Antique & Vintage Postcards

Two anthropomorphic sparrows perch on a branch — a fluffy chick in a red bobble hat gapes hungrily while mama bird in a polka-dot bonnet feeds it a wriggling worm, all above the punning text "AM PICKING UP A LOT AT WARWICK." Pull open the bird's apron and out tumbles a concertina strip of Warwick's finest Edwardian views: the castle grounds, East Gate with its medieval arch framing a horse-drawn cart, the Castle from Guy's Tower, Leicester's Hospital Quadrangle with its striking half-timbered façade, and Guy's Cliff House. This charming British "Mailing Novelty" — produced by the Photochrom Co. Ltd. of London & Tunbridge Wells — captures Warwickshire at the height of the Edwardian postcard craze, when novelty pull-outs were the Instagram of their day. The reverse carries a densely handwritten message across multiple authors to "Dear Clarice," reporting on a visit with Charles.