November 5, 2024
Author: Ray Hahn
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The Search for Agnes Richardson
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There is a certain feeling of accomplishment when you find something lost or learn something new! It also happens when you’re looking for a person, especially when the person shares their name with others. While looking for Agnes Richardson, there it was, a 44-year-old classified ad in The London Observer asking for Biographical Details for…
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Toby, the East African Warthog
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Every dog has its day. So do warthogs, giraffes, and Polar Bears, but the other animals have their days on postcards sanctioned by national zoological organization. They are truly fun to collect.
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DRESSAGE
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Postcard History appears in many forms. Because of its nature, a postcard arrives in your mailbox often without notice. It brings greetings and news from afar in a joyous and upbeat fashion. Postcards often make us laugh, some make us cry, and there are others that leave us unmoved, distressed, or even anguished.
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The Cherrelyn Horse Car
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Here at the editor’s desk, postcards of all kinds are piled in each corner. Each hold a promising story. Today, I’m tackling my Cherreland card that I have pushed from side-to-side for over a year. It’s a story of one man’s odd investment that made him richer than he already was.
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The Eight Capitol Murals
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The Capitol of the United States holds eight of the most historical painting in the world. The B. S. Reynolds Company published postcard of each one. We have them to share with our readers.
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Life in Pink
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No screams were heard that the French are coming when Edith Piaf arrived in New York, but the French chanteuse soon became our Queen of Hearts. She sang La Vie en Rose every night and the crowds returned for more. Piaf is the one who reminds us that great popular art didn’t begin with Elvis…
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A Fifth Sunday Special – July 29, 2022
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In any given year there are always four or five Fifth Sundays. These are the days when we examine postcards unrelated to most of what we collect, which makes them as unusual as fifth Sundays,
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Leap Year, Leap Day, Leapers, and Postcards!
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It is way down the list of truths, but there are those who think that the wiles of women who are doing their best to find the perfect husband will use any means possible. One Tuck’s postcard suggests that LSD is one way that works well. Not true! Read on to learn the facts of…
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Don Quixote in the XXth Century
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Everyday history has heroes working against injustice. Don Quixote was just another hardworking guy trying to make the world a better place. Although he enjoyed little success that should never detract from his efforts. The images on these cards show a XXth version.
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Tanglewood
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Musicians who earn their living in the world of classical music have strong shoulders to stand-on, as long as conductors like Bernstein, Ormandy, Leinsdorf, Munch, and Koussevitzky are remembered. Each worked at a summer music festival in the mountains of western Massachusetts. Each is fondly remembered by music lovers around the globe.
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Forgotten; nevermore!
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Forgotten is a very harsh word. It is a status that no one wants to achieve. Being forgotten can be prevented in many ways – none of them easy – but even if you come close to being forgotten on some day, in some place, some person will ask, “Who was that?”
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How to Write a Postcard Biography
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This is a silly example of how to gather information for a postcard biography. By creating a scripted dialog comprised of questions asked at a dinner table, more success will be had than if the same questions were asked in an interrogation on a witness stand. People are quite prone to talk about themselves when…
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Dr. Richard Moulton
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A Titan of the postcard world, Dr. Richard Moulton of Victoria, B. C., Canada, died July 19, 2022. He was 94. As a dealer at shows from the 1980s to the early 2000s, Dr. Moulton was respected by all. His collecting passion was Tuck postcards and ephemera. With his daughter Alison he developed tuckdb.org and…
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Anything Goes; Illustrated – by Cole Porter
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It is hard to imagine how many iterations of Anything Goes have been performed since the 1934 premiere of Cole Porter’s musical of the same name. The original lyrics mention some high-society personalities and their silly antics and ridiculous scandals. The Depression Era gossip that followed shocked his listeners. This postcard illustrated rendition features the…
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Postcards of a Great Achievement
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Opera is a life experience defined by one word – patience! At the premiere of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungen cycle in August 1876 the ticket holders at the Bayreuth Festival witnessed the greatest accomplishment in opera history. In total, it took 16 hours
