I love crows, so here’s a beauty, he’s opening a Pommery brand champagne bottle. This was cropped from the ad below that appeared in the winter 1915 edition of The Master Grocer. Source: Goldberg Bowen & Co.’s The Master Grocer….Read More…
Category: Birds
Thanksgiving Day From Anna Budd
Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked November 25, 1907 from Pensacola, Florida. Publisher: Raphael Tuck & Sons. “Thanksgiving Day Post Cards” Series Number 123. Price: $12.00 Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a charmer from publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons, a turkey couple out…Read More…
Photo Op By The Lake
Vintage photo, circa 1950s. Price: $4.00 Size: About 3 and 3/8 x 2″ Maybe Michigan, probably 1950s An African-American family possibly taken in Michigan, where the photo was found. Were they on their way out to breakfast or church? Was…Read More…
Bluebirds for F. E. Cadwell
Postcard postmarked September 28, 1917 from Worcester, Massachusetts. Publisher unknown. Series or number 1020. Price: $7.00 A pretty lake scene done in mostly vertical lines. You might expect to see an artist’s signature at the bottom, but no…..just the sentiments,…Read More…
German Easter Chicks
Divided back, unused postcard. Printed in Germany. Circa 1907 – 1914. Price: $3.00 Easter Wishes…..sort of a minimalist card – an artist’s view of three chicks appearing within layers of white and purple, as in from a basket….but without the…Read More…
A Prosperous New Year To Vera Willson
Divided back, embossed postcard. Postmarked December 31st, circa 1910, year missing. Publisher: International Art Publishing Co. “New Year Post Card Series No. 19.” Price: $6.00 Two adorable bluebirds (artist interpretation) resting on an evergreen branch, are sheltering from the falling…Read More…
To Your Folks And You
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher unknown. Series or number 300B. Circa 1920s – 1930s. Price: $2.00 “To Your Folks and You. My heart is quite crowded with wished most true, For a happy Thanksgiving for your folks and you.”
Swans Ringing The Bell
Divided back, unused postcard. Publisher: Dawkes & Partridge, 29 High Street, Wells. Number 25. Price: $2.00 A Dawkes & Partridge postcard with the description: “Swans Ringing The Bell. The picturesque Moat which surrounds Bishop’s Palace, at Wells, is noted for…Read More…
Hauskaa Pääsiäista
Divided back, used postcard. Paletti, Sarja Pääsiäinen. Circa 1930. Price: $10.00 An Easter card from Finland of a proud rooster with all his baby chicks, and the caption translating to merry, fun or amusing, or maybe just Happy Easter. The…Read More…