In my opinion the London Life Rotary Photo Series Postcards are unsurpassed. These interesting postcards which provided a social history insight into everyday London Life captured my imagination over 40-years ago. As many postcard collectors know…you can’t collect everything and at the time I was busy collecting real photographic Manchester Suburbs and the Events and Disaster postcards of Warner Gothard from Barnsley.
My partner at the time started collecting the London Life Rotary Series Postcards with my blessing. She had a connection with London being born within the sounds of the Bow Bells. This was in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s and can’t quite remember how far she progressed. I remember her securing the rare Labour Demonstration and at a guess maybe she had 20-30 at most. Not sure if she carried on collecting them and always wondered what happened to them once we went our separate ways.
I would certainly like to get my hands on the Labour Demonstration because I have only just started collecting these wonderful postcards. Rotary Photo provided top quality photographic postcards that very rarely faded over time and you will find many unposted and this has no doubt protected their condition even more. As of today I have around 20 from the London Life Rotary Photo Series. I am in no rush and will pick them up as and when so no pressure.
I have a budget like all postcard collectors and will stick to that. Once I have been collecting them for a few years I will learn what is scarce and the ones that are super rare. At present I am just buying the common examples which is fine, but I have been collecting postcards long enough to know that at some point the additions will get slower and slower as I seek out the more rare numbers.
Strange to think that someone like myself with absolutely no connection to London can take such a keen interest in collecting them. But that is testimony of the quality of this series. If you have any London Life Rotary Photo Series Postcards to sell then please get in touch at mark@postcardsforsale.co.uk Maybe you have duplicates you would like to move on or you have acquired a collection with some Rotary London Life inside. I look forward to hearing from you.