+/- 1190 postcards.

Mostly coloured, blank or written, with or without stamps.

All carefully kept in 3 albums ad hoc, folio & 4to size (corners sl. rubbed, 1 album soiled, spine gone). Good condition.

1. Album, 4to, nicely with flowers decorated printer's binding, containing 12 watercoloured drawings of costumes, 14 cards of dogs, cats, etc. edited for the "Ligue Internationale Antivivisectionniste", 4 reproductions of works of Massonet, sold for the benefit of de "Asiles des soldats invalides belges", 5 reprod. of paintings by Belgian masters, sold for the Red Cross. All cards blank verso. - 2. Folio album with +/- 675 decorative cards: some items: the life of St Therese of Lisieux, the Belgian Royal Family, film actors and singers (Henry Garat, Ginger Rogers, Nelson Eddy, Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, Lilian Harvey, Pierre Brasseur, ...), some with the scores of popular songs, a few New Year and Easter cards, a large ensemble of cartoons, caricatures and children cards. To notice: some cards with glitter, some collages on a synthetic material, a series of cartoons with a rather racist connotation. - 3. Large square album, decorated printer's binding (spine gone) with +/- 480 fantasy and iconographical postcards, mostly written and stamped, showing photographical portraits of young attractive girls, some with scores of songs, a collection concerning the "Hanswijckstoet" and the Coloma boarding school in Mechelen, the fair of Charleroi in 1911, the military camp of Beverlo, quite a lot of iconographical cards mostly of European touristical sites (Luxemburg, Bruges, St. Vith, Colmar, Villers, Nice, Paris, etc.) and a few of Congo & of Cuba, some devotional cards, flowers, etc.