My vintage postcard collection is mainly focused on the UK, but of the other countries where I have a reasonable number of other postcards, Egypt is one of them. What I didn't realise until I looked through them was just how many featured camels, so perfect for following theme on this week's Sepia Saturday.The only thing missing is a politician ... but given that the Suez Canal is steeped in political history, I think that almost gives me the full theme set this week.
The Suez Canal, at the Curve of El Guirsh
The Pyramid of Cheops
En route for the fields
Sunset on the desert
More postcards of Egypt on my web site
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What Is it about Camels & Cameras? They Always look as if they are posing! A Great Collection!
ReplyDeleteExcellent collection. There's something special about Egyptian sepia postcards.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice group of camel postcards. All I could find in my collection is a card with some riderless camels lying on the ground.
ReplyDeleteSmashing! Egypt postcards always look great
ReplyDeleteOh my I've always been a fan of camels...they seem to me to be such graceful animals even if they have an odd shape...great photos and nice Sepia post! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat's a whole heap of camels! Enough to give one the hump?! LOL
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful :-)
ReplyDeleteDo you know how old are these postcards?
@tony: just camels in those pictures. I tried to take a picture of a camel at the zoo once and he did everything in his power to make it a really hard job >.<
Wonderful, wonderful postcards! Thanks for sharing them with us.
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Great postcards and you are lucky to have them. I saw the flats upon flats of vintage postcards for sale at a rumble sale recently. It's staggering to consider just how many postcards have been made and sent! Thanks for posting these for us to enjoy.
ReplyDeleteWell done you for finding such a collection of camels. I suppose a camel was the iconic image of the middle east which everyone wanted to send back home.
ReplyDeleteAs a lad I had a toy camel, filled with sawdust, that was a relic from a stop in Egypt during our journey on the ship out to Africa. When I was in Cairo 35 years later, there were the same toy camels filled with sawdust on sale. I think camels = Egypt, that was certainly what I thought when I saw Alan's original image, although I soon discovered Teddy was in Khartoum.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the atmospheric postcards.
Upu really had the cards to display with this theme; I think I have seen some of these in old National Geographic magazines.
ReplyDeleteExcellent comings and goings of camels!
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So now I know that there really are collectors of camel photos! Well done!
ReplyDeleteWow, great cards...what is the general range of dates for them?
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