"I used to pick up picture postcards of Bombay," says Jayakar, who is also an avid collector of monograms, Shammi Kapoor memorabilia, cigarette boxes and Victorian furniture. "My entire house is a museum," he says, adding that he has installed dehumidifiers but can't afford round-the clock air-conditioning.
Currently, Jayakar is exhibiting 300-odd postcards from his collection of over 5,000 at David Sassoon Library. The Australian Postal Authority began printing postcards in 1869 but they arrived in Bombay only 29 years later. The oldest ones on display are called court cards—they are smaller and date back to 1898—while the most recent ones of the Prince of Wales Museum and the Science Institute were probably printed around 1914. "I have taken the golden period ," says Jayakar. "The pictures that you see of Victorian Bombay are pictures of buildings in pristine condition."
The postcards depict Null Bazaar with bullock carts and tongas , Matunga resembling a quaint Indian village and locals congregating at Fort Chowpatty with the inscrutable caption, "Coconut Offering, Bombay" . There are also postcards sporting artist MV Dhurandhar's paintings of professions like shoelace hawker, punkhaboy and dhobi.
Despite searching, Jayakar has never managed to locate one of Khotachiwadi. Today, an old postcard's price range is from Rs 500 to Rs 1,000 depending on its rarity and condition.
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