January 18, 2025
Tag: Beach Beauty Postcrds
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Hamilton King
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Although many collectors know his work, very few know his name. Hamilton King would have been successful in any kind of work, but he chose to be an artist. The art world that bookended the last and first decades of the 19th and 20th centuries levied a harsh reality on men like Hamilton King. That world had…
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July 18, 2022 10 Comments
OK, some of Franz Huld’s postcards are simply ugly. Not colorful or embossed. There are no signed artists nor cute children, but Franz Huld was an important American postcard publisher. He experimented and many of his designs were ingenious. Many collectors like them, perhaps that is why they are hard to find.