Disasters and accidents postcards
Written by admin on 17 November, 2009 – 8:15 pm -Humans have it seems always taken malicious delight in the misfortune of others. The Germans have a word for this - Schadenfreude. Many of the disasters to befall humankind in the early part of the twentieth century, from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and subsequent damage from fires through the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic to erupting volcanoes and the Paris flood of 1910, all were recorded on postcard by the larger publishing firms. Whether this is Schadenfreude or just morbid curiosity is a moot point, but such postcards are fascinating documents.
Of course these are major internationally recognised catastrophes, other disasters have also been recorded on postcards, but by smaller, local publishers. These may therefore, be more rare and accordingly more expensive.
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| postcard assassination site john f kennedy dallas | ![]() |
0 Bid | £.99 | 3h 53m |
| Old disaster RPPC Flooding Prince of Wales Rd Norwich | ![]() |
1 Bid | £4.99 | 1d 5h 21m |
| early 20C postcard vesuvius erupting napoli vesuvio | ![]() |
0 Bid | £.99 | 1d 21h 3m |
| Superb mint real photo Sextons fire Norwich 1913 | ![]() |
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£30.00 | 1d 22h 7m |
| Wombwell Train Smash | ![]() |
0 Bid | £15.00 | 2d 5h 26m |
| WINDSOR CASTLE fire of november 1992 postcards x7 | ![]() |
0 Bid | £.99 | 2d 6h 56m |
| x7979 Orion Oil Rig on rocks photo 85 x 65 | ![]() |
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£4.00 | 2d 20h 48m |
| 1900s used postcard Subsidence Chester Road Northwich | ![]() |
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£11.99 | 3d 3h 31m |
| Postcard of The Titanic 1912 | ![]() |
1 Bid | £30.00 | 3d 3h 58m |
| DISASTER UNUSED POSTCARD 1907 SHIP WRECK SS BERLIN | ![]() |
1 Bid | £.99 | 4d 1h 57m |
| DISASTER UNUSED POSTCARD 1915 TRAMCRASH DEWSBURY MARKET | ![]() |
0 Bid | £.99 | 4d 1h 59m |
| DISASTER UNUSED POSTCARD 1925 CYCLONE HOLLAND BORCULO | ![]() |
0 Bid | £.99 | 4d 2h |
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