Vintage postcard heaven!

From an original watercolour by E. W. Trick

Published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd

 Some people really are very kind. An anonymous donor left a little packet of these delightful Welsh postcards in one of our departmental pigeon holes. They will be sent over to the Archives Department at St Fagans: Museum of National History but I couldn't resist posting a small selection of them here first.

From an original watercolour by Edward H. Thompson

Published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd

"CARBO COLOUR" postcard

Published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd

Published by E. T. W. Dennis & Sons Ltd, London and Scarborough

From an original watercolour by Brian Gerald

Published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd

From an original watercolour by Edward H. Thompson

Published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd

The cards are mostly landscape views of Llangollen but this bright little quartet was also included

Seven of the more picturesque cards were published by Valentine's & Sons Ltd as part of their "Art Colour" series and there is a good a bit of information available on the company via the links below: 

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb227-ms38562

http://www.collections.co.uk/postcards/publishers/valentine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Valentine_(photographer)

Other publishers include E. T. W. dennis & Sons [London and Scarborough], N. P. O. Ltd [Belfast], J. Arthur Dixon Ltd. [G.B.], Judges Ltd. [Hastings, England], Walter Scott [Bradford], J. Salmon Ltd. [Sevenoakes, England], and Photo-Precision Ltd. [St Albans].