Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Your Heart is All the World to Me


This post card is printed in Germany. Valentine Post Card Series No. 403.
This card was sent to Miss M. Goldsmith at 1314 Summit Street, Columbus, Ohio. She must have been pleased to receive it because someone used a pencil to scratch her name out.
Sentiment:
Your heart is all the world to me and I just love Geography.

A blonde hair fellow with tongue hanging out of his mouth reads a book with a heart-shaped world globe sitting on his desk.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Clever Message in the Looking Glass


This message is for you, my dear--
Your looking glass will make it clear.

This card was designed with a clever hidden message in a looking glass. The message is written backwards. If you look in the mirror you will decipher the message:
"Won't you be my sweetheart?"

One angel delivers a post card to the woman looking in the mirror while another angel holds the mirror.

The message on the correspondence side says, " Dear Edna. Be a good girl and I will bring you something home. From Helena

Printed in Germany. Serie No. 30 Sent June 19, 1911 at 9 a.m. from Buckeye Lake, Ohio

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Love's Greeting to My Valentine


Printed in Germany. Sent February 13, 1910. Series No. 1113. Embossed.
The boy holds a wishbone in his right hand and the young girl holds a bouquet. The socks of both the boy and girl fall endearingly around their ankles.

Blue forget-me-nots rim the perimeter of a textured blue heart in front of which the boy and girl stand. In the Victorian language of flowers, the forget-me-not signified true love.

Sunday, January 21, 2007

My Air-Ship is Light Valentine


This card pictures a lighter-than-air craft with four main parts: passenger compartment, propulsion system, a fabric covered stucture containing a lighter-than-air gas, and the steering mechanism. The first air-ship was invented in 1900.

The passenger is cupid.
The sentiment:
My Valenine think of me.
My air-ship is light,
my heart is free,
Young Cupid shall bear my love to the.

This card was postmarked February 13, 1910, 2:30 pm and sent to Edna, 1316 Summit St., City.

This is an embossed card. Printed in Germany. Series No 1035. Copyright 1909.

St. Valentine's Letter Box

This post card was printed in Germany. Postage for this postcard was once cent domestic and two cents foreign. The reverse side of the postcard has directions: This side for correspondence/ The address to be written on this side.

Design copyrighted. John Winsch. 1911