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Costumed Artiste by Jean Agelou, Vintage French Postcard, circa 1910s by...
29.00 USDSuperb image by Jean Agelou, circa 1910s. Love this costume :)Please examine our high res scans for detail.The item you are considering for purchase is, unless otherwise noted, a vintage...
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Naughty Flapper in Mirror, French Postcard circa 1920s by redpoulaine
29.00 USDFunny risque postcard circa 1920s. Great outfit and great, great, shoes with those wonderful Louis heels! Image takes the old "mirror routine" a little further than most examples we find...
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Lovely Hand-Tinted Glamor Image, German Postcard circa 1910 by redpoulaine
16.00 USDTitled "Mara," this is a charming glamor image from Germany out of the early 1910s. The postmark is muddy, but looks like 1912. This is a style of glamor image we see quite a lot of out of...
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Goddess and Child, German Postcard, circa 1900 by redpoulaine
14.00 USDOne of those lovely celestial images :) So charming and so evocative of the era.Please note that the bottom edge (on the image side) was somewhat unevenly trimmed.Please examine our high res...
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Psyche Visits Cupid's Bedside, Viennese Illustrator Card, circa 1910s by...
18.00 USDUtterly charming photogravure of Psyche's night visit. Overcome by curiosity, she sneaks into her lover's room to catch a glimpse of him as he sleeps. What happens next? You'll get no spoilers...
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Madonna and Child, Vintage Postcard circa 1910s by redpoulaine
17.00 USDLovely bit of early 20th century popular iconography! This is one of several beautiful religion-oriented postcards we're offering this week in which the images, though classic, make use of...
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Milk Maid, Cabinet Card by Herr Mahlknecht of Vienna, circa 1890s by redpoulaine
33.00 USDIn the 1870s, when Vienna was still a jewel in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian empire, There was a Herr Mahlknecht, well known as a theatrical portraitist (by which we mean he took pictures...
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Hanni Weisse, Flapper with Parasol by Ross Verlag, circa 1927 by redpoulaine
22.00 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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Ramon Novarro and May McAvoy in Ben Hur, circa 1926 by redpoulaine
18.00 USDFirst released in December of 1925, Ben-Hur was one of the epics of epics, a magnificent movie with (according to the trailer) a cast not just of thousands, but more than onehundred and fifty...
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Slytherin Alumnus Bartolby Grimme, French RPPC, circa 1905 by redpoulaine
14.00 USD96 years before Harry Potter's footsteps echoed down the Hallowed Halls of Hogwarts, Bartolby Grimme of Slytherin cheated on exams and bullied the weak and vulnerable, egged on by his father,...
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Anna Fougez, Onstage! Vintage Italian Postcard, circa 1920s by redpoulaine
18.00 USDAnna Fougez (pronounced Foo-jay but with that soft "g" sound like in Beau "G"este) was born Annina Pappacena on July 9th 1894, in Taranto Italy.She was a singer, a sciantosa, a star of the...
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Vaudeville/Circus Acrobatic Trio 4 by Georg Gerlach of Berlin, circa 1906. by...
39.00 USDA spectacular card! One of four in a series of great vaudeville acrobat postcards we recently acquired for the shop. Though published circa 1906 (the year Germany began allowing divided back...
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Italian Dancer in Assuit, La Tatiana, circa 1920s by Fotolux by redpoulaine
26.00 USDThe Italian word Attesa translates as "Expectation."This is only the second of these we've found in the last five years, so from our perspective at least, it's a very uncommon postcard. The...
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Vaudeville/Circus Acrobatic Trio 2 by Georg Gerlach of Berlin, circa 1906. by...
24.00 USDA spectacular card! One of four in a series of great vaudeville acrobat postcards we recently acquired for the shop. Though published circa 1906 (the year Germany began allowing divided back...
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Vaudeville/Circus Acrobatic Trio 1 by Georg Gerlach of Berlin, circa 1906. by...
22.00 USDA spectacular card! One of four in a series of great vaudeville acrobat postcards we recently acquired for the shop. Though published circa 1906 (the year Germany began allowing divided back...
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Cléo de Mérode in Cambodian costume by Reutlinger, circa 1900 by redpoulaine
29.00 USDCléo de Mérode (1875-1966) was an Austrian dancer who began her training at age 8, and according to Wikipedia, made her professional debut at the age of 11. She has visited our shop many...
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Whoops! Risque Flapper, circa 1920s by Jacques Biederer. Vintage French Card...
29.00 USDOdd little image by Biederer. Lots of fun :)Ostra Studio was operated by two brothers, Jacques and Charles Biederer. Jacques Biederer emigrated to Paris in the 1890s from what was then the...
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Eerie Austrian Postcard with Wig, circa 1900-1905 by redpoulaine
16.00 USDWe fell in love with this one as soon as we saw it. We've seen human hair-applied postcards before, but this one feels so wistful...almost haunted :)The card is composed of two sheets of thin...
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Mlle. D'alencon, Stage Artiste and Courtesan of Belle Epoque Paris, by...
18.00 USDGently hand-tinted portrait (one of our favorites of this artiste) by Leopold Reutlinger. Emilienne D'Alencon was a very popular Parisian dancer of la Belle Epoque and also one of "Les Grandes...
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Tired of Baking Cakes? German Postcard circa 1910 by redpoulaine
22.00 USDThis charming young lady is a bit of a mystery to postcard collectors and we've yet to find out any history on her...even her name. In our shop, we call her "Hat Girl."She was one of the more...
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