CardCow Vintage Postcard Blog

Once in a while someone stumbles across a card on my site that has special meaning to them. I got this email from a customer last week: Just to let you know, that the old Dutch windmill was total serendipity! I was doing research and stumbled on your site. That windmill has sentimental meaning to me so I checked it out. As luck would have it, that particular card was addressed to my great grandmother! Just by a fluke!!! Can you believe it! I was so flabbergasted I almost wet my pants! I had to buy it! Not only that, but after I found it, I noticed you had two. The other had already been sold, but I had not seen the other until I had gotten the one with my great grandmother. Is that not a kick?! Thank you for indulging my story on you. We will be talking about this one for a long time to come! I only wish my Grammie was alive, she would have really gotten a kick out of this! I'd probably get a lot more notes like this if I had the text from the messages on all my cards, ...

One of my new year's resolutions was to start a blog, so I'm going to check this one off early. I look at thousands of postcards each month, and often find ones that are worth commenting on, so I hope to use this as a forum to mention notable finds and other random Postcard thoughts. Since New Year's Eve 2008 is next week I thought it would interesting to look at a few postcards from 1908. I thought this one was interesting, even though technically it's for New Years 1909. I couldn't find much info on the history of New Years Elves. Are these Santa's elves? Where are they going with all the cash? You might think they're handing out money as New Years gifts, but these elves don't look all that charitable. I'm thinking Santa might have taken a bit more than cookies and milk on Christmas eve and now his elves are helping him launder the cash in a Ponzi scheme in Greenland. Here's another one from the same series. You can see there's also a w...