 The
QCCS Inc. is an incorporated club of approx. 95 members who collect
postcards,
trade
cards and
cigarette cards.
Our membership is mainly from within the state of Queensland but also includes
people in most of the other states of Australia and several overseas countries.
Our sister club is in Washington Crossing, PA, USA.
Queensland is one of the six states
in Australia, and the northernmost on the eastern coastline. The main
population base is in Brisbane, the state's capital city, which is situated
in the state's south east corner. Brisbane is a popular tourist destination
and the city hosted the Commonwealth Games in 1982, Expo in 1988 and the
Goodwill Games in September 2001. It has been voted as Australia's most
liveable city.
 All
forms of card collecting are popular hobbies throughout Australia. There
are independent card collecting groups in New South Wales
(New South Wales Postcard Collectors
Society),
Victoria (Australian
Cartophillic Society),
the Australian Capital Territory, Western Australia (Western Australian Card Collectors Society)
and a new group the
Australian Postcard Society has been formed in
Adelaide, South Australia.
There are some full time and a number of part time dealers in cards in most
states of Australia but not many have retail premises. They often attend
dedicated card fairs which are held regularly in Sydney and Melbourne and/or
more general collectibles fairs and swap meets throughout the country.
Postcards and sometimes cigarette and trade cards can usually be found at
philatelic and coin fairs and are often featured in philatelic and antique
auctions.
Meetings
Our group meets on the last Tuesday
of each month (December excluded) at the Brisbane Sporting Car Club, Unit 1/206 Montague
Rd, West End which is centrally located in Brisbane just west of
the city centre. Meetings start at 7:30pm. The format of each
meeting usually involves a discussion of official business, followed by
new business and announcements, then a presentation on a card related topic
(always interesting and of high standard) followed by refreshments and
informal mingling. Cards are often brought along for trade, sale
or just to be shown off and the lots from our bi-monthly postal auction
of 200-250+ lots are available for inspection. Unsold lots are available
for direct purchase at the reserve price at the next meeting. Members
have access to a large library of reference books and journals. Visitors who wish
to attend, see how we operate or bring some cards for assessment or sale are welcome.
Membership
Yearly membership fees are AU$30.00
within Australia; Pacific and New Zealand AU$35.00 and AU$39.00 for rest
of world which provides the member with 6 issues of our club Bulletin (each
is 8-10 pages long) and five postal auction catalogues as well as entitlement
to attend meetings and borrow from our extensive library of card related
reference books and journals. A membership form for printing out and
posting can be accessed
here. Executive
At the society's AGM in August 2009
the following club executive personnel were elected:
President:
Alan McNaughton
Secretary: Nel Stevens
Treasurer: Ernie
Goleby
Editor of Bulletin:
David
Johnson; Compiler of Bulletin: Roy Pugh
Auctioneers: Reg Stonard & Roy Pugh
Librarian: Judy
Sneyd
Webmaster: Marcel
Safier
Contact
Our contact address for correspondence is:
The Secretary, QCCSI, P.O. Box 896, Indooroopilly, QLD, 4068,
Australia
Membership applications with payment should be forwarded to the above address.
E-mail correspondence
about this site can be sent to the webmaster Marcel Safier
msafier@ozemail.com.au.
Articles and ads for inclusion in the Bulletin can be sent direct to the
editor David Johnson.
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The Q150 grant received by the club has been use to
produce a fantastic 96pp book
on the Coloured Shell Series of Queensland postcards that is pictured at
right. An example of a typical Coloured Shell postcard from the Edwardian era
appears above.
Copies are available at a cost of $22 plus postage:
. within Australia add $3.75
. Asia and Pacific area add $9.50
. rest of World add $13.60
International orders can be paid via PayPal in Australian Dollars. Please add
5% to the total cost to cover fees and make the payment to email address amcnaugh@bigpond.net.au
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 News:
2010 is upon us. Girl Guides and Girl Scouts celebrate the
centenary of their world wide movement. It is 100 years since the first
powered controlled flight took place in Australia on 18 March by none other than
Harry Houdini. The foundation stone of the University of Queensland was laid in
March 1910. The centenary of the death of King Edward VII takes place on 6th May
meaning that all items of Edwardiana (and a large number of golden age postcards
would be included) will then be considered true antiques if you consider that
term to mean items more than 100 years old. Girl Guides movement, Houdini,
Aviation and Royalty are all popular card collecting themes.
Club President Alan McNaughton and Webmaster Marcel Safier
attended the New South Wales Postcard Collector's Society fair in Sydney on
Sunday 22 November. There is always a great selection of postcards and some
cigarette and trade cards at this event and Alan and I certainly managed to top
up on Queensland topographical views both old and modern as well as catch up
with various club members and dealers.
Members of the QCCSI were interviewed for a segment on the
ABC AM radio that was broadcast on 1 October 2009 in celebration of the 140th
anniversary of the first postcard. Strangely when the date of the first postcard
was a question in our club's trivia night only one person seemed to know the
answer!
Queensland 150: 2009 marked the sesqui-centenary of both the
separation of Queensland from New South Wales. The QCCSI held a stall at the Brisbane Heritage Expo
in May at the Brisbane
Town Hall. Having received a generous grant from the Q150 committee our group
have produced a bumper full colour edition of our Bulletin that is pictured at
left and a souvenir postcard featuring state emblems pictured below.
This 32 page book is still available for $10 plus postage and
the postcard for 50c plus postage in an envelope - contact
Alan McNaughton
to order them.
Ron Blum, Australia's foremost collector of stereo views has recently
released a book on photographer/publisher George Rose, the result of many years
of research. It is a wonderful
production for collectors, containing extensive listings of Rose's stereo view
output, some of which were reproduced in postcard format. The book is available
direct from Ron via his website:
www.ronblum.com.au. Ron's next endeavor is a book covering
the extensive postcard output of George Rose in his forthcoming
book, “George Rose,
the Postcard Era”. He
is seeking help to find titles
of many high numbered Victorian postcards. Although
he has
over 15,000 titles prepared he has
many missing titles in the region 13,131 to 14,999 or thereabouts.
He
appeals
to anyone who has Rose B&W postcard numbers in this region to please contact
him.
Ron Blum 2 Hussey Ave
Oaklands Pk SA 5046. Ph 08-82982240
ronkaren@chariot.net.au
It is becoming increasingly difficult for members
to obtain new material. Anyone who has postcards, cigarette cards or
old trade cards they
wish to sell is welcome to contact the club. We do hope however
that potential sellers don't merely wish to pick our brains for a free appraisal and/or
to then sell items on eBay or elsewhere as has happened previously!
 Historical, philatelic and other groups are welcome to
enquire about guest speakers from amongst our membership on a wide variety of
card, collecting and historical themes. Alan McNaughton and Reg Stonard have
spoken to the New
Farm Historical Society, Toowong History Group, the Nundah Historical Society
and the Queensland Antique Collector's Society on a history of postcards that including rare early
Brisbane examples and a number of New Farm. Your webmaster Marcel Safier has
spoken to the Toowong History Group and the Toowong & District Historical Society about
early postcards of Toowong and to the New Farm Historical Society on early
photographers of Fortitude Valley and to the Redcliffe Historical Society,
Family History Society of Queensland, Nundah Historical Society, Queensland
Antique Collector's Society, Coorparoo Historical Society, Photographic Society
of Queensland and the Royal Historical Society of Queensland on early
photographers of Brisbane. |
| Club Research Interests
Our membership's interests cover the many varied areas of card collecting.
Some members of course have a leaning towards items of regional interest
especially the postcards of Brisbane and Queensland. Lists of publishers
of Queensland views and their postcard output are being collated as an
ongoing project. A few of these cards appear below. Some of the postcard series currently being researched include:
Early Postcard Publishers
. Coloured Shell Series
. E.D. & Co and EDCO (Edward's Dunlop
& Co)
. Intelligence and Tourism Bureau
. White Series
. Retrac (Carter spelt backwards!)
. Comet Series
. McDonnell Series
. Murray's Studios of Brisbane and Gympie
. postcards published by and based on photographs
by Brisbane photographers eg. P.C. Poulsen & Thomas Mathewson
. postcards published by Warwick photographer
M.H. Poulsen
. postcards published by Barton of Warwick
. postcards of Brisbane suburbs (Toowong has been
covered in detail)
. Taylor series (produced by Ipswich based photographers Benjamin & Laura Taylor)
. privately published advertising postcards
Modern
Publishers
. Sidues Series (Sydney Hughes)
. Samuel Lee (ICP) of Stanthorpe
. Avant Cards (free advertising cards)
Information about postcards, cigarette and trade cards relating to Queensland
is welcome.
If you are compiling lists of cards,
whether you a member of our group or not we would be pleased to hear from you.
If you, a relation or ancestor were involved in
the postcard industry as a
publisher or photographer we would be delighted if
you could make contact with us.
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| Gallery
of Brisbane and Fortitude Valley Postcards |
Corner Queen & George Streets, Brisbane
Edco Series no. 1255 printed postcard
View of the South Side from the Executive Buildings (1911)
Comet Series no. 782 real photo postcard
Victoria Bridge from Treasury
Murray Studios Q.96 real photo postcard |
Corner Wickham and Brunswick Streets, Fortitude Valley, Brisbane
Edco Series no. 1246 printed postcard
Wickham St c.1935
Franklin Series Q. 61 real photo postcard
Adelaide St Looking South 1940s
Sidues Series no. 755 real photo postcard |
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