One of the EXTREMELY KIND and EXTREMELY GENEROUS F-O-R-A-Ts (friends-of-ralphie-and-tom's) just sent us a new GOODY BOX, chock full of...GOODIES!
Because so many HERE ON THE EO have taught me & Ralphie SO VERY MUCH about POSTCARDS (plus, the same FORAT sent us a BOOK!), we're getting better and better educated about PC's, and now (usually) know WHERE to look for answers we sometimes have about PC's...THANKS TO ALL HERE FOR MY CRASH-COURSE EDUCATION IN POSTCARDS!
Because of you very HELPFUL & WONDERFUL EO'ers, Ralphie & I have been modestly successful with our NEW product line...
PLUS, we've been having FUN! I actually enjoy the SCANNING & RESEARCH I put in when I list the PC's...
OTOH: I have a HUGE amount to still LEARN, especially when it comes to EPHEMERA!
So...Once again, ole CHUNKY-BUTT & I come here to MILK YER BRAINS for more help...I know I'm a bit lazy...I plead MISERY, as my INSANE PAIN DOC has been shuffling my pain meds the last two months, and, some weeks I can barely stand, much less try to answer on my own...The last 2 weeks he had me on KADIAN(TIME RELEASED MORPHINE) which has made me SICK AS A DAWG (sorry, Ralphie)...I mean TRUE MISERY! For 14 days all I wanted to do was BARF or BED! Finally, on THURSDAY, he switched me to OPANA (never heard of it? Reminds me of a singing BUCKY BEAVER?), and WOW! WHAT a world of difference! I no longer feel like throwing myself out the window, ascending to that great eBay in the sky! But, it's only been 3 days, and I'm still not 100% my usual obnoxious self And I'm still a little GROGGY + MUSH-BRAINS...
So, YEAH, I'm a bit lazy, but, I'm hoping all ye WONDERFUL folks on the EO will forgive our being PITAs and pitch-in anyways?
Oi! Ole LARD-BUTT is bellowing at me from the kitchen floor: "Enough with yer self-pity and grovelling for sympathy, old man! As yer QUESTIONS, for goodness sakes!"
#1: Here's a set of 4 very pretty VICTORIAN (?) CARDS:
BLANK on the reverse and measure 6 1/4" x 3 7/8"
???
Do I just call them "SCRAP?"
Also, the CHILD in card #1? That STYLE looks familiar? But I can't remember which...
#4: Ain't she PURTY? But, how to HUSTLE her BUSTLE?
Measures 13" x 7 3/8"
WHAT to you call these? "Advertising PLACARDS?"
Should I cut off that broken stub at upper LEFT so it is symmetrical?
Would you date this 1890?
posted on April 26, 2008 02:07:56 PM new"Hey Guys. The child looks likethe Campbell Soup kid."
Yeah, that was my FIRST thought, but it's not quite the same I don't think...
I was thinking some famous PC artist like Clapsaddle, or somebody like her, but I can't quite put my finger on the name, probably because I'm SENILE with OATMEAL fur BRAINS lately...
posted on April 26, 2008 02:47:22 PM new
Tom: Take a good look at the writing on those Wisconsin real photo postcards. If that's a place name, or the name of a photographer, list them. The pictures may be boring, but I've seen equally boring RPPCs of our Idyllwild area and we either wanted them for our museum collection or someone else did.
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posted on April 26, 2008 02:59:30 PM new
Grace Drayton was the original artist. I expect there were many imitators as well.
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
posted on April 26, 2008 03:11:06 PM newPhoto: "Grace Drayton was the original artist. I expect there were many imitators as well."
YES! I knew somebody would recognize the STYLE...
These cards are from Hayes Litho from Buffalo...Does THAT correspond to her?
Amber:
THANKS! Now that you point it out, it IS POLAR, WISCONSIN! My mush-brain just could not see the obvious!
Can anybody read the signs? I've magnified but can't make sense...
Roady:
Oh, yeah, I know...I was just being silly! I sold an RPPC of gulls eating garbage off the stern of a USN warship...Boring, but sold NICELY...
THANKS everybody...Getting closer & closer to solving ALL the mysteries...
posted on April 26, 2008 03:21:35 PM new
Yes, the artist of the first card is Grace Drayton Weidersheim. It looks like it has google eyes still attached. I would put google-eyes and novelty in the title.
On the presidents, I'd leave them in the postcard category and my first sentence in the description would be "Wonderful vintage card is the size and weight of a standard size postcard but is missing the postcard markings on the back".
I don't know much about paper except postcards but #4 is lovely. I'd use die-cut in the title for her. Not to derail your thread, but I'm stumped on trying to figure out this contraption:
posted on April 26, 2008 04:14:37 PM new
I would call it an unsigned Grace Weidersheim Drayton (I got them transposed in my last post). to be safe, you could use "This unsigned card is in the style of Grace Drayton Weidersheim". Who is the publisher?
posted on April 26, 2008 04:23:06 PM new
Publisher:
Hayes Litho of Buffalo...
Here's another scan of the WISCONSIN campground...If anybody has better eyes than mine...Ralphie's are WALL-EYED & mine are CROSSED-EYED after staring at this thing forever:
posted on April 26, 2008 06:29:25 PM new
The signs are damaged. The first one is a notice of time limits in the park but how many hours that was is missing; the second states that the PTB are not responsible for damage to cars in the park.
posted on April 26, 2008 07:16:14 PM new
Tom:
I can add absolutely nothing of valure to your quest.
No derailment intended.
I am posting to say how sorry I am to hear that you are still so uncomfortable and having issues with getting the right pain meds!!
Hope your chompers are doing better.
{{{hugs to you and Ralphie}}}
stay strong guys!!!
posted on April 27, 2008 08:17:21 AM new
Greetings from Oregon (at Mom's house) - not much time to post but thought I'd chime in here:
I don't think your kid postcard is a REAL Grace Drayton Wiedersheim card. She almost always signed hers and her publisher was Reinthal & Newman. There were many imitators.
Here is one I have in my store:
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THANKS for the kind words...If it wern't for all the suppoort Ralphie & I received here on the EO over the past year, I would have lost the battle...
The one bright spot is that (as predicted by everything I've read on the net) the TMJ pain dissipated about 5 months ago -- still have the clicking noise, but (thankfully) NO pain!
OTOH: this is a lousey time in American history to be a CHRONIC PAIN patient...The goofy DEA has declared war on PAIN CLINICS and, for that matter, on CHRONIC PAIN patients...
So far, I'm really impressed with the OPANA. I was petrified to try it after my disasterous 14 day experience with KADIAN, but, so far...so GOOD! I have very few mild side affects, which are decreasing as each day goes by -- PLUS, it really does a number on the SHOULDER+HIP pain I suffer with...
So, I'll keep me fingers (and Ralphie's toes) crossed that FINALLY, I've got a regimen that with KILLPAIN without killing me in the process...WooHoo!
NO, I was referring to #1, which I've just been informed are: INK BLOTTERS!
YIKES! How stooopid of me! Of COURSE they be INK BLOTTERS!
I got so wrapped-up with the kid's artist & the glue residue on the backs, they I completely forgot that the card stock feels totally different -- it's THICK and ABSORBENT!
NOW the QUESTION IS: "Should I sell as a SET-OF-4?"
posted on April 27, 2008 10:30:20 AM new
Hey what happened to the reply I just posted? Lost in cyberspace I guess.
I'll try it again. I have seen chromolithos like #4 called "oversize trade cards".
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
And I'm still a little GROGGY + MUSH-BRAINS...
