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Comic postcards in Tate exposure
Saucy seaside postcards form part of a celebration
of British comic art in an exhibition at Tate Britain in
London that runs until 5 September. Titled ‘Rude Britannia’,
it features a wide array of paintings, sculptures,
film and photography, portraying a rich history
of cartooning and visual jokes. Various rooms
have approriate titles: Absurd features Alice in Wonderland
illustrations, Bawdy contains McGill masterpieces,
and Politics has plenty of cartoons bringing
public figures down to size.
The Funeral Service
Journal of June 2010 had
an eight-page article about
the centenary of Edward
VII’s funeral in May 2010.
The piece was illustrated by
eight contemporary postcards.
Card Times, the magazine
for cigarette and trade
card collectors, is going bimonthly
from September, a
move forced on editor and
publisher David Stuckey by
“rising production costs
and postal charges and also
by the current state of the
hobby, which, although still
buoyant and enthusiastic, is
not as big as it once was.
We feel it can no longer justify
a monthly publication”.
Belgium’s Mannekin Pis
postcard club is to operate
on a more modest level in
future. Instead of regular
monthly meetings, it will
hold four small club fairs a
year at Woluwe St-Lambert
- next one is 26th September.
If all goes well, there
could be a bigger international
fair again in Etterbeek
next June.
The South of England
Spring postcard fair at Woking
Leisure Centre saw an
encouragingly large attendance,
with lots of brisk
business taking place on
both days.
Collectors enjoy the opulence of Cheltenham’s Pittville
Pump Rooms at the Whit Monday postcard fair (photo:
John Gallagher)
Rikki Hyde Fairs are once again giving a set of Dalkeith
postcards, courtesy of Philip Howard from Dalkeith Publishing,
to the first 100 people through the door at one of
their events. The fair this time is the 2010 Bournemouth
Stamp & Postcard Festival at Pelhams Park Hall on Saturday
10th July. Around 24 dealers will be present. The
Dalkeith set on offer is S9, Southern Railway Shipping,
featuring designs by Frank Burridge, who died on May
30th, and whose obituary appears on page 56.
‘Unique’ collection for sale in
Salzburg
A 30,000- strong collection formed over 25 years by
Karl Jaeger from Bath is to be auctioned by Markus
Weissenbock of Salzburg, Austria, in October. It represents
about 80% of Karl’s entire collection - he felt
he had to trim it down a bit! - and the 200 albums are
strong in fine Judaica cards, Asia, South America,
China and Hong Kong, with an extra helping of
beautiful Venetian postcards. Subjects include
advertising in the fields of food and drink, tobacco
and animals - and there’s some choice ephemera,
too. Markus will be at The Picture Postcard Show in
London from 2nd-4th September promoting the catalogue
and showing a selection of the postcards.
This quite unique sale is likely to attract worldwide
interest and should be one of the highlights of postcard
collecting history. Karl came to postcards via
the well-trodden route of stamps and postal history
when he realised that many of his postal history suppliers
were also postcard collectors. He soon
realised that picture postcards were “much more
fun!”
The rock group Manic
Street Preachers have
announced details of a new
UK tour to coincide with the
release of their forthcoming
new album (their 10th),
which is excitingly titled
Postcards from a Young
Man. It’s due out in September.
Royal Mail’s newspaper
The Courier flagged up the
fact that more than 100
celebrities had written ‘a
postcard for Cumbria’ to
boost tourism in the region
after last November’s
floods. Judi Dench, Tess
Daly and Anthony Worrall
Thompson all penned messages
of support, Tess writing
“I’ve loved the Lake District
all my life!!!”. Sadly,
Cumbria was dealt another
blow on June 3rd when a
taxi driver went berserk
from Whitehaven inland to
Boot.
Postcard clubs can as usual order free tickets to
the Picture Postcard Show in London for the second
and third days (September 3rd & 4th). Contact Dave
Davis at P.O. Box 32, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1
3QJ or by email at dave@postcard.co.uk
Jean Thomas from Rob Roy Albums married Cliff Davis
on a sunny day in May. Cliff, who lists motor cars
among his interests, has become a familiar face at
major postcard fairs over the past couple of years.
Dealers at Woking Postcard Fair contributed to a card
and present for the couple (photo: Dave Davis)
4 Picture Postcard Monthly July 2010