Active Life Magazine - Article

"Hello Mike. The Active Life Editor is happy with my piece on Old Postcards with which you kindly helped me. She says she'd really appreciate your offer of e.mailing her some images. (She says hopefully high resolution jpgs - whatever that means!).Three or four would be fine and as it's a colour magazine perhaps most of them in colour. But I do mention topos and a decent interesting B&W of one of those would be great too. I'll leave it up to you. Perhaps you'd kindly send them directly to her rather than myself.

I'll also make sure you get a copy of the magazine when the piece is used. Thanks again for your kind assistance. (I've mentioned Suffragettes, Street Scenes, Railways and Amusing cards, but pix don't necessarily need to include those). Jack Pleasant"

Asti Postcards

I have six postcards of women, heads and shoulders, the artist is A Asti, they are from my mothers collection, all dated between 1900 -1918 , they haven't been written on or,therefore, stamped but I feel they are from that time, can you tell me whether they are worth selling separately, ~ Ann Talbot

These turn up quite regularly but are quite popular. They need to be in near perfect condition for collectors.. but if they are, the current valuation for each. is £8.00 - in the current IPM catalogue, though I've seen examples fetching more. Expect a bit more than half this figure from a dealer - if the cards are in good condition.



'Juliet' by Artist Angelo Asti (1847-1903)

Asti was an French painter and illustrator whose images of beautiful women were wildly popular at the turn of the last century. The postcard illustrated is published by Raphael Tuck in the Connoisseur Series (No. 2731). Card postally used 1906