HW: Re: HW: Flexi?

[M Holmes]

Jill Strobridge writes:

> There are "postcards" which are literally picture postcards covered in a
> plastic vinyl into which the relevant track has been etched.    Myself,
> I find these extremely attractive and eminently collectable (!) but
> there seem to be several hundred (maybe even thousands?) of them around
> so don't be tempted into paying huge prices.     I've only ever sourced
> mine from E. European countries (or at least people here who have got
> them from there) but it seems that once you have found a contact the
> supply suddenly becomes neverending!    I suspect each buyer is in
> danger of creating his own market - though I have to admit that I've
> never seen ANY recent tracks produced as postcards so it could be that
> production of them was limited to the earlier tracks.
>
> However I am also informed that these postcard picture postcards are not
> the original "postcards".   The original "postcards" are a poor quality
> coloured vinyl semi-rigid flexi much as described below.    The interest
> in them lying more in their social history (made at a time when it was
> illegal to buy records by bands such as Hawkwind) than in their quality.
> (Exactly why the supposedly original vinyl version was called a postcard
> if it wasn't, though, entirely escapes me - but no matter!)

The one I have of Silver Machine is postcard size and shape. There's no
indication that it ever had any picture on it.

FoFP