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Category: Postcards

Faithful Friends

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. 1908. Price:  $3.00 Well, if anybody can decipher the surname for our Ed, (intuition, psychic ability, maybe you’ve seen a similar name?) if so, you are utterly amazing. What do you reckon,…Read More…

Jolly Jumping Jack

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December [?] 1919 from Sacramento, California. Copyright 1915. Publisher:  P. F. Volland & Company, Chicago, Illinois. Series or number 807. Price:  $2.00 One more for now from The Alice Ellison Collection; our card shows an illustration of a child’s…Read More…

Poinsettia Christmas Wishes

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 17, 1923. Publisher unknown. Series 1013 B. Made in U.S.A. Price:  $2.00 Christmas Wishes “My wishes for your Christmas hours Are just as bright as these gay flowers.” Yet another card from The Alice Ellison Collection. Poinsettias…Read More…

A Christmas Wish From Wallace Stoebe

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 20, 1916 from Alta Loma, California. Publisher:  F. A. Owen Company, Dansville, New York. Series or number 444D. Price:  $5.00                               …Read More…

Merry Christmas From Lentie

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 22, 1923 from Fresno, California. Series or number 30, publisher unknown. Price:  $4.00 Another from The Alice Ellison Collection. A Merry Christmas….. A very nice scene on this one:  Partially framed with snow covered holly, a…Read More…

Merry Xmas From the Harms Family

Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked December 23, 1921 from Sacramento, California. Publisher unknown. Series C-368. Price:  $1.00 Greetings for Christmas “I wish you a bright Christmas: May gladness, like a sail, Carry your ship through happy seas, And joy and…Read More…

Merry Xmas From Frank Bennetts

Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked December 18, 1917 from Sacramento, California. Publisher unknown. Price:  $1.00 Friendly Greetings…….To you my friend, All joy at this happy season. Addressed to:   “Miss Ella Ellison, 1314 – F St., Sacramento, Cal.” Signed:   “Merry Xmas….Read More…

A Mom and Two Daughters

Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1918. Price:  $7.00 No i.d. for this one. Why did I buy it? I like the contrasting fabrics, the plaid and the stripes – all that cotton. Refreshing…Read More…

Another Unusual House

Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1910’s – 1930’s.  Price:  $12.00 The overexposure in this one makes it easy to miss at first, but there’s a chimney in our top right-hand view. (Click twice to enlarge.) And see how oddly…Read More…

Kristofa and Baby

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1910’s. Price:  $12.00 The sender wrote: “Mrs. Hanna[?] & Hubby. Dear friends, hope you feel better today. [?] yourself for going home & see your mother before [?]. I vish I had a change, I…Read More…