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Product Information
The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today - henpecked husbands, naughty nurses and randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems, with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company, and the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139781472105462
eBay Product ID (ePID)152658012
Product Key Features
Book TitleSaucy Postcards: the Bamforth Collection
AuthorMarcus Hearn
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
GenreHumor
Number of Pages224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height183mm
Item Width187mm
Item Weight626g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMarcus Hearn
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Ratings and reviews
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- 19 Jul, 2017
SEASIDE SAUCE
Absolutely brilliant book! Reminds me of coming home from holiday as a child armed with lots more saucy postcards to add to my collection. Wonder what happened to them????? This makes a great substitute for my dearly missed collection.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Jan, 2019
"George - the ceiling needs painting!"
A well-researched and beautifully presented overview of the distinctly British phenomenon that was the humorous seaside postcard. Often retrospectively criticised by posh, right-on types for their stereotyped portrayals of women (big, busty, scantily-clad, sexy) and men (puny, desperate, red-faced, inadequate), these cards were (and are) genuinely anarchic, funny and brilliantly rendered, and the Bamforth products were the best in the business. Not for the po-faced!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 19 May, 2023
h p (highly spiced )sauce
very good condition a look back to old fashioned humour' When men were men and them were those, when you could just have a laugh and women knew the power they have... now Prudes are holders of the citadelVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 19 Dec, 2019
A good read
Very interesting read and reference book. An excellent introduction telling the Bamforth history with a lot of pictures of Bamforth postcards.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Sep, 2020
Great book
I bought this for my hubby who collects the postcards, this adds to the history which is in this book and shows you some postcards and how it all began, it’s worth it for those who are interested in this type of humour, and gives you a good giggle 👍🏼 would recommendVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 Feb, 2024
Brilliant
Bought this book for my mum who has Alzhiemers and thought it would give her a chuckle.She was laughing every time she picked it up.Would definitely recommend it.Such good value tooVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 22 Sep, 2021
If you like honry cartoons like me, you will like it too.
Loved the art, it has a lot of blondes. Most jokes are fun, and the postcards have an interesting story.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Nov, 2020
Excellent book worth having
Excellent history of how it all began..lots of photos ...truly cheap at the price compared to other similar booksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 Jun, 2017
Everyone should have this on coffee table..So funny
Bought this for my friends, I already have it and they loved it so much ..made brilliant present .. Recommend for all ages 15 and up.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Sep, 2021
great laugh,just whats needed
Great bit of seaside nostalgia from a time when people weren't so easily offended, some of the cards made me laugh out loud.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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