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Marist Mission, France-USA-Italy
The following cards possibly are of missionary origin too. The catholic "Church of the Sacred Heart" in Port-Vila - built in 1903 by the Rev. Father R. Rouge - burnt down completely on 30 November 1922.
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Postcards from Australia & New Zealand - editors unknown
L'œuvre de la propagation de la Foi
A health card - editor unknown so far
A postcard from the John Paton organisation I think - printed in Germany
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Collection P.B. Cherbourg - nothing else known to me so far
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L.B.F. Noumea = Louis Balland et Fils (Informations thanks to Fred Petit, Vila
(new 05/2018)
(new 10/2020)
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"Agence Générale des Colonies" - nothing else known to me about this editor so far.
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unknown publisher #3
Very old postcards (about 1904) - editor unknown
Caption italic with number
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unknown publisher #4 (CA or GA or AC or AG, Nouvelle Calédonie)
Very old postcards - editor unknown
Caption italic with number
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unknown publisher #8
Very old postcard - editor unknown
With number, about 1904
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unknown publisher #9
Old postcard - editor unknown
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unknown publisher #5
Very old postcard (about 1900 - seen used 1902) - editor unknown
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Société Lumière, Lyon
Very old photo-postcard - editor: Société Lumière, Lyon
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unknown editor
PACIFIQUE : Good quality for 1908
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Coll. Barrau, Nouméa
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A. Bergeret & Cie., Nancy,(1898-1905) about 1904
Albert Bergeret *8.12.1859 +1932
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C.B. & Co., Ltd. S.
( = Collins Brothers & Co. Ltd., 106 Clarence St.; Sydney,
most likely photographed by Talma & Co, Melbourne & Sydney)
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William Henry Caporn, Nouméa. He often signed as W.H.C. only.
He had a clothes and tobacco shop in Noumea.
(source: philippe bourgoin)
He was active there from about 1901 to 1914. He published the first New Caledonian picture postcards in 1901. (source:
Crane Emmanuelle). In 1923 he lived in 120 Charles-Street, Ryde, N.S.W., Australia and had a lollies and candy fruit shop..
William Henry Caporn *1871 - + 12. August 1951. He was knocked down by a car when attempting to cross a road.
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J.W. Beattie, Hobart, Tasmania.
(= John Watt Beattie, 1859 - 1930. Beattie toured the Islands from 25 August to 10 November 1906 on the Melanesian Mission Yacht "Southern Cross". The photos in the Banks Group
were were taken around 24 September 1906 according to his diary.)
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Art series Australia
about 1905
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F.D. à Thio
(New Caledonia - no details known so far)
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R. Domège, Périgueux
France - maybe the son of the Photographer Oscar Domège in Pégueux.
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Hume
(Maybe the photographer & editor is Mr. Frank L. Hume, a lay assistant for the missionary Frank Paton, who was in Tanna from 1900-1902. No other details known so far)
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H&B = Harding & Billing, 250 Pittstreet, Sydney, (in 1909, in 1905: 12 Spring St., Sydney)
Harding & Billing, "fine art publishers" in Sydney at the beginning of the 20th century. Not much more known.
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Collection H. Guérin
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Maison d'Art Colonial, Eugène Bistaque, 51, rue de Maubeuge, Paris 9ème)
The cards were sold in small booklets with all 20 of the series.
Numbers present:
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20
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![about 1930](./ppc/mda-06.jpg)
![about 1930](./ppc/mda-18.jpg)
![about 1930](./ppc/mda-17.jpg)
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![about 1930](./ppc/mda-16.jpg)
![about 1930](./ppc/mda-02.jpg)
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MP. Catala (frères), édit & imp., 31 rue de Bellefond, Paris. Distributed by "UNIS-FRANCE"
(sometimes I'm not sure if a card is from Catala but they seem to have serial numbers without a full stop.) Many cards use the same negatives as the cards by Maison d'Art Colonial.
Numbers present:
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23
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Chocolaterie-confiserie Cantaloup-Catala, Perpignan (1887-1962)
Cantaloup-Catala produced collection series of images and series of panorama postcards from all over the world.
This one here is number R 564
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G. de Béchade, éditeur, Nouméa
(Gabriel de Béchade, 1858-1917, Société des Établissememnts de Béchade.)
Numbers present: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - and - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30
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(new 4/2019)
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Édition veuve G. de Béchade, Nouméa
(I suppose that this are the editions after the death of Gabriel de Béchade, 1858-1917, Société des Établissememnts de Béchade.)
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unknown editor - maybe Béchade too.
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C.F.N.H. (Comptoir Français des Nouvelles-Hébrides, Nouméa)
These cards sometimes come with the inscription "E.B." too.
Numbers present: 101 - 102 - 103 - 104 - 105 - 106 - 107 - 108 - 109 - 110 - 111 - 112 - 113 - 114 - 115 - 116 - 117 - 118 - 119 - 120 - 121 - 122 - 123 - 124 - 125 - 126 - 127 - 127 - 128 - 129
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T.J. McMahon - Australia
(Thomas J. McMahon (1864-1933) published photos of the South Seas Islands in "Austalasian" in 1916/17 and in 1917-22 in "World Wide Magazine".)
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J. Raché éditeur, Nouméa
(Postcards are not numbered. Many of the Raché postcards can be found with the faked 11 AOUT 08 French Port-Vila postmark and the Syndicat Français des Nouvelles-Hébrides cinderellas.)
Braun et Cie. TBE No. 11- copy of a Raché card - no details known so far
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Unknown so far #1 - about 1906
(Postcards are not numbered. The caption always starts with "Nouvelles-Hébrides. --" in an old time font.
Many of these postcards can be found with a New Caledonian stamp but are untravelled. They are possibly Raché
cards too.)
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'B & F' or on some cards 'B et F'
(I don't know anything about this producer
of postcards. He must have made more than these of the New Hebrides. I saw one card
picturing the Messageries Maritimes building in Noumea. The flag of the Noumea shipping company
Ballande et Fils showed the letters "B & F" so they possibly published these cards.
These photos here were possibly made by Monsieur Charvin, Captain of the steamer PACIFIQUE
or by Mr. Wilson le Couteur, official interpreter of the Joint Court who was on board the PACIFIQUE too
when she passed the desaster. Capitain of the U.C.N.C. ('Union Commerciale et
de Navigation Calédonienne') steamer FRANCE in December 1913 was Monsieur Morin and his
supercargo Monsieur Choyer. They rescued hundreds of people from Ambrym.)
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Picture postcards printed in England: origin H.M.S.Sealark
H.M.S.Sealark, a survey-ship, left Sydney harbour on 24 April 1914 for a journey to the New Hebrides. She arrived at Vila on May 3, and after coaling at Burns Philp hulk,
left for Ambrym on May 6 with a view to correcting the chart. This was necessary on account of the violent volcanic eruptions in 1913 which had completely altered the
shoreline and soundings and had created new anchorages. There was volcanic activity in 1914 too. The captain of H.M.S. Sealark detected ten small active volcanoes at the
site where Dr. Bowie's hospital stood before the 1913 eruption. At end of June 1914 H.M.S. Sealark proceeded to the Solomon Islands.
Images thanks to Fred Petit, Vila, Vanuatu
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D. Gubbay, Nouméa
The postcards were printed at Imprimerie E. Le Deley in Paris.
Numbers present: 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 9 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 30 - 35 - 63 - 65
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Maroney
I have no further information about this publisher.
Numbers present: 1 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 8 - 9 and some without numbers
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unknown publisher #7
Very old postcards - editor unknown
about 1906, caption mostly containing "Nlle. Hebrides".
Many images are the same as with Maroney above so these here could be from him too.
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unknown publisher #2
The cards are rather thick and of low quality. They may have been published in the late 1930s are made by "Photo Dunn", New Caledonia.
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From the coll. Petit I have some postcards signed "Photo Dunn" which look exactly like these here. I have seen some postcards by "Photo Dunn" with New Caledonian views. Maybe this was a small New Caledonian publisher in the late 1930s, his name could have been "Frederick Dunn".
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Quite often real photo postcard show up which are just more or less private photos made with postcard paper. Somtimes they show objects or events which are not presented in the normal professional editor series and are rather interesting.
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The following postcards are of Japanese origin. (Information thanks to Fred Petit, Vila)
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The following two postcards are promotional cards from the MUSQUIT Company. Images thanks to Abacus Auctions
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