Tuesday Treasures - April 1, 1025

 Another postcard haul from St. Vincent de Paul.  Not anywhere near the amount or assortment as last September though.  There were a lot of great photos then too. 

 I nearly missed these, as they weren't where the postcards usually are but on top of the glass case of cameras.  Good thing I peek in the case for anything good to get my son (although he told me recently not to get him more cameras or typewriters, due to lack of space.) 

I got all but two damaged cards of the antique "lovers" type, or what in 1910 were probably quite risqué!  As it would have been entirely inappropriate for a man to send these sort of cards to a woman, it's not surprising they were mailed to and from women themselves.  They must have enjoyed a good pun like this first one postdated 1911.

His "lunch" becomes clearer if you replace "child" with "baby." 

Oh, the look on that man's face!  1911

Flirting with the handyman, left.  Right: Let him buy his own candy  He brought them as a gift to her!

On into the '50s and '60s the humor changed.   I'd say the husband in the lower left has already paid plenty of attention to his wife!  Now he needs to give those kids some.

There was even an overdue library book postal card from 1946, and a few French RPPC (Real Photo Post Cards) showing the aftermath of WW1.

Their seemingly never-ending supply of postcards keeps me coming back!   

Edited to add - I DID go back a few more times.  Once the manager was just putting out a new box of vintage.   Most individual cards  have been 25¢.  The foreign were packaged in twos for 50¢.  Still makes them 25¢ each!

The ones on the left included quite a few black and white foreign, two being 1930s Czechoslovakia under German control with images of Adolf Hitler plaza.  

A RPPC of Amiens, France.

One I just couldn't leave behind!

The manager said she had antique Christmas ones to put out at Christmas time.  I told her "I'd buy them now!"  She, in her usual fashion, answered, "You and a lot of other people," and walked away.  Strange.  A volunteer didn't understand that logic any more than I did!  It's not like toilet paper or egg shortages where they limit how many a costumer can buy.  I may have mentioned the manager before.  She's a real piece of work. 

The same volunteer volunteered the information she was pricing more in the back and they'd probably be out Friday of that week!  I may have gone back...   Okay, I did!  The only interesting one was this one sent to a brother from a sister in 1910.  She took him to task for not returning home the day before.  "Mother thought surely you were going to come home yesterday.  She waited all day."  She went on to tell him it was a lonely day for them.  Talk about guilt tripping the guy!  

That's all.  📪