further blue album with a large and valuable collection of approx. 220 subject cards. The album covers a wide and colourful range of subjects of rare and better cards. Starting from the time of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 of which there are a mix of intermediate and court cards (3) an 1890 Penny Postage Jubilee postmarked correspondence card, 1891 Eddystone Royal Navy Exhibition, An 1899 Memoriam card of Franz Faure French President, and two 1900 Deutsche Reichspoft Postkartes with 31st December 1899 cancellation to stamps and 1st January 1900 postmark to lower left of cover. Further cards include Mafeking, German Royal Visits and similar visits overseas by Edward VII with ranges of early Tuck Heraldic cards and cards of philatelic and numismatist content and interest, with also a selection of Russian Royal Family cards. A portrait of Franz Ferdinand with several others of world war interest including a Kitchener memoriam card and Royal Families from Bulgaria, Montenegro, Romania and Servia with a particularly nice woven silk of the Seat of War in the Far East. Of further great interest are a series of Political cards including a Joseph Chamberlain Birthday and Anniversary of entering Parliament card with some comic cards of his Trade Tariff Reforms. The 1916 Sinn Fein Dublin Rebellion (1) and Five Suffragette cards including Mrs Drummond on the Thames addressing parliament and advertising a rally in Hyde Park, Miss Emily Wilding Davison’s Funeral at Morpeth, Mrs Pankhurst, Portrait plus a London Life Rotary Rp and a comic. A range of 18 embroidered silks including a rare RSPCA Auxiliary AVC, Durham Light Infantry (3) Yorkshire Regiment (3) Yorkshire Hussars, Northumberland Fusiliers plus 4 French burning towns woven silks – Malines, Ypres Tilloloy etc. A set of six World War One Heros and two mechanical Anti-German Sentiment cards. Also a reasonably full set of the Senghenydd Pit Disaster of 1913 published by Benton of Glasgow 1 – 25 ( missing numbers 14, 15, 20). An outstanding collection which needs careful viewing.