Contemporary Publishers

E. R. Green & Co. of Blackpool

and the  "Victoria Series"

A Blackpool based Publisher of the Syllikuss series of cards in 1909

 

Edward Rhodes Green & Co was a stationer, draper and outfitter at 10 Victoria Street, Blackpool who sold post cards from 1904 with the initials "E R G & Co." in the "Victoria Series." The great majority of the cards he sold were views of the Blackpool area but the "Victoria Series" also included a number of comic cards, mainly unsigned, and apparently by different artists

 

The publisher is of interest because in published a number of cards signed by "Syllikuss" appeared in the "Victoria Series" in the summer of 1909. However it is now thought that there was no significant link between "SylliKuss" and Fred Spurgin - and this line is not being followed further.
 

 
 

See

Syllikuss

for all known Syllikuss post cards

(which have the above back)

  

Some other E. R. Green comic cards in the numbered Victoria Series

In most cases the artist is not known.

4 Just a line from Blackpool

20 August 1909

 

6 What Ho, She Bumps

 

 

8 Hard on the boatman

24 December 1909

33  Everything going out, Nothing

coming in

  

43 It's the tailor makes the man

  

53 Pa getting fresh air at Blackpool

The " Sally and Sammy" cards  by Teddy Ashton

  

Other Ashton cards

39 Dark Room

 

61 The Sculpture Gallery

  

copyright 26 September 1908

[The cards in this series have the same back as the Syllikuss cards]

 

57 Courtin' Neet - two pair of squeezers

64 Another dark room

65  His mother's way 16 August 1909

 

  

 

69 Puzzle: Find the calves

28 August 1913

 

66 Your Bottle - Have A Suck

29 May 1908

 
 

 

  

257? We are having a gradely good time here

1 June 1909

  

302

By Jove, Blackpool's simply ripping, I've brought the place

315

When are you going to let this happen to me.

  

338

Rag time is all the rage at Blackpool

1913

  

359

You've won a medal like this here for your great success in shifting beer

The "Victoria Series" mainly consisted of view cards such as these, which in general do not have the Delittle, Fenwick & co back.

37 Flying Machine, Blackpool

18 August 1907

 

41 Roof Gardens, Tower, Blackpool

 

77  Blackpool from the Cliffs

 

83 Having a trip round

  

215   On Blackpool Sands

  

Catholic Church, Talbot Road, Blackpool

[This card has the 1d postage applies wording on back but was printed in Germany.]

View cards with the Delittle, Fenwick & co wording.

Catholic Church, Talbot Road, Blackpool

[This card has the 1d postage applies wording on back but was printed in Germany.]

    

Hotel Metropole & Promenade

Victoria Series 103 - Posted