Antique & Vintage Postcards

Hand-colored undivided-back postcard of the Statue of Liberty and Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor, viewed from the water. The statue stands at center against a soft pink-and-blue sky with light cumulus clouds, the star-shaped Fort Wood base and the island's ancillary buildings visible below. The card carries a blue advertising overprint for Gillies Coffee: an illustrated coffee plant branch with the text "Gillies Coffes [sic] / The Finest Obtainable / Look for this girl / on the label." Copyright 1898 by Geo. P. Hall & Son, New York. Publisher: Schaar & Dathe, Trier (printed in Germany).