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May Flowers 4, Risque French Faux-Nude by M.F. Paris, circa 1904 by redpoulaine
18.00 USDWish we'd received this in for May day! Lovely hand-coloration on this barely risque French postcard, circa 1904.Why 1904? Check out the text on the obverse of the card:"Tous les pays...
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May Flowers 1, Risque French Faux-Nude by M.F. Paris, circa 1904 by redpoulaine
18.00 USDWish we'd received this in for May day! Lovely hand-coloration on this barely risque French postcard, circa 1904.Why 1904? Check out the text on the obverse of the card:"Tous les pays...
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Godiva by Gerlach, German Postcard circa 1910 by redpoulaine
18.00 USDGorgeous postcard by George Gerlach of Berlin. One of the much beloved "Godiva" like images that were capturing imaginations in the 1900s and 1910s and are still so beloved today. And like...
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Song and Dance Sextette, German Postcard pub 1898 by redpoulaine
16.00 USDCharming card! Great costumes and faces. The costumes actually remind us a lot of some worn by German ice skating troupes we've seen images of, and we don't know anything about this troupe or...
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Marie-Ange Feriel, Belle Epoque Stage Actress by Reutlinger, Posted 1905 by...
14.00 USDAwesome image by Leopold Reutlinger of the stunning Mlle. Feriel in the wonderful neo-classical costume of the Belle Epoque era, while she was with the Theatre du Gymnase in Paris.We have been...
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Nude French Model lounging on Oriental Rugs and Cushions, circa 1920 by SAPI...
29.00 USDMost of the cards we sell on Red Poulaine are, in fact, French postcards, in that they were actually published in France, but the term "French Postcard" was also one often used to...
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Silent Movie Romance, circa 1917 by redpoulaine
14.00 USDWait...just a moment please...I have to wipe the steam from my glasses :)Gorgeous still image with Gunnar Tolnaes and Lilly Jacobsson in the 1917 Danish film, "The Maharaja's Favorite...
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Otto Storm, Hungarian Silent Film Actor, Poses with Cello, Austrian Card,...
14.00 USDIt is true that we do not give the gentlemen equal time here at Red Poulaine, but occasionally a particularly dapper fellow can edge his way in :) Otto Storm was a silent film actor who made...
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Fern Andra, Star of the Circus and Silent Film, "Relaxing" at Home,...
22.00 USDVery early Ross Verlag card. Wonderful image of one of our favorite people in a posed "candid" image that was apparently taken, as were a fair number of her postcard images, by her own...
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Vera Vergani, Italian Stage and Silent Film Actress, circa 1920s by redpoulaine
16.00 USDHere at Red Poulaine, we have a special place in our hearts for the Italian actress images of the early 1900s and into the 1920s. The quality of the portrait photography and subsequent...
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1920s Blonde French Flapper as Mignon by redpoulaine
11.00 USDSince it first opened in Paris, in the 1860s, the opera Mignon, the tale of a Gypsy girl's adventures, captured the European imagination. Images of Mignon on postcards were very popular, and...
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Anna Pavlova as Dragonfly, Photo probably by H. Mishkin of New York....
70.00 USDAnna Pavlova (1881-1931), prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet and Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, needs little introduction. She is possibly the most famous of all Russian dancers and...
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Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan, pub Hermann Leisner of Berlin, circa 1910 by...
115.00 USDAnna Pavlova (1881-1931), prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet and Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, needs little introduction. She is possibly the most famous of all Russian dancers and...
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Anna Pavlova, Blonde, for Rondino? By Ernst Schneider of Berlin, circa 1920s...
85.00 USDFantastic card! Anna Pavlova (1881-1931), prima ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet and Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, needs little introduction. She is possibly the most famous of all...
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Pierrette Wants to Play Catch! Precious French RPPC circa 1920s by redpoulaine
22.00 USDHow cute is this Pierrette? Love the tuft of hair popping out of her beanie :) The photographer Robert Boivin apparently got started in Paris right around 1890 and seems to have kept himself...
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Rudolph Valentino, Silent Film Star, circa 1920s by Ross Verlag. by redpoulaine
17.00 USDHere he is, Son of the Sheik, Mr. Action and Romance, Rudolph Valentino! Very nice card from Ross Verlag circa 1920s.Please examine our high res scans for detail.The item you are considering...
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Girl in a Grass Skirt, American RPPC circa 1920s by redpoulaine
19.00 USDWe really love this image. It's so dreamlike, the young woman with her otherworldly expression almost fading into the subtle trompe l'oeil behind her. What a great pose. Her grass skirt is...
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Garbo and Gable...together! Vintage German Postcard by Ross Verlag, circa...
19.00 USDSo Gable....So Garbo! Just Marvelous :)Ross Verlag card from 1931, almost certainly related to the 1931 pre-code film "Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)" directed by Robert Z. Leonard.In the...
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Lucy Doraine and Mercedes Cabriolet by Ross Verlag, cira 1927 by redpoulaine
19.00 USDWelcome 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...
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Sleeping Beauty, Gabrielle Robinne, Hand-Tinted Image by Reutlinger, posted...
18.00 USDIs she the mother of Briar Rose, asleep in her throne for a hundred years? Or Ophelia, dreaming that Hamlet stands there beside her? She is certainly beautiful in either case.Exquisite...
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