April 29, 2026
Tag: Blanche Toutain
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Bookmark Postcards
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Recently a collection of eight Reutlinger (the well-known publisher in Paris) postcards came to my attention. I have seen bookmark size cards often, but these interested me because seven of the eight appear to be addressed by the same hand to Mademoiselles at addresses in the Cher Department, a French “region,” in West-Central France that
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December 15, 2022 5 Comments
Vacuum cleaners on postcards are rare. Since sales of sweepers and cleaners were conducted mostly in the customer’s home, perhaps the sales staff preferred the door-to-door approach rather than waiting for the lady-of-the-house to respond to a postcard.