Comments for New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society Inc http://postcardnsw.com Website for collectors and other lovers of Postcards, Cigarette and Trade cards Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:56:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Comment on Douglas Pratt (artist 1900-1972) by Robin Gordon http://postcardnsw.com/522/douglas-pratt-artist-1900-1972#comment-234 Robin Gordon Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:56:13 +0000 http://postcardnsw.com/?p=522#comment-234 I was delighted to find some websites about Douglass Pratt. I am Patron of the Newcastle Girls'High School Ex-Students'UnionI have been associated with our Union, since 1960. At some time ???about the 1990's - I'd have to check our minute book to see exactly when... we were (The Ex-Students'Union) bequeathed a Douglas Pratt original drawing of our school by one of our headmistresses. The framed work had quite an amout of "foxing"on the paper and we had it carefully restored by specialists who were recommended to us, at the time, by the Newcastle Art Gallery. We had professional copies made, so they could be displayed in the present school (now a coeducational district High School) and we presented the original drawing to the Newcastle Art Gallery. We also made copies of the work to be printed onto cardboard to make commemorative notepaper/cards, to sell to our Ex-students at our annual reunion. Those Ex-students who were present during the term of duty of the Headmistress who bequeathed it to us, said there were, during her time at the school, more than a few of Pratt's work hanging in the school corridors and in the office of the Headmistress. Douglass Pratt was said to be a friend of the Head & the girls always suspected he was ä bit sweet on her". I should like to know if any other of Pratt's known drawings/paintings are known to be of Newcastle. Regards, Robin Gordon I was delighted to find some websites about Douglass Pratt.
I am Patron of the Newcastle Girls’High School Ex-Students’UnionI have been associated with our Union, since 1960. At some time ???about the 1990′s – I’d have to check our minute book to see exactly when… we were (The Ex-Students’Union) bequeathed a Douglas Pratt original drawing of our school by one of our headmistresses. The framed work had quite an amout of “foxing”on the paper and we had it carefully restored by specialists who were recommended to us, at the time, by the Newcastle Art Gallery.
We had professional copies made, so they could be displayed in the present school (now a coeducational district High School) and we presented the original drawing to the Newcastle Art Gallery. We also made copies of the work to be printed onto cardboard to make commemorative notepaper/cards, to sell to our Ex-students at our annual reunion.
Those Ex-students who were present during the term of duty of the Headmistress who bequeathed it to us, said there were, during her time at the school, more than a few of Pratt’s work hanging in the school corridors and in the office of the Headmistress. Douglass Pratt was said to be a friend of the Head & the girls always suspected he was ä bit sweet on her”.
I should like to know if any other of Pratt’s known drawings/paintings are known to be of Newcastle.
Regards,
Robin Gordon

]]> Comment on Carlton Studios Darlinghurst by Marcel Safier http://postcardnsw.com/491/carlton-studios-darlinghurst#comment-172 Marcel Safier Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:04:05 +0000 http://postcardnsw.com/?p=491#comment-172 Hi Robert, I am working with Sandy for a new edition of his book. The 53 Darlinghurst Rd address has been taken back to 1925 and new addresses 76A Oxford St in 1921 and 34 Jamieson St in 1946 added . Cheers! Marcel Hi Robert, I am working with Sandy for a new edition of his book. The 53 Darlinghurst Rd address has been taken back to 1925 and new addresses 76A Oxford St in 1921 and 34 Jamieson St in 1946 added . Cheers! Marcel

]]> Comment on Gilbert and Sullivan Parkslee Photographic Postcards by Kevin Hewitt http://postcardnsw.com/418/gilbert-and-sullivan-parkslee-photographic-postcards#comment-105 Kevin Hewitt Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:58:27 +0000 http://postcardnsw.com/?p=418#comment-105 Kiera, I was not aware that I had done a 'blog' as this article was written for the NSW Postcard Society a few years back. I do not understand why the date of 30/11/2011 appears as its entry? What exactly do you want more of? Kevin Kiera,

I was not aware that I had done a ‘blog’ as this article was written for the NSW Postcard Society a few years back. I do not understand why the date of 30/11/2011 appears as its entry? What exactly do you want more of?

Kevin

]]> Comment on Gilbert and Sullivan Parkslee Photographic Postcards by Kiera Lamkin http://postcardnsw.com/418/gilbert-and-sullivan-parkslee-photographic-postcards#comment-104 Kiera Lamkin Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:37:29 +0000 http://postcardnsw.com/?p=418#comment-104 Thanks a lot for the blog post. Want more. Thanks a lot for the blog post. Want more.

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