HAPPY NEW YEAR: START on the count of three

Go ahead, blow your own horn. Then keep it down. I've got a headache.

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Another card illustrated by Bernhardt Wall. A copy is available here at Card Cow.

HAPPY NEW YEAR as the last hours tick away

By this time tomorrow...

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A card similar to this is available on Card Cow.

Happy New Year with BERNHARDT WALL

A card created by Bernhardt Wall. I'll be featuring another of his cards this weekend.

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Bernhardt Wall was born in Buffalo, New York on Dec. 30, 1872. He died in 1956 in Sawtelle, California.

After studying at the Buffalo Art League, Bernhardt Wall began a career in lithography in 1889. He soon became known as the "Postcard King" and designed over 5,000 comic cards. He served in the Spanish American War in Cuba.

About 1915, he decided to make etching his vocation. He then had studios in NYC, Houston (TX), Lime Rock (CT), and Sierra Madre (CA). He died in Sawtelle, CA on Feb. 9, 1956.

As an historian, he specialized in famous people and historical events. He was the illustrator and author of Odyssey of the Etcher of Books, Abraham Lincoln, and Thomas Jefferson. Member: Sierra Madre Art Guild; Chicago Society of Etchers.

Exh: San Antonio AA, 1894 (medal); Fort Worth Museum, 1929, 1935 (solos); Witte Museum (San Antonio), 1936, 1955 (solos); Laguna Beach AA, 1945-46. In: Huntington Art Gallery; Grosvenor Library (Buffalo); British Museum; Lincoln Library (Shippensburg, PA); Library of Congress; New York Historical Society; Southwest Museum (LA); Newark (NJ) Public Library; Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Iowa State Universities. WWAA 1936-53; Pasadena Star-News, 2-14-1956 (obit). (SOURCE: Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940")

To see other cards by Bernhardt Wall click here, here, and here at Card Cow where you can actually buy a card like this. Click here to read about his archive at the library at Texas A & M. Click here to go to Google Images.

Over at Tattered and Lost Photographs I'll be featuring some photos the next few days to get you in the mood for the New Year.

The PARENTS OF THE BRAT in the cupboard?

I think we might now have a clue as to why the Brat in the Cupboard is such a brat.

I give you his folks. I do believe in a few years the brat will not be reaching for jam or honey, but a bottle of Jack Daniels.

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This is another card published in 1906 by Harry Heye Tammen, marked as H. H. Tammen on the cards. It was postmarked June 5, 1909.

The BRAT IN THE CUPBOARD

Last week was my first post for Postcard Friendship Friday. I decided to try it again, though far from the theme.

I call this a Brat Card. Or perhaps it should be called...are you ready for this?...it's pretty bad...a Brat Worst. Are you cringing? Yeah, I know, but I couldn't resist.

This kid on the stool is an unpleasant little monster. I wonder how popular this card was? If someone sent it to me I think I'd be annoyed. Were there people who thought him cute? Funny?

Unlike last weeks post, The Fudge Party, which then over the week had several follow-up posts of actual fudge recipes (here, here, and here)...this week...not so much. I do not believe I will be looking for showing children at their brat worst. Then again, I might actually have some old ad about sausage. Who knows.

As to the actual card, I do find it interesting that the sender chose to write on the front, leaving the actual comment area blank. Of course they did add their own little artistic flourishes to the image. Not so sure what they were going for with the sun. Any ideas?

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What I do enjoy is the embossing showing through on the back; a strange ghost of the annoying child. Perhaps its evil doppelgänger?

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The publisher of this card was H. H. Tammen. I did an earlier post which included the information I was able to find about Harry Heye Tammen. You can read it here. He was quite a fellow and I imagine had a bit of a brat in him too.

For those collectors out there, I do see this card is currently available at Card Cow.