19.00 USD
We love these idealized visions of Belle Epoque France. Simply magical. This card is just loaded with bright gilt highlights, but our scanner doesn't pick up the shine of it as well as we'd like.
One point of interest unrelated to the image: Our card was posted to number 26 Rue Beautreillis in Paris. That's pretty much right across the street from number 17, the house where Jim Morrison of the Doors was living when he passed away. We were surprised to learn that Number 17 Rue Beautreillis is among the top four most tourist-visited places in Paris!
These beautifully embossed cards we sometimes sell, recently we read an account of the way this embossing was done. In this particular case, circa 1899, there was a workspace, just off a narrow connecting street between two large avenues in the Latin Quarter in Paris. In that place, 40 or so women sat at tables, fitting metal dies over the sections of the postcards to be embossed, and hammered away at them with little hammers. This, from early morning til the day's end. We aren't suggesting that this was particularly dangerous or difficult work compared with some jobs of that time, but It's so easy in these amazing times to assume such cards as this one were simply stamped out by some huge machine, when it is likelier that they were produced by the sweat of warm-blooded people :)
Upper right corner a little bumped, otherwise in lovely 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, 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.