16.00 USD
Lovely find. This Leo card was decorated with real feathers. Postcards were often decorated with sequins, tiny beads, ground glass, metallic glitter, feathers, and even hair, achieving sometimes astonishing results. This was sometimes done commercially, by the publisher, and sometimes done, as a craft project, by card collectors. It is very difficult to find any reliable history on the practice and process of postcard decoration, but we have read that kits, of a sort, were sold to the public, for the purpose of hand-coloring, or otherwise decorating, these cards. This is a lovely example.
*** PLEASE NOTE*** As was often the practice, these feathers were attached to very thin paper with some variety of adhesive, and then that paper glued down to the face of the card. When we removed the card from the plastic sleeve it arrived in, one section of the feathered paper came loose from the card. We just barely brushed a gluestick across the surface of the card beneath the feathered paper and re-affixed it in its original position, but beware. This card and its decorations are in the neighborhood of 90 years old, so need to be treated with care. Thanks, Red
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