17.00 USD

Mlle. Marie Marville was a very popular stage personality of la Belle Epoque, and the great number of her postcard images speaks not only to her popularity onstage, but to her popularity in the eyes of the public at large.

Unfortunately, unlike some "postcard queens" of the era, among whom were such luminaries as dancer and courtesan La Belle Otero, and possibly the most famous today, the ballerina and interpretive soloist Cleo de Merode, whose histories are readily available in a number of books and online, we haven't yet found anything of note on the life of Mlle. Marville, but we will certainly keep looking.

This is a wonderful pose, and an unusual one! We've come across a few of these almost "risque" back shots of other performers, but never one of Marville, and it will probably sell quickly to one of our customers who collect images of this artiste. (that is not to say that this is a rare card, but that in a few years of pouring over these images, we haven't seen one before, which makes it at least quite scarce :)

Also unusual, is the publisher. Most of the very early postcard images by Leopold Reutlinger, those printed on what our French friends call "precurseur" cards (those with the undivided backs), were published by SIP (Société Industrielle de Photographie), while this one was published by the then fledgling German publisher Rotophot, of Berlin, as indicated by the RPH logo in the bottom left corner of the card. Interestingly, this particular logo lacks the circle that usually surrounds the RPH. This must be a very early Rotophot card, indeed. Why do we love this work? Well, one reason would be moments like this one, when we feel like a botanist in the Amazon, finding a rare flower. Silly? Yup :)

Very nice condition on this one.
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17.00 USD

We have no history on Mlle. Mozaia or the photographer Louis Martin. Research still in progress. What a wonderful card, though. Monsieur Martin is one of our favorite photographers. Unlike Leopold Reutlinger, he was not often very playful with his images, and the cards were not often hand-colored either. Pretty much straight forward portraits of theater people, who were then identified by name, and sometimes by act, such as "Danseuse Eccentrique," with a white ink pen on the negative. So no frills, but very professionally accomplished portraits of often lesser known acts, which is just a lot of fun, but because he was, perhaps, a less well known photographer, and his subjects less well known, it makes research into them more difficult.

His studio was located at 52 Rue de Faubourg Saint-Martin, in Paris, about 10 minutes walk from the Moulin Rouge, and 15 minutes walk from the Folies Bergere, so he was certainly in a prime spot at that time, in what is now, according to hotel reviews, a culturally diverse neighborhood with lots of yummy ethnic restaurants and clubs. Wanna go? :)
A wonderful card.
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17.00 USD

Wonderful coloration! Love the way the gown is swirled at the base. Tiny scratch between hip and elbow.
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11.00 USD

Great image by Monsieur Noyer. Love the faint silvering, and the hand tinting and paste work is really wonderful! Minor wear to edges and corners.
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18.00 USD

We find almost nothing about the life and career of Mlle. Joly Violetta. We know she traveled to America, and that in March of 1909, in her first American performance, she danced on the stage of the St. Paul Minnesota Orpheum Theater. For a 25 cent matinee ticket you could have seen her, along with a host of other vaudevillian troupers, including the headliner for the event, a Mr. Will Rogers! What a gorgeous image. In this, and other images of her we've seen, she seems to have worn a fairly tight corset, as well.

Card is in very nice posted condition, but we can't quite make out the postmark date.
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16.00 USD

May Fris, or possibly Jris, since the letter "F" in Fris on this card, is identical to the capital "J" in Joly Violetta's name as it appears on another G.G. card. It's just that Fris seems a more likely name to us!

Anyway...:) Miss May, was of the "Tiller Troupe." It doesn't even say formerly, so perhaps at that time, she was still a Tiller Girl. "Who were the Tiller Girls?" you ask. They were troupes of what we call today "precision" dancers, the brainchild, or "brainchildren," if you will, of John Tiller of London.

When you see showgirls in Vegas linking arms and high-stepping, or lines of dancers at the Folies Bergere performing the can-can, or fancy geometric routines performed by a few dozen charming Jean Harlow wannabes in an old Busby Berkeley musical, you can thank John Tiller. He is credited with the invention of precision dancing in around 1890, and for the next nearly 90 years bands of Tiller Girls performed on stages all over the world, all of them very carefully trained and in groups whose heights and weights were carefully taken into account when matching them together.

In this wonderful Martin Gerlach image we aren't given any clues as to what exactly Miss May's act was, but she was disarmingly cute, and had a very nice tush! :) So many of the cards produced by Gerlach offered such gorgeous contrast and resolution that there are very few publishers whose cards we share in our shop that can match them in print quality.

A very nice unposted card with minor corner wear.
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22.00 USD

Wonderful image of Clara Ward while engaged in the performance art she called "Poses Plastiques." Photographed by Leopold Reutlinger of Paris.

La Princesse de Caraman-Chimay, aka Clara Ward (17 June 1873 – 9 December 1916), was an American lumber and steel heiress from Michigan who became a society darling in all the American papers when in 1890 she married Marie Joseph Anatole Pierre Alphonse de Riquet, Prince de Caraman-Chimay, a Belgian prince more than twice her age, becoming, herself, an honest to goodness princess. Yes, we have always loved to thumb noses at monarchy, but boy, do we ever love it when one of our own becomes a member of a royal family (case in point: Grace Kelly :).

By 1895, Clara, Princess of Chimay had given birth to two children, a son and daughter. She, and her husband, the prince, apparently loved eating out in the fancier dining spots in Paris. In fact, famed chef, Escoffier named two dishes after Princess Clara.

In around 1896, the Prince and Princess were dining out in Paris at a restaurant where a Hungarian Gypsy violinist by the name of Rigó Jancsi was providing the entertainment. Apparently some form of electrical attraction passed between Princess and violinist, because shortly thereafter they began an affair resulting in their running off together in December of 1896. The couple traveled to Budapest, Hungary, where another dish, this time a chocolate sponge cake, was named in honor of Rigó Jancsi.

The Prince of Chimay divorced Clara, she and Rigó Jancsi were married, and traveled to Egypt, where apparently, according to newspaper accounts, she embarked on the adventure of teaching Jancsi to read and write.

Times got tough for the couple however, and returning to Paris, Clara, still often called the Princess of Chimay, began performing, or at least posing in flesh-toned body stockings, on the stages of various Parisian music halls, which brings us to our card, a wonderful piece of Belle Epoque history.

By the way, Post Impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec produced a lithograph of her and Rigó in 1897, titled "Idylle Princière."


Of course, high society generally despised Clara, while no doubt almost everyone else in Paris (and Gypsy violinists everywhere) loved her, for the incomparably flamboyant romantic quality of her life choices.

***WARNING*** It might not be safe for you to gaze too long upon this image!!! Kaiser Wilhelm II was said to have forbidden publication of her images within the borders of the German Empire, as he found her beauty "disturbing."

Clara soon met another lover, either before, or after, her divorce from Jancsi, which occurred not too long after their marriage. This third husband was Signore Peppino Ricciardo, who was a waiter whom she met on a train. The moral of this story might possibly be that if you can catch a princess at table, when she is being well fed and entertained, she cannot possibly say no to you!

Finally, and apparently not too long after her third marriage, Clara met her fourth and final husband, Signore Cassalota, a station manager who worked for a small Italian Railway. According to the Wikipedia article from which we drew all of our biographical information (Thanks Wikipedia!), Clara was still married to her fourth husband when she died, aged 43, in Padua Italy, in 1916.

Okay, so it's a sad story, or a funny story, or a bit of both, but either way, a remarkable story for a remarkable card :) Excellent condition overall. Please examine our high res scans for detail.

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6.00 USD

We love Ketty cards. Do we know who the model is? Nope. The photographer? Also nope :) But that gorgeous silver glow that Ketty seemed so often to manage is there,
Wonderful. Please note that on this card there is a visible crease in the upper left hand corner.
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24.00 USD

Welcome to "Idols of the 1920s," where we hope to provide a special, cozy place for those of you who long to linger among the stars of the early silver screen, the hoofers and songbirds of dear old vaudeville's fading hours, a few divas of the grand opera, and of the operetta too, flappers, flappers, more flappers, and of course, and perhaps especially, those femmes fatales who with one smoldering glance can melt a heart, or break it in two. Have fun!

Born in Florence, in 1892, Rina De Liguoro is sometimes known as the last of Italy's great silent movie stars. She began her stage career as a concert pianist, then acting in film in the late teens. In 1922, she starred as the Empress Messalina in "Messalina, Fall of an Empress" This was apparently the turning point in her career. Through the 20s, she made several successful films, then moved to Hollywood, but the age of the silents was over, and she won only small supporting roles. She was often billed as Countess De Liguoro, which was appropriate enough, since her husband was a count!
She returned to Italy in the late 30s, rekindled her career as a pianist while occasionally performing relatively small parts in film. She passed away in Rome, in 1966, and was buried in the costume she wore in her first big film, "Messalina," which is a pretty romantic touch, we think :)

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22.00 USD

Absolutely lovely! What a pair of pixies :) The younger of the two girls appears to be wearing pierced earrings. Very nice, unposted condition.
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11.00 USD

We love Ketty cards. Do we know who the model is? Nope. The photographer? Also nope :) But that gorgeous silver glow that Ketty seemed so often to manage is there,
Wonderful. .
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14.00 USD

We love Ketty cards. Do we know who the model is? Nope. The photographer? Also nope :) But that gorgeous silver glow that Ketty seemed so often to manage is there,
Wonderful unposted condition on this particularly lovely image, with minor wear to corners.
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17.00 USD

Gorgeously hand-tinted image of unidentified corseted artiste, Mlle. Meryl, in a beautiful calf-length costume. performing at the Scala, one of the many wonderful Parisian Caf' Conc' of the period.
We don't often come across these Oricelly masterpieces so marvelously tinted. This one was printed in Germany by N.P.G. (the Neue Photographische Gesellschaft), one of the most prolific postcard publishers of the time, which turned out fine quality silver-bromide photo print postcards, utilizing technology originally developed in the United States, but improved upon and patented in Germany (but that's another story :). This particular image is an oranotype, a photo printing process used with, as you can see, great success by N.P.G.
It was not uncommon for "identified" images, originally published in France by houses like S.I.P., in black and white, to be printed in a tinted version by a company like N.P.G., and for that version to lack attributions for the artiste or photographer. Understandable at that time, when these performers might have been very well known, the practice nevertheless resulted in enticing mysteries just waiting for us to solve :)
A lovely card, in very nice posted condition.
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19.00 USD

Wonderful variety show entertainment image. We are still trying to dig up some biographical info this performer. This kind of "Viktor/Viktoria" act was very popular with music hall audiences during this period, and of course being far less exposed to the world, as we have been by film and television, and all the more so now by the internet, it probably didn't take a whole lot, in terms of "transformation" to really amaze much of their audience.
A great card. Nice, unposted condition.
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19.00 USD

Our lovely model is adorned in green, white and violet, three colors very popular among many women at the time this postcard was printed. In addition to being being an attractive combination of colors, just as a rainbow patch on a jacket today might represent support for the LGBT community, the wearing of a badge, ribbons, or as in our card, a dress, in these colors sometimes represented active support of the Suffrage movement. Some have suggested these colors stood for the words Give (Green), Women (White), the Vote (Violet). Fun, yeah?

Supporters of this movement were known to wear these colors as a means of quietly identifying one another. Why a secret color code? Suffrage was a very serious business, and sometimes, a necessarily secret one. Activists did not always limit themselves to peaceful marches, but on occasion went so far as to plant bombs in the homes of politicians who acted in opposition to the movement, which of course drew some seriously negative police attention to any outspoken suffragette! There was an underground railroad of safe-houses used to hide and move from place to place those women wanted by the law for their involvement in radical suffrage activities.

The early 1900s. Strolls on the boardwalk, Carriages in the park, Picnics by the sea, and bandstands in the public square. The cafe-concerts, the music, the dancing, etc. An idyllic time yes? Well, we certainly like to think so, and here at Red Poulaine, it's what we celebrate with our wonderful cards, every day.

But, all over Europe, in the UK, and here in the USA, it was also a time of tremendous political and social unrest. Labor struggles, anarchists, communists, scheming industrialists, all sorts of "ists," and you bet, suffragists. Marches in the streets, revolutions, bombings, police actions at a level of violence that would be unthinkable today. What we think of as the turbulent 1960s, really had nothing on la Belle Epoque!

On the back of this card is a message that translates (more or less) as, "The mushroom is the sign of the door to happiness!"

Many will recognize this mushroom as the classic "toadstool" appearing in many illustrations of fairy and folk tales taking place in woodland settings. It is the Fly Agaric, or properly, the Amanita Muscaria. It is a toxic, hallucinogenic mushroom used in "shamanic" ritual for thousands of years,

In fact, because of two commonly shared hallucinations following its ingestion, namely the experience of growing very, very small, or the experience of growing very, very, large, it has been suggested that it is probably the Amanita Muscaria mushroom which inspired the experiences of Lewis Carroll's Alice, upon eating mushrooms :)

Also, after careful preparation to remove its toxic properties, this mushroom is said by some, to be harmlessly edible and very tasty!

***WARNING*** Seriously!!! Deadly poisonous relatives of this mushroom can be misidentified as Amanita Muscaria, and if ingested can be fatal. Also, the edibility of this mushroom is dependent upon proper preparation, and errors in preparation will leave it still toxic, so although we find its uses and history truly fascinating, and recommend further reading on the subject, we do NOT recommend ingesting it, and want to be clear that only experts, or enthusiasts guided by reliable experts, should ever consider picking and ingesting wild mushrooms of any kind.

Wonderfully weird, magical, Jugendstil Epoche image, published by Rotophot of Germany, probably between 1905 and 1910.
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7.00 USD

For just about a century, between the 1830s, when it was first "invented," until the 1930s, when newer color printing technologies finally surpassed it, chromolithography was king of the color-print processes. Probably produced between 1880 and 1910, this die cut of a beautiful woman in classical costume is a fine example. It is approximately 3, by 2 and 1/2 inches.

We come across these wonderful old "chromo" die cuts every now and then, and when we found these lovely Belle Epoque era items of women wearing the same sorts of costumes so many of the artistes and models pictured on the postcards we carry wore, we thought, 'Why not? These could be wonderful additions to some of our customers' collections!"

Commonly referred to, here in the US (and presumeably in the UK), as "Victorian Die Cuts," and in France, as "Chromo Decoupi," these wonderful paper ornaments were extremely popular in the Belle Epoque era, with children in the nursery, and with women, who kept them in highly prized "parlor" scrapbooks. The better quality ones were heavily embossed, beautifully colored, and produced out of heavy paper (as were our examples), and we're so very pleased to share these with you.

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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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7.00 USD

For just about a century, between the 1830s, when it was first "invented," until the 1930s, when newer color printing technologies finally surpassed it, chromolithography was king of the color-print processes. Probably produced between 1880 and 1910, this die cut of a beautiful woman in Egyptian costume is a fine example. It is approximately 3, by 2 and 1/2 inches.

We come across these wonderful old "chromo" die cuts every now and then, and when we found these lovely Belle Epoque era items of women wearing the same sorts of costumes so many of the artistes and models pictured on the postcards we carry wore, we thought, 'Why not? These could be wonderful additions to some of our customers' collections!"

Commonly referred to, here in the US (and presumeably in the UK), as "Victorian Die Cuts," and in France, as "Chromo Decoupi," these wonderful paper ornaments were extremely popular in the Belle Epoque era, with children in the nursery, and with women, who kept them in highly prized "parlor" scrapbooks. The better quality ones were heavily embossed, beautifully colored, and produced out of heavy paper (as were our examples), and we're so very pleased to share these 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.

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!

7.00 USD

For just about a century, between the 1830s, when it was first "invented," until the 1930s, when newer color printing technologies finally surpassed it, chromolithography was king of the color-print processes. Probably produced between 1880 and 1910, this die cut "chromo" of a beautiful woman in Gypsy costume is a fine example. It is approximately 3, by 2 and 1/2 inches.

We come across these wonderful old "chromo" die cuts every now and then, and when we found these lovely Belle Epoque era items of women wearing the same sorts of costumes so many of the artistes and models pictured on the postcards we carry wore, we thought, 'Why not? These could be wonderful additions to some of our customers' collections!"

Commonly referred to, here in the US (and presumeably in the UK), as "Victorian Die Cuts," and in France, as "Chromo Decoupi," these wonderful paper ornaments were extremely popular in the Belle Epoque era, with children in the nursery, and with women, who kept them in highly prized "parlor" scrapbooks. The better quality ones were heavily embossed, beautifully colored, and produced out of heavy paper (as were our examples), and we're so very pleased to share these 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.

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!

7.00 USD

For just about a century, between the 1830s, when it was first "invented," until the 1930s, when newer color printing technologies finally surpassed it, chromolithography was king of the color-print processes. Probably produced between 1880 and 1910, this die cut "chromo" of a beautiful woman in Renaissance costume is a fine example. It is approximately 3, by 2 and 1/2 inches.

We come across these wonderful old "chromo" die cuts every now and then, and when we found these lovely Belle Epoque era items of women wearing the same sorts of costumes so many of the artistes and models pictured on the postcards we carry wore, we thought, 'Why not? These could be wonderful additions to some of our customers' collections!"

Commonly referred to, here in the US (and presumeably in the UK), as "Victorian Die Cuts," and in France, as "Chromo Decoupi," these wonderful paper ornaments were extremely popular in the Belle Epoque era, with children in the nursery, and with women, who kept them in highly prized "parlor" scrapbooks. The better quality ones were heavily embossed, beautifully colored, and produced out of heavy paper (as were our examples), and we're so very pleased to share these 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.

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!

14.00 USD

For just about a century, between the 1830s, when it was first "invented," until the 1930s, when newer color printing technologies finally surpassed it, chromolithography was king of the color-print processes. Probably produced between 1880 and 1910, this large die cut "chromo" of a beautiful woman in First Empire costume is a fine example. It is approximately 6, by 3 and 1/2 inches.

We come across these wonderful old "chromo" die cuts every now and then, and when we found these lovely Belle Epoque era items of women wearing the same sorts of costumes so many of the artistes and models pictured on the postcards we carry wore, we thought, 'Why not? These could be wonderful additions to some of our customers' collections!"

Commonly referred to, here in the US (and presumeably in the UK), as "Victorian Die Cuts," and in France, as "Chromo Decoupi," these wonderful paper ornaments were extremely popular in the Belle Epoque era, with children in the nursery, and with women, who kept them in highly prized "parlor" scrapbooks. The better quality ones were heavily embossed, beautifully colored, and produced out of heavy paper (as were our examples), and we're so very pleased to share these 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.

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!