PC_Comic_Leete01Postcard franked 1915 - Pub: Wildt & Gray “London Opinion” series no 5035 - Design by Alfred Leete Alfred Ambrose Chew Leete (1882–1933), a British graphic artist, was born at Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire. His work as a wartime propagandist included the poster (right) for which he is most renowned, the Lord Kitchener poster design, which first appeared on the cover of the weekly magazine London Opinion on 5 September 1914. Leete died of a seizure, following a heart attack, at his home in Pembroke Square, London, in 1933.
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PC_Comic_Payne01Postcard franked Market Rasen 1908 - Pub ?Gale & Polden - Artwork by G M Payne (1879-1947) Gilbert Morris "Bertie" Payne was born in Cardiff in the first quarter of 1879. He was the older brother of A. B. Payne, who created the comic strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred in the Daily Mirror. Their father, Joseph, was a cabinet maker. Gilbert had moved to London by 1901, and in the early 1900s drew comics for the Amalgamated Press and James Henderson & Sons. He also illustrated story papers, including Chums and Boys of Our Empire, many full-colour postcards, and drew cartoons for Punch. He died in Bristol in the fourth quarter of 1947, aged 59.
PC_Comic_Payne02Unused postcard - Pub ?Gale & Polden - Artwork by G M Payne (1879-1947) (PC_Comic0146) Gilbert Morris "Bertie" Payne was born in Cardiff in the first quarter of 1879. He was the older brother of A. B. Payne, who created the comic strip Pip, Squeak and Wilfred in the Daily Mirror. Their father, Joseph, was a cabinet maker. Gilbert had moved to London by 1901, and in the early 1900s drew comics for the Amalgamated Press and James Henderson & Sons. He also illustrated story papers, including Chums and Boys of Our Empire, many full-colour postcards, and drew cartoons for Punch. He died in Bristol in the fourth quarter of 1947, aged 59.
PC_Comic_Penniall01Unused postcard - Pub: Tamesis Photographic Syndicate, London Apparently a reference to Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) as leader of the Liberal Unionist opposition taking up the cause of tariff reform to protect the UK from imports from the USA, Russia and Europe at the time of the 1906 General Election - "Shades of Cobden & Bright” refers to Richard Cobden (1804-1865) and John Bright (1811-1889) two radical Liberal politicians who founded the Anti-Corn Law League, aimed at abolishing the Corn Laws, which raised food prices and protected landowners' interests by levying taxes on imported wheat. The Corn Laws were abolished in 1846, but evidently “times have altered” by 1906…...