Superb collection of 19 real photo postcards: Portsmouth warships & launches 1906-1913

~ Superb collection of 19 real photo postcards: Portsmouth warships & launches 1906-1913 ~

Loose mounted using album corners on seven pages with type written titles.

The collection includes some postcards we have never seen before. It comprises, with photographers or publishers in brackets:

HMS Thunderer 1911, HMS Iron Duke 1912 (1 x no publisher, 1 x Reginald Silk)

HMS Queen Elizabeth 1913 (2 x J. Welch, 1 x A.E Carrett)

HMS Bellepheron 1907 (1 x Gale & Polden, 1 x Topic, 1 x Stephen Cribb)

HMS King George V 1911 (1 x Humphries, 1 x Hopkins)

'A Dreadnought Oct 21 1912' = HMS Queen Elizabeth laid down (2 x Cribb, 1 x Silk)

HMS Dreadnought 1906 (2 x Chadwick & Allen, 1 x Gale & Polden)

HMS St Vincent 1908 (3 x Stephen Cribb)

Some rare and wonderful images of the launch of British battleships.

~ Dimensions ~

Traditional size postcards - approximately 5.5 x 3.5 inches.

~ Condition ~

A little edge and tip wear to some cards, and a little discolouration at the corners of one of the HMS Queen Elizabeth cards, but the collection is in very nice overall collection.