seem to part of a ‘set’ too but alas the rest are missing.
So, here is the remaining evidence of a long friendship from, long, long ago, almost a century ago, and worthy of remaining intact for another century!
