Family Photo mounted on cardboard. Circa 1880’s. Price: $20.00 Size including matting: About 7 and 7/8 x 5 and 3/4″ Note: There is some “foxing” (the dark marks most noticeable on the right-hand side…Read More…
Category: Mysteries
Subway Clearance 10′
Old photo, white border. Circa 1940’s. Photographer: Robert C. Gilmore, Montrose, Colorado. Price: $10.00 Size: 4 and 7/16 x 2 and 11/16″ It was the photographer’s stamp (with its mountain peak) on the back of this one…Read More…
Somewhere Out West
Divided Back, Real Photo Postcard, unused. Kruxo “divider line” no stamp box. Circa 1911 – 1922. Number 4313 appears in bottom right, front of card. Price: $5.00 I found this Real Photo Postcard in Nevada, so it’s possible that the…Read More…
Vintage Tourist Attaction, Silver Dollar Saloon
Old photo, deckled edge, white border. Circa 1930 – 1940s. Left corner and partial side missing. Price: $2.00 Size: About 5 and 7/8 x 3 and 1/2″ This looks like it’s from one of those reenactment of…Read More…
Japanese Kabuki Performer RPPC
Real Photo Postcard, unused. Date unknown. Publisher unknown. Price: $15.00 A Kabuki actor wearing an eboshi hat (a type of ceremonial headwear for men). Kabuki theater was invented by a woman but in the 17th Century women were banned from…Read More…
La Crue du Nile Old Postcard
Divided Back postcard. Postmarked June 22, 1912, Alexandria, Egypt. Publisher: POF or OPF. Stamp: Postes Egyptiennes, Cinq Milliemes, rose color. Price: $15.00 La Crue du Nile…..The Flood of the Nile The flooding of the Nile was usually an event each…Read More…
John B. Hawkins Street Scene RPPC, 1920s – 1930s
Real Photo Postcard, divided back, unused. Circa 1920s – 1930s. Made by: John B. Hawkins, Marion, Massachusetts. Price: $12.00 This is possibly a Marion, Massachusetts, or neighboring town street view – showing a line of parked cars in front of…Read More…
Baseball Player At Bat Old Postcard
Undivided back postcard. Circa 1906. Publisher or Printer: Stationers Manufacturing Co., Quincy, Ohio. Price: $4.00 I had wanted to get this card up for MLB opening day, but it didn’t make it. No biggie, anyway it’s showing a young ball…Read More…
Heart Unruly
Divided back, embossed, unused postcard. Circa 1920s. Series or number 245. Publisher unknown. Price: $10.00 “Tell me dear And tell me truly Will you accept This heart unruly And be my valentine” The leaves on the trees are all hearts!…Read More…
To Fräulein Hedel Mandel, Halle, Germany
Divided back postcard. Postmarked December 9, [1901-1909] from Striegau (Strzegom, Poland). Publisher unknown. Number and/or series: 1117/18. Price: $10.00 Addressed to: “Fräulein Hedel Mandel, Halle a/Saale, Leipziger St. 73 [?]” A colored (hand-colored?) card of a beautiful young fräulein holding…Read More…