Antique Postcard Collection Album.

$975.00

Item Number: 116035

Rare folio containing hundreds of vintage postcards, most postdated between 1907 and 1917. From the collection of Ellen Warren. Folio, original cloth decorated in gilt with raised vignettes to the front panel depicting a snowy landscape and caribou bust, patterned endpapers, containing hundreds of postcards including many Christmas, New Year’s and Easter postcards, family photograph postcards, and views from Santa Catalina, New York City, Lake Merrit, Royal Gorge, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In very good condition. A charming collection offering years of intimate insight into the collector’s life.

The period from 1870 to 1874 saw a great number of countries begin the issuance of postcards. The first known printed picture postcard, with an image on one side, was created in France in 1870 and private advertising cards started appearing in the United States around 1873, and qualified for a special postage rate of one cent. The backs of these private cards contained the words "Correspondence Card", "Mail Card" or "Souvenir Card" and required two-cent postage if they were written upon.