This pretty post card from the 1900s shows a pot of flowers on a gilded background, all upon a green ombre card. Ombre is the style of fading from one shade to another, or one color to another. The sentiment is A Joyful Christmas. The reverse of the card shows us that it was not …
This is an unmailed postcard from around the 1900s. It is heavily embossed and gilded, and shows a bouquet of holly tied with a red bow. The gilding on the holly looks copper rather than golden. The small pine cones are also gilded with the copper color. The card was printed in Germany by B. …
For Sepia Saturday I am giving you a vintage image of Chiping Sodbury Market Place, 1903. The postcard was mailed in 1989 and what I love the most is the text on the back. The obviously misaddressed note was cheekily redirected and I know the card reached its correct destination because it was …
Here we have a fantastic photo, I just love it! It is probably an art piece or promotional piece from a theater or acting company. The photo itself is cut from a real photo postcard, but the stamp box was cut off so there’s no way of identifying a date range. The subject is …
This is a photo postcard found in Orange, CA. The back doesn’t have anything to identify the manufacturer of the postcard or the photographer. Written in pencil is “Ella” in one corner, so I’m guessing this is Ella’s wedding portrait. That might have been a nice way of sending out a wedding photo to those …
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