Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked January 2, 1916 from San Diego, California. Design copyright: R. G. Rasquin. Series or number 627 – 11. Price: $15.00 “Every New Year Joy may be yours” Here’s a charmer, just over 100 years…Read More…
Category: Birds
J. P. Roberts, Druggist, Hastings, MI
Besides advertising the business for “J. P. Roberts, Druggist and Pharmacist, Dealer In Books, Stationery, Paints Oils and Dye Stuffs, Hastings, Mich.” this trade card/bookmark contains the following words of wisdom: “Time is money” “Where there is a will…Read More…
Photos From A Family Album
Here are a bunch of old photos from someone’s family album, that have been waiting around to finally get scanned and posted. This is WWI Era (the date from the army barracks photos appears to be 7/20/18) and several show…Read More…
Kenton Baking Powder Trade Card
The trademarked design on this Kenton Baking Powder trade card seems to fit the fall season with the weather having turned chilly. Notice the red-tipped nose on the man in the moon. And we hope the owl has seen the…Read More…
Soaring
I wonder what Gwen would have named this one. This is, like the back says, from an original block print by Gwen Frostic. Michigan-born Sarah Gwendolyn Frostic (1906 – 2001) was “…one of America’s foremost nature inspired artists.” I hadn’t…Read More…
One With Nature
Rosy-cheeked little girl in bonnet and blackbird (not really a red-winged blackbird, but maybe so with artistic license 😉 or maybe a starling with the light reflecting off the feathers) are one. By her expression we imagine this is a…Read More…
I’m No Chicken But I’m Game
Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked Jan 18, 1915 from Upland, California. Publisher unknown. Series or number 17 – 5. Price: $5.00 A cute card from 1915 showing a couple of ducks dressed up in walking attire – hats, scarves, bags,…Read More…
Three Chicks For Easter
Divided back, embossed, unused with writing. Publisher unknown. Printed in Germany. Price: $4.00 One last Easter card for the season…showing three adorable chicks – two yellow and one black, on a bed of grass and flowers, beneath a blue sky….Read More…
Loving Easter Wishes
Here’s a gorgeous Easter postcard showing two bunnies, a rooster, and a hen inspecting a golden egg – underneath a farm scene: farmer and horses plowing a field on a beautiful day. You can see a church steeple in the…Read More…
Le Lièvre Et La Tortue
The Hare and the Tortoise…more commonly known in the U.S. as The Tortoise and the Hare…. This is an antique postcard produced from a work by an unknown artist. It appears to have been modeled after an illustration of Le…Read More…