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Category: People

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…

Joseph Chartrand Trade Card

Trade card for Joseph Chartrand, Montréal, Canada. Circa 1885 – 1886. Price:  $15.00             Size:  2 and 1/2 x 3 and 7/8″ Not in good shape but rare…  There may be other Jos. Chartrand cards that survived (note artist’s initials at…Read More…

Me In 1915

Undivided back, used, artist-signed postcard. Postmarked April 6, 1906 from Waltham, Massachusetts. Price:  $12.00 This 1906 postcard shows off the 1891 popular watercolor and gouache work, The Music of the Dance, by Philadelphia-born artist Arthur Burdett Frost (1851 – 1928)….Read More…

Mrs. Thysell Restored

Mini-photo, circa 1890 – 1910. Availability status:  SOLD  Size including matting:  2 and 1/2 x 4″ Well, we appreciate whoever it was that wrote the name of this beautiful young woman on the back, even though it was only the…Read More…

A U. S. Army WWII Veteran

Photo, circa 1943. Possible surname on back:  Wright. Price:  $3.00        Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3″ We’re a day late this year for Veterans Day, which was yesterday, but still the sentiment was there, so to honor all veterans…..here’s…Read More…

Giesecke Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co.

Trade card for the Giesecke Boot & Shoe Manufacturing Co. Circa 1885 – 1901. Availability Status:  SOLD Grand!  And it is, this lithograph from an unknown company showing two children riding a duck (or goose?) The girl, sitting “side-saddle” holds…Read More…

Kids In Leaf

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1914 – 1917. Price:  $5.00 A good one for a new category, which really should not be new (eee gads, will have to backtrack and see which ones I missed in the past)…Read More…

Charlie Guidotti’s School Photo

Group photo of Salinas Valley School Children  Availability status:  SOLD Size of photo without cardboard mat:  About 7 x 5″ Photographer unknown, photo is glued onto cardboard mat. A wonderful original group photo, albeit in very rough shape, that had…Read More…

Temple And Arnold, Coweta OK, 1910

Divided back, used, Real Photo Postcard. Postmarked 1910. Price:  $15.00 Adorable, can’t be any cuter, image of siblings (?) Temple and Arnold (surname unknown at this time) seated on a beautiful carved wooden bench. Love Arnold’s wide, striped tie! “Arnold”…Read More…