#antiquepostcard

[vintageukraine]

[virtualdavis]

Once upon a time, Rosslyn’s boathouse looked a little different. Can you identify any differences between now and then? #yesteryear #historicboathouse #nowandthen #architecture #historicrehabilitation #antiquepostcards #vintagepostcard #boathouse #wayback #theboathouse #waybackhome #essexny #adkcoast #essexnewyork #adirondackcoast #rememberwhen #rewindtime #trivia #challenge #historicpreservation #architecturalheritage #historicproperty #historicbuildings #dockhouse (at Essex, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnxWCNEv3Qz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shefancdotcom]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Lydford Mill Germany Printed Vintage Post Card - Collectible Antique Postcards.

[jana-hallford]

Antique Halloween Postcards: Another Romantic Superstition

Last year I posted about antique Halloween postcards depicting girls and women gazing into mirrors, hoping to see who they would marry. I noticed while researching that topic that many Halloween postcards included apples… and apple peels. The one below shed a little more light on the practice.

“Hallowe’en Greetings” postcard from 1913, with a smiling Jack O’Lantern or pumpkin man, a wedding ring entwined with a length of apple peel, apples, and a candle flame making a double heart. It reads:

May every tricks That you try to-night Foretell a future Of true delight.

I found a reference to this largely forgotten form of divination in an article in the October 27, 1982 Antique Trader by Roy Nuhn. “On Halloween night, a woman wishing to know the identity of her future spouse, can peel an apple without breaking the peel and then throw it over her shoulder.  The peel will rest on the floor and take the form of the initial of her lover’s name.” That cleared up the apple peel mystery, although the custom had to have favored men with initials easily formed by a length of peel.

Bernhardt Wall, the artist (his signature appears at the lower-right corner) has marvelously illustrated a moment as a smiling jack ‘o-lantern watches a post-Victorian era woman participate in an old Halloween superstition. I like the woman’s backward glance. From my personal collection.

Message side of the above postcard, postmarked 1? PM Oct 29, 1909 in Walcott, Iowa. The embossing is visible.

This divided-back embossed postcard from my collection shows a girl wearing a Halloween-theme dress, with black cat faces and flames, by a clock at 12 o’clock, black cat behind her, apples and a peeler at hand. The verse, reads:

At Twelve O’clock on Hallowe’en   Throw an apple peel my Sweet Dame And the Letter which is plainly seen   Is the Initial of your Marriage Name.

This circa 1910 Hallowe’en postcard from my collection shows a young woman throwing apple peel over her shoulder.

Back of postcard.

This circa 1910 Stecher postcard from my collection marked “Series 248 D” has many Halloween symbols, including a witch, bats, a black cat, and a cauldron. I like how the cauldron reads GOOD LUCK. The young lady, framed in the hand mirror, is pleased with the “S” made of apple peel. The postcard reads:

    On Hallowe’en  This good old game will spell  For you your true lover’s name.

The reverse of the Stecher Series 248 D postcard above shows it was not postally used, so perhaps it was given in person, enclosed with a letter, or used as a gift tag as it is marked to “Frederick from Mrs Hall 1916.”

[figandthewasp]

Day 5 Words/Poetry/Message #anotherworldoctober “Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing Heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth it’s constancy? To The Moon by #percybyssheshelley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #tothemoon #poetry #poem #fragment #poemfragment #papermoon #themoon #antiquepostcard #antiquephotography #itsthemostwonderfultimeoftheyear #witchesofinstagram #solitarywitch #picturepostcard #papermoonphotography #papermoonphoto #realphotopostcard #vernacularphotography #photobooth #studiophotography #vintagephotoshoot #vintagephotograph #thefigandthewasp https://www.instagram.com/p/CF-k6VOpYtH/?igshid=16m9diyqmjrzs

[theamandacollection67]

1911 postcard from Michigan

[lowcountrydigitallibrary]

Crevasse Formation in Illecillewaet Glacier, Selkirk Mountains

William Henry Jackson, in partnership with the Detroit Photographic Company, reproduced black and white photographs into color photochroms through what Jackson described as a "photo-lithographic process for reproducing pictures in color.” They were sold as postcards or prints. This postcard is embossed on front: "54069 Crevasse Formation in Illecillewaet Glacier, Selkirk Mountains. Copyright, 1902, by Detroit Photographic Co." 

Image from the William Henry Jackson Photochrom Collection, 1898-1905, held by College of Charleston Libraries. 

[stormywiz-blog]

Sperm Whales on the Beach, New Smyrna, FL 🐳 . Postmarked April 6, 1909 from Lantana, Florida . The school of nine young sperm whales mysteriously came ashore; four were alive for several hours after they were found. The whale in front shows eye at top, blow pipe at left near sand, mouth to right. The large whale to right has been cut severely by sharks. The men are preparing to cut and boil the blubber and extract the pure spermaceti oil from the head cavities. Over 2,000 gals were extracted. Dimensions 7 feet by 8 feet by 40 feet. . Message on the back reads "Am very busy nowadays. Shipped our first solid car of tomatoes last Thursday. Expect to get out three this week. So you can see it's nothing but work all the time but that will soon be over." . . . #antiquepostcard #oldpostcard #oldflorida #redtide #bluegreenalgae #cyanobacteria #newsmyrnabeach #spacecoast #daytonabeach #1900s #postcardsfromtheworld #fbf #picoftheday #fwc #spermwhale #deadwhale #algaebloom #kareniabrevis #fishkill #floridabeaches #historicflorida #floridapostcard #vintagecollection #ephemera #vintagephoto #oldphoto #lantana #wpb #sebastianinlet (at New Smyrna Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpHdWfsg-1F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jsw3e2nf1xxq

[denispisarovsky]

I've dropped out of the workflow a bit! This happens to me in drawing when I set myself tasks of a mandatory nature. For example, now I have set myself the task of printing four editions of mini prints. Two editions printed. There are two more left! Why exactly four? I have no idea. Why mini? No one knows that. This is a mystery behind seven seals, even for me! I locked myself in a frame and I can't get out of them! I can't give up this idea either - the task has been received, the conditions are indicated! In general, wait, do not disperse!

[vintageukraine]

[imtraveluv]

Halloween is finally here! #happyhalloween #antiquepostcards #antiquepostcard #halloweenishere (at Berkeley, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVsy_bLpYC4/?utm_medium=tumblr

[greenhandbooks]

Heeheehee I love old postcards! #nosass #rollingpin #kitchencomedy #antiquepostcard (at The Green Hand)

[southbostonbitch]

Reposted from @soulfulrabbit Everybody, quick! Group photo.... #reutlinger #groupmontage #vintagepostcard #antiquepostcard #montagephoto #vintageactress #theater #theatre #stagestars #louisemante #elisedevere #mastin #lutece #annaheld https://www.instagram.com/p/CQp656bh1wj/?utm_medium=tumblr

[figandthewasp]

“You are not very provident” “Your faults are numerous” “You should learn to have more self-esteem” 😶 Okay 1908 #gemini postcard, I don’t care if you’re 112 yrs old, keep this up and I’ll stick a pin in ya and spin it for my fortune instead of this closing my eyes and using my finger pin the tail on the donkey style BS 😂 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #geminiseason #geminis #geminiproblems #1908 #vintagepostcard #astoldbythestars #antiquepostcard #ephemera #divination #astrology #airsigns #zodiac #thetwins #vintageephemera #vintagefinds #vintage #antique #fortheloveofpaper #oldpaper #witchesofinstagram #solitarywitch #witchesofig #instawitch #fortuneteller #witchaesthetic #thefigandthewasp https://www.instagram.com/p/CAbL_FhJJc8/?igshid=1lwa5pt957cf2

[missgriffinsfinishingschool]

Nothing like starting your day with a gallery from @amyjowenphoto to get you pumped on a Monday morning! I cannot wait to show you all of the new products she short for me and captured way better than I ever could! It’s like she saw what was in my imagination and took that vision and captured it with magic. More coming soon! : : : : : #mondaymorningvibes #vintagestationery #antiquepostcard #augustaphotographer #antiquepostcards #vintagestyle #stationerylove #fleamarketfinds #soloverly #wearethecreativeeconomy #communityovercompetition #postcardgram #botanicalstationery #floralstationery #mothersdaygifts #vintagelove #antiquehome #slowdownwithstills #ephemera #handwrittennotes #vintagevibes #pursuepretty #floralillustration #flowerpower #springphotography #augusta #makersgonnamake #postcardcollection #amyjowenphoto #🌸🌸 (at Augusta, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNAaLsTlXLn/?igshid=cti4zab0no76

[icartant]

Early 20th century postcard of a José Clemente Orozco fresco. 3 of 3. #antiquepostcard #joseclementeorozco #joseclementeorozcomural (at Iowa City Art & Antiques) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ3uhl3HTFE/?igshid=1caij0qjha3i7