Antique & Vintage Postcards

Shake out this accordion-folded strip of paper and the White Mountains of New Hampshire tumble out image by image — Jackson Falls' silky cascades, the Wild Cat River threading through boulders, Glen Ellis Falls plunging into shadow — a miniature Grand Tour of one of New England's most beloved resort regions, all printed in Saxony for the genteel tourist trade of the 1890s–1900s. The outer "envelope" cover card presents Jackson Falls in full hand-tinted color — soft greens, pinks, and the milky white of rushing water — while the interior leporello strip unfolds to reveal a sequence of monochrome photolithograph vignettes that shrink satisfyingly toward the bottom like a waterfall themselves. Mailed at 1¢ postage to all countries as printed matter, with sender's name only permitted on reverse. Numbered No. 529 in dealer pencil. "Made in Saxony" is printed on the stamp panel — a hallmark of the finest chromolithographic souvenir trade of the era, produced in the Erzgebirge printing districts that dominated American souvenir postcard production before WWI.