Ballets Russes Postcards

[Seb]

Hi and greetings to all from London...

My mum has always been a great fan of anything to do with ballet, particularly old Russian ballet companies and their dancers. And

I 'm hoping to put together a framed collage of old Ballets Russes postcards as a gift for her 70th birthday which is in December.

So, I was wondering if anybody could help me to create a special gift for her big birthday by sending me any postcards that you might not need.

Happy to pay for them and contribute towards the postage!

If you can indeed help, please email me on seb_sherman@yahoo.com

Thank you for reading this and have a good day wherever you are.

Seb

[Helene]

Hello, Seb,

What a thoughtful idea! I hope you have some money to spend, as those postcards in anything but bad condition fetch a pretty penny, as they are not only collectors' items, singly and as part of collections, but are also of great sentimental value, as you know from your grandmother.

You may want to consider excellent reproductions available not only of postcards, but from books and even recent stills from the Ballets Russes documentary that rekindled interest in the companies.

Good luck!

[sandik]

I know that Dance International magazine offers postcards with some Ballet Russe designs on them for subscribers.

[Mme. Hermine]

On eBay there are a number of packets of Ballets Russes postcards for about 10 or so dollars. There's also an original Nijinsky in Les Sylphides postcard for about 230 dollars, to give you an idea!