Intriguing Bookmark

One of the pleasures of reading a pre-loved book is that sometimes an unusual bookmark is found between the pages. Over the years I have found bus and train tickets, a shopping list, sweet wrappers, a piece of string, a cigarette card. Presumably just whatever was handy.

Today I came across one of the most intriguing. It was tucked into an old book - probably one which I bought at an auction years ago. It is a postcard. Nothing special or intriguing about that then...

Except that this postcard is printed on thin wartime card.

It is a wartime postcard, but it wasn't posted until 11 August 1962, sent from Torquay in Devon, to an address in London. It was addressed to 'Oberfuhrer ....'.

No valid postage had been paid on it, so the 'Oberfuhrer' had to pay the princely sum of 5 old pence to have it delivered.

I suppose it was written as a joke...but I shall never know.