Group of Scottish postcards, early 20th century
including crofters, weaving, wool dying and musicians
£378
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
The Clavie at Burghead, the Post Offices at Tighnabruaich, Auchnagatt and Glenshiel, weaving cloth on handlooms, Mollensburn Smithy, dying wool on Harris, Harry Kemp’s Scotch Broth Entertainers 1927, Francie Markis playing a cello, Kintore, New Deer, Tarland, a shepherd, Auchmithie, woman with a spinning wheel at the Glasgow Exhibition, Ratrayhead, the Galashiels flood of 1905, Fettercairn Show and crofter’s houses; with a small album containing 50 postcards, mainly family, some WW1 nursing images (approximately 180)
Provenance
Formerly owned by the Late Murray Mackinnon, a renowned collector of photography documenting Scottish life from the mid-19th to early-20th century.