January 21, 2025
Tag: The Lipman Postal Card
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The Lipman Postal Card
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Bob Toal The granddaddy of the American Mailing Card is the Lipman Postal Card of 1872. It is the first private postcard successfully marketed to businesses for mailing advertisements. It also represents the first fully illustrated private postcard in America. As such, this card is historically significant. It is rare and commands a premium at…
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June 26, 2022 2 Comments
Roscoe Arbuckle could have been an acclaimed tenor in any of the world’s opera houses, but he chose vaudeville and kept America laughing for decades. Fatty Arbuckle wasn’t a pioneer with an idea of entertaining “the troops” but he sure did his share to make it happen. Many of his antics were recorded with Kodak A3 cameras; we have real-photo postcards as evidence.