The Museum of Written Postcards

A cabinet of

Stamps & Postmarks

Every postcard arrived bearing two small marks: a stamp chosen by the sender, and a postmark pressed in ink by the post office on the day it travelled. Together they snapshot a moment in time - a town, a date, a monarch, a flower, a slogan. Here is a wall of those close-ups, taken from the collection. Click a tile to open the postcard it belongs to.