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May Flowers 2, 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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Hanni Maurus, Weimar Era Entertainer, circa 1920s. by redpoulaine
22.00 USDSuperb cabaret dance image made by Gebr, Garloff (the Garloff Brothers) of Magdeburg in Saxony, Germany.Unfortunately we have no history yet on Miss Maurus.Very nice condition. Please examine...
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The Death of Messalina, Countess Rina de Liguoro, Silent Fim Star, circa 1922...
22.00 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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Silent Film Star, Fern Andra as Circus Performer, by Film Sterne, circa 1917...
22.00 USDThe Ogden Standard-Examiner, in 1927, recounted one of Fern Andra's many escapades in Germany during the First World War, at which time, accused of espionage, she was housed in a prisoner of...
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Maenad's Revenge. Regina Badet, Belle Epoque Danseuse, by Leopold...
17.00 USDWonderful photo-lithograph of the beloved dancer Regina Badet in maenad costume. This is from one of our very favorite series by famed theatrical portraitist, Leopold Reutlinger of Paris.One...
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Eitelkeit, or Vanity, by Otto Friedrich, Pub. Carte Artistique Viennoise,...
19.00 USDOtto Friedrich (1862-1937) was an Austrian artist of the Viennese Secession. He painted Eitelkeit in 1904. His style, like that of a great many of the painters who pulled away from the...
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Art Nouveau, Belle Epoque, Mini Poster by H. Gray (Boulanger) circa 1900 by...
69.00 USDWelcome to our artifacts section. We decided we needed a place to showcase unusual items that present, beyond what they are themselves, unique historical qualities. Over time, we'll be...
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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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Anna Pavlova as the Dying Swan, pub Hermann Leiser 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 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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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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Judith, German postcard of Biblical Heroine, posted in Budapest in 1918. by...
11.00 USDThis card was posted in Budapest, in 1918. If you've never run across this biblical tale, Judith was a woman from the city of Bethulia--a great hero among those women whose stories are told in...
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Lingerie Model Boudoir Image. German Postcard, circa 1910 by redpoulaine
22.00 USDWonderfully detailed lingerie image for you fashion historians. We're certainly not experts on late 19th, early 20th century lingerie though dealing in the antique postcards we do, we dabble,...
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The Girl With The Cartoon Candle. Risque German Postcard, circa 1907 by...
22.00 USDPublished by Photochemie of Berlin circa 1906 (the year Germany began using divided back postcards) the more we look at this one, the more we love it. It is as if the young woman, by taking up...
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Risque Boudoir Image in Brilliant Chromolithograph! Posted 1906 by redpoulaine
16.00 USDLove the color on this one! Fun Jugendstil boudoir image printed in chromolithograph on this early 1900s German postcard. Prior to 1906, postcards used in Germany were printed without that...
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Eve and the Snake, circa 1900 by redpoulaine
22.00 USDA superbly naive image of an unidentified model "en collant" (in a body stocking) with a really great snake! One has to wonder, when viewing an image of this kind, whether the goal was humor,...
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Beautiful Woman in Beaded, Art Nouveau, Bodice. circa 1910 by redpoulaine
6.00 USDWonderful image that shows very directly a renaissance "effect," or accessory, of the sort that was common in "Art Nouveau" fashion. We can't be certain if the beaded netting is directly sewn...
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Mlle. Jeanne Provost of the Comedie Francaise, by Henri Manuel, circa 1910 by...
16.00 USDMlle. Jeanne Provost (born Jeanne Edmonde Guéneau, 1887-1980) was a very well respected actress both on stage and screen. She was a sociétaire of the famed Comedie Francaise, a silent film...
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Classical Beauty with Olive Branch, by DIX, circa 1910s by redpoulaine
14.00 USDReally lovely contrast and tone on this one! Published by DIX, circa 1910s we are guessing. Could have been printed a little earlier, or later. Though we haven't found the evidence yet, we are...
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Belle Epoque Stage Performer, Mlle. Romanitza, hand-colored, circa 1905 by...
11.00 USDLovely hand-tinting on this image of the artiste Romanitza. On the back of the card is the text: "Imprimeries Réunies de Nancy" which translates as the "School of Nancy." This was a...
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