Antique & Vintage Postcards

A rare survivor from Edwardian-era Massachusetts, this fold-out "leporello" souvenir mail card unfurls to reveal a panoramic tour of Danvers, Mass. — the Town Hall's twin copper-domed cupolas anchoring the front image, with the columned grandeur of "Oak Knoll," former home of Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, the Peabody Institute, and the haunting Nurse Burying Ground and Rebecca Nurse Monument cascading behind. Sent in March 1907 from somewhere near Everett Station, Massachusetts, by a sender named Walter to Florence at 126 State Street, Stamford, Connecticut, this unusual accordion-fold format — patented December 5, 1905 (U.S. Patent No. 806031) and published by the Rotograph Co. of New York (printed in Germany) — survives with a small brass pivot fastener intact on the right edge, a charming mechanical curiosity. The 1-cent Ben Franklin stamp and Everett Station machine cancel ground this piece firmly in the Golden Age of American postcards.