Some say that Reginald Bray is the founding father of the mail art movement. In 1900 this chap even posted himself. This group aims to test the patience of the postal service. What is the strangest object that you have been sent?What is the most bizarre object that you can send?
In the 1980s I once sent my friend a banana in the post.I stuck a stamp on to it,wrote the address in biro & popped it in the postbox.Not only did he receive it but he ate it for his lunch.
Has the postal service got a sense of humour?Together we will find out ...
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I think I saw this in 2017 but nice to see again and amused to see Bray was deemed "only slightly bonkers" .
Nice finds! Although they are rather "dull" compared to some they do have a certain something - maybe it's just the fact that Bray posted them and he signed them. I'd certainly frame them if they were mine.
Of course John, they belong to the world not to me. Maybe they will add something to the store of knowledge (I thought I had already sent you them ages ago anyway . . . ).
Nice cards Mary Anne, I hope you are happy for me to include them on the Bray website.
Here at last are scans of the two Bray cards I have. Not the prettiest but they have the moniker of the great man so I'm happy.
The thing that has always puzzled me is the hotel card: it would have been just as much trouble to sign the thing rather than cross everything out and re-address. Crazy Edwardians!
Greetings to No Idea.
That seems to be the scan I e-mailed them rather than the envelope itself - unless they can say different.
Mail art history (a note): Postcards on Parchment: The Social Lives of Medieval Books is a delightful study that identifies this group of images for the first time, and explores how these objects functioned apart from the books in which they were kept....Small, intensely colourful pictures offered a brilliant reprieve, and Kathryn Rudy shows how these intriguing and previously unfamiliar images were traded and cherished – shedding light on the everyday experiences and relationships that constituted medieval life in the Low Countries.
Thanks John - much appreciated!
You can get info here: http://postenomade.over-blog.com/2019/09/10eme-jmfta.html (It's in French.)
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