West Meets East with Sir Ben Kingsley

During the redevelopment of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, and since it re-opened, there have been posters on buses in the Oxford area with people - some well known - some not - next to a museum object and with something written on their forehead. There were also the free postcards like this one...

On the back it says...Sir Ben Kingsley (Actor) with Standing Buddha, Gandhara(Pakistan), c. AD 200.

A Good Vintage at Charmant

In this postcard: men women and a child can be seen harvesting the grapes near Charmant in the Bordeaux region of France. It was a good vintage.

First Eastern General

J. Palmer Clarke, a Cambridge photographer, did a photographic study of the First Eastern General Hospital, set up in one of the Cambridge colleges during WW I.

Hey! Looks Great!

A BBC Card advertising Jazz Club. Hey! Looks Great!

Sugar Cane

On this card from Trinidad ... "The sugar cane is a conspicuous feature of the country when it produces erect spikes termed 'arrows,' very similar in appearance to Pampas grass ."

Early Inca Feritlity Symbols

An advertising postcard for Lynx Aftershave: available in Inca, Atlantis, Africa, and Java Fragrances.

Happy New Year 1914

Posted on 27th December 1914 from Holland to England, the greeting 'Happy New Year' has been added by hand to the front. There have been 100 New Years Since.

Mostly Men with Moustaches

Possibly French from the look of the waiter. Twenty one of the Twenty Three men have moustaches. Possibly a predecessor of the modern Movember sponsored event.

A Famiy Scene

This postcard is addressed to My Dear Wife, and is from ...Your Dear Husband XXXXX. The family scene on the card is sent by a soldier awaiting return home soon after the end of World War I.

Madonna del Cardelinno

This postcard 'Stampata in Italia' has aged. The image 'Madonna del Cardelinno' is by Raffaelo Sanzio (1483-1520) - or as we know him Raphael.