Fantasy, Mythical & Magic
Children

Unknown artist   Postcard illustration by the very popular Mabel Lucie Attwell, published by Valentine & Sons   Postcard by Reg Maurice, published by Regent   Unknown artist, published by Misch and Stock   A chromolithograph by Helen Jackson, ...

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Punch & Judy

From a series of six, published by PFB. The caption reads, No offense my beauty, I’m only just tickling your back. This postcard would also fit nicely into a Krampus collection   A vintage, German “Gruss Aus” (greetings from) postcard   A modern postcard. The back describes ...

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Fairies

Published by Theo Stroefer, Nuremberg   Published by Theo Stroefer c. 1898   Published by Kopal   French flower fairy and cockroach   Postcard by Mabel Lucie Attwell featuring a Changeling from Celtic fairy folklore. This image was published by ...

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Elves & Gnomes

Postcard from Germany   Postcard by Jenny Nystrom   Postcard by Semmy Nystrom (not to be confused with Jenny Nystrom)   Postcard by Aina Stenberg (Sweden)   Postcard by Arthur Thiele (aka Carl Robert Arthur Thiele), a popular and prolific German ...

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Nursery Rhymes

Little Miss Muffet by Ethel Franklin Betts, published by Frederick A. Stokes 1908 (U.S.)   Wynken, Blynken and Nod, artist unknown   A soap ad featuring the nursery rhyme, Simple Simon. From England c. 1910s   The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. Cut out postcard ...

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Fairy Tales

These fairy tale postcards all date from the 1900's to the 1920's   Little Red Riding Hood by Jenny Nystrom (Sweden), published by Raphael Tuck   The Sleeping Beauty by May Bowley, published by Valentine’s of London   Thumbelina by Eric Schutz (Austria) posted in ...

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Alice in Wonderland

Postcard by Kay Nixon (England)   Modern postcard by Joanne Bond (England)   Photograph of a drawing by Dorothy Lake Gregory, lithographed by John Gregory (U.S.)   Ad by Fralinger’s Candy of New Jersey. The artist is Clara Burd (U.S.)

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Dolls & Toys

A Spanish postcard, artist unknown   A postcard featuring Kokeshi dolls of Japan   The Doll Merchant   Dutch card with lots of toys and art deco elves. The artist name looks like Ella Riemersma. It was posted in the 1920’s or 1930’s (date is hard to read) ...

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Postcard Collecting: A Hobby
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