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Category: Humorous

Pa Sayin Good Night

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked from Clifton Forge, Virginia, November 9, 1909. Incoming postmark, November 12, 1909 in Pueblo, Colorado. Price:  $3.00 One from our Alice Ellison Collection….a funny postcard fashioned as a chalkboard drawing. “Skidooo….Pa Sayin Good Night to…Read More…

Before You Fool With A Fool

Divided back, unused postcard. Copyright 1913, Walker’s Post Card Shop. Rochester, New York. Price:  $5.00 Words of wisdom from E. C. March: “Before you fool with a fool, be sure you have a fool to fool with.” The name E….Read More…

In Our Front Yard

Old photo, circa early 1900s. Price:  $3.00       Size:  About 4 and 1/8 x 2 and 1/2″ Gibson Girl hairstyles, sailor dresses, little brother and dog. Front yard posing in wintertime. There are no notes or i.d. written on the back,…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…

Funny Guy In Top Hat

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1907 – 1918. Price:  $15.00 Another great comic one, this time of the chuckle and guffaw variety. And at first I thought that this might be the same man as…Read More…

Double Trouble

Divided back, Real Photo Postcard. Stamp box: unknown company. Photographer:  Movex Fotos, 38 Regent St. Circa 1930s. Price:  $15.00 This is great – what do you see at first glance? Two men who look like brothers or identical twins, or…….do…Read More…

Necks To Nothing

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked October 31, 1908 from Harrisonville, Missouri. Publisher:  J. Murray Jordan. Copyright J. Murray Jordan, 1905. Series or number 207. Price:  $10.00 “H’ville Oct – 31 – 1908   Dear Louise:  In the absence of a Halloween…Read More…

The Original Water-Wagon

Undivided back, used postcard. Postmarked April 1, 1909, from Santa Rosa, California. Publisher:  A.T. F. Co. Price:  $8.00 This is the first in a collection from Miss Lily Rea. Her address at this time is Box 23, Gilroy, California. We’ll…Read More…

A Case Of Lock-Jaw

Undivided back, artist-signed, used postcard. Postmarked September 6, 1905 from West Hoboken, New Jersey. Artist:  Antlers. Price:  $10.00 “Sept 6. I am afraid you will be in such a case some day. have you got over to homestead yet. I…Read More…

I’m No Chicken But I’m Game

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked Jan 18, 1915 from Upland, California. Publisher unknown. Series or number 17 – 5. Price:  $5.00 A cute card from 1915 showing a couple of ducks dressed up in walking attire – hats, scarves, bags,…Read More…