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Vera Grace Schollian

Posted on January 28th, 2015 by

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Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1911 – 1913.

Price:  $15.00

Vera Grace Schollian, daughter of Fred Elmer Schollian and Daisy May (Moreledge) Schollian, was born December 3rd, 1907, in Page County, Iowa. County records show Buchanan Township but per Findagrave she was born in Braddyville, just a little southwest. There are actually two separate county birth records, one showing 1907 and the other 1908, however her marriage record confirms the 1907 date. She was 35 when she married Maynard Neil Thomas on July 17, 1943 in Washington County, Arkansas. She died August 3, 1908 in Fairfax, Atchison County, Missouri. Findagrave shows a wonderful photo and obituary.

Vera Grace appears to be about four or five years old in this photo, wearing a gingham dress with short puffy sleeves, a little necklace of faux? pearls, a bracelet and hair bow. It’s interesting to me that she’s seated on a little child size wrought iron chair. We have two other Real Photo Postcards that will go up later, of children shown with the same type of beautiful little “kiddie chair.” They must have been pretty common back then. Of course, this is an adorable photo of Vera Grace, and it is most striking that her photo, taken many years later and posted on Findagrave, is so instantly recognizable as the little girl in this photo, and that coincidentally the angle in the two are nearly identical.

Sources:  “Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935”, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XV6F-1Q7 : accessed 28 January 2015), Vera Grace Schollian, 1908.

“Iowa, County Births, 1880-1935”, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V461-4LL : accessed 28 January 2015), Vera Grace Schollian, 1907.

“Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/V4N9-5WV : accessed 28 January 2015), Maynard Neil Thomas and Vera Grace Schollian, 17 Jul 1943; citing , Washington, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 2,020,347.

Vera Grace Schollian Thomas. Memorial #28812016. Findagrave.com. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28812016. (Accessed January 28, 2015.)

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Categories: Children, Postcards, Postcards Unused With Writing, Real Photo Postcards

I Couldn’t Forget You…

Posted on January 28th, 2015 by

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Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked February 14, 1920 from Fresno, California. Publisher:  Whitney Made, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Price:  $4.00

“I couldn’t forget you if I would –

I wouldn’t forget you if I could”

This is kind of similar to the prior post in the verse, and such a cute one with two baby birds (look at those faces!) in their apple tree nest, and cupid serenading them and playing the lute. The card has a blue and white checkerboard border. This is from Maebelle to her grandma, and she wrote:

“Hello grandma did aunt annie come wish we could see her love from Maebelle.”

Addressed to:   “Mrs. J. M. Ellison, 1314 F St, Sacramento, Cal.”

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Categories: Birds, Postcards, Postcards Used, The Alice Ellison Collection

If You Are As Glad…

Posted on January 27th, 2015 by

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Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked October 8, 1917 from Fresno, California. Publisher unknown. No. 1005.

Price:  $4.00

We’re finding the verse funny in this one…..

“If you are as glad to be remembered,

as I am to remember you,

We are both having a real good time.”

Here’s a spray of red poppies on a blue and white background with the above humorous verse. The poppy leaves look more rose-like than poppy-like, and it’s kind of different that the flowers are upside-down….The design of the background might remind you of water or the sky. This is in our Alice Ellison Collection, and the sender wrote:

“Dear Ma   I thought of you on your birthday but I was to busy moving to send you a card. How is Bessie. Our new add is 2610 Grant Ave. Write soon   Love from Dos.”

The card is addressed to:  “Mrs. J. M. Ellison, Sacramento, Calif, 1314 F st.”

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Categories: Flowers, Humorous, Postcards, Postcards Used, The Alice Ellison Collection

Sailboats And Roses

Posted on January 27th, 2015 by

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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:  a multi-petalled rose in pink and one in burgundy, the pink being predominant and in full bloom, with buds and leaves, and beneath this a spray of white with gold center single-petalled blooms. The colors and design are wonderful on this card:  the pale green and lavender reflecting off of the water; the difference in the top and underside of the rose leaves; the light showing somewhat through the clouds in the sky; the blues on the boat in the background, almost silhouetted, and to balance this out, the little bit of blue on the roses on our right. I like the placement of the seagulls, (six of them) and we can see a silhouette of a person manning the boat closest to us. This is another one of these little scenes one can get lost in, like a mini-vacation.

This card happens to have a couple of names on the back, in beautiful handwriting:  “Lillian Kent”  at the top, probably the person the card was given to, and either a partial name that’s cut off or full name with location that’s cut off,  “Cora Brown Tea….”  I think whoever took the card out of the scrapbook probably did a great job considering it’s a delicate operation. Too bad we can’t read the last word though, as that would probably let us identify the person that was the likely sender.

Victorian era card. Circa 1880s – 1890s.   Size:  2 and 7/8 x 4 and 1/4″

Price:  $15.00

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Categories: Boats and Ships, Flowers, Miscellaneous Cards and Other

Puerto Armuelles, Panamá

Posted on January 26th, 2015 by

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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:  Here is a picture of our ship! and by the way, I got the dates[?] wrong on the letter. I…?… to you:  Will explain in the 4th coming letter!  Love. Frank.”

The card was addressed to:   “Miss Jeanette Hume, 2100 Virginia St., Virginia Court #6, Berkeley, Calif.”

Well, here is a mystery. What was the name of this ship? It’s always interesting, and quite frustrating, when you can almost make out a detail like the name on the hull. I looked at ship photos on various online sites but didn’t come up with a match. And this is part of the Alice Ellison Collection. Many more to come.

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Categories: Beaches and Seaside, Boats and Ships, Mysteries, Postcards, Postcards Used, Real Photo Postcards, The Alice Ellison Collection, Trees

George Terrel

Posted on January 25th, 2015 by

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Unused, Real Photo Postcard. Circa late 1910s – mid 1920s. AZO stamp box.

Price:  $10.00

A great photo of a smiling young man, about fourteen maybe, posing for the camera. He wears a belted suit jacket, knickers, shirt, necktie, and leather “cat paw” boots. The name on the back says  “Geo. Terrel.”  At first glance you might think (I did) that he is standing in a house or church. A church vestibule came to mind for some reason. But not so, upon closer inspection we can see that he’s posed in front of a painted photographer’s backdrop. Whoever the artist was did a good job!

As far as i.d. – one might have a sneaking suspicion that there would be lots of possibilities under this name showing up in records in the early 1900s, and this turns out to be the case. The writing above the name doesn’t seem like a city, maybe “P.C.” stands for postcard, so that doesn’t seem to be of any help to date the photo. The AZO stamp box with two triangles up and two down is estimated at 1910 – 1930 per Playles.com. And that’s a pretty broad range. So, probably his suit style is the most helpful for dating the photo, as similarly styled Knickerbocker suits were found on Pinterest in a Sears & Roebuck catalog for 1917. But maybe someone will be able to identify this particular George Terrel; a handsome young guy with a great smile.

Sources:  Knickerbockers (clothing). n.d. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbockers_%28clothing%29. (Accessed January 24, 2015).

“bloomers”  Pinterest. https://www.pinterest.com/LauraRicketts1/bloomers/ (Accessed January 25, 2015).

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Categories: Children, Photos With Names, Postcards, Postcards Unused, Real Photo Postcards

Railstop

Posted on January 24th, 2015 by

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Here’s a really cool semi-candid Real Photo Postcard showing railroad workers at work, and a gentleman posed for the camera in the foreground, leaning against the train. It looks like they are at a rail stop, having just arrived or maybe getting ready to head out. Per the excellent Playles.com website, that we go to often for dates on RPPCs, the estimated time frame for this postcard would be 1907 – 1917. It has a Velox stamp box showing diamonds in each corner and “Place Stamp Here” in the center.

Divided back, unused Real Photo Postcard. Velox stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1917.

Price:  $6.00

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Categories: Photos Without Names, Postcards, Postcards Unused, Real Photo Postcards, Trains

Horse-Drawn Fire Engine

Posted on January 24th, 2015 by

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On the back of this card was written very lightly in pencil  “Fire. ca. 1880”  but this was likely done by a prior seller, rather than the original owner of the card. This would be some type of print, a lithograph one assumes, of some beautiful artwork showing a two-horse fire truck, a couple of mustachioed firemen in blue uniforms, pulling a spouting engine. The horses gallop down the road, carrying the men and fire-fighting apparatus right at the viewer. The predominant color on the card is blue-gray, but the representation comes to us as highlighted inside a red diamond shape, with the engine’s burning flames and billowing smoke overflowing outside the diamond. One of the horse’s hooves just barely appears outside the red line: something that would always be deliberately done to help get that flow-y effect. And shooting outside the diamond tableau are some star-like designs on each side of the road (streetlights?) The cloudy-looking colors around the bottom, to me give the effect of horses kicking up dust. All in all a great action scene. Plus notice how the bright yellow at the horses’ feet balances out the other bits of yellow on the card (or vice versa)…..It really seems like the more you look at this one, the more you see.

From the public domain, here’s a great video clip of one example of the real thing; taken in 1896.

Antique card, circa 1880s – 1900. Scalloped edges on three sides. Artist and publisher unknown.   Size:  3 and 1/2 x 4 and 3/4.”

Price:  $15.00

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Categories: Animals, Firetrucks and Firemen, Horses, Miscellaneous Cards and Other

How The Fashions Came

Posted on January 24th, 2015 by

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Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1907. Publisher:  A.T.F. Company, Chicago, Illinois.

Price:  $10.00

Heee heee. A great one, eh? Is that a horse or mule on the left? I don’t know. To me the image looks a little moose-like. This one appears to be showing a printing error, but if so, in this case it works really well with the subject. The publisher is A.T.F. Company of Chicago. When enlarging the back header in Photoshop to see the publisher name, a really cool effect happened. (The same thing did not happen in the regular Photo Viewer for Windows. I don’t know what that says about the pixels or technology or what have you!) Anyway, check out the stripes. The lines surrounding the words “Post Card” changed a little with each slight enlargement. I did a screen shot of this one to display here.

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Hmmm. The publisher A.T.F. Company of Chicago shows up for other old postcards online circa 1905 – 1907. So, some undivided back and some divided like we have here. But nothing detailed for the publisher was found, as of the date of this post. In browsing the other various entries found online it seems this company must have published a number of humorous cards.

 

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Categories: Animals, Cows and Cattle, Hats, Humorous, Postcards, Postcards Unused

The Girl That Climb The Twee

Posted on January 22nd, 2015 by

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So, oftentimes we see that the sender’s spelling in their message and even in the address, is a little bit off, due to the fact that, in decades past, many people did not have the opportunity to continue a formal education, and also due to the fact that messages on postcards were often hurriedly scribbled. You know, they wrote things like, “This is just a quick note, I’m sending you a long letter soon…”  But this one looks like it says,  “The girl that climb the twee.”  And perhaps it was written that way on purpose, as a running joke from childhood. It’s addressed on the back to  “Mrs. Allie Day.”  And that looks like a large bow that decorates the young lady’s braided hair at the back. (Though that bow might remind you of a pair of small wings in the overall effect!)

The stamp box, and the fact that it’s a divided back, places the estimated date of the postcard at around 1907 – 1920s. A quick check on Ancestry.com for Allie Day reveals that there were scads of women under this name, all over the United States, which is just what one would expect.

Divided back, unused with writing, Real Photo Postcard. Circa 1907 – 1920s. Cyko stamp box.

Price:  $4.00

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Categories: Photos Without Names, Postcards, Postcards Unused With Writing, Real Photo Postcards, Trees