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SS Lochnagar: The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's fine Passenger Steamers sailing between London and Aberdeen twice weekly (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of the deck area in First Class on an Allan Line steamship] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of a Cunard steamer in Upper New York Bay (Postcard)
[Postcard featuring MS Christian Maersk in the Strait of Malacca between Singapore and Port Swettenham, unused] (Postcard)
SS Aberdonian: The Aberdeen Steam Navigation Company's fine Passenger Steamers sailing between London and Aberdeen twice weekly (Postcard)
[Unused postcard produced by the Universal Postal Union titled 'Lascar' featuring an illustration of an Indian sailor on a quay by M.V. Dhurandhar] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing Cunard RMS Queen Elizabeth] (Postcard)
‘Singhalese ayah (Nurse Maid)’ (Postcard)
[Postcard featuring MS Christian Maersk in the Strait of Malacca between Singapore and Port Swettenham, unused] (Postcard)
‘Ayah. Indian nurse’ (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of a mother and two children, the image is from the top of a menu used on the Allan Line steamer to Canada, RMS Victorian] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of a Cunard liner starting a trans-atlantic voyage from Liverpool] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of a New York Pilot being picked up by a Cunard steamer] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing illustration of the Cunard liner Campania] (Postcard)
[Postcard featuring MS Christian Maersk in the Strait of Malacca between Singapore and Port Swettenham, unused] (Postcard)
[Postcard featuring MS Christian Maersk in the Strait of Malacca between Singapore and Port Swettenham, unused] (Postcard)
Britannia rules the waves, Yeth, but we rule Britannia [Postcard, unused] (Postcard)
[Hellenic Mediterranean Lines postcard featuring phoograph of Italy-Greece car ferry MS Egnatia] (Postcard)
The call of the Old Home Flag: Through war unsought, to peace with honour! [Unused postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, featuring images of King George V, Field Marshal Sir John French, Admiral J. Jellicoe, General Sir H. Smith-Dorrien and Field Marshal Earl Kitchener against a backdrop of the Union flag. The reverse features the poem 'The call of the old home flag' by Walter E. Grogan] (Postcard)
The Marines busy at Ostend' [Unused postcard from 'On Active Service' series published by Photochrom Co. Ltd] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing 'Amiral Tehouart', French Battleship, 6505 tons from series of Pictorial Postcards with views of the French Fleet at Portsmouth: See PEB5692-5699] (Postcard)
Pictorial Postcards with views of the French Fleet at Portsmouth, The Nelson Series [Paper sleeve containing postcards showing French warships and leaflet advertising other postcard series by Gale & Polden Ltd: See PEB5693-5699] (Postcard)
[Unused postcard showing 'Cassini', French Torpedo Gunboat, 960 tons from series of Pictorial Postcards with views of the French Fleet at Portsmouth: See PEB5692-5699] (Postcard)
British Lancers on the march in France' [Unused postcard from 'On Active Service' series published by Photochrom Co. Ltd] (Postcard)
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