POSTCARD COLLECTION

OLD POST CARDS

^ 1904

^ 18 FEB 1918

PRINCE CHARLES

Unposted "Real Photograph" post card, published by Tuck.
Charles was born in 1948, and Tuck are described on the reverse as "Publishers to the King & Queen", so this is 1953 at the latest.

^ 28 MAY 1918

^ 13 MARCH 1920

OLD POST CARDS

^ 1 FEB 1920

^ 10 SEP 1923

^ EDINBOURGH 2 AUG 1939

THE HISTORY OF POSTCARDS

Pre-Postcard Era, 1840 - 1869
Due to government postal regulations, postcards were a long time in developing. Prior to postcards came the lithograph print, woodcuts and broadsides. The direct ancestor seems to be the envelopes printed with pictures on them. These first envelopes were produced by D. William Mulready, E.R.W. Hume, Dickey Doyle, and James Valentine. The envelopes were often printed with pictures of comics, Valentines and music. Thousands of patriotic pictures appeared on U.S. envelopes during the Civil War period of 1861-1865, these are now known as Patriotic Covers. The first postal type card in this country was a privately printed card copyrighted in 1861 by J.P. Carlton. This copyright was later transferred to H.L. Lipman. The "Lipman Postal Cards", as we now call them, were on sale until replaced in 1873 by the U.S. Government Postals.
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