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BeauxPurdy
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Santa In A Flying Green Pickle Boat. These old post-cards are so colorful... That pickle balloon makes me laugh :)
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The Killer Mobile Device for Victorian Women
Adrift in a sea of digital apps for every imaginable function, we often feel our needs are met better today than in any previous era. But consider the chatelaine, a device popularized in the 18th century that attached to the waist of a wo…
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
The mysterious packages kept arriving, some from eBay, others from the Home …
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
While researching her book, "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," Maureen Stanton came across all sorts of characters. For years, she shadowed her antiques-dealer friend …
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Bizarro Beauty Products, from 1889 to Now
We tend to think of the union of vanity and technology as a particularly modern affliction. It's only recently that science brought the world botox and collagen injections, skin peels, liposucti…
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
Vintage kites from all over the world hang from the ceiling and walls of Richard Dermer’s popula…
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Pin-Up Queens: Three Female Artists Who Shaped the American Dream Girl
It’s easy to think of pin-up art as a charming relic of the old boys’ club—images that might line the walls …
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
It’s not unusual for men of a certain age to have a soft spot in their hearts for the look of vintage guitars and the sound…
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Tokens for Sweethearts, in Times of War
A keepsake, an item that recognizes a loved one, strikes a deep, sentimental chord in each of us—particularly that of a sweetheart. The popularity of keepsakes grew in the United States during the period from 1917 to 1919 as our country ent…
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American Picker Dream, Part I: Mike Wolfe On His Love Affair With Bikes
I was walking to school one day and saw all these bikes in the garbage. I was just amazed because I didn't have one and I found it incredible that anyone was throwing them out. So I gathered…
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Christmas PostcardsIn 1843, a wealthy British man named Sir Henry Cole had so many greetings t…
Love the colors and the art work!!!!
Great cards!
BELLIN68,
stepback_antiques,
Thank-You Very Much
Wow, I use to have a flying green pickle too,,,,,,it was a Gerkin I think.
Just kiddin of course, these are beautiful cards!
Signaholic, You are funny, Thank-You!
These are too cool!! Gotta send them back to the top !
Thanks hedge for bringing these back to the top, missed them the first time around. BeauxPurdy: these are great, Love 'em!!!!!!!!!
Thank-You Hegewalker! I'm loving these old postcards- I remember my Grandmother taking me to malls (I'd drink Orange-Julius till I was sick) and fairgrounds when I was little to postcard expos- I didn't have much interest in them then, and two years ago her whole collection was they sold at auction! Now I find out how much I LOVE old postcards....Go Figure!
I wonder if there are still postcard fairs, or if now they are all sold on-line....
BELLIN68, stepback_antiques, Signaholic, kerry10456, scandinavian_pieces
Thank-You Everyone!
These are amazing. Where did you ever find these??
Cleaning out my Grandmothers attic...She had a postcard collection that she kept in albums but all of those were sold at an auction, Ratts. These are the one that were just lumped in a box full of bookmarks, recipes clippings, and other 'stuff'. It is the colors that really got my attention. I know nothing of postcards, I just really like them now. Today I found a program scorecard from 1933 world series. Its all things that nobody in my family wanted & was to be discarded, but I've been having so much fun going thru it all. Everything I've posted on this site pretty much came out of that attic or basement...
I was just about to write the almost the same thing that BELLIN68 wrote. So here goes: Great Coloring and Beautiful Art Work