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Category: Flowers

A Wish For Your Gladness

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 22, 1928 from Sacramento, California. Series or number 1181 D. Publisher unknown. Price:  $8.00 A beautiful Christmas postcard from The Alice Ellison Collection of a ringing bell with a poinsettias, mistletoe and a scene of…Read More…

Ringing The Bell

Victorian Era card. Circa 1870s – 1890s Price:  $3.00        Size:  3 and 15/16 x 2 and 3/8″ A trade-type card that never got stamped with owner info. Very beautiful design – a sturdy-looking little boy or elf-type guy. What’s he…Read More…

Samuel Clarke 12 & 14 S. Queen St., Lancaster, PA

Trade card, Lancaster, PA. Circa 1888 – 1890. Price:  $10.00        Size:  about 4 and 1/8 x 2 and 1/4″ “Call on Samuel Clarke, for Teas Coffees and Groceries, 12 & 14 South Queen Street. Don’t read the other side.” Ahhh,…Read More…

Best Birthday Wishes, 1910

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked October 1911 from Sacramento, California. Copyright 1910, J. Baumann. Series or number 2900. Price:  $2.00 Pink roses and a muted country scene in a pink flowered border – another in our ongoing Alice Ellison…Read More…

Hugh Ester Bayles

Divided back, unused with writing and/or photographer stamp. Three Real Photo Postcards of Hugh Ester Bayles, taken in San Jose, CA, by photographer Enrico Bambocci. Circa 1913 and 1918. Solio stamp box. Availability Status:  SOLD So, we’re a little late…Read More…

Picking Flower, Near Mississippi Headwaters, Minnesota

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1950s. Price:  $15.00 This Real Photo Postcard is one of (at least) four that we see that had been taken, circa 1950s, of an Indian woman named Picking Flower. The other three vintage…Read More…

Easter Joy Attend You

Divided back, embossed postcard. Unused with writing. Publisher:  International Art Publishing Co., New York and Berlin. Printed in Germany. Circa 1907 – 1914. Price:  $8.00 The spring colors are beautiful in this card, and the theme is egg shell bells…Read More…

Easter Chick For Verne

Divided back, embossed postcard, unused with writing. Copyright 1909, H. Wessler. Series:  422. Price:  $7.00 A Peaceful Easter.… Chicks rule this year…and this is another beauty, a charmer (that face!) Our chick appears in an oversized eggshell, the top broken…Read More…

A Lucy Larcom Easter Greeting

Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Design copyright John Winsch, 1911. Printed in Germany. Price:  $5.00 In tones of rose, forget-me-not-blue and plum….A Happy Easter! “Every flower to a bird has confided The joy of its blossoming birth, The wonder of…Read More…

To My Valentine, 1910

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked February 10, 1910 from Los Angeles, California. Printed in Germany. Number 4129. Price:  $3.00 A smiling cupid, with pale green gossamer wings, is knocking at the door, ready to deliver a valentine gift:  A…Read More…