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Posted 09/09/2012   9:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add vestotts to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have this hand drawn postcard thats signed,, I can't make the name out but the artwork seems familiar to me. Anyone recognize it?



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Posted 09/10/2012   12:13 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bujutsu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Vestotts

I am not sure myself but wondering if the initials are "G.H.S."?

Can you make out the individual initials?

Chimo

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Posted 09/10/2012   1:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add smauggie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Amateur artist. They were a dime a dozen at the turn of the century.
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Posted 09/10/2012   1:26 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add doug2222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The odds of finding out who produced a hand-drawn portrait a century ago = zero, unless our genealogist can track the addressee and find a likely family member with those initials.
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Posted 09/10/2012   3:29 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bujutsu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is a chance, albeit slight. I have a few postcard reference books and some of them list artists and their theme type of artwork. This is why I asked if all three initials could be deciphered.

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Posted 09/10/2012   9:58 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vestotts to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I can't make it out, Was thinking the middle one an A and S for the last?
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Posted 09/11/2012   3:02 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Bujutsu to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Sorry Vestotts

I have tried all of my reference books: Stanley Gibbons Postcard Catalogue, The Encyclopedia of Antique Postcards by Susan Brown Nicholson, Postcard Companion by Jack H. Smith, IPM Catalogue for 1979 and Picture Postcard Values - 2003.

I searched by artists whose surnames started with an "S" and even topics such as "Sea", "Sea Life" and "Fishing" but couldn't find anyone who does that topic with the initial "S".

Chimo

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Posted 09/13/2012   03:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add vestotts to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you bujutsu,, the picture makes me think of a gold prospector
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