Antique & Vintage Postcards

A luscious still-life of sun-blushed peaches — one large globe of yellow-gold deepening to crimson, a second fruit peeking behind, both nestled among embossed grey-green leaves — anchors this richly tactile Edwardian-era card sent from a mother to her young son John, who was apparently away from home and being reminded to "be a good boy." Postmarked Easton, Pennsylvania, June 8 (year partially legible, c. 1909–1910), the card carries one of the era's most charming domestic vignettes: a mother writing that she would take the 7 o'clock car from Easton on Sunday and return home Saturday, closing with "nothing happening so good by from Mother." The embossed fruit design shows European-quality chromolithography — the card back identifies it as made in Germany for the American market, bearing a "Reply Two Cents" preprinted postage notice consistent with 1907–1915 undivided/divided-back transition era. Addressed in neat copperplate to "Master John" at Johnsonville, PA, the card is a touching slice of early 20th-century family life in the Lehigh Valley region.