Friday on Instagram

Today's featured postcard collection belongs to Donna in California. The chimp with a Napoleon complex is from Sarah in Utah, while Hélène in Paris sends along a saucy French postcard. Have a look at the rest of Donna's collection here (on my personal Instagram account) or — if you just want to see the postcards — by doing an Instagram search via #benevolentpostcardsociety. 

(photo by me on instagram)

Tuesday on Instagram

Today's featured collection of postcards on Instagram belong to Whitney in Tennessee. Shown here is an elephants postcard (originally from the Chicago Natural History Museum) sent by Meghan in Illinois, while the second one from Bianca in New South Wales, Australia, was picked up on holiday in Tanzania — on the back Bianca writes how passing through a tiny town called Dootown, she noticed all the houses had a funny sign out front featuring the word 'doo.' See the rest of Whitney's collection here — a quick search via #benevolentpostcardsociety will find all other BPS postcards featured so far, too.

(photo by me on instagram)

Postcard Teas

I think we've just discovered the spiritual home of the BPS. It's Postcard Teas in London, and owner Timothy d'Offay is not only a dealer in rare and fine teas from all over the world, but a fanatical postcard collector, too. He even offers an amazing service called the Tea Postcard — choose the one you’d like to send (available as an option for any of their teas), write a message and address on the virtual postcard, and it will be printed and mailed (along with your chosen tea) to anywhere in the world. Sounds like the perfect gift for more than one BPS member ...

Thanks so so much to BPS member Julie, who sent me the lovely email about Postcard Teas — and has a great post about this wonderful shop on her own lovely blog rock @ lulu!

Vintage Typewriter Ribbon Tins

Aren't these vintage typewriter ribbon tins beautiful? And they must be so fun to collect, too! You can see more of Janine Vangool’s extensive collection on Flickr.


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