FEELING FINE and hope you are the same

I'm guessing just a brief note such as this was enough long ago. Think of it as a Tweet. Okay, I hate Tweets. I find them to be little more than brain farts. I also hate getting cards like this that say virtually nothing. I used to give a friend a hard time when she'd send a card that had two lines on it that could have been written by anybody. But still, long ago, a mother would have been happy to know that Will was still alive and "feeling fine." Perhaps Will used some of yesterday's products which would explain his cheery self and rather odd choice of image for a card to mom.




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The card was produced by M. Rieder in Los Angeles, California, and printed in Germany.

M. Rieder   (1901-1915) 
Los Angeles, CA
Printed and published view-cards of the West and of Native Americans. His cards were printed in Germany except those contracted out to Edward H. Mitchell in the United States. (SOURCE: metropostcard.com)

CHRISTMAS: Old German SANTA SCRAPS

A crazy antique dealer relative gave this to me a long time ago. If only I'd been able to get my hands on the hundreds of sheets of scraps she had. But she wasn't that crazy.

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TOWN HALL, MANCHESTER at night

Continuing with my "theme" this week of nighttime postcards I give you one I bought a very long time ago, probably around 1970.

It was published by Hartmann, a card publisher in Great Britain.

Frederick Hartmann 1902-1909 
45 Farringdon Street, London, England

A publisher of postcards as fine tinted halftones. While most of his cards covered views from all over Great Britain, he also produced cards on various other subjects many of which were artist signed. In addition to having his cards printed in Saxony, he imported many glamour cards from the Continent as well. He was the British distributor of postcards for Trenkler & Company. Hartmann was a strong advocate of the divided back postcard and was instrumental to its establishment in England. Hartman may have issued the world’s first divided back card. (SOURCE: Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York City)

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I always liked this card with its mysterious look. The horse drawn cabs waiting beneath the street light. Though it's not London I can easily imagine Jack the Ripper lurking in the shadows or perhaps Holmes and Watson are in one of the cabs. Make up your own story.