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Category: Postcards Unused With Writing

Père Marquette Depot, Bangor, Michigan

“Dare Cousons I thought wood send you card to let ya now I am picking haye[?] now I am will [well] and having good time – from Eathy to Milson.” This Real Photo Postcard, circa 1910, shows a train at…Read More…

Gokee Farm, Bear Creek, Michigan

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1910. Availability Status:  SOLD Written in pencil on the back of this Real Photo Postcard is:   Gokee Farm, Petoskey Mich.”   Actually, it looks more like Gekee,…Read More…

Cookson Brothers Home, Springdale, Iowa

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1900 – 1910. Price:  $15.00 “Cousin Wm Cook, we send you a postal of our home in old Iowa. Cookson Bros.” Finding (or not finding) proofs for old photos and postcards…Read More…

Major Domo In Glen Eyrie, Colorado

This postcard shows another example of an expression back in the day, for something or someone, that looks “natural.” See the prior post. The unknown sender wrote: “Passed here March 24, 1910. Saw this it looks very natural.”   Addressed simply…Read More…

From Lloyd To Mrs. Ralph

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1918. Price:  $5.00 “From your little friend Lloyd to Mrs. Ralph.” Here’s a precious photo made into a Real Photo Postcard of a little boy named…Read More…

Selma, Blanche And Maggie

Here’s a portrait of three beautiful young ladies, probably sisters. The sender, one of the three, wrote a nice long and funny message to her cousin Henry: “My Dear Cousin, this is my Postal, how you like me, I look…Read More…

Esther Jacobson

This Real Photo Postcard, along with several others, was found at an antique fair in Watsonville, California. They were previously written on by probably another dealer. But wonderfully, the name of this beautiful girl appears on the back, along with…Read More…

Fred Demmel In About 1912

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. CYKO stamp box. Circa 1912. Availability Status:  SOLD This postcard was addressed to,  “Mr. Albert Beardsley, 100 Empire St., Freeport, Ill.”  and the sender wrote: “Hello Albert. How are you. we are…Read More…

Bill, Freda And Anna

Hmmm, well do most people identify people going from left to right? Is it possible that the original image was reversed? (Yes.) But the long and short of it is we don’t know which lady is Freda and which is…Read More…

To Lena From Mamie

From The Lena Davis Collection, here’s a postcard showing an embossed “framed” scene of two figures in a rowboat on a lake, with the sun rising or setting behind purple mountains. This is probably from about 1910, as we know…Read More…