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Category: Humorous

Hand-drawn Caricatures of Ladies in Hats

Small hand-drawn cards. Circa 1910’s – 1920’s. Artist unknown. Price for the set:  $15.00           Size:  each about 2 x 3 and 7/16″ For your amusement, a cute and comical set of caricatures of ladies in hats….Read More…

Comic Donkey and Couple Circa 1940’s

Old photo, circa 1940’s. Price:  $6.00              Size:  About 2 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/2″ These type seem to be generally referred to as “face-in-the-hole-board.” Other names include photo cutouts, Aunt Sallys, peep boards,…Read More…

Coming Home By Rail

Divided Back postcard. Postmarked from Loudonville, Ohio, October 10, 1908. Price:  $10.00 Railway days……. There are other “Coming Home By Rail” postcards that can be found online; the joke, of course, being that the person is not traveling by train…Read More…

Gator Couple

Divided Back, artist-signed, used postcard. Postmarked August 21, 1917, Brimfield, Illinois. Postcard artist:  Hans Horina. Price:  $15.00 A gator (the “husband” we presume) standing in a river or pond, calls out,“Oh, I don’t know!” to his wife, who is walking…Read More…

Paul Jones Harrison And Friends

Old photo, circa mid-1890s. Availability Status:  SOLD          Size:  About 4 x 4″ A fun time with friends and siblings…..guessing this photo may have been taken around the mid-1890s due to the large puffed sleeves for some…Read More…

Hearts On A String

Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher:  Julius Bien & Co., New York. Valentine series 360. Copyright 1907. Availability Status:  SOLD “The More the Merrier……Me too.” A cute card! A large heart, wearing spats, is asking to be taken up with the…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…

Afraid To Go Near It

Divided back, unused postcard. Artist:  William Standing. Publisher:  Dennis Delger. 1948. Western Stationery Co., Yachats, Oregon. Price:  $7.00 “Me Too But I’m Afraid To Go Near It.” A humorous card of a totem pole and two dogs….taken from the original…Read More…

Feat Of The 20th Century

Divided back, used Real Photo Postcard. Velox stamp box. 1909. Price:  $12.00 A young gentleman in a suit jacket, button down sweater and derby hat displays his sense of humor. The letters “L” and “S” on the soles of his…Read More…

Country Meets City

Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked March 26, 1908 from Chesaning, Michigan. Publisher:  E. B. & E. Co. Price:  $12.00 A slightly comical card of an illustrated older couple, maybe they live in the country or city outskirts, and have come…Read More…