17.00 USD

We do specialize in fantasy, here at Red Poulaine. It's true! Theatrical fantasy, even, and sometimes, perhaps, a little phantasy too, though seldom. Every now and then, though, we need to ground ourselves a bit with a few RPPCs (Real Photo Post Cards), in order to get a glimpse of what life offstage was like.

After all, if you ever find the absolutely right pair of silver slippers, and tapping them together three times, saying, "There's no place like Belle Epoque Paris, there's no place like Belle Epoque Paris, there's no..." and Poof! you arrive there, you had better have an idea of what it was like, non? Today we are going to feature four RPPCs from France, picturing real people, who worked, or patronized businesses in those bygone times.

Great image of a working class hotel/restaurant in Belle Epoque France. Advertized in the window are wines, daily special menu, and rooms to let. Probably relatively simple fare. Wonderful dog :) These old RPPCs were often loved half to death. pinholes in two of the corners, and general wear. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

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where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

11.00 USD

Brilliant :) Wonderful example of tinted glamour card of the 20s and 30s. A long letter on the reverse in violet ink.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

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7.00 USD

Beautiful image of Casino de Paris performer Mlle. Juanita in embroidered ribbon cap by (Cliché) Oricelly, circa 1905. She positively glows! Monsieur Oricelly made truly remarkable use of the sepia tone.
And what precisely does it mean when we see the word Cliché preceding the name of a French photographer? Well, though we are certain it does not mean an overused or trite expression, for which it is commonly used today in English, we aren't entirely certain what exactly it does mean.
The word Cliché initially referred to the echoic sound of a printing press when running off copies, so it might mean a reprint of an original photo, but it could also mean "group" as in clique, since both nouns come from the same original idea expressed in two different, and kinda the same, French verbs. The first from clicher, the French verb for click, and the second from cliquer the Old French verb for click! How's that for a commentary having almost nothing whatsoever to do with our card? :)
Wonderful condition.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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29.00 USD

Almost any RPPC (real photo post card), if it is wonderful, is at once both wonderful, and rare, because there were almost never more than a very few produced from any one negative.

I can remember a door-to-door photographer coming into our home, when I was little, and making a portrait of our family. This would have been in the early 1960s, and probably wasn't all that common even then.

But, at the turn of the century, when Tinkers arrived at your door on a bicycle fitted with a grinding stone attachment for the sharpening of kitchen knives and tools, itinerant photographers carried their equipment from place to place, and we imagine, an assortment of trompe l'oeils (painted backdrops), from place to place as well, taking family portraits that would be handed down from generation to generation as valued heirlooms.

Also, by the time this RPPC was made, cameras were being sold to the home photographer that used postcard sized plates, so they could make photo postcards themselves, with no enlargement necessary, and whenever they wished! Why...it was practically an "instamatic!"...Not :)

Here, we see one of the ways families enjoyed their free time at home, before everyone had a radio to gather around. Two mandolins, a cello, and a little boy on the piano, with ol' Uncle Pierre in the middle, getting carried away as usual (Mom always hid the lampshades when he came to visit :).

Please note, that on the music stand next to the cellist, is a concerto by one of the most beloved composers of la Belle Epoque, Edouard Lalo (you will have to zoom in to see it), but this family is indulging in a raucous piece of music for which the cellist needs no bow, as he is plucking it in bass fiddle fashion.

Also, this card is a very "Downton Abbey" item, not because of the marvelous image, taken in a very simply furnished parlor/music room in France, but because of where the card was sent.

On the reverse side, we see the card was posted to a Mlle. Bouny, c/o The Viscountess Deerhurst, Dynes Hall, Halstead, Essex.

We assume Mlle. Bouny was a member of the musical family in the image, or at least a close friend, since the message written around the border of the card is the sort of greeting you might receive from a family member, but we don't know anything about her, or why she was staying with the Viscountess.

Dynes Hall was certainly one of the stately homes of England, and although it is located in Essex, a fair distance from Yorkshire (where the fictional Downton Abbey is located), there are similarities between the two.

Take the Viscountess herself, for example. The Lady Deerhurst was formerly known as Miss Virginia Bonynge, the stepdaughter of an American millionaire who made his fortune mining California gold (Oh those coarse Americans and their nouveau millions!). Sound familiar? In this respect, she bears a distinct resemblance to Lady Cora Crawley of Downton.

Also, like Lady Cora of Downton, the Viscountess was a classy "nouveau riche" American. She was a great favorite of the King's sister, and the King himself stood sponsor for her son.

And do you recall the incident, in Downton Abbey, when Lady Mary gets scandalously steamy with the romantic Kemal Pamuk, who ends up dead in her bedroom? If you remember, Kemal assured Lady Mary that marriage was out of the question, as neither of their families would agree to such a match (The very idea! How would their respectable families survive the scandal of an interracial marriage!).

Well, in real life among the Deerhursts, Lord Deerhurst's sister, Lady Anne Coventry, didn't stop at romance, but in fact married Prince Duleep Singh, the son of the Maharaja of Lahore, and somehow both families managed to survive their union. Perhaps some of these Edwardian toffs were less uptight than we like to imagine!

From the simple quality of decor in the pictured parlor, and the size of the room, though they did own a number of valuable musical instruments, the family in our postcard doesn't seem to be of the "aristocratic" class. So was Mlle. Bouny a friend of the Viscountess, or even a close employee, such as a nanny, or lady's maid?

Imagine an adventure this young woman had on her visit, as if it took place in an episode of Downton Abbey. We should mention that Lady Coventry's husband, Prince Singh did, in real life, also have a brother, Prince Duleep F. Singh, who was known affectionately within the Deerhurst family as Uncle Freddy. What might have happened if the lovely Mlle. Bouny had met Uncle Freddy? Would sparks have flown? Sorry, we do get carried away sometimes :)

No doubt there are countless similarities between the fictional Crawleys and the real Deerhursts. Every family endures its own dramas, and those of the "Jones's" next door, so often mirror our own. But we hope you Downton Abbey fans out there enjoyed these observations.

A great card in so many ways! Overall, in very nice condition, too. It is unusual for us to find images that not only take us into the homes of the Belle Epoque family, allowing us to appreciate the differences and similarities between their lifestyles and our own, but that also give us such animated activity as this one does, and we are very pleased to share this card with you.

Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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19.00 USD

In addition to the Grande Roue de Paris, which would remain the largest Ferris wheel in the world for almost a century, the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 had a tremendously popular Japanese pavilion, showing off the art, architecture and culture of Japan, and this card was possibly produced in response to that. That's just a wild guess since Japanese art and culture had been introduced popularly to the people of Paris at the Exposition of 1867, and had already inspired a great deal of interest. Asian art of both the far and near east made important contributions to the Art Nouveau, or Jugendstil, movement which was at its peak in 1900.

In any case this is one of the nicest turn of the century photographic portraits of a Japanese woman in traditional dress we've seen in some time. The detail, and buttery tone are perfect. The card itself is in excellent condition.

Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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14.00 USD

We cannot find any bio information on Mlle. Camier, but in the 1920s, she was mentioned frequently in connection with theater and fashion. She was consulted on what dress lengths were appropriate in one fashion article ( she voted for ankle length, by the way, feeling that shorter dresses impacted the graceful line of the garment negatively), porcelain figurines were produced of her, she modeled jewelry (she appears in a magazine advertisement for Oreum bracelets, and appears to be fondling one, on her right wrist, in this image. But although born in the 1890s, and so active on the stage during the era of silent film, and later the talkies, she doesn't seem to have gone that route.

This is such a lovely card. Not only is Mlle. Camier stunning, but this is one of those Alfred Noyer published postcard prints that keep him high on our favorites list. Certainly he produced gazillions of those tinted "pretty girl with flowers" images, but in this type of portrait, he rises, like cream, to the very top. The wonderful contrast, incredible detail and resolution (the way each strand on her fringed scarf stands out), along with the softness of light the sepia tint affords, is of similar quality to cards Noyer published in many of his wonderful series, like "Les Plus Belles Femmes," and "Les Vedettes du Cinema," to name just a couple, and of course the J. Mandel nudes, and his wonderful sepia-toned reproductions of so many works of art exhibited at the Paris Salon.
Unlike methods of manipulation at our fingertips these days, the photo-printing technology of the early 1900s did not offer much in the way of "sharpening" of detail beyond what the photographer achieved with the negative, so it was in the careful maintenance of detail, within the printing process, and what gentle manipulation could be achieved through tone, that Noyer seems to have excelled.

A really fine card, in fine condition.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

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4.00 USD

Published in Brussels in the early 20th century, this card, a tear-away from a booklet which most likely contained a number of similar images, presents an image of a Flemish dairy worker. The booklet from which it was removed, might have been sold to tourists as a souvenir.

Agriculture, once the dominant industry in Europe, was quickly being displaced by factories during the 19th century due to the industrial revolution, and Belgium was no exception. However, dairy farming continued to be “carried on for the sale of natural milk, the manufacture of butter, or for cheese making,” as it continues to be carried on today. So, to the eyes of the modern city dweller, a woman wearing traditional dress and carrying a milk jug on her shoulder was already seen as quaint, someone who was not quite like themselves, but rather a visitor from a pastoral land nestled in the past, while milk was more and more often delivered in a shining glass bottle, gleaming with modernity. So, such a woman would have been viewed with perhaps a bit of nostalgia for those golden years, which are always just past, in which times, and the lives people led, were simpler and sweeter.


Many thanks to Wikipedia, as always, and to Google Books, which gave us access to the September 1905 edition of The Creamery Journal, quoted above.

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This wonderfully nostalgic card shows astonishingly little wear; even the perforated edge looks freshly torn from the booklet. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, the price is the same as for a single card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, due to the costs of international shipping will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more. We do not charge for insurance or shipping materials, and as of the date of this listing are still charging below our overall cost on shipping.

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18.00 USD

Beautifully hand-tinted German card, that we think is an unattributed Heinrich Traut image, circa 1905. We have seen a number of other cards from this series in the past, and are pretty certain one of them was a signed "Traut" image. This is a particularly nice one. Notice that the strap on her mermaid gown was created by pinning onto the garment, doubled over strands of pearls, and seed pearls. What fun!

Nice unposted condition. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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16.00 USD

Käthe von Nagy, born into an aristocratic Hungarian family as Ekaterina Nagy von Cziser, in 1904, was a film actress whose career began when she was cast in a role by famed director Alexander Korda, in 1927. Prior to this point, she was earning her living as a journalist, having been an aspiring writer for most of her youth.
She enjoyed a successful film career in Germany throughout the 1930s, but during WWII made only a single film. This was not unusual for many actors in the German cinema of this period. Jews had been such prominent contributors to the entertainment industry in Germany prior to Hitler's coming to power in 1933, that the period following the ascendance of Naziism saw not only the obvious exodus of Jews from show business there, but also of those non Jews, who were not willing to play the political game, and quietly distanced themselves from that Fascist regime, or who even went to some lengths to assist their Jewish friends who found themselves in very difficult and dangerous circumstances.

There are a number of very well known examples of this, actress Lilian Harvey being but one, and although nothing is said concerning this in the history we've found on Fraulein von Nagy, it seems possible that this was true in her case as well.

Also, of course, the fact that she refused a "great honor" conferred upon her by SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler, may have contributed to her finding little work in Germany during that period. And what was this "honor" she refused? Why, only that she allow the image of her face and body to be reproduced and used in the production of somewhat smaller than life-sized "love" dolls to be "used" at the front by soldiers of the German Reich. This was an ultra top secret project known as "Borghild," intended to keep soldiers away from prostitutes, and the resulting s.t.d.s.. True story!
(Thanks Wikipedia :)

A very nice card, with what might be a child's scribbling on the reverse side. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

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18.00 USD

Wow! Erm.....just a moment...there, that's better...had to clear the steam from my glasses :)

We adore these brightly hand-tinted couples romance images, but this one is really one of the hottest we've seen!

Le Baiser means (as you might have guessed), "The Kiss." and as a noun, in modern French, this usage is just fine! But as a verb...well...

In the same way that to "make love" in 1930's American English was generally taken to mean a declaration of adoration, an expression of romantic intention, etc., but today is often used as a euphemism for far more intimate behavior,

the word, baiser, when used as a verb, no longer means, as it did at the time this card was printed, "to kiss," but in these modern times has taken on the most intimate of meanings.

These days, the French verb for kiss, is embrasser, and knowing this, particularly when, for example, relating to a French friend that you "kissed" your mother goodbye before heading off to college, can save you quite a bit of embarrassment :)

For more detailed info on baiser, embrasse, etc., follow the link below to a great site!

http://www.frenchtoday.com/blog/kiss-embrasser-baiser-mistake

A phenomenal card, with only minor wear, and a long love letter on the back side, written (of course!) in violet ink.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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24.00 USD

Ernest Louis Desire Le Deley was a well known publisher of postcards in France from 1900 until 1930, when ELD went bankrupt. Thanks to the Metropolitan Postcard Club's publisher list (a fantastic information resource, link below), for this info.

http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersl.html

Beautiful long-haired model posing "en collant" (in body stocking). Lovely, subtle, hand coloration of the trompe l'oeil. This is a truly fine example of a risque body stocking image from the "naughty aughties." Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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19.00 USD

Another of Alfred Noyer's highly collectible series of "Aurographies," that were often subtle semi-nudes draped in a veil. Lovely sepia tone like all of those in this series we've come across. Seems to have been posted in 1930, though most of these images we've seen are from the 20s.

Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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16.00 USD

Superb image of Belle Epoque stage performer Mlle. Marville photographed by Reutlinger of Paris. Dated 1901, this card was published by SIP (Société Industrielle de Photographié). Wonderful tone and detail. Unposted and in lovely condition. She is adorned with cherries, ans this is rather a nice corset image too.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

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14.00 USD

Striking image by Leopold Reutlinger, circa 1900-1904, in which his use of lighting is strongly reminiscent of the theatrical portraits made by Jakob Schloss of New York, an American contemporary of Reutlinger's.

Charlotte Wiehe, born Charlotte Hansen (1865-1947), was a Danish actress who was born in Copenhagen, but spent much of her career in Paris and on international tour.

She began her career as a very successful dancer with the Royal Theater Ballet in Denmark, for which she danced from 1881 until 1890, but in 1890, following her marriage to the actor Anton Wilhelm Wiehe, she made a switch to the People's Theater as a stage actress.

In 1899, this marriage was dissolved, and Mlle. Wiehe married Hungarian violinist and composer Henri Berény, with whom she traveled to Paris. There, she was soon involved as a director and actress at the popular Théâtre des Capucines. Henri Berény composed the music for several operettas she performed there.

In the early 1900s she toured in Europe and the U.S. with a French company. We read mixed reviews of productions in New York, where her skills in pantomime (a very popular form of stage craft at that time) were highly lauded, but at least one reviewer had a problem with her Danish accented French.
Despite this challenge, she did very well in France! Our impression was that the New York reviewer was more nit-picky about French pronunciation than the French themselves, which is kind of funny.
Also, during this period, she made a silent film in London.

In WWI, the French government confiscated her possessions because of her being married to a Hungarian (Hungary being allied with Germany at the time). Though they encountered some problems in their marriage ( Wiehe and Berény divorced in 1920), he was apparently the love of her life, as they remarried in 1929, and remained so, apparently until his death in 1932.

Miss Wiehe remained active as a performer internationally. She returned to Paris in the 1920s, was still appearing in productions, even during WWII (by then in her 70s), and lived to the age of 82, when, after having returned to Denmark, she passed away in 1947.

A wonderful card in very nice condition with minor age spotting on the reverse.
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19.00 USD

Unidentified image of Regina Badet, astride a chair, circa 1900

44.00 USD

Superb piece of the "beautiful era." Large cabinet card (9 and 3/4 by 5 and 3/4 inches) of a beautiful, very long haired, danseuse in classic "costume orientale." This cabinet card could have been produced in the 1880s, 90s, or the early 1900s. Belgian Gustave Buyle was the photographer. No history available. Sorry.

The card suffers from obvious faults: One corner was snipped away, and there are several pin holes in it, as well. Our price is for the cabinet card "as is."

***Our plan*** (if it doesn't sell quickly), is to carefully cut down the edges to approximately where they appear in the first (cropped) image (but squared rather than eyeballed, as in this crop), fill in the pin holes with an acid free paper paste, smooth, match the color and retouch the repairs, sand, polish, and re-blacken the new edges. If we do this, the price will certainly go up to one appropriate to the rarity of the piece, but hey, you knew that :)

Shipping will be for a carefully wrapped, reinforced package, $6.00, anywhere. Thanks for looking!

110.00 USD

Gorgeous, hand-tinted nude by J. Mandel, circa 1920s. Some of the coloring is apparent on the back of the card (a common enough occurrence with deeply tinted cards) Lovely condition, with very minor wear to edges and corners. Quite a find, and we are very pleased to share it with you.

Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

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16.00 USD

If there is one thing we enjoy even more than finding a new image of our very favorite nude "French" postcard model, it is finding an image of her fully clothed! How about a collection composed entirely of "un" nude postcards, made up of fully dressed "French" postcard models! What fun!

We haven't been able to find any history on this lush beauty, who always seemed to be having such a good time on her photo shoots. On one website, it was suggested that her name was Brianna, but we haven't found that name anywhere else. We also found one of those wonderful Walery images of a Casino de Paris Dancer named Mlle. Paslowski, who closely resembled her, but a good customer of ours ran across a series of nude postcards, each with a different model pictured, and with a different name in the bottom left corner of of the cards' backsides. On the back of our model's card was the name "Mireille," or miracle. .So that's the name we've settled on til we know more.

Well, she may be fully dressed, but her eyes still sizzle.You can put her into the girl next door's dress, and hand her a bouquet, but her eyes still make her look like a leopard woman in "Cat People" :)

We include an example of one of her nude images for comparison, but NOT for sale. Nice condition on this interesting card, but someone put a tiny blue beauty mark on her face.Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

18.00 USD

Mlle. D'Armoy was one of the queens of the body stocking postcard. Lovely image by Walery of Paris.
Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!

16.00 USD

Charming image of Miss Haslam, who graced the Paris music halls of la Belle Epoque. This was taken by Walery of Paris during the time she was performing at the Alcazar Club and the card itself, was produced under the star label by Monsieur G. Piprot, who operated a postcard production company out of number 2 Rue de l'Amsterdam in Paris. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

Postage is for first class shipping in a secure photo mailer, and we happily combine shipping on all paper goods. If you purchase two cards, we will refund the postage on the second card, and when you purchase three or more cards from us at the same time, your shipping will be entirely free, except for international orders which, because of sudden increases in international shipping rates will still be charged one card's shipping fees on orders of three or more.

And please come visit our blog at:

redpoulaine.blogspot.com

where we post biographical and historical tidbits, images of cards and photographs for sale, some already sold but remembered fondly, related images of historical interest and sometimes even images of items that have not yet arrived in the shop, but that are expected to arrive soon, as well as coupon codes, links to other related sites, and more!