As
well as having a thing for old maps, I love a vintage postcard too. Some show fascinating scenes of places in
days gone by - all the more interesting if it is a place you are familiar with.
Then there is the genre of postcards dating perhaps from the 1960s and 1970s
that show comically mundane scenes. I
have one of Cleethorpes baths, and I have seen postcards of motorway service
stations. I’m also a fan of the cheeky
seaside sauce postcard – well, who isn’t?
I
had a go at making a postcard with a Vintage Map Lady angle. I cut out a square
of old map around a Devon seaside resort and stitched it on to a plain modern
card. A bit of floral decoration was
added. You could perhaps get even more
creative and attach old maps to old postcards.
I have decorated the backs of vintage cards, where the messages were
more interesting than the scenes on the front!
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