33.00 USD
Wow! Hotsy-Totsy :) Really a striking woman. We just missed at auction a postcard featuring this performer (we're guessing from the same collection this one came out of because she is completely new to us), posed with another gal in "sister act" fashion, but with both of them a bit more nude than Mlle. Darwin appears in this image. This leaves us thinking she was a burlesque performer of some kind.
Absolutely no history on her that we've found, and no, in case you were wondering, she doesn't appear to be any relation to the Emma Darwin née Wedgwood who was the cousin and wife of Charles Darwin, nor their great-great granddaughter, the author, also named Emma Darwin (Of course we looked! The images draw us in, but it's the history that keeps us hooked :)
We don't recognize the publisher logo. On the bottom right of the card's face we find the number 1925. A date? Possibly, but dating the year of a card's printing on its face was, in our limited experience, very unusual (in fact, outside of seasonal "New Year" type images, I can't remember ever seeing it). Still, 1925 looks just about right, anyway, doesn't it? We would go with her hairstyle, pose, and also take into account the font on the obverse of the card in that nice old blocky, late "Deco" style--probably would guess right around 1930.
Also, "Carte Postale" certainly implies French origin, but Miss Darwin's overall style feels very German to us, no? The portrait too---looks a lot like images from Georg Gerlach of Berlin, a couple of decades earlier. We hope someone out there can fill us in on this gal's history.
Wonderful card! Please examine our high res scans for detail.
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