I went browsing at an antique store today just to pass the time away. Wow, they had some good stuff. Not much money to spend, but because of @Rikki Gins I'm always curious to look through the post cards and occasionally I'll purchase a couple, as I did today. Here's one:
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Good cards,
@ShayP. What makes them fascinating is searching for things on them that you wouldn't usually pay any attention to, like the stamp used to mail the postcard. That is a 1 cent Washington stamp that was issued by the U.S. Post Office between 1908 and 1922. There was a similar stamp issued at the same time, with the same design, only it had Ben Franklin's side profile on it.(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%E2%80%93Franklin_Issues) One more thing about that stamp, Shay. Did you know that it came off a roll of stamps at the Utica post office? Notice that the top and bottom of the stamp are smooth, with perforations on the sides. That stamp was joined with others like it and rolled up so that the postal clerk could hang it on a nail and wait for Mr. ShayP to come in and request 6 one cent stamps. The clerk would then go to the one cent stamp roll and pull down six of them, and that's how you would receive them, six one cent stamps still joined together at the sides.
