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…
Category: Boats and Ships
Boston – Provincetown – NYC 1928 – 1930
Here is our hostess for this time travel virtual tour of the Boston area, Provincetown, Massachusetts and Central Park, New York City. The photos have present-day writing (mostly done in pencil) on the back, indicating places and dates. There is…Read More…
Lewando’s French Dye House
Trade card. Circa 1877 – 1881. Size: About 5 and 1/4 x 2 and 3/4″ Price: $25.00 “French Process of Dry Cleaning, Lewando’s French Dye House, 65 Temple Place, Boston.” Here’s a beauty: a trade card showing a sailboat prominent…Read More…
A Japanese Postcard
Divided back, unused vintage postcard. Price: $5.00 A Japanese art scene in black and grey showing a seaside home, nestled under a stand of trees, with a sailboat just offshore. The Japanese characters appearing on the back of this unused…Read More…
Doctor “R” Of H.M.S. Penelope
Carte de Visite. Circa 1869 – 1880. Photographer: William Vick, London Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, Great Britain. Price: $20.00 Size: About 2 and 1/2 x 4 and 1/8″ See the update below for the name of the sitter…..thanks to one of…Read More…
In Northern Seas
From one end of the country to the other: We were on the coast of Maine in the last post, and this one looks like it might be Alaska, but there’s no information under than the caption, “In Northern Seas” …Read More…
Sailboats And Roses
Here’s a gorgeous antique card, from around maybe the 1880s – 1890s, of a scene showing several sailboats; the one in the foreground shows the oars in operation. Semi-surrounding this tableau is an arrangement of roses in a horseshoe shape: …Read More…
Puerto Armuelles, Panamá
Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked May 11, 1947. Republic of Panamá. Price: $25.00 Here’s a Real Photo Postcard from the Republic of Panamá, 1947. The cancellation mark is too blurred to read the city. The sender wrote: “Hi Sweet: …Read More…
No Idle Story
“This is no idle story, Which now I sing to you, In a sudden blaze of glory Your ship will come to you. This year she’s coming to you, From out the Golden West, And heavily she’s laden With all…Read More…
Lake Louise, Laggan
Divided back, Canadian, used postcard. Publisher: J. Howard, A. Chapman, Victoria, B.C. Number or series 1180. Incoming postmark dated December 22, 1908. Sent from Alberta, Canada. Availability Status: SOLD These Mr. and Mrs. O. F. Henning postcards have a real…Read More…