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As they came south, Helen retreated over the Brenner, and wrote an unsatisfactory postcard from the shores of the Lake of Garda, saying that her plans were uncertain and had better be ignored.

Mildred sent him a postcard to announce her safe arrival, and he snatched half an hour every day to write a long letter to her.

You could not get away from hearing of him wherever you were; his portrait was on every other postcard; his maps and battles in every other illustrated paper; songs in his honour in every other music-hall turn or on every other barrel-organ.

Those who knew him will recognize in my third act the allusion to the patent Shorthand in which he used to write postcards, and which may be acquired from a four and six-penny manual published by the Clarendon Press.

It was this figure that her husband saw when, having reached the polished Sphinx, having entangled himself with a man selling picture postcards, he turned; the stanza instantly stopped.

A promotional postcard of the Titanic before tragedy struck

Time was, when both for business or pleasure, the postcard and Royal Mail provided the default form of communication.

All the images come from an album of Donald McGill's postcards, sold by The Canterbury Auction Galleries for PS250.

Cooper, a novelist, auctioneer, antiques dealer, and curator who writes about art and antiques, collects about 300 postcards from the British Museum designed by modern and contemporary artists like Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Gilbert & George, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Roth, Gavin Turk, Mark Wallinger, Rachel Whiteread, and Hannah Wilke from the 1960s on, focusing on postcards as works of art rather than reprinted images of other artworks.

She adds: "Postcard collecting began in Victorian times, when they were invented, with 1900-01 being the golden age when millions were produced.

Postcardly puts whatever you write onto the back of a postcard (up to about 100 words), and whatever picture you want onto the front of the postcard.

On the back of 1908 postcard showing Durham Road, Low Fell, one person from Birtley writes to Mr William Jackson in Manchester: "Dear cousens (sic), got home all right and we all feel very canny..."