“I want view cards”

Parsis were among the early collectors of picture postcards
Farrokh Jijina

Meher Taleyarkhan of Readymoney House, Napean Sea Road was "among Bombay’s earliest persons who collected postcards as a hobby,” noted collectors of Indian memorabilia Sangeeta and Ratnesh Mathur at a public talk titled "Bombay outside Mumbai” organized on June 5, 2021 by the Khaki Heritage Foundation (KHF), a not-for-profit entity created by the reputed Khaki Tours. She was reportedly a copious writer of picture postcards to correspondents overseas between 1905 and 1915 and the Mathurs noted that they have eight postcards from Taleyarkhan in their collection. "We have seen a couple more online at different times, which we couldn’t acquire.” In......



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