Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s

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Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s:
$82.65

Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s: 6x Gun Licences, 15x Rent Cards, Driving Licences & Torquay Poetry Notebook (Fredrick George Hubbard Archive)

An exceptional, expansive personal time capsule documenting the lives of Mr. Fredrick George Hubbard and Mrs. M. Hubbard of Flat 4, 121/4 Vauxhall Road, Birmingham 7. Spanning multiple decades, this massive \"mega job lot\" offers an incredibly detailed view of mid-20th-century working-class British life. Complete family archives of this scale and continuity rarely survive together.

What is Included in this Mega Archive:

1. 6x Vintage UK Gun Licences (10s):

* A sequential collection of six original paper licences spanning the late 1950s through the 1960s.

* Each issued to Fredrick George Hubbard for the sum of Ten Shillings.

* All feature authentic period handwriting and official Birmingham stamping office ink markings.

2. 15x City of Birmingham Rent Cards (1950s–1960s):

* A continuous, multi-year collection of fifteen official booklet cards issued by the Housing Management Department, Bush House, Broad Street (J.J. Atkinson, Housing Manager).

* Spans multiple district/sheet numbers (including District 229, Sheet 479, etc.).

* The inner ledgers of these booklets are fully detailed in ink, archiving years of pre-decimal (£ s. d.) weekly rent payments (such as £2 8s 3d and revised £2 16s 5d rates) alongside historically designated \"RENT FREE\" weeks.

3. Vintage British Driving Licences:

* Historic iterations of the UK driving licence booklet preceding the centralized DVLA era.

* Includes the classic early buff-coloured paper booklet and the iconic red-covered fold-out booklet that followed.

4. Personal Pocket Notebook with Torquay Crest & Original Pencil:

* A beautifully preserved, textured dark brown leather pocket diary featuring a small metal enamel shield badge for the seaside resort town of Torquay (Devon).

* Retains its rare, original miniature wooden pencil tucked securely into the spine loops.

* Opening page features a poignant, touching handwritten poem dedicated to a mother\'s love (\"You can only have one mother...\").

Condition:

Good to Excellent vintage condition across the entire collection. As to be expected with an archive of this volume, individual items show natural age-toning, minor edge wear, and varying hand-inked stamps and notations. Text remains completely clear and readable.

This collection represents a museum-quality research archive. Perfect for social history collectors, Birmingham local historians, genealogy researchers, or as highly authentic props for film, television, and theatre production.

Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s For Sale

Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s: $82.65

Vintage Birmingham Ephemera Mega Job Lot 1950s-60s:
$82.65