File:World's oldest postcard.jpg
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English: It was a postcard Theodore Hook sent to himself in London as a joke.
Français : Carte postale (probablement la première au monde) que Theodore Hook a envoyée à lui-même à Londres comme plaisanterie. Les personnages repésentent des caricatures d'employés de la poste au travail devant un encrier géant. |
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| Source | £10m coins and £3m dresses: The 10 most expensive collectibles in the world |
| Author | Unknown author |
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| current | 20:10, 17 October 2020 | | 2,000 × 1,319 (587 KB) | Remitamine | Full Image |
| 07:16, 17 July 2020 |  | 2,000 × 1,250 (431 KB) | Remitamine | Higher resolution version | |
| 13:50, 23 March 2020 |  | 1,500 × 937 (272 KB) | Doug Coldwell | Uploaded a work by Theodore Hook from [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/13/10m-coins-and-3m-dresses-the-10-most-expensive-collectibles-in-t/the-worlds-oldest-and-most-expensive-postcard-sent-in-1840/ £10m coins and £3m dresses: The 10 most expensive collectibles in the world] with UploadWizard |
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- Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders/2020
- Wikipedia:Did you know/Statistics/Monthly DYK pageview leaders/2020/April
- Wikipedia:Main Page history/2020 April 26b
- Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/April
- Template:Did you know nominations/World's oldest postcard
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