The land of lost content

I love and collect Postcards, so it should be of no consequence that when I came across John Tingey’s book, The Englishman who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects, I quickly put it in my cart and pressed 'proceed to checkout'.

Today, my percolation arrived most appropriately by post. My First Edition, dated 2010 published by Princeton Architectural Press has an unusual matt hard cover, and as I skimmed the pages, in anticipation of a night of joyful reading, I experienced a slow simmer of a smile as my eyes examined some of the postal curios depicted between it's pages.

The Englishman who Posted Himself … is about a very real Willie Reginald Bray (1879-1939), who, in 1898 purchased an official Post Office Guide published by the British postal authorities. To test the limits of the Royal postal regulations, defined in that book, Bray devised methods with which to challenge the claim that all post “must be delivered as addressed.”

And thus began a remarkable journey of unusual post card art and philately.

 

This is going to be a very interesting read indeed.

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