Postcard History

July 27, 2024

Tag: Tuck postcards

  • G. W. Bonte’s Tuck Postcards

    G. W. Bonte’s Tuck Postcards

    Ray Hahn

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    Stan Davidson died at his Massachusetts home in 2012 and left his postcard friends to wonder how we would ever replace him. So far, it hasn’t happened. If you knew Stan, you were aware that Stan was the most deliberate checklist writer of anyone in our hobby. He was born in Maine, educated at the…

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  • Admire Her Beauty, for a biography is wanting

    Admire Her Beauty, for a biography is wanting

    Kaya Fellcheck

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    It appears that there is no American postcard of Miss Mabel Hirst. In the UK, yes, but no Americans. Which is a shame because, as you can see, she was a great beauty. And mysterious, because there is no biography. Which makes her all the more interesting to try to collect.

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  • A Day at the Burnham Beeches

    A Day at the Burnham Beeches

    Kaya B Fellcheck

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    Collecting sets of postcards can be both a thrill and an anguish. The emotions are strongest when you find a set you knew nothing about, but the images remind you of a wonderful experience. Such was the case with the cards of Raphael Tuck & Sons set #6219.

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Past Article

Sydney Longellow
April 9, 2020 11 Comments
American is still in love with cowboys. Television follows a different path since The Rifleman, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Have Gun, Will Travel, and having and owning guns is now much different. It may not be as frequent as it once was, but there are still lots of nine-year-old boys who want to be cowboys, unknowingly because the romance of a lifestyle on the open range still thrills those with adventurous spirits. Read about a different time and how a young artist named J. R. Parry saw the Cowboy in Repose.

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