Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher: Photochrom Co. Ltd. Graphic Studios, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England. Circa 1950s. Price: $8.00 Calling all Highland Frasers….. A vintage postcard from around the 1950s showing a spray of harebells (campanula rotundifolia) also called bluebells, blawort,…Read More…
Category: Flowers
Young Man With Hat
Cabinet Card. Circa 1880s. Photographer unknown. Price: $5.00 No identifying info on this one for either the subject or the photographer, but it’s a nice photo with a nice rural backdrop. The young man wears a sack suit and bow…Read More…
Lion Coffee Parallelogram
Trade card, Lion Coffee. Circa 1882 – 1890s Price: $5.00 I like the effect of these two images together, as if you’re looking at a roof from above, and what a roof it would be! (although the front of the…Read More…
Worcester & Greenfield, Newsdealers And Stationers
Trade card, circa 1881 – 1899. Price: $15.00 Size: About 2 and 1/8 x 3 and 1/8″ A beautifully stylish little girl, with a wreath of flowers on one arm and just picked roses overflowing from her makeshift cloth “basket,”…Read More…
Sweet Home Soap
Trade card, circa 1880s – 1890s. Price: $3.00 Size: About 3 and 1/4 x 4 and 5/16″ Young love in an old trade card Here’s a trade card, a little worse for wear, but still….a beauty: depicting a lovers’ scene…Read More…
To Ilma From Edna
Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked April 12, 1911, San Francisco, California. Publisher: International Art Publishing Co. Series 1262. Printed in Germany. Price: $7.00 Fond Easter Greetings “Hope and gladness, peace and rest Make your Easter truly blest.” Wow, where did…Read More…
A Flower Fairy Valentine
Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Publisher: S. Berman, copyright 1917. Series or number 7025. Printed in the U.S.A. Price: $5.00 Valentine Wishes…. “Dear Valentine, What fun ‘twould be If you would just Do this with me.” A charming postcard for…Read More…
Happy 1911
Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked December 30, 1910, Visalia California. Copyright John Winsch. Printed in Germany. Price: $6.00 With best New Year Wishes One more for the New Year…..backtracking 107 years…a profusion of pansies to welcome 1911. The name or…Read More…
To Willard Osburn From Uncle Fred
Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked December 29, 1909 from Symerton, Illinois. printed in Germany. Price: $7.00 With New Year Greetings “How are you, are you catching any rabbits these days. from Uncle Fred.” Addressed to: “Willard Osburn, Wilmington, Ill.”…Read More…
To Lena From Gladys
Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked December 29, 1913, Almena, Kansas. Price: $3.00 A Happy New Year A pink rose and some forget-me-nots are framed in blue. (The embossing from the reverse is maybe even nicer – very elegant in white.)…Read More…