Antique & Vintage Postcards

A swaggering Edwardian dandy struts across a teal ground, cigarette dangling from his lips, jaunty striped hat balanced impossibly flat atop his oversized caricature head — the printed caption reads "Dont think," a winking nod to the era's vogue for absurdist comic cards. The handwritten message crowded into every margin tells its own charming story: the sender (signing as Susie) writes to her friend Edna in Popes Mills, New York, asking for the address of the company where Edna bought her silk skirt — she wants to send for a catalog. The 1-cent Ben Franklin stamp anchors the card firmly in the pre-divided-back era, when senders had to fight for space alongside the image. Addressed to Miss Edna Sayer, the card is a vivid snapshot of early mail-order fashion culture among rural New York women circa 1906.