POSTCARDS depicting images from Launceston and surroundings from the early 1900s caught the eye of bidders at Armitage Auctions at Invermay yesterday.
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The postcards contained images of Launceston's streets, as well as areas such as the Cataract Gorge.
``They came in from a private vendor, who sent them all in three albums and sorted them out, with pretty much all the cards addressed to a Campbell Town family,'' Armitage Auctions auctioneer Neil O'Brien said.
``As a combined total the collection [of about 150 cards] went for about $2200, with the most expensive card, which displayed the old Devon Cycle Works, selling for $180.''
Other interesting items auctioned included an ivory puzzle ball on a stand, which sold for $700, and a colonial cedar sideboard, which sold for $2800.
Armitage's next auction will be held on Wednesday, April 9.
