Interesting!
The Rotograph Company
This one (not by Rotograph, but by World), did not find a buyer with a Buy It Now of $200:
I could not find a Rotograph Fire Cracker...
Holiday postcards is a neat topical area. I have heard that, of holiday postcards, Halloween postcards are the rarest.
-Paul
I wouldn't mind having that one in the Franklin collection.. but nowhere near the number on that fishing expedition.
Of note.. Interesting that it went through with a one cent stamp. I believe the string would have put it at two cents postage. Anything additional on the card raised the postage, including glitter.
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I gather that one of the few things that Ben Franklin did not invent was a better calendar:
1905 = the postmark (in Paul's post)
1906 = the advertisement (in my post)
1907 = the glitter rule, to wit:
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
Bless you, Google Books !!!
This ad ran in the 19060705 (and subsequent) issue(s) of Geyer's Stationer, a trade publication that featured industry news, along with advertorials & advertisements, for pens, papers, office equipment and, yes, postcards for sale to stationery stores.
I will happily bet cash money that the inventor of the firecracker post cards is the great-grandfather of this moron:
Florida Deputy Mails Fake Bomb to Coworker & Evacuates Building & Resigns
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
re: Firecracker Post Cards
Interesting!
The Rotograph Company
This one (not by Rotograph, but by World), did not find a buyer with a Buy It Now of $200:
I could not find a Rotograph Fire Cracker...
Holiday postcards is a neat topical area. I have heard that, of holiday postcards, Halloween postcards are the rarest.
-Paul
re: Firecracker Post Cards
I wouldn't mind having that one in the Franklin collection.. but nowhere near the number on that fishing expedition.
Of note.. Interesting that it went through with a one cent stamp. I believe the string would have put it at two cents postage. Anything additional on the card raised the postage, including glitter.
re: Firecracker Post Cards
.
I gather that one of the few things that Ben Franklin did not invent was a better calendar:
1905 = the postmark (in Paul's post)
1906 = the advertisement (in my post)
1907 = the glitter rule, to wit:
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey