Would Love To See Some Of The Old Postcards With People On

Wow! what a stunning postcard.
That is beautiful, thanks for posting,
there will be some coveting of that card here, I should think.

Oh... what a good thread; thanks for sharing. I'm still digging but have a couple Yours are so clear compared to mine. Centered also comes to mind. :) This was my Great Uncle Warren and another cousin... C 1904.



The latter is the home in which my Grandmother lived before my mother was a twinkle in granddad's eye. edit - Kokomo, Indiana, c 1912

That's me in the red gingham shirt.
Lining up for a stamp bourse in Ho Chi Minh City.

Illustrating maturing and changing racial attitudes.


The Cingalee is set in Ceylon and concerns colonial tea planters (one of the most popular songs in the score is called simply "Tea, tea, tea"!) in an era before this island paradise became the more troubled Sri Lanka. It was given a showy production and was a success in London. The fashion there for shows set in Asian locales had been started by The Mikado and continued by The Geisha, San Toy, The Nautch Girl, A Chinese Honeymoon and others. There is little in the music to give The Cingalee an Eastern flavour. However, Monckton's catchy sextet, "The Island of Gay Ceylon" and "Pearl of Sweet Ceylon" and Ruben's "White and Brown Girl", "Sloe Eyes", "Monkeys" and "You and I" are highlights of the musical score. The condescending racial nature of The Cingalee's libretto, however, would be unacceptable today, and so The Cingalee is unlikely to be revived.

Postcard dated 1905
Australia was only 15 years into international
exchange of postcards, they were not permitted prior to
late 1899.

If you like pictures of old things; cars, buildings people, then I recommend this web site to you. I can browse it for an hour and wander where the time went.

http://www.shorpy.com/

To continue - sort of - Rod's theme



Might have been OK in Duttia State in India a hundred-odd years ago, but these days ...

(And yes, Rod, that is another Ganesh, inverted and smothered by the security seal and postmark.)

That is one beautiful postcard Tony,
absolutely splendid.
That would make a fantastic addition to an exhibit.
I love it to bits, wow.

Why on earth affix the stamp to the photo side?

Beats me why the sender put the stamp on the photo side, Rod.

I'd love to let you have it, Rod, but the stamp used is catalogued at £23, and on cover/card 'from 20x' according to Gibbons ...

I find many of the old post cards with their mundane messages almost indescribably sad. Sic transit gloria mundi.

peterethio, why oh why did you post that link to shorpy? I am so hooked and there are hundreds of pages and thousands of photos. Now I know what to do in my spare time.

I wouldn't take it Tony, it belongs in a
quality collection as yours.
What is it about looking into the faces
of those that time has passed by? I get that
feeling when looking at early native american indian images.
I feel like I really want to hop back in time.

How did you take posession? auction?

From memory - and it was a while ago - I think it was from ebay, Rod. I came on it because Duttia has always been a favourite State. Sad to say, I don't have deep enough pockets to make a proper go of it, though.

And yes, I rather wonder what the sitters for these portraits made of it all. Did they realise this was their 15 minutes of fame?

rod222 -- are you the one in the red and white checked shirt on the scooter looking to your right? If so, when was this taken. The rider of the scooter looks like a teen.

Just another one of my poor jokes Rohumpy

That's not me, the postcard is a killer though,
I had a step through Honda in Thailand when living
there, and the traffic was half of what is shown
on that card, it is surrealistic to be in the
middle of a hundred bikes weaving in and out of traffic.
I took leave of my senses during that period.