Tag Archives: police
8 October 2008

Vienna Traffic Cops

I love Captain Cool, center, and his squad of traffic goons in this RPPC from 1949. The back of the card doesn’t have any identifiable markings from the manufacturer, but someone was kind enough to make notes for me: Unfortunately, the only German that I can translate from this is “Harley-Davidson”. Lest you think that [...]

22 September 2008

Royal Canadian Mounted Police

This is a “Holografix” postcard by Impact Impressions of Markham, Ontario. The card doesn’t actually look quite like the picture; the odd colors and the darkness are due to the scanner reflecting off of the lenticular surface of the Mountie pictured (similar to the hologram on your credit card). The results were even worse when [...]

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