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British Saucy Seaside Postcards by QUIP 

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PC001 - "Its not meant to fit on your head!"

PC002 - "Steady with the gas!"

PC003 - "I'm going to enjoy myself one way or the other!"

PC004 - "No you can't touch it, you've broken yours off already!" SOLD OUT - SORRY

PC005 - "We've nearly made it!" SOLD OUT - SORRY

PC006 - "Have a suck before it goes soft!"

PC007 - Free Sausage

PC008 - "Let me catch it in my mouth"

PC009 - "It's only your leg that's supposed to jump up!" SOLD OUT - SORRY

PC010 - "Will you help get the sand out of my pussy?" SOLD OUT - SORRY

PC011 - "Move your balls, I can't get you all in!" SOLD OUT - SORRY

PC012 - Hanging on the window ledge

PC013 - "Blimey - two minutes earlier and that would've hit me on the back of my head"

PC014 - "Stop showing off and hang your towel on the breakwater!"

PC015 - "Don't tease him Bob - he thinks its a bone!"

PC016 - "Shall I slide down the banister and warm up the supper?" [by COL]

PC017 - "His eyesight isn't too good - but he's usually in the right place at the right time!"

PC018 – “No No Nurse Duncan, I said prick his boil!”

Saucy Seaside Postcards with their bawdy humour are seen as quintessentially British.  Postcards have been around in Britain since they were first licensed by the Post Office in 1894. Most were plain with an inky Post Office stamp and it was not until 1902, with the introduction of the divided back for a message and an address, that pictures on the front became widespread.

King of the comic seaside card is Donald McGill, who began his career when he sent a cartoon to a nephew in hospital in 1904 of a man up to his neck in a frozen pond. The caption read 'Hope you get out!' and was forwarded to a publisher who commissioned his work.

McGill published saucy classics from 1912. He sold more than 200 million cards with at least 12,000 designs over five decades. But in 1954 he found himself in court on an obscenity charge over his cards. McGill pleaded guilty and was fined £50 at Lincoln Assizes. He died in 1962.

Keith, 67, says: 'Because so many of his postcards were produced, they can still be picked up for just a few pounds and even the earliest ones may be worth only a tenner --but they are still sought after.'

He says that McGill's politically incorrect humour is becoming more collectible and is seen as quaint compared with the crude sex jokes of today.

David Smith, who compiles industry bible Picture Postcard Values, believes that the type and standard of comedy is also important for collectors of saucy seaside postcards. 'Picking the right theme is key,' he says. 'You need to get the joke and the good ones fetch more. Gags relating to professions like dental or legal work.'

Other valued racy postcard illustrators include Douglas Tempest, Arnold Taylor and Brian Fitzpatrick.  Many went under an acronym.

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