Easter Postcards

Two pretty Easter cards.

Nice cards stampfan.

They preferred quality those days too compared to the present postcards.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Three for the topic:

Nice cards stampfan9

I was also attracted to that machine cancel as well. I am wondering if this was some sort of 'emergency' cancel used by that post office?

Chimo

Bujutsu

stampfan9, Greetings:

The Xmas & Easter & other greetings-style postcards were often embossed (as were some of yours).

Not too many other types of postcards were given this 3D treatment.

It also seems to have been the fashion to accent the lines/features with glitter, now & again.

I've been wondering about trying this myself; for example, stringing 'lights' on a bridge, or to outline a building.

When hunting thru the bargain boxes, I've been ignoring those 'rainbow' cards of Niagara Falls (wherein the water has been colored by filtered flood lights, in situ). Might be fun to buy a few, and use colored glitter to highlight the artificial rainbow.

Legality aside, one would want to be careful not to vandalize postal processing equipment, so use a good adhesive, and brush-off the easily-loosened glitter before you do what you should not do.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Thanks for the replies.

For the topic:

I know I have more than this one Easter card, will have to re check the picture side to find them. But for now, Easter Greeting from Caspar, Cal. I recently posted this postmark in the cover calender thread, a 1918 war rate postcard.

Here they are, tucked away in a pigeon hole, waiting for Easter, they've been waiting since March 25th when I posted images of their postmarks. Mckinleyville Mar 25 1910, both cards addressed to Miss Ellen Person.

The (new) words I live by:

"A day late, but never a postcard short."

Q/ What is the bunny doing?

Nice cards. Several comments:

Bujutso asks about the 1913 Hartford City, Indiana machine cancel - It's a Doremus machine issued to hundreds of US cities in that era.

ikeyPikey: They are pretty, but glittered cards apparently caused problems. I don't know exactly when it started, but in the 1913 Postal Laws & Regs volume it lists "particles of glass, metal, mica, sand, tinsel, or other similar material" being required to be mailed in an outer envelope. I'll bet today's postal laws are silent on glitter cards.

Littelriverphil: The Caspar, CA cancel looks like it is dated 1910, which is when that stamp was current, and also the type-A 4-bar cancel was in common use throughout the country, all of which would make it an convenience overpayment rather than a war rate.

John Becker, Greetings:

To be fair to me, I wrote (above): "Legality aside ..."

As I noted on 04/Jan/2015, in another thread, the same rules were repeated in 1946 (and 1947):




Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

Another couple of day late easter cards, hiding amoung the cards without stamps, but it got found out, because it was mailed on Apr 6 1912, Easter was the next day in 1912, it was also mailed aboard the Eureka Scotia RPO.

<sigh> What I would give to not have to admit that this is from Hallmark ... but I got a good laugh out of it, so here it is.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

For the Topic:

One from a series of Easter Egg art postcards published by Kepzomuveszeti Alap Kiadovallalata in Budapest HU.

I gather they take their eggs pretty seriously over there.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey