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Category: Postcards Unused With Writing

Pornic – Coiffure de l’ancien Temps

Divided back, unused postcard. Series or number 81. Photographer or printer/publisher:  L.L. Circa 1920. Price:  $7.00 Addressed to:   “Mrs. Alex. Martin. Paris.” “Dear Mrs. Martin, Many thanks for the lovely card and those you gave to Maman. The old women…Read More…

To Peter From Elizabeth

Postcard, unused, undivided back. May 25, 1907. Price:  $7.00 A twin of the beauty in the prior post, it seems. 😉 The sender wrote: “May-25-07.   Hello Pet. bet you cant take my picture and make it look like this. Elizabeth”…Read More…

Zola I. Proudfit, April 1916

Real Photo Postcard, unused with writing. April 1916. AZO stamp box. Price:  $12.00 “Miss Zola Proudfit, 8 years 4 months, Taking in April 23, 1916.” A cute moment:  Zola posing on her front porch step, (assuming she was at home)…Read More…

Grandpa McInnes

Real Photo Postcard, unused. AZO stamp box. Price:  $5.00 A beautiful photo-turned-postcard of a handsome guy in profile, with white beard, in suspenders, one hand resting on hip, the other holding his straw hat and with what we might think…Read More…

Marchande de Poissons, Côte d’Argent, Bordeaux, France

Divided back, unused postcard. Phototypie by Marcel Delboy, Bordeaux, France. Series or number 46. Circa mid – late 1910s. Price:  $15.00 It’s always exciting to find a card like this – filled, or nearly so, with words. You know it…Read More…

A Greek Happy New Year

Divided back, unused postcard dated December 1933. Publisher:  Fotocelere, Torino. Printed in Italy. Price:  $8.00 ΕΥΤΥΧΕΣ το ΝΕΟΝ ΕΤΟΣ or Happy New Year, literal translation from Greek found online as “Happy the New Year” which is nice, rather poetic. Addressed…Read More…

To Lena From Sophia B. Freeman

Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. “Christmas” Series – Postcard No. 207. Printed in Germany. Circa early to mid-1910s. Price:  $5.00 “To = Lena Davis.   From = Sophia B. Freeman. Handsworth, Sask.” Re-visiting our friend, Lena…..it’s been a while, but here’s…Read More…

Irene Francis Zink and Virgil Emerson Zink

Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. 1922. Price:  $12.00 Continuing on with a kid theme before we get to some Christmas posts…..Here’s one very nicely identified as: “Joel Cox’s grandchildren Irene Francis Zink age 3 1/2 yrs. and Virgil Emerson…Read More…

Boyd Roland Gibbs, 4th Field Artillery, Battery B

Real Photo Postcard, unused. Circa 1916 – 1919. Arax Photo Studios. AZO stamp box. Price:  $15.00 “Mr. Boyd Roland Gibbs. 4th Field Artillery. Battery B. Atlanta, Georgia.” Hey, well I fibbed 😉 evidently in the last post. Thought I had…Read More…

O Rhyme Of Sweet Saint Charity

Divided back, unused postcard. Circa 1913. Number or series 7212. Price:  $12.00 Looking more like a Saint Patrick’s Day card in design than Easter……a beautiful bouquet of lilies of the valley with a country home scene in the background and…Read More…