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Hi Greg and thank you!
Has your stationery arrived?
I have some US letters if you are interested APO and navy.
Let me know.
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It is difficult to see just how beautiful this card is from the scan. I was certain that it was a collotype until I took an 'assisted' look and saw that it was 'merely' a really/rarely excellent halftone. http://www.metropostcard.com/glossaryc.html ... "C" is for "Collotype" http://www.metropostcard.com/glossaryh.html ... "H" is for "Halftone" Google the string [ collotype site:www.metropostcard.com ] (sans brackets) for vastly more than you want to know. Meanwhile, as to the ship: Quote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_AquitaniaThe origins of Aquitania lay in the rivalry between the White Star Line and Cunard Line, Britain's two leading shipping companies. The White Star Line's Olympic, Titanic and the upcoming Britannic were larger than the latest Cunard ships, Mauretania and Lusitania, by 15,000 gross tons. The Cunard duo were significantly faster than the White Star ships, while White Star's ships were seen as more luxurious. Cunard needed another liner for its weekly transatlantic express service, and elected to copy the White Star Line's Olympic-class model with a larger, slower, but more luxurious ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris...l_Exposition ... the postmark slogan marks the "Exposition coloniale internationale" http://goscf.com/t/22899&whichpage=4#484003 ... an earlier post about the RMS Aquitania by erilaz, who is welcome to this card Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey   |
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Thanks, ikeyPikey, but I already have a postcard like that! (Well, without the stamp, postmark, etc.)  I think I've got enough Aquitanias, but I'm still looking for some nice postcards of the S.S. Martha Washington, which is the ship that brought my grand father to America. I have one with a black-and-white photo of the ship, but I'd really like something like this:  |
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I have some other ship cards I'll be posting shortly, but this one caught my eye immediately as I was poking through a bargain box.  |
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Wow! I like the boat loaded with cotton bales. Neat Card.
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Here are two recent additions, both what I consider maximum usage cards. Postmark corresponds with picture side, printed for a local business. The Pomona, at 225 feet long and 33 feet at the beam, displaced 1264 tons. Once, the pride of the Coastal fleet, she went down and was lost in Fort Ross cove on March 17 1908, almost 15 months after this card was mailed.    The Pome was a wooden hulled steamer, displacing 368 tons. Here, she's tied up at Point Arena.    You can read more on the fate of both ships on this page, just scrool down. Click the more info button below Pomo! https://www.mendorailhistory.org/1_...hips_p-q.htm |
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