A strange question and perhaps even stranger answer !
At a recent fair I got talking to an enthusiast and we got on to unusual poster tales : ‘Remember the poster haul recently found under a carpet?’ ‘surely floorboards ?’ he replied.
Turns out we were both right as those icons of British newspapers The Express and the Mail explain.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2525191/Golden-Age-British-travel-carpet-rundown-house.html
Lets have a look at some of the surprise finds