Algeria, Tunisia

TN 418

11/12 humor postcard set titled Types Nord Africains. Produced in Constantine.

Price: $400.00

TN 417

Spanish comic book La Vuelta al Mundo de Dos Pilletes by H. de la Vaulzx y A. Galopin. 1979.

Price: $40.00

TN 416

Ten original cards from the British Empire “Victoria Cross” Heroes found in boxes of Cracker Jack at the height of WW2. This set shows VC recipients fighting in Tunisia and Libya.

Price: $300.00

TN 415

11 French colonial humor postcards of different North African types.

Price: $330.00

TN 414

Seven vintage European chromos on Tunisia. Confectioners include El “Basar de 95”, Albert Cigarettes, Robert Lehmann Delikatessen, Mantecober, more.

Price: $210.00

TN 413

1926 postcard of a pilgrimage to the tomb of Sidi-Mohand-Amokran.

Price: $40.00

Note: Sidi Mohand Amokran was a renowned 17th-century Algerian Muslim saint and wali (holy man) whose shrine is located in the high city of Bejaïa. He is recognized as a wali protecteur and is the son of a noble family connected to the Sultan Si Nacer of the Qalaa des Beni Abbès.

TN 412

3 colonial postcards of architectural interest in Tunis.

Price: $90.00

TN 411TN 411

26 early postcards of Tunisia scenes and types, mainly produced by Lehnert and Landrock. The postcards were all sent by Jose Galve to his family estate in Barcelona in 1914, shortly after the Kert campaign. (Note: In 1929 Jose Galve was the Lieutenant Judge in charge of the Alcantara Cavalry Regiment, 14th Cavalry, based in Ceuta, Morocco. See https://www.boe.es/gazeta/dias/1929/09/12/pdfs/C00193-00208.pdf

Price: $780.00

NOTE: Lehnert & Landrock was a photographic studio run by Rudolf Franz Lehnert and Ernst Heinrich Landrock active in Tunisia and Egypt in the early 20th century, noted for producing Orientalist images. Rudolf Franz Lehnert and Ernst Heinrich Landrock produced images of North African people, landscapes, and architecture for a primarily European audience. These images were mainly distributed in monographs, though also as original prints, photogravures, and lithographic postcards.

TN 410TN 410

15 early European chromos of Algeria. Confectioners include Toffees Trefin, Will's Cigarettes, Arlatte & Co., Au Merinos Nouveautes, Hauswaldt's Kaiser-Otto, A. Cardon-Duverger, Biscuits Olibet, , C. Beriot, and some unidentified . 

Price: $450.00

TN 409

Chocolat D’Aiguebelle chromo card of Constantine, with much data on reverse.

Price: $30.00