Saucy Postcards

I was out with a friend the other day and and we were talking about holidays, she asked if I had any of the old saucy postcards they used to sell (probably still do) in traditional British seaside resorts. I didn't think I had any but I certainly remember them, she told me the landlady at a B&B where her parents went every year told them she had just sold some of her old postcards to a collector.

I remember these cards from holidays as a child, they used to sell them in newsagents and souvenir shops and I used to love trying to read some but was often dragged away by my parents. I remember some were quite funny, a lot I didn't understand being young as they used to make use of innuendo and double entendres, often cartoon style, sometimes bawdy in nature. A lot of them traditionally featured stereotypical characters such as vicars, large ladies, put-upon husbands and young ladies with pointed breasts. I don't every remember seeing any spanking related ones though.

Apparently some of the original postcards can command high prices at auction. So if anyone has the original postcards, they may be worth something

There's an exhibition on at the Tate now called Rude Britannia.

Ronnie

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