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Close Hauled

Divided back, artist-signed postcard. Postmarked August 8, 1910 from San Francisco, California. Artist: D. P. Crane. Publisher:  H. G. Zimmerman & Co., Chicago, IL. Price:  $8.00 Addressed to:   “Mrs. A. Schweitzer, Napa, Calif. Box 253” The sender wrote:   S. F. …Read More…

I’m In With All The Swells!

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 18, 1913 from Wichita, Kansas. Publisher:  Williamson-Haffner Co., Denver, Colorado. Artist name unknown. Price:  $12.00 Addressed to:   “Mrs. Ida McFrederick, Harper, Kans, Route 3.” The sender wrote:  “Dec 18 – 1913. send my mail up…Read More…

A Formal Occasion, Onboard Ship

Photo, white border. Circa 1910s – 1940s. Price:  $6.00         Size:  About 2 x 2 and 7/8″ A snapshot found in a loose box of photos, location and ship name are unknown, and the date is unknown. If you enlarge the…Read More…

Memorial Day Parade, Hazel Park, MI, 1966

Divided back postcard, unused, 1966. Photo by:  Southeastern Michigan Business & Professional Women Association. Series or number 12842-C. Publisher:  L. Goldberg & L. Wilson, Hazel Park, Michigan. Printer:  Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, New York. Price:  $5.00 “1st Prize Float,…Read More…

Marchande de Poissons, Côte d’Argent, Bordeaux, France

Divided back, unused postcard. Phototypie by Marcel Delboy, Bordeaux, France. Series or number 46. Circa mid – late 1910s. Price:  $15.00 It’s always exciting to find a card like this – filled, or nearly so, with words. You know it…Read More…

Thunderbird Park, Vancouver Island, 1958

Photo, snapshot with white border, June 1958, Vancouver Island, BC Price:  $5.00       Size:  About 3 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ Tourists in June 1958 posing at the foot of a totem pole (not sure if this particular one is…Read More…

Holiday Ice Skater

Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher:  P. F. Volland & Co., Chicago and New York. Copyright 1917. Price:  $7.00 “To extend the greetings of the season and to wish you a happy and prosperous New Year.” An illustration of a very…Read More…

With Affectionate Regard

Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1910 – 1920s. Series or number W1017. Publisher unknown. Printed in the U.S.A. Price:  $3.00 “I send you my New Year greetings on this tiny little card. They are prompted not by custom, but affectionate…Read More…

Happy New Year To Chillon Carter

Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 31, 1914 from Joplin, Missouri. Publisher unknown. Printed in Germany. Series or number 1154/1. Price:  $8.00 Here’s another card, like the previous one we posted, that’s tinted (or colored, if either is the right term)…Read More…

A Greek Happy New Year

Divided back, unused postcard dated December 1933. Publisher:  Fotocelere, Torino. Printed in Italy. Price:  $8.00 ΕΥΤΥΧΕΣ το ΝΕΟΝ ΕΤΟΣ or Happy New Year, literal translation from Greek found online as “Happy the New Year” which is nice, rather poetic. Addressed…Read More…