Bubb Kuyper

FINE ARTS - PICTURE POSTCARDS

Auction 85, 23-27 Nov 2026

Session of Thursday 26 November 2026, 6.30 pm

On view: Thursday 19 November 2026 – Sunday 22 November 2026, 10.00 am – 4.00 pm · Order of the sale

26 lots

Lot 5069

[Erotica]. "Curiosités-Parisiennes."

Series of 8 col. picture postcards, ±1900, all signed "Fox", all w. captions above and below, all unused. AND 5 others, i.a. 2 pochoir col. postcards by T. PURIAULT with suggestive captions in French and English: "For thou divine Asparagus we have done so many madnesses, and ever madnesses will we do!" and "One of the talents of the Parisian!!". - ADDED: an etched bookseller's ticket showing semi-nude lady holding a banner of "J. Chevret Livres. Estampes Dessins 28. rue de Seine" (signed illegibly).

Estimate €70 – €90

Lot 5070

[Europe]. Collection

of ±90 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used, loosely inserted in contemp. dec. album. AND ±370 col. picture postcards of animals, ±1950, all unused, loosely inserted in two contemp. albums titled "Commissie van Beheer van het Vermogen van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen".

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 5071

[Europe]. Collection

of ±140 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., partly used.

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 5072

[Europe]. Collection

of ±190 (col.) picture postcards, ±1910-1940, mostly unused. ADDED: ±40 others, mostly w. religious subjects.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 5075

[Fantasy cards]. Collection

of ±100 (chromolithogr.) col. picture postcards, ±1900-1930, partly used, incl. a few larger embossed scraps, all laid down/ loosely inserted in orig. giltlettered dec. album, folio.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 5076

[Fantasy cards]. Collection

of ±150 (chromolithogr.) col. picture postcards, ±1900, partly used, incl. a few larger (movable) scraps, all laid down/ loosely inserted in orig. giltlettered dec. album, folio.

Estimate €150 – €250

Lot 5078

[Fantasy cards]. Collection

of ±250 picture postcards. early/ first half 20th cent., partly used, loosely inserted in contemp. album, obl. folio.

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 5079

[Fantasy cards]. Collection

of ±650 (col.) picture postcards, chromos and shaped cards, early/ first half 20th cent., partly used.

Estimate €200 – €300

Lot 5081

[France]. Collection

of ±150 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used.

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 5082

[Germany]. Collection

of ±340 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used.

Estimate €150 – €250

Lot 5083

[Greeting cards]. Collection

of ±200 picture postcards, Dutch, early 20th cent., mostly chromolithogr. (incl. a few embossed), loosely inserted in contemp. cl. album w. mounted lithogr. plate on frontcover, titled "Grüsse von Nah und Fern".

Estimate €80 – €100

Lot 5084

[Indonesia]. Collection

of 21 mostly uncol. picture postcards, ±1900-1930, partly real photographs (6x), mostly unused, incl. 2 duplicates. ADDED ±115 other (col.) picture postcards, i.a. of the Netherlands (±75x, ±1900-1940), the USA (20x, 1905-1912) and the United Kingdom (18x, ±1920-1940).

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 5085

[Japan]. Collection

of 24 handcol. picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., all unused, all w. captions, in contemp. dec. wooden leporello album, 8vo.

Estimate €60 – €80

Lot 5088

[Netherlands]. Collection

of ±500 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used, partly loosely inserted in contemp. dec. album, obl. 4to.

Estimate €300 – €500

Lot 5089

[North Africa]. Collection

of ±55 picture postcards ±1920-1960, partly used. ADDED: 5 col. picture postcards and 5 cabinet photographs, taken in Japan, France and Singapore, i.a. of a Japanese woman in kimono.

Estimate €50 – €70

Lot 5090

[Royalty].

Collection of ±250 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used, loosely inserted in contemp. dec. album, obl. 4to.

Estimate €200 – €300

Lot 5091

[Switzerland]. Collection

of ±650 (col.) picture postcards, mostly early 20th cent., mostly used.

Estimate €250 – €350

Lot 5092

[Trade-catalogues]. Four albums

with ±800 postcard samples, unused, mostly French, various techniques, all stamped with code and with prices in pen, all mounted in contemp. unif. clothbacked album, obl. 4to (3x)/ unif. limp boards, 4to (1x).

Estimate €100 – €150

Lot 5093

[Varia]. Album

containing ±150 (col.) picture postcards, early 20th cent., used and unused, contemp. album w. "Post Card Album" on frontcover.

Estimate €70 – €90