Real Photo Postcard. AZO stamp box. Circa early 1910s.

Price:  $10.00

Real Photo Postcard from sepia-toned studio photo of a beautiful blonde little boy who looks to be about four or five. He wears the ever-popular white sailor suit, in short pants, with knee socks and two-toned high button shoes. He is seated on a small ornately carved wooden table. The stamp box on the back is an AZO with two triangles up and two down. That dates this postcard in a broad range from about 1910 – 1930, but if the photo was taken within these dates, and not prior to 1910, then more likely it is from the early 1910s due to the shoe style. (I consulted various online sources.) An excellent article on the high button shoe explains that one aspect of the change away from the high button would have been due to the leather rationing during WWI.

Source:  “Button, button.” Who Were They, February 24, 2012. Web accessed 30 Aug 2014. [http://whowerethey.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/button-button/]