This card is probably vintage rather than antique; it appears to maybe be a copy, as the back of the card is white, rather than yellowed with age. If it is a copy, then I’d estimate the original to have…Read More…
Category: Miscellaneous Cards and Other
Forget Me Not Annie Baxter
Two pages from autograph/souvenir type books from 1886. Artist and publisher unknown. Size: About 4 x 6 and 3/4″ each. Availability status: SOLD “Forget me not Miss Annie Baxter….” “Dear Annie: May friendship and Truth be with you in Youth…Read More…
Amager Woman
Collectable card, circa 1880s to 1890s. Size: 5 and 1/2 x 3″ Price: $7.00 This was an unusual find that was tucked in a large group of old postcards for sale. It’s a cutout of a figure of a woman,…Read More…
Little Girl And Donkey
Old card, circa 1890s. Price: $4.00 Size: 3 and 1/2 x 2 and 5/8″ Adorable small print of a little blond girl and her donkey. At least I think that’s a donkey. The girl wears a red dress and has her…Read More…
George’s Handmade Card
Handmade card. Circa early 1900s. Size: About 3 and 1/2 x 5 and 1/2″ Price: $7.00 On the reverse: “Bessie Geo made this card.” “J. H. + ? ?” It’s not often that you come across handmade cards and here’s…Read More…
Into The Envelope
Here’s an antique card, that must of at one time been in someone’s scrapbook, that has a theme along the lines of the prior post. I wanted to put this one up next for the sort of “before and after”…Read More…
Kitties On Moving Day
Non-postal card by artist Eugen Hartung. Publisher the Alfred Mainzer Co. Circa 1940s – 1950s. Price: $2.00 digital image only The “kitty kids” are having a high time of it here while the “kitty movers” are looking understandably a bit…Read More…
Bridal Shower Card
Bridal shower card, circa 1927 from The Buzza Co. The yellow ribbon attached to the card has produced some discoloration under the ribbon on the front and inside of the card. Price: $20.00 “Here is wishing all your showers Will…Read More…
Friendly Greetings
“The memory of our good old times will never fade away, In proof of which I’m sending this greeting to-day.” This is a beautiful card, on linen-type paper, showing “Friendly Greetings” at the top and the above short verse, both…Read More…
Fishing Boats, Mount Lavinia, Ceylon
Non-postal card showing black and white photo of fishing boats at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon. Mount Lavinia today is part of the city known as Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, a suburb of the capital city of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ceylon became Sri Lanka…Read More…