How it all Started

7 years ago I was browsing a well known auction site on the web and came across a postcard of a view that looked very familiar. It was a view of a narrow lane leading down a small hill to the beach. At the end of the lane was an old church and at the end of the beach was a pier that extended out to sea. The scene looked familiar because it was a place I had been to many times when visiting my sister. The town and beach was Teignmouth in Devon. But the scene wasn't a photograph it was a painting. I zoomed in on the image to see the detail and discovered the faint artist's signature in the corner that read A. R. Quinton.

1179 Teignmouth from the East

street lamps added to promenade

So this began my search, not just for postcards painted by the artist A. R. Quinton but eventually for all postcards published by J. Salmon Ltd of Sevenoaks, from the Watercolour Series, approximately 5,300 postcards in all with numbers ranging from 500 to 5650.

1 down, 5,649 to go.........