Next Show: Metro Postcard Show NYC May 1st & 2nd

It's show time once again! We had the first postcard show this year presented by Mary Martin in March. Now it's the traditional spring show presented by The Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York, May 1st and 2nd at the Midtown Holiday Inn, details here. As always I will be presenting rare and unusual discoveries from Europe. A preview here of recent arrivals, all Italian advertising and propaganda material. Prices on request.

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Carnevale de Sicilia 1963

Advertising lighting rods circa 1900

Advertising book publisher circa 1930  SOLD

 Human rights propaganda 1948

 Aero Club meeting advertising Taliedo 1929  SOLD

 Homage to Vittorio Emanuele by Tato 1934  SOLD

 German planes attack British ships circa 1940  SOLD

 Night Raid circa 1940  SOLD

 Worker's Safety series seven cards circa 1937

Regimental propaganda 1930s 

Advertising aviation magazine circa 1935  SOLD

 Advertising pharmaceuticals 1920s

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BITCHCRAFT + WHIP 'N ROD CORPORAL Spank 1970s

Another of the emerging genres of the early 1970s, in the form of full-sized adult only magazines, was spanking, corporal punishment, male and female domination titles published by Eros Gold Stripe and Unique Publications. Love the covers and satanic overtones of the Bitchcraft magazines! Women in fetish outfits were also part of the attraction of the Bitchcraft magazines as well as the use of lingerie, garter belts and stockings throughout the other titles. In principle, a women is much more seductive partially dressed in lingerie, especially if her ass is being spanked. Here's a taste of the sting of the hand and the whip from deep in the archives. 

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ENGLISH NUDES Everard Bird Roye 1930s ~ '40s

Three of the best photographers of the female nude in the United Kingdom in the late 1930s and 1940s, John Everard, Horace Roye and Walter Bird and largely unknown outside of the world of collectors. All three were members of the Camera Studies Club. A publisher as well as a mail order company offering original, high quality prints by the three photographers for sale to the public.

Leading up to WWII and just after, their work appeared in numerous books including: Everard's Artist's Model, Judgement of Paris; Horace Roye's The Irish Maid, The English Maid, etc. plus Eves Without Leaves; and Bird's "beauty" series Beauty's Self and Beauty's Daughter. Here is a selection from deep in my archives of vintage prints of their exceptional photographs of the female nude.

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Diana Dors

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