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Deceitful Love Song, Italian Postcard circa 1910s by Sborgi by redpoulaine
14.00 USD*Please note that there is a visible crease in this card near the top edge center, visible in our second listing image*Sborgi is one of our favorite publishers of Italian photo image postcards...
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Gorgeous Hand Tinted Image of Woman in Bonnet circa 1905 by redpoulaine
6.00 USDSuperb image. Minor surface wear of the sort one so often sees in oranotypes, but we are only guessing that this is an oranotype. Overall a wonderful card. Magnificent coloring. Please examine...
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Mademoiselle Lo, French Artiste Nude en Voile, Fantaisie, circa 1905 by...
11.00 USDMlle. Lo in a body stocking and veil. Weirdly ethereal image with a variety of experimental coloration that was popular during that time, and which sometimes achieved amazing results. We'll...
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Lamotha in Clown Costume, Hand-Tinted image by Camus, circa 1900 by redpoulaine
14.00 USDBeautiful hand-tinting on this card by Parisian photographer Camus. We have asked ourselves what clown character had their hair done in a pointy tuft, and found no answers in our research, but...
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Ballet D'Orphée 2, Anthony's of Paris, circa 1900 by redpoulaine
11.00 USDThough posted in 1905, this card was probably produced no later than 1904, and likely closer to 1900. The theatrical production it represents, can't be confused with the Ballet d'Orphée set to...
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Lovely Art Nouveau Hand-Colored Decoration on French Postcard, circa 1900 by...
14.00 USDBeautiful, and oh-so-delicately colored Art Nouveau decoration on this wonderful old deckled-edge card. Image design itself appears to have been initially printed (possibly from a copper plate...
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Art Nouveau Queen of Clubs in the style of Wichera, Posted 1902 by redpoulaine
14.00 USDGorgeous art card in the style of the Baron Raimund von Ritter Wichera, whose work was published by Marcus Munk of Vienna in the early 1900s. Those cards were often identified by the text MM...
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French Nude, Very Cute Flapper. Jean Agelou? circa 1910s by redpoulaine
33.00 USDCharming nude featuring an Agelou model in a costume that differs only slightly from one she was wearing in a series attributed to Jean Agelou.There is a gentle crease/bend along the left edge...
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Faux-Nude Suzanne Derval, circa 1900 French Postcard by redpoulaine
19.00 USDLovely card, a press print, not a photo, of one of the most celebrated French artistes of la Belle Epoque, Suzanne Derval. The author Colette was said to have based certain characters in her...
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Two Goddesses, German Postcard, circa 1907, by Heinrich Traut by redpoulaine
17.00 USDMarvelous atmosphere. German photographer Heinrich (Henry) Traut was adept at establishing mood and magic in his postcard images. Love this one.Please examine our high res scans for detail.The...
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Lutece plays the Aulos. French Postcard by Reutlinger, posted 1902 by...
17.00 USDLutece (pronounced LOO-tess) was the public persona of the lovely young woman in this photograph. We have not yet dug up any biographical information on her, which is a bit surprising given...
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Lutece Bacchante. French Postcard by Reutlinger, posted 1902 by redpoulaine
17.00 USDLutece (pronounced LOO-tess) was the public persona of the lovely young woman in this photograph. We have not yet dug up any biographical information on her, which is a bit surprising given...
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Lutece Calls Forth the Meadow Spirits. French Postcard by Reutlinger, posted...
17.00 USDLutece (pronounced LOO-tess) was the public persona of the lovely young woman in this photograph. We have not yet dug up any biographical information on her, which is a bit surprising given...
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Myriel, Priestess of Bacchus, circa 1905 by Leopold Reutlinger by redpoulaine
19.00 USDOne of our favorite and most magical subgenres of "Lovely Lady" postcards has to be that of the marvelous maenad. Idealized and presumably toned down versions of those wild maidens of ancient...
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Diana's Acolyte Peers Through the Trees, by Kunzli Freres, circa 1905 by...
11.00 USDAnother lovely evocative image produced by the Kunzli Brothers' Paris offices in the early 1900s. Carl and Max Kunzli were two brothers in art publishing from the 1870s and were known for high...
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Enthroned Beauty, Russian Opera Star Vera Nimidoff by Reutlinger, circa 1905...
9.00 USDMlle. Vera Nimidoff was a popular opera singer who toured internationally in the early 1900s. She hailed from Odessa (in the Ukraine, not Texas :) In this beautifully hand-tinted image by...
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Mandolin Player, Experimental RPPC circa 1905/10 by redpoulaine
26.00 USDWe're excited about this one! First...mandolin! Okay, well, we love mandolin :) but mostly we're excited about sharing this RPPC with you because it is such a beautiful example of a slow...
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Cheerful Nixie by H. Traut, Posted from Switzerland in 1907 by redpoulaine
12.00 USDHeinrich Traut loved his Nixies. He produced so many images of young women swimming, bathing in rivers and lakes, on boats, etc. In that era before plumbing in homes was common, washing and...
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Patience. German Easter Card, circa 1910 by redpoulaine
16.00 USD“And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.”― William Faulkner"It was beautiful! A colossal egg! An egg to turn the whole concept of Easter eggs on it head! But...
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In Your Easter Bonnet... Risque Faux Nude French Postcard, circa 1900 by...
22.00 USDThese faux nude risque images were popular with the boys down at the barbershop, sure, but what not many people know was that they were very popular with women of that era too, and for some...
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