Here’s a Postcardist Master Class.

I was lucky enough to interview Mark Routh, who is a well-known postcard collector in the UK. Mark collects cards and studies the history of postcards. Plus, he’s written a monthly column for more than 25 years in the very highly regarded Picture Postcard Monthly.

You can find Mark’s website here.

Here’s a sequence of what Mark covered in this Postcardist Master Class:

• Victorian era of postcards….very early start of postcard history
• Anything that happened in 1890s on were photographed..photographer would take a photo and less than 24 hours images were printed on postcards
• How often were postcards delivered in early 1900s; it was our mobile phones the time
• Where people bought postcards back in the day
• WWI battle photograph postcards; printing postcards in Germany
• Most common postcards coming from France to England in WWI were of bombed out towns
• The Great War postcards
• Cachets on cards…censor cachets in WWI
• Titanic postcards
• Postcard fairs
• More on the Titanic
• Display boards
• Dr. Who postcards
• Collecting postcards around television
• Even more on Titanic
• Do people insure postcards?
• First and last postcard Mark collected
• Falklands War…Mark wrote a book
• The very first postcard
• How to archive postcards

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Music in this episode:

Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin, licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 License. Music sourced from Free Music Archive.