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Category: Postcards

The Dog Vase

Divided back, unused, Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa 1910s. Price:  $4.00 This Real Photo Postcard shows a boy and girl, who must be brother and sister. The boy looks to be around nine or ten, and the girl…Read More…

Three Chicks For Easter

Divided back, embossed, unused with writing. Publisher unknown. Printed in Germany. Price:  $4.00 One last Easter card for the season…showing three adorable chicks – two yellow and one black, on a bed of grass and flowers, beneath a blue sky….Read More…

Easter Day

Divided back, used postcard. Postmarked April 6, 1914 from Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania. Price:  $10.00 “The world itself keeps Easter day, And Easter larks are singing; And Easter flow’rs are blooming gay And Easter bells are ringing.” That’s a lovely poem…Read More…

Easter Blessing To Hannah From Genevieve

Here’s another beautiful Easter card; this one showing a dark-haired angel holding a book, and gazing down to her right. She is situated in the center of a silver cross with ornate scroll work and the unfurled message,  “Easter Blessing.” …Read More…

Loving Easter Wishes

Here’s a gorgeous Easter postcard showing two bunnies, a rooster, and a hen inspecting a golden egg – underneath a farm scene:  farmer and horses plowing a field on a beautiful day. You can see a church steeple in the…Read More…

The Jenny Lind Theatre, Monterey

Continuing with our short Central Coast, CA theme, here’s a Real Photo Postcard of the Jenny Lind Theatre in Monterey; recognized as the first building in California to offer dramatic entertainment for the public. It was built in 1846 –…Read More…

Monterey Hall Of Records 1834

This circa 1908 postcard shows an old adobe structure, built around 1834 or 1835, called the House of the Four Winds, or La Casa de los Cuatro Vientos. It was so named because it was the first house in Monterey…Read More…

Entrance To Hotel Del Monte

“704 – Entrance Hotel Del Monte, Monterey County, Cal., Coast Line, S. P. R. R.” There’s so much going on with this postcard… Early autos Well, for starters, this continues the topic from the prior post – early American cars…Read More…

When Last Seen On The Road

This RPPC has one of the best homemade captions ever! The image shows a couple of guys (we presume them to have a great sense of humor) in their photo prop car, overcoats and derby or bowler hats. If you’ve…Read More…

Ship Ann?

Undivided back, Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. CYKO stamp box shows “Prints at Night” and “Place Postage Stamp Here.” 1904. Price:  $4.00     Size:  About 5 and 1/2 x 3 and 1/8″ I really do not understand the handwritten caption…Read More…