The Postcard Thread

[anniem]

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You will never guess where I came across this unused, not very old postcard.  I was out on my daily walk and found it floating face down in a puddle of rain.  I picked it up and noticed that it was a postcard.  I took it into the house and sat it somewhere to dry.  Several days later it was nice and dry.  It really isn't in all that bad of shape.  The backside is stained here and there, but otherwise the card appears to be OK.  It is somewhat larger than my old postcards.

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I don't usually collect newish postcards but I'll make an exception in this case.

I think you should keep it. It was looking for you.

[Rikki Gins]

I think you should keep it. It was looking for you.

Yes, the postcard knew that I'm a sucker for examining discarded pieces of paper.  I like to spy on get a glimpse of other people's dealings in life.  Prescriptions, bills, grocery receipts, etc.   

[PB]

Yes, the postcard knew that I'm a sucker for examining discarded pieces of paper.  I like to spy on get a glimpse of other people's dealings in life.  Prescriptions, bills, grocery receipts, etc.

Lol, you should have been a bookkeeper

[PB]

A Giant Tractor
The Wheat Empire of the West

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Silver City - N.M.              August 2, 1908
Dear Anne & Will              Received a nice
letter from you also          posted(?) from Will
yesterday - wishing you    happy Birthday, etc
Many thinks for                same
The (?) you                     sent me
is lovely                          Fits

                     fine & looks mighty nifty.  I will get
great comfort out of it.  It is just the thing.  One can't
have too many (?) in a place of this kind.  A (?) and
thanks(?) for same(?).  Awful thoughtful of you.  Love and kisses
                                                                       (?)


What did Anne and Will give him for his birthday?
What is his name?

[GravitySucks]

A Giant Tractor
The Wheat Empire of the West

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Silver City - N.M.              August 2, 1908
Dear Anne & Will              Received a nice
letter from you also          posted(?) from Will
yesterday - wishing you    happy Birthday, etc
Many thinks for                same
The (?) you                     sent me
is lovely                          Fits

                     fine & looks mighty nifty.  I will get
great comfort out of it.  It is just the thing.  One can't
have too many (?) in a place of this kind.  A (?) and
thanks(?) for same(?).  Awful thoughtful of you.  Love and kisses
                                                                       (?)


What did Anne and Will give him for his birthday?
What is his name?

I’m going with “mink” and “minks” just because it sounds mighty nifty.

[PB]

I’m going with “mink” and “minks” just because it sounds mighty nifty.

LOL

The Pope wants people to give up trolling for Lent

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-pope-wants-catholics-to-give-up-trolling-for-lent-2020-02-26

[Rikki Gins]

A Giant Tractor
The Wheat Empire of the West

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Silver City - N.M.              August 2, 1908
Dear Anne & Will              Received a nice
letter from you also          posted(?) from Will
yesterday - wishing you    happy Birthday, etc
Many thinks for                same
The (?) you                     sent me
is lovely                          Fits

                     fine & looks mighty nifty.  I will get
great comfort out of it.  It is just the thing.  One can't
have too many (?) in a place of this kind.  A (?) and
thanks(?) for same(?).  Awful thoughtful of you.  Love and kisses
                                                                       (?)


What did Anne and Will give him for his birthday?
What is his name?

What a beast!  Patented four times but I couldn't quite make a date out.  I think the top date says January 10, 1883 but I couldn't find any patent info for a tractor on that day.   

[Rikki Gins]

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Alfred
Did they do so when you
young

No year on the postal cancellation mark but that is a 1908-09 Franklin stamp.  Upside down, too, which signifies that the sender loves, or is fond of, the recipient.  (PB taught me this bit of trivia.) 
 
 

[anniem]

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Alfred
Did they do so when you
young

No year on the postal cancellation mark but that is a 1908-09 Franklin stamp.  Upside down, too, which signifies that the sender loves, or is fond of, the recipient.  (PB taught me this bit of trivia.)

That's different. Would love the story about it. Alas

[PB]

Souvenir from my first airplane ride, Yakima to Eureka

Remember when Howard Hughes was the richest man in the world?

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I didn't get one of these, probably too late to ask now

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[PB]

I don't remember this either

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[Rikki Gins]

I don't remember this either

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I saw them sunbathing on the beach at Manhattan Beach, Ca.  Plus a hundred others like them.  I remember telling myself that I definitely had to find work in that town. 

[Rikki Gins]

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This could be one of the oldest postcards in my collection but there is no year on the cancellation mark.  I do have some others just like it and they date to late 1800s to early 1900s.

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Meritt & Smith
             I would take
25 cases of the chunk
tomatoes & 25 cases
corn and give you my
note - 2 months without
interest - if you wish
to sell me in this way,
     Yours, G U(?) Roberts.

[PB]

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This could be one of the oldest postcards in my collection but there is no year on the cancellation mark.  I do have some others just like it and they date to late 1800s to early 1900s.

@Rikki Gins I think you may have PC2, the second pre-stamped postal card issued by the US Post Office.  PC2 was printed in 1875 (Scott Catalogue numbers UX 4 and UX 5) and again in 1881 (UX 7a and 7b).  Due to the wording ''Write the Address on this Side'', it's either a UX 4 or UX 5, depending on if it has a certain watermark.

If yours were sent years later it could be that someone bought a stack and didn't use them right away.  Scroll down a ways to see the year by year listings:

http://www.metropostcard.com/guidepostals.html


The watermark you're looking for looks like this (click on the second thumbnail image above 'Product Description'):

https://www.stevelevinestamps-plus.com/u-s-scott-ux-4-1875-1c-liberty-head-black-on-buff-write-the-address-with-watermark-used-postal-card/ 


Whichever one it is, that's a pretty cool card, nice of the postmaster not to center the bullseye cancellation directly over the stamp

[anniem]

@Rikki Gins I think you may have PC2, the second pre-stamped postal card issued by the US Post Office.  PC2 was printed in 1875 (Scott Catalogue numbers UX 4 and UX 5) and again in 1881 (UX 7a and 7b).  Due to the wording ''Write the Address on this Side'', it's either a UX 4 or UX 5, depending on if it has a certain watermark.

If yours were sent years later it could be that someone bought a stack and didn't use them right away.  Scroll down a ways to see the year by year listings:

http://www.metropostcard.com/guidepostals.html


The watermark you're looking for looks like this (click on the second thumbnail image above 'Product Description'):

https://www.stevelevinestamps-plus.com/u-s-scott-ux-4-1875-1c-liberty-head-black-on-buff-write-the-address-with-watermark-used-postal-card/ 


Whichever one it is, that's a pretty cool card, nice of the postmaster not to center the bullseye cancellation directly over the stamp

How do you know such things?