Postal Mark In Pencil?

I know this postcard is in terrible condition, but it's family correspondence. My question is though, the numbers on the postage section of the card, are they a postmans mark perhaps?
A lot of my postcards were sent in rural North Dakota between 1910 and 1930...there's no address, but if it was local, maybe the mailman didn't need that info and just passed it along on his route?
What do you think?

I don't think it was intended as a cancellation. One of my reasons is the absence of a stamp.

Also, for old covers / cards, it was not uncommon for people to add up bills and put numbers on the backs and fronts of them. In fact, to some extent, it is still done to this day.

As you state, it is in bad shape, but, with family items, condition doesn't matter.

Chimo

Bujutsu

In smaller communities, addresses were not needed, and sometimes were not available. If the postman didn't know who the addressee was, it was highly unusual, and he usually had certain resources to rely on (the grocer, the barkeep, the town gossips, local hotel owners). I suspect this is why the practice of writing to someone "In care of" another person, so that the postman would know where to deliver the letter.

Any idea whose house that was?

Zipper, as far as I can tell it was the house that my Great great Aunt Magda lived in, there are other pictures of the same house in my box of family pics that I inherited. It would be in North Dakota or Minnesota.

Did they take pictures of whatever anybody wanted and then printed the stuff on the back? In other words "Postcard and the printer logo? or was this an historical house and was sold at stores... Gary

It was a picture of someone's home made into a postcard for sending to friends/relatives. This was pretty common at the turn of the century (20th Century).

That would have been a good way to share with family and pass it down thru the years. I haven't seen any of those come out at my family get together's, but I'm going to ask next time. Thanks for the information....Gary