Antique & Vintage Postcards

A magnificent strutting tom turkey surveys twin cornucopias overflowing with autumn harvest — grapes, apples, oranges, pears, and hazelnuts — in this richly embossed and gilt-highlighted Thanksgiving greeting card postmarked and mailed in the golden age of American postcard collecting. Published in 1908 by F. Sander of New York, the card features deep die-cut embossing on the decorative Art Nouveau border, the fruit-laden baskets, and the turkey's fanned tail feathers, with metallic gold accents throughout — a quality production typical of the best German-printed holiday greetings of the era. The card was sent to a Mrs. Eugene Murton of Poke Mills, New York, a tiny hamlet in Delaware County in the Catskill Mountains, and is franked with a 1-cent Benjamin Franklin green stamp (Scott #300 series). The message on the left side is handwritten in period cursive, readable in part. Poke Mills, a rural Delaware County community, adds strong local-interest appeal for New York State collectors.