Modern postcards

A selection of modern (post-WWII - 1950 on) postcards, including Post Office Picture Cards (PHQ etc) series, fractal art cards, Mordillo and other cartoon cards and a variety of advertising postcards.

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Postcards

  • PC_Comic0048Unused PC published by National Pure Water Association - Campaign against fluroide ->
  • PC_Zepp50_1981Commemorative PC franked British Forces Postal Service June 1982 Commemorates 50th anniversary of Shooting Down of Zeppelin L43 on 18 August 1931 - Pub 1981
  • PC_WWI-Modern01Postcard issued in 2017 by the Postcard Interactive Company of Sidney, Australia to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Bullecourt (aka Battle of Arras) April-June 1917 - a lengthy series of battles on the Western Front during World War 1, which resulted in significant casualties among the Australian infantry brigades (and other allied forces) involved.
  • PC_Bamforth-Mod01A modern reprinting (1960s?) by Bamforth & Co of an earlier Edwardian era postcard
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  • PC_Cricket0018Statue of Fred Truman, Skipton, N Yorkshire
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  • PC_Xmas01
  • PC_Dodo-Modern01
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  • PC_Arnulf01
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  • Do you believe in fairies?For other Margaret Tarrant cards published by the Medici Society, click here .
  • PC_Easterling01Palm Leaf by Angela Easterling 2001
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  • PC_Easterling02Allium by Angela Easterling 2001
  • Bridget Riley - Andante 1Unused postcard published by De la Warr Pavilion c 2015 (Ref: PC_BRiley01) - Design by Bridget Riley - From her Curve Paintings 1961-2014 collection - Original Acrylic on Linen Bridget Louise Riley CH CBE (born 24 April 1931) is an English painter known for her singular op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
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  • PC_BodL-Sax01Unused postcard published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford Outline of Britain showing forts from Brancaster, Norfolk to Porchester, Hants from Notitia dignitatum
  • PC_Dickens_0051Portrait of Charles Dickens by (George) Herbert Watkins 1858 (in the National Portrait Gallery)
  • PC_Dickens_PP0090xPostcard franked London 1985 - Pub: Charles Dickens Centre, Rochester
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  • PC_Dickens_DC0062xUnused PC - Pub: “Postcards Past - Compare PC_Dickens_DC0001
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  • PC_Dickens_Places_0016Newnham, Kent in Dickens' Time
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  • PC_GrosvenorMuseum01Unused postcard published by the Grosvenor Museum, Chester Life-size model of a Roman Legionary
  • PC_MdelArmee01Unused postcard published by the Musée de l’Armée, Paris Uniformes de la Guerre 1914-1918 - France: Soldat du 60è Régiment de l’Infanterie 1916-1917
  • PC_MdelArmee02Unused postcard published by the Musée de l’Armée, Paris Uniformes de la Guerre 1914-1918 - Germany: Infanterie Unteroffizier 1914-1918
  • PC_MdelArmee03Unused postcard published by the Musée de l’Armée, Paris Uniformes de la Guerre 1914-1918 - Russia: Cavalry Officer of the Caucasus Division 1914
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  • PC_Shepherd_Rail01Unused postcard published by Albany House, Birmingham East Somerset Railway Class J94 - Drawing by David Shepherd Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (1931-2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes.
  • PC_Shepherd_Rail02 (1)Unused postcard published by Albany House, Birmingham East Somerset Railway BR Standard 4MT - The Green Kbight - Drawing by David Shepherd Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (1931-2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes.
  • PC_Shepherd_Rail03 (1)Unused postcard published by Albany House, Birmingham East Somerset Railway Class 3F - Drawing by David Shepherd Richard David Shepherd CBE FRSA FGRA (1931-2017) was a British artist and one of the world's most outspoken conservationists. He was most famous for his paintings of steam locomotives (he owned a number of them) and wildlife, although he also often painted aircraft, portraits (notably The Queen Mother) and landscapes.
  • PC_Pyramid_8310-SolsticeUnused postcard published by Pyramid, Leicester “Solstice” by Peter Pacownik
  • PC_Paris736-Folies
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  • PC_SaraMoon01Unused ArtAdmira-Card postcard - Pub: edition cicero gmbh - Painting by Sara Moon “Inspiration” 1980
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  • PC_BL-79Flying (1)
  • PC_BL-95Cricket (1)
  • PC_BL-100Chess (1)
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  • PC_BL-AliceUnderground
  • PC_RennieM-Hunterian
  • PC_BrTextiles01 (1)
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  • PC_Morris BrooklynMuseum
  • PC_Morris V+A-E297
  • PC_Morris Birmingham-D38
  • PC_Beds Straw Work1890
  • PC_Ironbridge-E502“The Pleasures of the Railroad - Showing the Inconvenience of a Blow Up” by Hugh Hughes 1831 Unused PC showing an anti railway sketch from Elton Collection, Ironbridge - Pub: Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
  • PC_Wilhelmina-18036Unused postcard showing illustration from "The Youth of Queen Wilhelmina"
  • PC_Wilhelmina-18038Unused postcard showing illustration from "The Youth of Queen Wilhelmina"
  • PC_Wilhelmina-18040Unused postcard showing illustration from "The Youth of Queen Wilhelmina"
  • PC_Wilhelmina-18043Unused postcard showing illustration from "The Youth of Queen Wilhelmina"
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  • PC_HighlandAirUnused postcard published in honour of the pioneering spirit of Britain’s private airlines. The design is based on a painting by Edmund Miller called “A Flying Start to the Day” and depicts the start of a typical day’s flying at Longman Municipal Aerodrome, Inverness in 1937. It shows Capt R E Fresson OBE (in plus fours at the centre of the group of pilots) briefing his crews at the start of the day as well as other potential passengers and cargo including mail bags delivered by a GPO van.
  • PC_Sutcliffe01 (1)Unused postcard - Pub: Sutcliffe Gallery, Whitby "Women in New Way Ghaut, Whitby” - Photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe during 1890s
  • PC_Sutcliffe02 (1)Unused postcard - Pub: Sutcliffe Gallery, Whitby “An Unwilling Pupil” - Photograph by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe - Taken at Tate Hill, Whitby during 1890s
  • PC_OuthwaiteM01 (1)Beneath the Blossom by Ida Outhwaite 1888-1960 Modern postcard pub: Medici Society, London Ida Rentoul Outhwaite , also known as Ida Sherbourne Rentoul and Ida Sherbourne Outhwaite, an Australian illustrator of children's books, was born in Melbourne on 9 June 1988, Her work mostly depicted magical creatures, such as elves and fairies. She died at Caulfield, Victoria on 25 June1960.
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  • PC_Queen53_Val-C45Valentine’s souvenir postcard Prints flown to Dundee on Coronation Day (2 June 1953) - On sale in London by 11.00am on 3 June 1953
  • PC_PostcardHistory NorwayUnused postcard issued in connection with Norwegian Postcard History exhibition - Bergen 1988
  • PC_AstroClockUnused postcard showing Dial of Astronomical Clock made by Nicholas Oursian in 1540 - Hampton Court Palace
  • PC_LMAG-LeicesterR7413Unused postcard published by Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery Design shows Watercolour “The Magpies” by David Cox (1783-1859) David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism. He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the golden age of English watercolour. <- David Cox (1830) by William Radclyffe
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  • PC_LondonZoo-ElephantRidingDelightful RP postcard showing Elephant Riding at London Zoo in 1926 - PUB: Zoological Society of London.
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  • PC_Modern-Greetings-ChristmasUnused modern Richard Blake postcard - GP21
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  • PC_FrFantaisies-F35