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Category: Holidays

Easter Chick For Verne

Divided back, embossed postcard, unused with writing. Copyright 1909, H. Wessler. Series:  422. Price:  $7.00 A Peaceful Easter.… Chicks rule this year…and this is another beauty, a charmer (that face!) Our chick appears in an oversized eggshell, the top broken…Read More…

A Lucy Larcom Easter Greeting

Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Design copyright John Winsch, 1911. Printed in Germany. Price:  $5.00 In tones of rose, forget-me-not-blue and plum….A Happy Easter! “Every flower to a bird has confided The joy of its blossoming birth, The wonder of…Read More…

Hen And Chicks On The March

Divided back, unused postcard. Unknown Parisian publisher. Printed in France, Series or number 595. Dated by the sender:  October 1944. Price:  $5.00 A very cute French postcard for Easter (though dated in October) showing a hen and her three chicks,…Read More…

Three Cheers

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked February 25, 1910 from Pueblo, Colorado. St. Patrick Series No. 3. Price:  $3.00 “Erin Go Bragh” Three cheers for Old Erin’s Isle, Three cheers for the harp and flag of green. Three cheers for…Read More…

Luck From Mattie Hicks, 1908

Undivided back, embossed, unused postcard. Publisher:  Raphael Tuck & Sons’  “St. Patricks Day Post Cards.” Price:  $3.00 “St. Patrick’s Day – and I wish you Luck.” Happy St. Pat’s Day! Here’s a barefoot country lass (love the fringe on the…Read More…

To My Valentine, 1910

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked February 10, 1910 from Los Angeles, California. Printed in Germany. Number 4129. Price:  $3.00 A smiling cupid, with pale green gossamer wings, is knocking at the door, ready to deliver a valentine gift:  A…Read More…

Valentine To Ella From Alice

Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Publisher:  Whitney Made, Worcester, Mass. Circa:  1910s – 1920s. Price:  $1.00 “To My Valentine.” Happy Valentine’s Day! This one’s in rough shape, for sure, but so cute though. Nice outfit (gaiters and tam o’shanter hat)…Read More…

Of Gaiters And Dairy Ranches

Divided back, used, embossed postcard. Postmarked January 3, 1933 from Buhl, Idaho. Number 327. Publisher unknown. Price:  $4.00 Best New Years Wishes… “To you dear friend Sincere Greetings I fondly send This New Years Day.” Well, we’re late in posting…Read More…

May The Fleeting Seasons

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked December 23, 1922 from Sacramento, California. Publisher unknown. Price:  $4.00 “May the fleeting seasons as they come and go Each their richest gifts on you, my friend, bestow.” We wish they were a little less…Read More…

The Little New Year

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Postmarked December 29, 1914 from Lancaster, Kansas. Series NY-76. Publisher unknown. Price:  $6.00 Greetings…. “The little New Year is about to appear. I hope he will bring you all joy and good cheer.” Does the…Read More…