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love the both of them

 

It's horrific, I love it.

 

I found quite a large stash of postcards from the first part of the last century. Included were a handful of leather/animal skin hand written and decorated postcards. The leather is quite supple and nice. Thought I would share a couple.

 

Looks like a lot of fun! Happy hunting through that hoard.

 

More additions to my collection. Got about 30 cards in all. Here are a few selections.

 

wow, great load of postcards Shwikman any seasonal (Halloween or Christmas) cards?

 

I only looked at a handful to check names, dates and cities but I’m guessing there will be. If you look at the last photo there’s a Thanksgiving card on top to the right.

 

I missed seeing the Turkey Day card Hoping that is a sign that there will be more seasonal cards in the box - Halloween and Christmas can be worth some serious money

 

Hope so too!
Your celebrating turkey day on a Monday makes way more sense than our Thursday...IMO

 

When I was doing the bumming around Europe thing (it's vintage now), I visited a music-box museum in Utrecht and bought this postcard. The rather horrendous image of that soldier caught my eye.:


Of course it's an illustration for a song about the kindness and compassion of the nuns. But still...

Here's a larger view:


And here's the tune:

 

On that same (and only) trip I was staying at a hostel in Paris when someone strted talking about the post card he had bought that day. I had seen the same card and thought it rather uninteresting, but he kept going on about how European/French the image was - with the traffic cop and the hat and the gloves and how it shows the paving and all. I decided he had a point and picked one up after all:

 

Still adding to the hoard and learning a lot! Having the chance to converse with experienced collectors and see how they price things is very insightful.

 

I got a chance to do some digging today, lots of seasonal/holiday cards so...

...Happy Easter!!

 

Nice grouping, Shwikman!

 

Wow, Shwikman, some of those are really great! (I'm a sucker for rabbits & chickens.)

 

wow, what a fabulous collection of postcards thank-you for sharing them!!

 

Whoa doggies re the "You've got to be cruel to be kind" postcard(?).

The woman's hand holding the child in the chair is huge. She could probably span two octaves on a piano with that hand!!!

 

I know!
I’ve noticed that the woman in the “Honeymoon” card could possibly be a man playing a woman for the photograph. Possibly just a weird angle though.

 

Grabbed a quick snap of these as they passed through. Panorama postcards, all probably pre-dating 1920. Top left: Cremona. The rest, top to bottom: Pavia, Coastline near Genoa, Portofino, Coastline near La Spezia: