• Gertrude Glyn

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    Edwardian theatre personnel often found themselves famous while at work but forgotten when idle. Such was the case with Gertrude Rider – a person no one knew until she came to the stage as Gertrude Glyn. But then she married and became Mrs. Walter Bulteel. Who was that?

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    Gertrude Glyn

  • Fool Me Once!

    Fool Me Once!

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    It’s a hoax! We hear about hoaxes every day, and in this silly season of “hate-politics” the public learns of them through social media. But, not long ago, the hoax was not much more than sport. The Cambridge hoax was talked about in newspapers and on postcards.

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  • Happy St. Urho Day

    Happy St. Urho Day

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    Every living soul comes to a saturation point when they stand and say, “Enough!” One man did it more than 70 years ago and a new national hero was born, and a wonderful tradition began. The thing is, nobody knew about it except George!

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  • The Pierrot and the Pierrette

    The Pierrot and the Pierrette

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    Pantomime starring the Pierrot and the Pierrette is a universally popular entertainment. It is likely that we all see ourselves in those roles. Postcards of the Pantomime and its characters are fun to collect, beautiful to see, and expensive.

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News and
Noteworthy

  • The folks at Highlandtown Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland’s Highlandtown Arts District have found an interesting way to use extra copies of their promotional postcards from the last 10 years by stitching them together into a unique ballroom gown. Seems difficult if not impossible to achieve? There’s proof in this video, courtesy of the galley. (And we appreciate Clarissa Ferraris of the Capitol-Beltway Post Card Club for bringing this to our attention.)


    Mechanical postcards may have had their day, but oh! what a day it was. The proprietor of CreamofcardsTV has a neat retrospective of some of the great mechanicals from the beginning of the postcard era. We can only wonder at the difficulty of making these cards.

Past Article

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This story is about a book that was left unfinished. The subject died in 2005, the author died shortly after. The book was over twenty years in the making and was meant to be a gift to his life-long friend. Friendships made while serving in the US Military tend to last forever – such was the case with Don Matter and Jim Flaming Eagle. Jim lived in Montana; Don lived in Arizona. Don once said, “We’re practically neighbors.”

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