| "#1551-H AMBROSIA
FROM HAWAII'S GARDEN THE LUSCIOUS FRUITS OF POLYNESIA / PHOTOGRAPHER
-HIPOLITO VELEZ" unused & exceptionally colorful continental postcard in
excellent condition. $1.00 f
"1002
HELLAS /
/ Villagers oven
/ Villageois
four
" also captioned in other languages, showing Greek women baking, post card
mailed from Kos to Holland 1985. $1.00 gf
"130. Tortillera, México. /
J. Granat, México." showing a woman indoors making tortillas, unused color
postcard with undivided back, both sides lightly toned (front border areas
most noticeable), minor corner rounding. $4.25 m(g)f
"15 TOZEUR. -- Marchands de Pains. - LL." Showing
Tunisian bread sellers, black &
white on carte postale with green back, large album adherences on back. $6.00 tpf
"108 - CALIFORNIA GRAPES." color
post card, circa 1910, unused, brownish paper, one corner worn. $2.75
mfc
"11LC-1167
/ MAKING
JERKY / Two Indian ladies of the Delaware tribe.." making it from slaughtered beef,
chrome postcard mailed 1966 to Indiana, unusual subject matter. $1.50 if
"153 THE WORLD'S LARGEST CHOCOLATE AND COCOA PLANT,
HERSHEY, PA. / E-5575" an aerial view of an unused linen post card from the Hershey
Department Store, pertinent information on back on visiting hours, minor wear at one corner. $2.75 pfi
1898 HAND-COLORED TEA ADVERTISING CARD
FROM TOKYO TO INDIANAPOLIS

Front & Back
Message text: "We beg to advise you
that we are now firing and packing the first crop teas for Edwin J. Gillies & Co., New
York. They will be of the same high quality as in former years and will go forward
by first steamer. Send your orders immediately to Edwin J. Gillies & Co., New
York, so as to secure some of the early pickings for your best trade, as they cannot be
obtained later in the season."
Front upper left corner reads:
"Souvenir Japanese Postal Card". Front lower left reads: "FAN CHOP
/
RMA CHOP / BEE HIVE CHOP". (Both in rose-color ink.)
Sent April 2, 1898.
$130.00 ajgf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"1913 McCurd 3 tonner" showing a Tate British
Refined Sugars delivery truck, unused continental postcard, trivial corner wear. $1.25 af
"2,500,000 Cans of canned salmon, Astoria, Oregon" color post card from M.
Rieder, circa 1915, pencil writing on back, mild corner & edge wear, lightly toned
back. $5.00 ofi
"2609 - LOGANBERRIES"
showing a close-up of several berry clusters, color
post card, copyright 1910, unused, brownish paper. $2.75
mf!
"2610 - WHITE WINTER PEARMAIN." color postcard published by Edward H.
Mitchell, copyright 1910 notice is very light on the front, back paper
browning evenly with age, very light back toning from the printing process
itself. $2.75 mf
"288 Sud-Vietnam - SAIGON - Dépot de Bananes" showing a large banana vending
area, hand-colored / tinted real photo postcard, unused & fairly fresh. $4.75 sf
"2. A Vermont Maple Sugar Camp" In color,
undivided back post card, writing on front dates to 1905, faint
album impressions at the corners. $5.00 (vcf)
"367 / MEXICO. VENDEDOR DE METATES" real photo of a
seated vendor with his mealing stones (used for processing seeds & grains,
excellent focus & contrast. Post card
sold but still available for scholarly
study & research as an enlarged (about 771% of original print area) & enhanced
200-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $2.00 mpf
"4 ALGÉRIE. Biskra; la mouture du grain" black & white showing woman
grinding grain, unused, fairly fresh. $8.00 af
"517. Mexico. Molenderas. / J. C. S." showing young woman grinding flour
while another looks on with child, post card with undivided back, minor corner wear &
rounding. Postcard sold. Still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (about 277% of original
area) & enhanced 120-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.75 mf
"7835 / The largest raw Sugar House in continental
United / States. This view of the Sugar House of United States / Sugar Corporation..
/
'America's Sweetest Town'" unused chrome post card copyrighted 1962, fairly fresh.
$1.50 f(c)sf
"Afrique Française Libre: Travaux domestiques
/ Free French
Africa: Domestic duties" black & white postcard shows 3 women grinding &
processing flour, unused. Sold but still available for scholarly
study & research as an enlarged (about 771% of original print area) & enhanced
200-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $2.00
"AIR VIEW OF THE 40 ACRE HOME OF POST CEREALS, BATTLE
CREEK, MICHIGAN" with short ad message on back, unused early chrome
postcard, toned back.
$2.00 mf
"ALKMAAR (Holland)" showing the cheese market there, unused post card, Serie
380 - 399, gedrukt in Nederland, a few specks of toning in the front
borders, lower corner bend not into the image. $4.00 nf NEW
/ NUEVO / UUSI
"Alkmaar.
Kaasmarkt." showing a man pulling a load of cheese, color, Series 174 No. 3072,
mailed in US, minor corner & edge wear. $2.75
"Always in good taste... / because it always tastes
good. / Known for quality for more than seventy years" including a Claxton Fruit Cake,
unused chrome from Claxton Bakery in Claxton Georgia, mild corner wear, light toning on
back. $1.25 afg
"AMANA COLONIES / Bratwurst Capital of the World"
showing 3 men making the sausage at the Amana Meat Shop (its advertising on the back),
light edge wear, cancel on front, small corner crease. $1.75 if
"American Beet Sugar Co. Factory, East Grand Forks,
Minn." Unused linen post card, fresh appearance. $3.75 (mif)
"A milk inspection, Brussels,
Belgium" with a 3-dog cart, color postcard, unused & fresh appearance.
Special policemen are assigned to stop the carts anywhere
to inspect for cleanliness. $15.00
dbfpl
"A section
of J. William Stohlman, Jr.'s confec- / tionery shop and ice cream parlor.
Originally installed in Georgetown, D.C., in 1900. Hall of / Everyday Life
in the American Past, Museum of / History and Technology, Smithsonian
Institution" chrome postcard mailed 1965 by a visitor who remembered such
things in his childhood. $2.50 dmi
"A SWIFT & COMPANY BEEF COOLER, CAPACITY 3000
SIDES" color postcard lithographed in the USA, unused, small corner crease. $4.00 if
"A TRIP THROUGH KELLOGG'S / Scheduled tours start from
here..." with Corn Flakes ad on back in yellow green, trivial wear at one corner,
couple faint tiny spots of toning on back, otherwise fairly fresh. $6.00 (mf)*
"AUSTIN, NICHOLS & CO., / TEAS, STAPLE AND FANCY
GROCERIES / Hudson, Jay and Staple Streets, New York" circa 1878 postal card
from a salesman to Chapinville CT, advising of his expected arrival date,
small ink spots on front. At the time the NY location, near the Hudson River
docks, was the heart of the wholesale food business. $10.00 n(n)f NEW / NEU / NOUVEAU
"Beef Cutting Dept., U. S. Y.,
Chicago" black & white, circa 1908, much writing on back,
trivial wear at 2 corners, light toning near the back edges. $20.00
(fpi)
"BODYBUILDING.com Sports & Fitness Nutrition // The World's
/ Most Visited /
Bodybuilding / Web Site" unused small continental advertising card, no postcard back,
near mint. (2 available) $1.50
each. s(b)cf
"BR-64A / TRURO'S FAMOUS CHICKEN BAR-B-Q / Courtesy N. S. Bureau
of Information" showing a large outdoor effort with many cooks
in Nova Scotia, chrome postcard
mailed 1957 from Digby to US. $1.50 nbf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"Broek in Waterland Maasmakerijan de van de Wed P.
Wiltenburg" post card showing a cheese factory interior in color, 1907, corner & edge wear. $5.00
"BROWSE, BUY, BREW! / FREE SHIPPING ONLINE"
displaying a roast coffee gift set, unused continental postcard from
javamastercolumbus.com, near mint. (2 available) $1.25
each. fo
"Calhoun St., North from Wayne St., / Fort Wayne, Ind."
post card with several readable
signs--ICE CREAM / PHOSPHATES, RESTAURANT, US RENTAL PARLORS, JEWELERS...; sepia-tone on yellowish paper,
mailed there 1909, corner crease, minor wear to upper corners. $6.00 if
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"Canning Factory, Gardiner, Me" including farmers with
their wares in baskets outside, color
post card from Leighton
& Valentine, circa 1910 but very late usage, small corner crease,
minor corner & edge wear. $6.50 (mif)
near PORT
CLINTON (OTTAWA COUNTY). "CHEESE HAVEN PORT CLINTON, OHIO OPEN
YEAR AROUND" showing its exterior, unused chrome postcard, much
interesting advertising
information in back message area, near mint. Sold a wide variety of food
including sausage, breads, fudge & wine. (2 available) $1.50 each. ofa NEW
/ NUEVO / UUSI
"CHICAGO / JET NORTHWEST /
MENU ..." unused Northwest Orient Airlines postcard in excellent condition.
From the forgotten days when airlines were actually proud of the food they
served. $5.00 a(j)f
"CONSTANTINOPLE, TURKEY" with art depicting Sophia Church, ships in the
Bosphorus, a street scene, man & woman in costume; from Arbuckle coffee, 1891
copyright, Detailed information about the city & the coffee on the back. Ad card sold.
Still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (almost 2x original postcard area) 100-dpi scan
in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50 aft
"Die Bäcker im Felde. / Das frische Brot wird
zum Lagerraum gebracht." showing the delivery of fresh bread by German
military bakers to a stockroom during World War I, unused Kriegspostkarte,
reddish-brown paper, trivial edge wear. $12.50 wfm(g)
"Die Bäcker im Felde. / In Serbien erbeutete
Feldbäkerei, engl. Herkunst, in deutschem Betriebe." sepia-tone view of a military bakery
in Serbia, Kriegspostkarte with brownish paper, unused. $12.50
(scwfm(g))
"Die Bäcker im Felde. / Mannschaften einer
Feldbäckerei auf dem westlichen Kriegsschauplatz." showing the crew of a
field baker's shop on the western front in World War I, unused
Kriegspostkarte, reddish-brown paper minor corner wear & rounding. $11.50
wfm(g)
"DOUGHERTY'S / NEW ENGLAND CONDENSED MINCE MEAT" with girl in red dress &
wide-brimmed hat eating some, circa 1890 trade card with 2 corners worn. $4.50 (agf)+
"École de langue francaise
/ et de culture québécoise" with a close-up of some blueberry fruit; unused
continental postcard in excellent condition. $1.50 q(g)f
"ELSIE THE COW / and her BRAND NEW TWINS
/ ELSIE THE COW IS
THE TRAVELING REPRESENTATIVE OF BORDEN'S FAMILY OF FINE FOODS" showing her barn
boudoir, unused chrome post card lithographed in US, light toning on back, more pertinent information on back. An
unusual piece of Americana! $5.00 af*
"Englische Feldbäkerei in Soloniki" showing an English field bakery in
Macedonia, color postcard, unused, corner & edge wear, light toning on back, small scrapes on back only.
$15.00 mfcm(b)*%
"Famous Recipes from Famous Eating Places: No. 13
in a series of 16 / Waldorf-Astoria / ... ICE CREAM PRALINE / ... / SET OF
16 FAMOUS PLACE RECIPES AVAILABLE! / See Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix packages
for details" recipe card with quoted text & Aunt Jemima pictured on the
back, 2 tiny fingernail indents at the top edge. The painting shown is a
depiction of the Starlight Dining Room by Harvey Kidder. $8.00 ri(h)n(n)bf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"FIREBOX BOILERS / Especially for / Dairies and
Creameries / ... / Johnston Brothers, Inc., Ferrysburg, Mich." advertising mailed there
1932 under Sec. 435 1 / 2 P. L. & R., reply card detached, short internal crease from
top edge, exceptionally detailed & interesting. $5.00 mif
"Flapjack" Melville Saskatchewan QSL card with
Runnin' Bare style commissioned art depicting flapjack cooking, unused, fresh appearance.
Operator was Rob Pankiw. $2.00 sf
"Friends / ROLLED KILN DRIED / Oats //
Muscatine Oat Meal Co. / MUSCATINE, IOWA" art including a girl, box of White
Oats & the company itself; back also in full color depicts William Penn
Making Friends with the Indians by presenting them with a box of oats.
Noticeable edge wear & light toning both sides. This advertising card is
the size of a regular postcard. $14.00 aiifg
"FRUEHAUF-ATKINSON / BULK FLOUR FOR BAKERS" real photo postcard mailed 1953
from Minneapolis Minnesota, caption taken from side of truck which writer
calls 'our latest', 2 corners crease & some internal creases, a little
extraneous writing on back. A rare postcard. $11.00 afm
"Geo. A. Hormel & Co.
/ Home
Plant / Austin, Minnesota" an aerial view, with
parking lots & tanks in the foreground; unused chrome postcard, small corner
crease. Claims on back: first to produce canned hams,
first with humane slaughter & first with the annual wage plan. $1.25
m(a)f
"GONDRECOURT (Meuse) -- La Fromagerie de
Jonchères" showing the exterior of a cheese-making establishment in France, black
& white on carte postale with green back, serrated edge from booklet, one back edge
toned. $8.00
"Grains de Café" showing
numerous coffee beans, continental advertising card publicizing a series of
coffee conferences from 31 Mars - 12 Juin 2003 at Marseille France,
exceptional detail, tiny corner crease. $1.00 ff(m)
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"Great Western Sugar
Factory, Loveland" showing its exterior, black & white postcard, mailed but
stamp removed, minor edge wear, small corner crease is hard to see from
front. $5.00 cif
"Greetings from BROOME" showing a work scene at the meat works in New South
Wales, unused chrome, unusual subject matter. Postcard sold. Still available for scholarly study & research as a full-size & enhanced 72-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50 (nfp)
"Greetings from / San Antonio /
Mexican Women Grinding
/ Corn
for Tortillas" post card mailed there 1904, lightly toned back. $5.00
(tf) Writing on front, writing on back,
album marks on front.
$4.50 (tf)
"HAVE YOU TRIED / THURBERS / No34 / COFFEE?" ad card
shaped like a cup & saucer, most of ad on back readable but a few thins there from
album removal, browning paper on back. H. K. & F. B. Thurber were importers &
wholesale grocers and coffee roasters in New York City. In 1879 Francis B. Thurber of this
firm promoted a pure food statute throughout the US. The law was later enacted in New York
State, Massachusetts & New Jersey, and helped to publicize his firm's commitment to
quality. $7.00 afn(n)%
"Headquarters for Specialty orders / T. R. Savage Company. / WHOLESALE GROCERS
/ ... /
Importers of MOOSE CHOP TEA / E. P. Patten" printed advertising with striking
silhouette of moose on government postal card mailed at Unionville 1903, browning paper
shows age, small spots of cancel ink on face. $12.00 maagfs*%
"Hearty Thanksgiving Greetings" showing a turkey dinner, embossed, signed,
mailed 1909, small ink smear on back, minor corner & edge wear. $5.00 (atf)+
"Homemade nuclear waste"
showing a man opening a microwave to find his frozen donut has been burnt
beyond recognition, unused continental postcard, copyrighted, trivial wear
at one corner. $1.00 cf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"Home of the 'Silver Fleece' Kraut.
/ CLYDE OHIO" showing
several wagons fully loaded with produce beside The Clyde Kraut Company (signs for their
kraut and for 'BLAIR BRAND PICKLES'), black & white on undivided back, album marks on front, back toned from album
contact, writing on front by George D. Nichols of Asbury Park New Jersey is dated August 1906. Nice!
$10.00 of
"HOT DOG, RT. 1, MAINE / 'By the Way' Series
/ Photograph
by Ken Brown" the hot dog referred to in the back caption is positioned over a domed
trash basket on the front image, unused, fresh appearance. $1.50 ofp
"I know you will be pleased / BUSTER BROWN COFFEE IS GOOD" advertising postcard
with signed Outcault art showing man reading news so good the dog is also pleased, writing on back, brownish paper, corner wear & rounding, 2 small corner creases. $8.00 (a(o)dfa)
IMAGE FILE Volume 17 Number
2, containing "The [Union Pacific] Challenger - Everybody's Limited", "For
Love of Chocolate" by Barbara L. Anderson. $2.25 the complete issue. prf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"In Action! / Making
Doughnuts at Front Line" showing female Salvation Army workers cooking for
many American soldiers in France during World War I. Widely reported
throughout America by hardened war correspondents, the anticipated scandals
never materialized and the Salvation Army reaped millions of dollars worth
of free publicity. Their charitable organization was thereby transformed.
Unused postcard from the 1919 Salvation Army fund-raising campaign
capitalizing on that publicity. Minor corner wear, lightly toned back.
$15.00 scfw
"INSPECTING FRUIT BEFORE
BEING EXPORTED. / Fruit exported form Victoria is subjected to a rigid
inspection. / Buyers oversea may rely on receiving the best quality."
including several crates, some open, with legible labeling (e.g., GJ & Co, 1
bushel sorted apples, Alfred E. Eagle ...);
elaborate back advertising settlement allotments
available for mixed farming in
Victoria Australia, under the Closer Settlement
Acts; black & white postcard issued by
direction of the Honorable J. E. Mackey (Commissioner of Crown Lands); a lot
of edge wear at the lower right front corner, other edge wear is minor,
lightly toned back. $6.00 vfpa
"INSTANT DEF" continental
size publicity card promoting the website instantdef.com for fictional
characters attempting to save the hip-hop nation, near mint. Snickers candy
bar advertising too. $1.50 cf
"Intersection of Main / and Northwest Streets
/ Bellevue, O.
120 m to Pa. line" caption from writing on front, showing several wagons &
buggies near a store whose canopy reads 'CASH PAID FOR COUTRY(sic) PRODUCE', writing on
back, 2 areas of dark toning on image, long crease, minor corner wear. Post
card sold.
Still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (almost 2x original postcard area)
100-dpi scan in .jpg (257,562 bytes) or .tif format. $1.50 omf
"Iowa State Fair, Des
Moines / AUG. 25 TO SEPT. 1, 1905 / SWIFT & COMPANY PRIZE DRAFT TEAM"
showing a wagon drawn by 6 horses; sepia-tone undivided back post card
mailed there (during the fair) to Miss Elizabeth Hursh of Mountain Park
Oklahoma, front heavily toned from album contact, arrival postal marking
struck over a horse and part of the wagon. The company is still one of the
world's largest processors of beef & pork. $6.50 ihf
"'ITS ALL IN THE SHREDS' / SERIES 103 / THE HOME OF / SHREDDED WHEAT / NIAGARA FALLS,
N.Y. / ... / The cleanest and purest of all cereal foods, made in the cleanest and finest food
factory in the world" also picturing Niagara Falls framed by wheat to its sides;
unused advertising postcard with undivided back & evenly browning paper due to age,
good edges, attractive. $8.50 nfswa
"IT'S TIME TO SELL / TAKE ADVANTAGE... / BERKOWITZ BUSINESS BROKERS /
163-18 JAMAICA AVE., JAMAICA, NEW YORK..." ad soliciting bakeries, mailed
there 1954, brownish paper, 2 long creases, small
corner crease, 3 / 5" tear, partial cancel on front, as is. Sold but still available for scholarly
study & research as an enlarged (about 771% of original print area) & enhanced
200-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $2.00
nfga
"JERUSALEM Femmes Boulangères / Baking Bread
/ Brot
Backen" caption very hard to read at left, color, numbered 160 on back, unused,
toning in stamp box area. $7.00 pf*
"JOSEPH POTTER
FRUITERER & GREENGROCER" showing the storefront with produce displays & 3
employees on a sepia-tone real photo post card mailed 1905 to Charlestown
Station in Boston from Waterloo Liverpool Great Britain (stamp removed).
$12.00 g(p)e(l)f%
"KAASMARKT TE ALKMAAR" showing the cheese market, color on
undivided back briefkaart (serie C from De Haan in
Utrecht), mailed at Amsterdam in 1910 to Ohio, bottom corners with small
creases, corner rounding. $7.00 nf
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"KHA 5150" CB QSL card with
a can of Marhoefer Ham (a Marhoefer Packing Company product) as an
illustration, tiny corner crease, two noticeable pen strokes (one per side.
Design makes operator names hard to figure out: Virg, Mansfield, Reda, and
of course Marhoefer. $1.50 if
"Kodachrome by Charles J.
Belden / Louis Pappas' Famous Salad, Tarpon Springs, Florida" artfully
arranged on a large plateful, unused Dextone post card, long internal crease
in the background, another very short internal crease from the side, toned
back. $1.00 cff
"Kousebandjen / Foto Bert de Vries / Uitgave
/
Zendingsgenootschap der / Evangelische Broedergemeenschap" woman with many green
vegetables, probably in Indonesia, unused continental
post card. $1.00 f
"La Sole Normande" showing
an attractive presentation; continental postcard with scalloped edges as
issued & a long poem in French about the dish on back, mailed at Paris 1971
to Canada, corner crease. $1.00 cf
"Lemon Meringue Pie / at / LUCILLE and OTLEY'S" showing a slice in necessarily
vertical format, Boynton Beach Florida restaurant hours printed on back, unused chrome
postcard, fairly fresh & eye-catching. $2.00 f(b)fa+
"Les Marchands d'oranges" good color showing orange vendors on the
Tunisian street, from Lehnert & Landrock, post card numbered 586 on back, unused, much corner & edge wear,
two small spots of toning on back, interesting. $12.50 tpf
Lichee fruit on continental post card,
quality printing, trivial corner wear.
Art attributed to Qi Baishi (1864 - 1957). Postcard sold. Still available for scholarly
study & research as a full-size & enhanced 72-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format.
$1.50 cf
“LOOK SOMEONE TOOK A BITE OUT OF MY
COOKIE, 1982 / PHOTOGRAPH BY DUANE MICHALS” unused continental postcard,
copyrighted, excellent condition. $1.25 pf
"Lots ob good things / Christmas time, / Christmas turkey / an' Christmas
wine, / Punkin, mine an' / apple pie--" showing a black butler bearing a
tray full of food & more poetry, Tuck Leatherette Post Card Series No. 8,
printed in Saxony, mailed 1911 in Michigan, minor corner & edge wear, couple
inconsequential tiny ink smears in address. The light-color curve from the
turkey & down towards the left edge is either an artistic representation of
the food dripping as he is moving forward or a very light scrape that leaves
color on the card. $10.00 bctfp
"MACHALA CAPITAL BANANA DEL MUNDO / QUIROLA
/ HC3JL"
exceptionally colorful QSL card used 1974 by operator Jose Luis Casla, art on front
proclaims this town. Machala is in Ecuador. $2.00 (ef)
"Marins brûlant du café"
carte postale mailed TCV 1904, showing
French sailors brewing
coffee, light toning on back. $15.00 (f(c)m(f)f)
"Middelburg
- Botermarkt." showing a butter market in open air, sepia-tone briefkaart
with very late usage with very late usage at Ryderwood Washington (one of
its cancels has the time upside-down, the other has it corrected). One
bottom corner multiply creased, all corners soft with wear, very light
toning in the upper front margin. $10.00 npf
"Mouth of Chicago River,
Chicago." including several ships at a distance, monochromatic blue-green
postcard on yellowish stock, pencil scribbling and toning on back might come
off, 2 corner creases, noticeable toning on the front. 'NO STRANGER /
GUNTHER'S CANDIES signage shows on the side of a large building. As is.
$2.00 i(c)f
"New York Produce Exchange at lower end of Broadway, New York City" showing
its Italian Renaissance architecture within an embossed border, sepia-tone
post card mailed at Chichester NY (2 different cancels), mild edge wear. The
building was demolished in 1957; an office building now stands there. $3.50
fn(n)a
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"Night
Owl Lunch Wagon, Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan 8A651" when
hamburgers, frankfurts, buttermilk & pop were all offered at 5-cents (circa
1938); unused black & white post card, one bottom corner with small crease
not into image, another bottom corner with minor wear. $7.00 m(d)uf
"N. MILLERD & CO. / GROCERS, / 172 Duane St. NEW YORK. / June 7th, 1878 //
Coffees, Syrups, Spices, Canned Goods, Soaps, &c," advertising prices for
various sugars, molasses & teas; postal card mailed to Chapinville
Connecticut (later to become Taconic Station), long internal crease, small
upper conrner crease, trivial toning. The address is in the Tribeca
neighborhood of Manhattan, serving as commercial office space today. $12.50
n(m)n(n)gfa
NEW / NUEVO / UUSI
"No. 20. Loading Banana. Port Antonio"
showing a long line of stevedores, each shouldering a bunch, about to go on a ship; unused
black & white postcard from A. Duperly & Sons, toning near back bottom edge
possibly from the printing process itself. $12.00 jfp
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"NO HARD SKIN
/ with a
STANDARD HUMIDIFIED / In Your Dough Room
" ad from Standard Engineering Works
there, mailed, corner wear & rounding, extraneous writing on back. $3.00
(rf)
"Ottawa Sugar
Plant." in Kansas, showing a large mound of beets, black & white, unused, minor rounding to
bottom corners, light toning on back. $4.50
(kf)
"Our success / begins with you..." advertising card
of Giant Eagle grocery stores suggesting that prospective employees visit their website,
message below a face made of 2 blueberries & a banana. Near mint, no postcard back. An
interesting piece of social history. (2 available) $1.00 each. fs
"Packing Hanover Crackers,
Smith & Son, White River Jc. Vt." showing 2 women & 2 men packing barrels,
unused black & white post card made in Germany, minor corner rounding. Circa
1909, though the factory shown dates to 1871. $12.00 v(w)fip
"Picking, Stewing
and Scoffing Locusts. 519" showing a family group seated & processing
a large basket of locusts outdoors, unused copyrighted real photo postcard,
good focus & contrast, slight curl to the paper, tiny ding in one edge. Some
nudity. $14.00 snif
"PLATTEKILL CREAMERY." black-and-white on postcard with undivided back,
mailed there 1907 (clear Doane 3 cancel), light toning on front, 2 corners
have a lot of wear. Message reads 'Here's where we get fresh goats milk
every morning.' $9.00 nf-n+
"Plenty of
Meat, Potatoes, Frijoles and Coffee about to be consumed" showing several
cowboys gathered around a chuckwagon & fire, linen post card mailed 1947, a
little cancel ink in the sky, back paper browning evenly with age. $2.50 cf
Postcard Collector. June 1990 (Volume 8, Number
6). Features on June weddings, fried chicken, greed & more. $2.50 p,f
"'PRETZELTOWN' / Lititz, Pa. / Visitors are welcome at
America's Oldest Pretzel Bakery /
" exterior, some food pricing information on
back, unused chrome from a Melvin J. Horst photo, light toning on back, minor wear at 2
corners. $1.00 pf
"Rolled Shoulder / Try Them
/ COX & GORDON" pricelist on pioneer
advertising card from a St. Louis Missouri meat company, exceptionally detailed &
interesting, within-city usage. $25.00
"Sides of beef are 'quartered' before expert / graders determine the
quality. / Only the choicest been is branded 'Swift's / Premium'." showing a
worker applying that grade to some ribs with a roller, monochromatic
blue-green postcard, mailed 1949, minor wear at one corner, cancel ink in
left front border. $6.00 fpa
"Simpson's-in-the-Strand / The Famous Old English Eating House / The gentleman who
asked the carver whether / the meat was English or Foreign." quality signed
comic art by H. M. Bateman, unused post card, quite fresh except for a tiny corner bend. $7.00 eafk!
"Solar Salt Vats, Syracuse, N.Y." with a horse-drawn wagon passing in
between, and the sliding roofs (in the event for rain) also clearly visible;
black & white postcard, unused, corner wear & rounding, lightly toned back.
At one time a major local industry, the last such facility in the area
closed in 1926. $6.00 n(s)ifh
"SPORTS NUTRITION DEPOT / THE RESULTS OF HEALTHY
/
ONLINE SPENDING HABITS" depicting a young man doing sit-ups, unused continental, no postcard back,
near mint. $1.50 s(b)f%
"Stollwerck's // STOLLWERCK
/ COLOGNE NEW YORK // Mad of / 30,000 lbs / Chocolate. // Standing / 38 feet
/ high // Statue of Germania / World's Fair Chicago 1893" advertising
card for the German maker of chocolates and confectioneries, detailed
description of the sculpture on the back, minor wear at one bottom corner.
$19.00 fgesia
"TEAM SALAD" showing racing cars #49 & #50 sporting Grandma's POTATO SALAD
ADVERTISING in many prominent places, unused continental postcard, near mint. Unusual
advertising. $2.50 a(r)fa
"TETUAN - Zoco del Pan. / 265"
showing a bread market in vertical format, sepia-tone real photo tarjeta
postal with very late usage at Samaria Michigan, 2 tiny internal creases & a
tiny light spot of toning within the front right border. $5.00 tf
"'The Best to You Each Morning'" unused chrome
with aerial view of Kellogg cereal plant surrounded by Yogi Bear, Tony the Tiger & more cartoon
characters, fresh appearance, good edges. $5.00 mfa
"The / Capital City / Dairy Co., /
Columbus, Ohio. / 'PURITY' BUTTERINE" with art showing 2 young girls with a
parasol encountering a deer, circa 1890 advertising card for a butter
substitute (Does anything ever change?) for sale by George S. Massar
at 62 South Grant Avenue. Four names written on back. Published by
Gils & Co. in Buffalo New York. A little longer
than a regular-size postcard. $12.50 fgg(m)oa
"The / Christian Brothers. /
WINES THAT WAY WELCOME / A Gourmet and Entertaining Guide" approximately
5"x7" booklet with 32 pages, illustrated in color, interesting text about
how to serve a variety of California sherries & a useful table of matching
those wines with several cheeses. Cover has a noticeable small scrap, back
cover has a small corner crease, otherwise in good shape. 1974 copyright.
$2.50 af
"The General Foods Building, Kankakee, Ill.
/
8A398-N" unused Curteich white-border era, tiny corner crease, small light spot mostly in front right border.
$3.50 if
"'THIS IS THE WAY
THAT WE BAKE OUR BREAD' / CAMP ATTERBURY, INDIANA" clear cancel on front dates to 1946,
4 lines of addressing crossed off in ink on the back. Postcard sold. Still available for scholarly study & research as a full-size & enhanced 72-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50
"VENDITRICE DI LUPINI / (Lupinara)" showing a female vendor of lupinin beans,
signed art (AV or BV?) in color on an undivided back cartolina postale, browning paper on
back, circa 1900 - 1905. Very unusual & specialized subject matter; the beans are very
difficult to cook unless you have the know-how & patience. $25.00 if+
"We Knew Them Over There /
Now We Know Them Over Here" showing 2 servicemen & 2 Salvation Army workers
posing near a large doughnut sign symbolizing their front-line meetings
during World War I. Unused postcard from
the 1919 Salvation Army fund-raising campaign,
capitalizing on the publicity generated by sending female workers to
the American Expeditionary Force to feed & care for
front lines in France.
Minor corner wear, light toning on the back, bottom corners with small
creases. One of the most successful
advertising ploys in history. $15.00 sfa
"We've / just been thru / the Kellogg plant
/ where these
famous / characters put / the Snap! / Crackle!
Pop! into / Rice Krispies" unused chrome with
more advertising & Rice Krispies box in green on back, unused, Classic postcard sold.
Still available for scholarly study & research as a full-size 72-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50 mfa
"Winnowing & Grinding Grain / India 1963" including a chicken with her
chicks, real photo postcard with caption from writing on the back, small
spots of toning & a red check mark in the back address area. Possibly
unique. $5.00 ifb
"YU2BOP" Croatian shortwave (14 MHz) QSL card with Kandi® chocolate desert advertising
over one side, used 1976 by a member of the Osijek Radio Club. $4.00 cfa
"... /
Zitronenverkäuferin / Citromấrusnö." showing a woman's stand
selling citrus fruit at an
open-air market, probably in Eastern Europe, unused monochromatic green
postcard in vertical format, minor corner & edge wear but otherwise fresh.
The characters in the beginning line of the caption cannot be reproduced due
to font limitations. $10.00 pf
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