100 Years Of Saucy Seaside Postcards In Pictures
THE Bamforth vintage card collection has been celebrating its 100th anniversary, at Olympia central London, this afternoon. The saucy postcards were a feature of the British Seaside for many years, are now to be made into other products under licence Worldwide, like the cushions, handbags, clothing, and, well, whatever you want a fat lady in a bathing suit and a smutty double entendre on…
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An original set of saucy seaside paintings which inspired hundreds of politically incorrect post cards are expected to fetch thousands of pounds when they are auctioned off 11 AUG 2009See SWNS Story SWCARD The 25 risqu paintings by Phil Millar nicknamed Pedro were the original designs for the popular Carry On postcard series which were sold in thousands of seaside shops during the 1960s and 1970s. Incredibly, the pristine water colours pictures measuring 19cm by 27cm were almost lost forever when they were dumped in a skip in Calne, Wilts., in 1989.
Posted: 28th, September 2010 | In: The Consumer Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
