Friday, December 11, 2009

Postcard Friendship Friday!

Leather postcard!
Aunt Ida saved it, thank goodness!
March 24, 1907
Absolutely nothing to do with the holidays, but I really thought it was worth showing!!!

12 comments:

  1. Peggy! This is WONDERFUL! Novelty leather postcards were printed between 1904 - 1908. The leather was branded and then tinted. Yee-haw cowboy! The US postal service banned them in 1909 because they kept on jamming newly designed sorting machines! Happy happy PFF girl!

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  2. There actually were some leather postcards with Christmas Greetings on them.

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  3. Peggy!!! This is a wonderful leather postcard. So neat that it is your's now:) I can't believe I won your Giveaway!!!!! I am so excited!!! Thank you so much Sweetie:) Love, Jamie

    I will email my address. Here is my email:

    askarteology@yahoo.com

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  4. Somewhere at the back of my mind, I think I've heard of leather postcards, but I've certainly never seen one!

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  5. Because of the small window for actually mailing these cards, they are VERY collectible.

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  6. How fun to see this. I have a wooden postcard, but not a leather one.

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  7. What a wonderful keepsake. I can imagine how these would have stuck in machines a posty nightmare.

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  8. how lucky to have one of these in your collection! and it is postmarked!

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  9. This was a new one of me. Gotta love blogging...you learn something new everyday.

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  10. That is definitely worth saving. Even cooler that it's from Ketchikan before Alaska was a state. Thank you for sharing it.

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  11. How funny. I just looked at this now...a little late, but I almost posted a leather card on Friday too. I posted it on Saturday instead.

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