Antique & Vintage Postcards

A wide-eyed baby swaddled in a yellow floral blanket on a pink pillow gazes up trustingly as a stately white stork with a brilliant red beak bends down to tug at the wrapping — the image is rendered in crisp, cheerful chromolithography with embossed detail on a heavy cream card stock that gives the whole scene a satisfying tactile richness. Published under the "Bergman Quality" imprint (card no. 6347), this unused congratulations card for a new birth represents the refined end of American greeting postcard production in the 1920s, with its embossed lace-effect heart frame enclosing the words "Congratulations and well-wishes on the auspicious event." The back carries the full Bergman embossed design treatment on the reverse as well, with a decorative floral border around the correspondence area — a detail that underscores the quality positioning of the Bergman line. Never mailed, this card remains in excellent condition, a pristine example of inter-war American sentimental ephemera.