Divided back, unused, embossed postcard. Series 209. Printed in Germany. Publisher and printer unknown. Circa 1907 – 1914.
Price: $4.00
From our Ethel Main Collection, this card has a trade mark logo of either publisher or printer (or both) that is thought to be one of the Gibson Art Company’s logos (see Comments from JAX on this post): showing below, a capital G inside a rectangular artist’s palette with brushes “attached.”
The front of the postcard shows a pretty typical moonlit tableau of a church in a snow-blanketed country setting, with Christmas bells hanging on the left and poinsettias in the background. Nice though! The verse reads:
“Christmas Greetings.
May richest gifts of Christmas cheer
Bestrew your path to=day.”
The card was addressed to someone’s mother, and the sender wrote: “Hoping you will have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. Love, Helen Main.”
Hi
This is one of the trademarks for Gibson Art Co.
Hi Jax, if you have any examples of this trademark belonging to Gibson Art Co., please let me know, as I haven’t seen any proof yet. Thanks, Anne. Also, in searching the web just now, MetroPostcard.com’s write-up on them states their postcards were not numbered, and the card in question for this post has a series number.
I used to have a book of postcard publishers and that’s how I learned it
best,
JAX