WE'RE MOBILE

I've always liked this NASA MOLAB design. This postcard was on auction so I saved the pic. Here it is trundling through the barren wastes of the Northern Arizona desert way back when.

I've never seen a toy version of this in the flesh. I think there may have been designs but nothing produced.

Do you know of a toy version readers?

POCKET MONEY POSTCARDS BY TONY K

These are my pocket money purchased sci fi art postcards, from the 1970s.

I found them upstairs in an obscure shop. They were displayed on a rotating rack.

I accumulated them over three consecutive Saturdays.

They reminded me of the sort of art I was drawn to - stuff by Chris Achilleos, Frank Frazetta and Boris Vallejo.

There were quite a few other sci fi and fantasy postcards featuring designs by other genre artists of the day.

I'd like to have picked up more, but was restricted by my hard earned pound-a-week income.

Tony K
UK

Readers' Collectables: Memories of an Old Postcard by Tony K

I collect WW1 photo-postcards because I find them haunting.

For me, many reach out at an emotional level, showing wives, sweethearts, parents, brothers, best friends and pals; the human consideration of the war. 

They're sepia shaded strangers with familiar faces that resonate from the past. 

I find myself wishing them well as I wonder who they were and what became of them!

Tony K
UK

WISH YOU WERE HERE

I read some old postcards today.

They were in a charity shop. There was a whole box full and many were written on and had stamps. They'd been posted in 1962 and over the years drifted into a charity shop.

I felt as though I was trespassing as I read short, ordinary but poignant lines. They were from from loved ones to friends and other loved ones whilst on holiday way back when in the sixties. Simple thoughts scribbled down in pen and sent through the mail into the future. Like time travellers.

I imagine collecting postcards can be quite addictive. I wonder if being 'used' and written on is more desirable to collectors than not?

Have you collected postcards readers? Any other ephemera?

VINTAGE SPANISH THUNDERBIRDS POSTCARD

I love these vintage Spanish Thunderbirds postcards I stumble across on Todocollecion.

Here's the Thunderbird 1 and for some reason the great Jeff Tracy himself [why not Scott?].

The cards have that crinkle-cut edge that most of the postcards had back then from Spain. I have some from my folks when they left me behind with my older Sister in the Sixties and early Seventies!

The famous lemon squeezer is clearly visible on the launch bay wall!

Do you have any old postcards? Any Thunderbirds or TV-based ones?

space glider postcard 1966

I love these vintage NASA postcard covers.

I have a Dyna Soar one.

This is the M-2 I saw on an auction site signed by the pilot.

Have you any?

space glider cover: bill dana 1972

Here's another gorgeous NASA cover I saw on an auction site. This one is signed by Bill Dana who piloted the M2-F3 Lifting Body, on which the project SWORD Space Glider toy is based.