30/12/2019
LE SYNTHETIQUE
C’EST AU POIL!
‘The Synthetic
It’s on the go!’
STOP AU MASSACRE DES AMINAUX
POUR LEUR FOURRURE
‘Stop the massacre of animals
for their fur’
Published by
BOOMERANG FREE CARDS
Another animal rights postcard design, this one from France. This one is telling you, by way of five topless models, that synthetic fur is better than real fur.
30/12/2019
LEVI’S ENGINEERED JEANS
SE PLIE AUX VOLONTES DU CORPS
‘Bend to the will of the body’
Official Levi Jeans Advert Postcard
This is a French published postcard which could again have probably been placed on the main page, but I am playing carefully and despite the lack of specific nudity here this is still a topless model that has been photographed.
30/12/2019
ECHOGIRL
By
JENSCH ROTZSCHE
Published by
EDGAR ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA
Ref: # 283
An artists advertising postcard from the German free rack card publishing company. The image is very sexualized which is why I have placed it here rather than on the normal page, although there is no actual nudity here.
30/12/2019
PURTROPPO NON TUTTI
RIESCONO A INVECCHIARE
NELLA PROPRIA PELLICCIA
‘Unfortunately not all
Of them manage to age
In your [their?] own fur’
AGA
Amo Gli Animali
Published by
PROMOCARD
Ref: PC 7024
Free Rack Postcard
An animal rights postcard design which is a bit different! I suspect this is making some reference to animals not being able to keep their fur, because of trapping, hunting and breeding to make fur coats. The referenced ‘Fur’ on the depicted lady is in a, how do I put this, ‘interesting’ place.
23/12/2019
CHRISTMAS MINT
QUIT TOBACCO . COM
ARE YOU READY FOR THE MISTLETOE?
MINT SNUFF POUCHES
Published by
GO-CARD POSTCARD ADVERTISING
American Free Rack Postcard
This is definitely an unusual Christmas tree! As I have been posting Christmas themed postcards on the main webpage, I thought it would be interesting to have some cards here on the Censored page. This advertising postcard would seem to fit the bill, although I was surprised that this sort of image was available in the racks in the US, which is perceived to have a very puritan approach to this sort of thing, perhaps not!
PUTTING EVERYTHING ASIDE TO
WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS
Unknown Printer and Unknown Publisher
I believe this to be an American Private issued Postcard
Definitely a different Christmas themed postcard! I wonder how many of these were posted out? I suspect this was probably a card published in the 1980’s, as it has that feel and look about it.
10/12/2019
CELLE-CI
‘This One’
Design by
ALBERT DUBOUT
1970
Published by
JEAN DUBOUT
2001 PARIS
Printed in France
Ref: D 76
You rarely find a single penis on a postcard! I really would not want to count how many are on display here. This is a postcard I have had in my collection for many years, over fifteen years at least.
Albert Dubout (15/5/1905 – 27/6/1976) is a well-known cartoonist and book illustrator, although he also created movie and theatre posters, advertising material and record sleeves. In 1953 the French president Vincent Auriol awarded Dubout the Legion of Honour. A lot of his major work could appear on the main webpage, but these rather naughty illustrations shown here really did need to be shown here.
UNTITLED
Design by
ALBERT DUBOUT
1951
Published by
JEAN DUBOUT
2001 PARIS
Printed in France
Ref: D 75
This one I bought at the same time as the card above, and the card below. I don’t think you would get away with this one now, especially not displayed out in the open, but in France…. who knows? maybe.
UNTITLED
Design by
ALBERT DUBOUT
1955
Published by
JEAN DUBOUT
2001 PARIS
Printed in France
Ref: D 73
There is always one person at every party that goes just that bit too far! I think this one is funny, naughty yes, but still a bit funny, and it is nice to see the male appendage being made fun of for a change.
07/12/2019
SWEDEN IS FANTASTIC
Prod. och forsaljning. Forlag
Hakan Eriksson, Box 4100, S-311 04 Falkenberg
Ref: Nr 145
In Sweden they have different views on nudity to those held here in the UK, and many other countries, including America. Having said that, I think this card is ‘fairly’ tame in content.
07/11/2019
USE YOUR VOTE
YOU KNOW HE’LL USE HIS
Whatever you think, make your views known –
Vote in this year’s General Election
‘MINISTRY OF SOUND’
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA
This was an interesting and highly controversial set of four cards, so controversial in fact that one of the designs was pulled and even banned in some areas.
The idea is simple enough, depict a person, or a person’s actions that would cause either a perceived or real offence to what could here be described as normal people and use this image to try and get the viewer of the image to make their vote at the general election.
USE YOUR VOTE
Fox Hunting
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA
When this card came out the whole campaign around fox hunting and banning it was a top agenda news item. Thus, this image was very impactive, and I am not sure that it is still not the case. Having said that this image was designed to be offensive, it is not the worse of this series, as you will see.
USE YOUR VOTE
Nazi Modern Follower
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA
Again, you have an image of someone who would cause offense on so many levels. Can you imagine coming across a stack of this postcard in a free postcard rack? These postcards were given away in spinners and racks from the Boomerang freecard distribution company. I don’t have to imagine the surprise of coming across these as I did just that, in my local Odeon cinema! I can see what was trying to be achieved here, but I am not so sure the route the designers took was such a good one.
USE YOUR VOTE
Praise God for AIDS
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA
If the card above was not offensive enough, I think this design was the second from worse of the four designs, remember one design was withdrawn after causing extreme offense, but that was the card shown below, not this one, although I think this one comes pretty close to being over offensive, the message on the placard certainly is offensive. Some people collect AIDS related postcards, I certainly have a number, but I concentrate on Aids Day postcards which are therefore more compassionate towards those who suffered, died and still suffer from this virus.
USE YOUR VOTE
Piss on Niggers
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA
I am sure that like me you can clearly see why this card got withdrawn after being banned in some locations. If the images in this set were designed to cause offence towards the person depicted within the image then this one, which was the only card to not feature a human being in the image, succeeded too well. Rather than achieving what I think was an admirable intention, to get more people voting, this design just shocked people so much the intended message was lost.
This one was too much, the use of the ‘N’ word was beyond the line, rather than concentrating on the type of person who would graffiti such a thing people, understandably I think, were just too shocked by the image itself.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with any design that is banned, withdrawn or causes such offence that it becomes news, in-its-own right, this postcard became collectible and hard to source, even at the time, but especially now. The three cards depicted above can be picked up for around £1 each (I have even seen them at just 50p recently), but this card here is catalogued at £5, its that scarce (although I give you the previsio that if you come across one much cheaper it is because the seller does not know the back story, not that the card is not worth this much… but good luck trying to source this one)
05/11/2019
DIE FREMDE IM SCHATTENRAUM
Literal Translation:
The Foreigners in the shadow room
By
GABRIELE NAGEL
Ausstellung im Kleinen Haus
‘Exhibition in the small house’
Published by
DinAG-format
System a la karte
SUBdesign
I like good photography, especially stuff which could be called artistic, although I think photography is a form of its own which is a separate form of skill. I know some call it art, but why can it not just be good photography rather than art.
05/11/2019
PETER DICAMPOS
1994
Three Postcards by the above photographer:
TOP: Dedicated to my French friends. Love & Peace. Dutchy Hotlips. – The United Colors of Dicampos. Collector’s item nr. 2
MIDDLE: Dedicated to my Australian friends. Love & Peace. The United Colors of Dicampos. Collector’s item nr. 6
BOTTOM: Dedicated to my Italian friends. Love & Peace. Dutchy Hotlips. – The United Colors of Dicampos. Collector’s item nr. 1
All three postcards published by
ART UNLIMITED AMSTERDAM
I would be interested to hear from anyone who has any more cards in this style in this series. Judging from the numbering I am missing a few at least.
05/11/2019
WWW. KVINOBROST. COM
Published by
STUDENTVYKORT, GRATIS VYKORT TILL STUDENTER VID HOGSKOLA & UNIVERSITET GES UT AV ATTITYD MEDIA
‘Student postcards, free postcards for students at the
College & University is given by Attitude Media
There are some unusual postcards which come out of Sweden! This one was apparently given away free, or at least made available to, students! Which seems even more explicable to me. I can’t be bothered to translate all the text on the reverse side, so I don’t know what all these breast manipulations mean… is it art? I don’t know, if you are interested, by all means translate it!
05/11/2019
TUTTI FRUTTI AR TILLBAKA.
VARJE FREDAGKVALL PA TV3
‘Tutti Frutti is back
Every Friday evening on TV3’
NOVELTY POSTCARD – CUT OUT HOLES
Published by
CARD GUIDE STOCKHOLM
Ok, apparently you can stick your fingers through the two well placed holes. Why you would want to do this is another thing entirely! For me, this is just a rather unusual television related postcard in my collection.
05/11/2019
CETTE GUERRE DU GOLFE
FOI DE MAGGIE
JE L’AI ECHAPPIE BELLEE!!!
Literal Translation:
‘This War of the Gulf
Faith of Maggie
I escaped it beautiful!!!’
CREATION BY THE ARTIST
JACQUES LARDIE
Published by
EDITIONS DU TRIANGE
Limited Edition of just 50 copies
A rather unusual Gulf War postcard which has a naked Margaret Thatcher running across it! A naked Margaret Thatcher postcard normally means a French issue, and this is the case here. You can always rely on the French private postcard producers to come up with something different. As there were supposedly only 50 copies of this postcard it can be an expensive one to pick up (at £3.50 per card now).
05/11/2019
HOUSE OF FRYS
STOCKING EVERY BLACK FLYS PRODUCT ON THE MARKET
SAN FRANCISCO
COSTA MESA
AMSTERDAM
‘THE ACE OF SPADES &
THE QUEEN OF HEARTS’
Published by
PIK NIK FREE POSTCARDS
And
GO-CARD POSTCARD ADVERTISING
USA Freecard Companies
To be honest this one could probably have gone on the main webpage, but I’m playing safe with the clear S&M content that is here. A great card which must have caused some parssing interest in some racks in some states in the US, but not San Francisco I suspect, so maybe it was only distributed here.
05/11/2019
FINALMENTE UNA PUBBLICITA
CHE MOSTRA IL SENO PER UN BUON MOTIVO
‘Finally an advertisement
that shows the breast for a good reason’
SUSAN G. KOMEN ITALIA
PER LA LOTTA AI TUMORI DEL SENO
‘For the fight against breast cancer’
Published by
PROMOCARD
Ref: PC 8913
Another postcard with a superb and important message, but as it includes nudity, I have decided to depict it here, probably against my better judgement considering the cards message.
05/11/2019
DEDIKERET TIL SEKSUELLE MINORITETSGRUPPER
‘Dedicated to the sexual minority group’
By
MARTIN NIELSEN
Published by
GO-CARD (Copenhagen)
Ref: # 113
1992
The thing with some of these images is that although they depict some naughty happenings they are also quite exceptionally artistically crafted. This one caught my eye on Saturday so I bought it to depict here.
05/11/2019
TONGUE FOREST feat.
LaMont Humphrey
“AND YOU GOT THE F… NERVE TO CALL ME COLOURED”
Logic Records
Published by
GRATISPOSTKARTE – PICKUP EDITION
Official Record Promotion Postcard
It is a shame that this postcard had to include the ‘F’ word as otherwise I could have placed this on the main webpage as I like what it is saying here. Having said that, I accept that it had to be used here as this is the records title.
31/10/2019
MOUSEORGAN
WE ARE 3
Postcard Sized Card Flyer
I like these double-sided advertising card flyers when they have something film or TV related on them. This one has a bit of everything on it. Anyone interested in music is immediately going to realise that this design is based somewhat on the Beatles album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. There is some nudity on the left side, so I have depicted here rather than on the main page.
27/10/2019
SIDA NON
Aids No
Published by
EDITIONS JACQUES LARDIE
Published 1988
When Aids was circulating around in the news and becoming the big fear of the moment with the general public private postcard publishers around the world were issuing postcards related to the topic. These were sometimes blunt and distasteful, but sometimes also they were trying to be pictorially informative, anything really to make their cards catch the eye. This one has an interesting comment in its reference to the use of needles in transferring the disease and the use of the French word for Aids, ‘Sida’.
25/10/2019
THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE IN IRELAND
Printed and Published by
THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT
Like any organisation, terrorist or otherwise, there is a perceived requirement for propaganda, and postcards are a cheap and quick way of putting forward your views and ideologies. This means that organisations which are fighting for their cause, like the IRA (Irish Republican Army), have produced their own propaganda political postcards. This one here is from the height of the IRA’s 1980’s campaign of bombing and terrorism, not that they would refer to their actions in the same words.
REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS
FROM
IRELAND
R. V. H. WORKERS – I SUPPORT – THE MEN IN H BLOCK
Printed and Published by
THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT
This card is from the same period of ‘The Troubles’ as the above card. This one is more political in its content as it relates to the hunger strikes being conducted by the IRA inmates at the Maze Prison’s H – Block in Northern Ireland. This prison was used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Troubles from around 1971 to 2000.
IRA postcards like this were simply printed and despite their political ideological source they have become quite collectible. They are also often quite hard to find as well as copies got circulated and damaged, and, also kept by those who followed the beliefs. For me these cards cover a period of modern history which I lived through, and my interest in them is in their historic place in our story.
25/10/2019
SUBJECT OR OBJECT?
Published by
OPEN HEAD PRESS
2 BLENHEIM CRESCENT, LONDON W11 1NN
This postcard caused an uproar when it came out and it quickly became notorious and was all but banned from many locations. Having said all that, it is probably no surprise that it has gone on to become a very collectible and valuable postcard, and one which now has a catalogue value exceeding £5, but copies are scarce.
20/10/2019
HOW I SLEEP
KNOWING THAT I REALLY F*UCKED UP TODAY
Published by
PAPERCHASE
Ah, a cute little kitten, but also, again, the ‘F’ word is considered a vital element of the joke, and this time the joke would probably not work without it.
To be fair this card could probably go on the main webpage, but better safe than sorry. This is a current issue and can be found on sale in many of the paperchase shops at this time.
20/10/2019
I TOLD YOU NOT TO USE BLEACH.
FUCK OF SHARON
Exclusively Published by the Stationery chain
SCRIBBLER
This one fits into my ‘Tiger’ theme, and although I like the joke, and the image, this is a design which uses the ‘F’ word, so it needs to be depicted here under the Censored tab.
This one is currently available in branches of ‘Scribbler’.
01/10/2019
NAKED WOMAN LYING ON THE BEACH
BY
FELIX VALLOTTON (1865 – 1925)
Published by
KUNSTKARTENDRUCK VONTOBEL, FELDMEILEN/ZURICH
Printed in Switzerland
Copyright 182, SPADEM, Paris and BILD-KUNST, Bonn
Ref: VD 2328
In my opinion this is art as you can go into any major London Art Gallery, or other located major collection, and see paintings like this, and ones that are more extreme. Having said that, the depicted nudity here is greater than the previously depicted card.
01/10/2019
WOMAN WASHING IN HER BATH
1892
By
DEGAS
MUSEE DU LOUVRE, PARIS
Published by
FERNAND HAZAN, EDITEUR, PARIS
Printed in France
Ref: 603
A version of this image has already appeared on the main webpage, and a year ago I would have put this one on their as well, but I have made a decision that any nudity, art or photographic whether considered art or otherwise will now be posted here. This will save me any issues in our current age of over sensitivity.
01/10/2019
HERMANN SILBERHORN
ARSCHE – VERARSCHE,
1983
Advert Postcard for an exhibition of the artwork of Hermann Silberhorn
1985
Printed by
ATELIER N. KAULBACHSTR. 68a1 D-8 MUNCHEN 22
OK, I’m going to admit it… this is a weird piece of artwork. I have looked at this many-times and to be honest, I’m still not sure what I am looking at!