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Category: Houses

To Aunt Cornelia

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Unused, dated July 24, 1913. NOKO stamp box. Price:  $10.00 A couple in a farming community somewhere in the U. S. pose in front of what may be their home. (Note the lace curtain in…Read More…

Another Unusual House

Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910’s – 1930’s.  Price:  $12.00 The overexposure in this one makes it easy to miss at first, but there’s a chimney in our top right-hand view. (Click twice to enlarge.) And see how oddly…Read More…

Kristofa and Baby

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1910’s. Price:  $12.00 The sender wrote: “Mrs. Hanna[?] & Hubby. Dear friends, hope you feel better today. [?] yourself for going home & see your mother before [?]. I vish I had a change, I…Read More…

A Very Merry And A Bright And Happy

Christmas Card, circa 1920s – 1930s. Made in U.S.A. Price:  $4.00        Size:  4 and 15/16 x 3 and 1/2″ “To wish you a very Merry Christmas and a bright and Happy New Year” Signed,  “Emma & Will.” Lots…Read More…

Merry Christmas To One And All

Christmas card, circa 1920s – 1930s. Price:  $5.00           Size:  4 and 7/16 x 3 and 7/16″ On the reverse,  “From Bessie & Dickey. To the Jones family.” Let’s see….in researching all the Joneses on the census records…Read More…

A Happy Birthday From Percival

Vintage birthday card, circa 1930s. Made in the U.S.A. Price:  $5.00         Size:  6 and 1/4 x 4″ “A Happy Birthday I’m sending this Greeting To joyfully say, May you have many Happy Returns of the Day.” A striking card for…Read More…

Understated Elegance

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1930 – 1950. EKC stamp box. Price:  $3.00 A courtyard (maybe). We can’t see whether this fits the definition of an enclosed or semi-enclosed space. The card was found in California, and there’s a good…Read More…

A Folk Victorian Home, About 1910

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Unused. KRUXO stamp box. Circa 1908 – 1910. Price:  $10.00 Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this house style is Folk Victorian. Two such features are the lace-like decorative spandrels (side-brackets) that…Read More…

Fannie and Walter’s House

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked August 4th from Seattle Washington. Year not readable. Circa 1910s – 1926. Price:  $7.00 Addressed to:   “Leo H. Ouellette. 113 North Norah St. Fort William Ont. Canada.” “Leo – This is the little house…Read More…

George Paden, Sardis OH

Old photograph, white border, circa 1920 – 1921. Price:  $8.00            Size:  2 and 1/2 x 3 and 3/8″ We’re estimating George was four or five years old here, so cute in his double-breasted checked coat and white hat. The house…Read More…