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Lot 175 - Grouping of 10 Antique and Vintage Military and Patriotic Postcards Including WWI French Prisoner of War R.P.P.C. from Meschede, Germany, Winston Churchill WWII Portrait, Grant's Tomb, and City Hall Subway Station, New York

Lot 175 - Grouping of 10 Antique and Vintage Military and Patriotic Postcards Including WWI French Prisoner of War R.P.P.C. from Meschede, Germany, Winston Churchill WWII Portrait, Grant's Tomb, and City Hall Subway Station, New York

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Grouping of 10 antique and vintage postcards with military, patriotic, and related subjects. The lot includes two WWI-era R.P.P.C.s of soldiers in uniform, one inscribed "Barber" at the bottom and printed on French carte postale stock, the other addressed to a French prisoner of war ("prisonnier de guerre") at Meschede, Germany, with postal markings from Conlie, Sarthe, France. A WWII-era chromolithograph portrait postcard of Winston Churchill bears the quotes "There'll always be an England," "Never was so much owed by so many to so few," and "Give us the Tools." A 1941 Tichnor Bros. "Victory Series" linen postcard captioned "Let's Go Forward Together" depicts three figures atop red, white, and blue V symbols, postmarked Bristol, 1947. Additional cards include a chromolithograph of City Hall Subway Station, New York City; an Edward Penfield illustration of Riverside Drive and Grant's Tomb, New York, copyrighted by Hart Schaffner & Marx; a view of the U.S. Hotel Thayer at West Point, New York, with the West Point crest; a Soldiers' Monument postcard from New Haven, Connecticut; a chromolithograph of "The Breeches Buoy in Action" depicting life-saving equipment on a beach; and a WWI sentimental postcard captioned "You Are Not Forgotten."

Condition varies across the group, with general age-related wear including corner bumps, edge wear, surface soiling, and foxing.

Auction Date: 08/20/2026

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