Tag Archives: embossed
14 February 2010

Suggestions for Lovers

Since there’s no worded suggestion, one must assume that it’s the illustration that is meant to impart some guidance. What I’m getting out of it is that you should take your lover to a quiet spot in the moonlight, stick out your tongue, and see what happens. This card didn’t go through the postal system [...]

25 June 2009

Phillip

Yesterday over on Postcrossing I sent my hundredth “official” card (in this case, it was an envelope filled with five or six cards; my way of helping a young Dutch girl reach her goal of collecting cards representing all 50 U.S. States) was reported as having been received.  The first hundred cards traveled a combined [...]

12 April 2009

A Joyful Easter

Those old Easter postcards with anthropomorphic chicks and rabbits give me nightmares.  Instead, I bring you this lovely Spring scene, courtesy of Great-Grandpa Phil.  Happy Easter!

1 January 2009

A Happy New Year

Happy 2009! Except for the detail inside the rectangular illustration, everything on this card has been embossed. According to my (incomplete) notes, I picked this card up in a shop somewhere for a buck. The card was published circa 1910, but let’s imagine that it was published in time for New Year’s Day 1909 so [...]

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