07/03/2020
AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION
ANAHEIM 1992
American Booksellers Association Convention and Trade Exhibit,
Anaheim, California, May 1992
Official Event Promotional Postcard
I suppose that if you are holding your convention in Anaheim, the home of Disneyland, then you are going to want to have Mickey Mouse on your event postcard, especially if you are holding this event in Disneyland or a connected Disney conference centre, which was a probability. This makes for a great Disney themed card.
07/03/2020
GOD PASKE
JEG KOMMER KUN UD AF POLITISK KORREKTE CEG
Happy Easter
I only get out of a politically correct egg…
NOVELTY SHAPED CUT BOARDER
Published by
GO-CARD (DENMARK)
GO-CARD PRIMETIME
Ref: # 2294
Free Rack Postcard
This one is a bit early, but to be honest I did not realise it was an Easter themed postcard until I started writing it up and translated the text. I might have waited if I had known, but with there being so many Easter eggs already appearing in the shops then perhaps I’m not being so early after all… consider this my supermarket Easter egg posting …
This one has nice cut shaped boarder which adds a little more interest in this postcard.
REVERSE SIDE OF ABOVE POSTCARD
This has some interesting text top right where the stamp box would be. This reads as GO-CARD PRIMETIME, which I suspect was another branch of the Go-Card issuing franchise, perhaps for special postcards. Then you have PASKEN 1997 which is Easter 1997, which I assume is the year this card came out.
07/03/2020
PUNCHING CATTLE ON A JACK RABBIT
Published by
SAN ANTONIO CARD Co., SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
Ref: TEX. 101 (Front)
49519 (Reverse)
The theme of ‘Oversized Animals’ is a popular one in America, and it has been for many years, decades in fact. Some depict giant fish being caught and I have seen one with a cowboy riding a giant armadillo, but from what I have seen this idea of a cowboy riding a giant Jack Rabbit is one of, if not the, most common and popular. This one is also another linen card, another US postcard trend.
p.s. these are either very small cows or the cowboy himself is also a giant!
06/03/2020
PARIS – LA TOUR EIFFEL VUE DU TROCADERO
THE EIFFEL TOWER
Published by
PHOTOTYPIE L’ABEILLE – PARIS
Ref: 250
In my old days of only collecting animal themed postcards I would probably still have bought this one for the fantastic rhino statue depicted in the foreground. This postcard was posted in 1934
06/03/2020
THE EIFFEL TOWER
Published by
EDITIONS D’ART YVON, PARIS
Ref: SERIE 4
67 – PARIS.. EN FLANANT
I suspect that the Eiffel Tower has been photographed from just about every conceivable angle and position. I also think that nearly all of them have been reproduced on postcard. This postcard may not be in perfect mint condition, but I liked the image and it has been nicely used. The card was posted in 1928
06/03/2020
LA POSTE
The Post Office
ROYAN
Published by
C.A.P.., 44, RUE LETELLIER, PARIS (15e)
Ref: 1754
What a great photograph and a smashing piece of local history. I have visited the French town of Royan a few times as it is within an hour’s drive of where my in-laws house is located in France. Royan is on the coast and you can get some great seafood here, which we have done. If you go back through my webpage you will find a couple of other older modern era postcards depicting Royan, but I collect these on my visits to France and they act as souvenirs of my trips. I do know that Post Offices are disappearing fast in the current financial climate and although Royan looks like it still has a few I don’t think this building is still being used as one.
06/03/2020
LA NORMANDIE PITTORESQUE
NOCE NORMANDE – LES INVITES
Picture Normandy
Norman Wedding – The Guests
Collection L. G. B., SAINT-PIERRE-EGLISE
Published by
CLICHÉ A. V.
Ref: 3012
I believe that this was posted in 1905, which nicely dates the image as being around that time. I love the costumes being worn here which includes a selection of traditional Normandy costumes. I also love the colouring of what was an original black and white photograph. This type of early French costume postcard is in a very collectable category abroad and especially in France itself.
05/03/2020
AIRPOST.
REISSUE OF THE DIRIGIBLE IL CETRIOLO
WITH ADDED DATE INSCRIPTION
FROM MANGIARE, 1927
Watercolour and rubber stamp, 1974
(From the estate of Donald Charles Evans)
Published by
ARTPOST
Ref: 501
I collect Airship themed postcards and saw this one in dealer’s box so picked it up for my collection. I don’t know anything about it beyond the fact that it seems to be a piece of artwork or possibly stamp essay designs.
05/03/2020
FUDGE MAKERS,
CAMBRIDGE
By
TORI WOOLLEY
Published by
THE FUDGE KITCHEN LTD, CAMBRIDGE
I love the Fudge Kitchen and have visited its shops in Windsor, Canterbury and Cambridge. I have probably eaten more of their fudge than is healthy for me but then they make it so well.
On my most recent visit to the shop in Cambridge I saw some designs on their wall which I thought looked like postcards. I mentioned this to the person behind the counter and was informed that they had had some postcards printed up to place on their wall as small pieces of artwork. We had a chat and I mentioned I was a postcard collector and would like to buy one, but I was informed that they were not for sale although they had a small number stored away. Then, because I was a collector, they dug this card out for me and gave it to me for free. It makes for a great souvenir of my visit, and I also enjoyed the fudge I bought as well.
05/03/2020
H. M. S. VICTORY
Official HMS Victory Post Card
Published by
PHOTO PRECISION LIMITED, ST IVES
Ref: PT3089
I have only visited HMS Victory twice, once as a child and once as an adult. My childhood visit was in 1972 with my parents and brother. On that trip my mother posted this post card to what was then our home address.
05/03/2020
URGENT!
By
SUSAN HILTON
Ink and Pencil
Published by
ARTISTS’ CARDS, LONDON
Ref: No. 2a
This is a piece of artwork which depicts the back of a postcard which ironically now appears here on the front of this postcard release. I like this one and have done so since I first saw it many years ago. It is an interesting design.
05/03/2020
“VIDEO GAMES”
ROYAL MAIL PHQ STAMP CARD SET
PHQ Set 466
(postcards that reproduce the Royal Mail’s stamp releases)
Stamps issued – 21st January 2020
(As always, I have my copies used with the appropriate stamp applied to the front of the card and cancelled first day of issue with a special hand stamp)
Published by
ROYAL MAIL
OK, the first PHQ Stamp Card set of 2020 (I’m catching up with these cards now). There is a problem for me with this set and that is that I never got into video games, or any computer games for that matter, so there is no nostalgia in this set for me. Without the nostalgia I think the images are all a bit dull. Having said that, I do understand that here in the UK there is a history of input and game creation where video games were concerned. So, I understand why this set has been issued and I also can just about see that video games are an important part of the gaming history (for those who were into it), but this set did nothing for me personally.
ELITE 1984
2ND Class Value Stamp
Published by
ROYAL MAIL
Ref: PHQ 466 (1)
TOMB RAIDER
1st Class Value Stamp
Published by
ROYAL MAIL
Ref: PHQ 466 (9)
This stamp design, and the three depicted below are all from a stamp miniature sheet issued alongside the above eight single stamp designs. The sheet was themed around the character of Lara Croft, the Tomb Raider from this games title. This is probably the best known of the games used in this stamp set as the character of Lara Croft has crossed over into feature films.
04/03/2020
Today I have added some images of some collector’s books under the BOOK LISTING tab. These are under the BOOKS 4 tab and the, as of today, new BOOKS 5 tab.
I have also posted images of a nice Disney print under the ‘Miscellaneous Items’ tab.
Both these tabs allow me to put some different things on the webpage.
04/03/2020
PARROT JUNGLE, MIAMI, FLORIDA
THE MACAWS SWING QUARTET,
PARROT JUNGLE, MIAMI, FLORIDA
Published by
NOVELTI-CRAFT PRODUCTS Co., Olympia Bldg., Miami, Fla
A “COLOURPICTURE” PUBLICATION, BOSTON 15, MASS
Copyright G. W. ROMER
Ref: 14313
I couldn’t resist this postcard, especially as I was in Florida when I found it on an antiques stall. I am also intrigued now because we have booked up a trip to Miami later this year, our first time. So, Miami will soon be on my list of collected postcard locations.
For those in the know, this is a Linen Card.
03/03/2020
THE FASHION OF THE AVENGERS
STEED & TWIGGY
SIGNED ON THE FRONT BY
TWIGGY
Published by
LONDON POSTCARD COMPANY
Ref: CODE:LU635 (Series 5 set of 9)
Steed & Twiggy #1
The postcards published by the LONDON POSTCARD COMPANY were superb, and they covered their subjects, often cult TV programmes and feature films, using some rare and unusual photographs and images many of which had not appeared on postcard before. This postcard, and the one below are a mixture of topics as you have TV (from the original ‘Avengers’ TV series from the 1960’s) and the world of fashion with the inclusion of the famous 1960’s fashion model Twiggy.
THE FASHION OF THE AVENGERS
STEED & TWIGGY
SIGNED ON THE FRONT BY
TWIGGY
Published by
LONDON POSTCARD COMPANY
Ref: CODE:LU637 (Series 5 set of 9)
Steed & Twiggy #2
The second postcard from this 9 - postcard series titled ‘The Fashion of the Avengers’ which features Twiggy with the character called Steed, as played by Patrick Macnee, the only character (and Actor) to appear across all the ‘Avengers’ series’. This card has also been signed by the fashion model (and later actress) Twiggy.
02/03/2020
CENSORED
It has been some time since I last posted anything under the Censored tab, two months in fact, so today I have added a new page:
CENSORED 4
On this new page I have added 10 postcards with some mixed content. This new page can be found under the main CENSORED tab at the top of the page
02/03/2020
UNTITLED
(On the postcard at least)
‘THE BEATLES’
Artwork by
MR BRAINWASH
Published by
MR BRAINWASH
This is not the first Mr Brainwash postcard that has appeared on this webpage and on other postings I have talked about this graffiti styled artist and his work, so I wont go into details here, but I will mention that the artist does like to use celebrities old and new in the designs.
02/03/2020
DEVENY
THEBEN A DONAU
Published by
NOSTALGIA
Ref: A6
Deveny is, as can be seen down the side, Devin, a village in Slovakia and a borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia. This is located along the Danube, which is the ‘DONAU’ in this cards title.
This unusual modern postcard, which just reproduces an older postcard but with a modern sized card and adding a white boarder, I found in a cheap box of cards in an Oxfam charity shop in Cambridge on my recent visit there. I like boats on postcards, and I like unusual usage of postcard image’s so this appealed on more than one level. Unfortunately, the card itself holds very little information on either side and I suspect it is designed just to catch the eye of modern tourists who perhaps would not require details.
02/03/2020
CAMBRIDGE LANDMARKS
THE POLAR MUSEUM
By
Cambridge Artist
CHIZ
Published by
WILLAIMS ART CARDS
WILLIAMS ART 2018
Ref: 2102
This is another of the large square shaped postcards I picked up on my recent visit to Cambridge. This depicts the Polar Museum in what is a cartoon like joke based around the issue of global warming.
02/03/2020
JUST ARRIVED AT…
SYMOND’S YAT
Novelty ‘PULL OUT’ Post Card
Published by
VALENTINE’S
Valentine’s “MAIL NOVELTY” Post Card
Ref: 2004
This is another of those postcard designs which could be used for any location. You will see that the location ‘SYMOND’S YAT’ is printed in a different type face than the ‘JUST ARRIVED AT’ which clearly shows that it has been added after the printing of the rest of the postcards image. This was quite a common publisher format and allowed them to use just one image for many locations, a neat and simple idea and a very popular one.
This copy is in good condition as often with these pull-out cards the top of the flap gets badly creased through usage, although here this area is still quite smooth.
02/03/2020
8 OUT OF 10
POSTCARDS
MENTION THE
WEATHER
‘TATE MODERN’
The Unilever Series:
OLAFUR ELIASSON
THE WEATHER PROJECT
TURBINE HALL
16 OCTOBER 2003 – 21 MARCH 2004
Published by
BOOMERANG MEDIA (CINEMA)
Free Rack Card
A simple but superb advertising postcard for an art display (or more correctly an installation) at the Tate Modern in London that was held between 2003 and 2004. For obvious reasons this simple design appealed to me.
01/03/2020
In a moment of madness, I found myself wondering how many postcards had been posted across this webpage since day one back in 2016. In a second moment of madness, I decided to have a count… Oh that was a mistake as it took two long sessions over two days to count them all up.
I ignored all the non-postcard photographs which were linked to displayed postcards (where I have looked up images of how places look now etc or of people mentioned), the images of bookmarks, bank notes and other non-postcard items displayed, and all the reverse sides of postcards where the front had already been depicted. So, just each different postcard front and alternative displayed postcard reverse (where I have one postcard but used in different ways or with different reverse types).
So, how many have I shown you?
9707
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not Bad
01/03/2020
HELICOPTER MAIL
By
RICHARD BLAKE
Published by
RICHARD BLAKE POST CARDS
Ref: PH238
This is one postcard in a series of postcards depicting different aspects of mail delivery down through the years. Each Postcard depicts a piece of artwork by Richard Blake. This design was clearly of a ‘fairly-modern’ form of mail delivery, the helicopter deliveries out to the North Sea oil rigs. I think it is one of the best images from this series.
REVERSE SIDE OF ABOVE POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the FORTIES CHARLIE oil rig platform and received a black two-line oil rig cachet bottom left.
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
REVERSE SIDE OF ANOTHER COPY OF THIS HELICOPTER POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the FORTIES ALPHA oil rig platform and received a black two-line oil rig cachet bottom left.
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
REVERSE SIDE OF ANOTHER COPY OF THIS HELICOPTER POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the FORTIES DELTA oil rig platform and received a black two-line oil rig cachet bottom left.
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
REVERSE SIDE OF ANOTHER COPY OF THIS HELICOPTER POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the FORTIES ECHO oil rig platform and received a black two-line oil rig cachet bottom left.
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
REVERSE SIDE OF ANOTHER COPY OF THIS HELICOPTER POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the FORTIES BRAVO oil rig platform and received a black two-line oil rig cachet bottom left.
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
REVERSE SIDE OF ANOTHER COPY OF THIS HELICOPTER POSTCARD
The artist arranged for a small number, 100 postcards, to be flown by helicopter out to different oil rigs. Each carried postcard received a red cachet designed by the artist which reads:
ONE OF 100 FLOWN BY HELICOPTER
[Helicopter image]
TO AND FROM A BP NORTH SEA OIL-RIG
COURTESY THE BRITISH PETROLEUM p.l.c.
This ‘particular’ postcard was carried out to the M.V. IOLAIR oil rig platform and received blue boxed rig cachet bottom left which reads:
M.V. IOLAIR
O. No. 376461
Port Reg. Dundee
N.T. 4729.00
S.H.P. 12000
Also applied is a 22p Royal Mail postage stamp cancelled with a ‘FIRST DAY OF ISSUE – ABERDEEN – 23 APR 1991’ simple word cancellation.
The card has also been signed by the artist in blue ink bottom right.
With this sixth posted and carried version I believe I have depicted all the varieties produced by the artist.