Titanic Postcards

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For nearly a century this rare collection of postcards mourning the loss of the Titanic - rushed out in the aftermath of the sinking - have only been seen by a privileged few.

Now these striking images will adorn memorabilia after a ten-year search reunited them with their original publisher Bamforth’s - allowing them to appear on licensed products for the first time since 1912.
The company is mainly remembered as makers of saucy seaside postcards featuring scantily clad women and jokes about mother-in-laws.

In an age when cameras were still a rich man’s toy Bamforth’s also recorded important chapters in England’s social history.

So within weeks of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15 1912 Bamforth & Co, based in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, published six postcards commemorating the tragic event.

The set, known to collectors as the Nearer My God To Me series, shows a saintly woman in a flowing white gown posed against a backdrop of the sinking.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126124/Lost-postcards-mourning-loss-Titanic-released-original-company-detective-work-collector.html#ixzz1rNWBYCsQ