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Category: Four-Leaf Clovers

With Every Fond Wish

Divided Back, embossed postcard. Copyright 1908, Julius Bien & Co., New York. Postmarked March 15, 1909 from Kansas City, Missouri. “St. Patrick” Series Number 740. Price:  $12.00 Just realized we missed posting a St. Valentine’s card last month, oops! But…Read More…

Hen And Chicks On The March

Divided back, unused postcard. Unknown Parisian publisher. Printed in France, Series or number 595. Dated by the sender:  October 1944. Price:  $5.00 A very cute French postcard for Easter (though dated in October) showing a hen and her three chicks,…Read More…

Dear Little Sister

Divided back, embossed, used postcard, postage stamp removed. Postmarked from Sacramento, California, 1912. Publisher:  Pacific Novelty Company, San Francisco, California. Made in Germany. Price:  $4.00 This is a beautifully designed  “Birthday Greetings”  postcard of an Ireland-looking scene of boats in…Read More…

Ring In The New

“Ring out the old Ring in the new, With greetings gay and wishes true! Once more the joyous season is here To wish you a prosperous, Happy New Year.” Here’s a lovely card in the Lena Davis Collection, showing the…Read More…

Merry Christmas To Grace Baldwin From Irene Ockerson

Here’s an absolutely wonderful Christmas postcard from 1906 that has a good luck theme. It’s not the first that we’ve encountered having what would today seem to be the unlikely combination of yuletide and luck:  Here’s another great example. Anyway,…Read More…

A Token Of Love

Divided back, embossed, used postcard. Publisher unknown. Postmarked February 13, 1908 from Pueblo, Colorado. Price:  $10.00 Cute postcard from 1908 showing a happy little guy in an opened envelope who’s brought the receiver a bunch of four-leaf clovers. The artist…Read More…