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Hertfordshire Postcard Artists, Photographers, Publishers, etc. LN (Castle Series) circa 1910 |
Post Cards of Harpenden
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Church and Green, Harpenden Castle Series of View Cards No 513 unused
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Tennyson Road, Harpenden Castle Series of View Cards No 514 Posted from Harpenden to Plymouth 1911 (large frank)
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The Avenue, Rothamstead Park, Harpenden Castle Series of View Cards No 515 Posted to Plymouth 1911 (large frank)
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High Street, Harpenden Castle Series of View Cards No 517 Posted from Harpenden to Luton 1913
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Station Road, Harpenden Castle Series of View Cards No 518 Posted from Harpenden to Luton 1913 |
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These four-leafed clover cards are in the "Castle Series" published by "LN" and printed in Saxony. The general style (both sides) suggests they were published about 1910. An extensive online image search failed to reveal any similar post card examples with clover or shamrocks for other towns. |
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Post Cards of Berkhamsted
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King's Road - No 519 |
The Station - No 520 |
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Baptist Church - No 523 |
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High Street - No 521 |
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It should be noted that the above cards have a glazed surface and have been lightly embossed round the frame. The result has been to crack the glaze round the frame (fortunately only minimally in the picture area) and cause flaking and colour loss in the brown frame - which has been digitally repaired in all the above examples. It seems likely that these were two different sets, each with 6 different cards. |
if you can supply details (and possibly scans) of other examples |
Other Cards
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Grand Junction Canal, Berkhamsted Castle Series of Views No 608 with LN logo Posted in 1913
See Grand Junction Canal for other pictures of the canal.
Also: Ashlyns Hall - No 607
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Holly Lodge Nr. Northampton Castle Series of View cards No 611 with LN logo Posted in 1911 See Implement Gate for a history of the gate and details of another similar gate at Tring.
Similar vignette cards 615 Barton Bridge, nr Kettering. PU Aug 1910 |
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Other possible Northamptonshire related cards
Kettering Castle View 732 posted 1913
Several LN Northampton cards like thisà |
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A search for online images of post cards by a publisher "LN" producing somewhat similar cards of a similar date turned up this vignette card of Queen Eleanor's Cross, Northampton, and 3 similar Northamptonshire views identified as being produced by "LN Publishing" (backs unseen). I found about a dozen conventional view cards of Northamptonshire (posted between 1908 and 1912) and I found a small number of references to Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire numbered views. It is therefore likely, but not certain, that the Berkhamsted cards were produced by a Northampton publisher. |
