Antique & Vintage Postcards

A charming procession of fluffy yellow chicks marches single-file from a cracked egg at the bottom — where a newborn chick peeks out beside a proud hen and rooster — all the way up the card to a tiny chick pulling a wicker cart, rendered in vivid chromolithographic color on deeply embossed card stock that gives each bird a delightful three-dimensional quality. Sent by Mary to Mrs. Margaret in Warwick, New York, the message on the undivided back reads with old-fashioned sincerity: "All Happiness this Easter day / My Greeting fond is to convey / Yours Truly." The card carries a religious Easter verse — "On the third morn He rose again / Glorious in majesty to reign; / O let us swell the joyful strain — Alleluia!" — pairing the secular charm of barnyard animals with heartfelt Victorian piety. The undivided back format and one-cent domestic postage rate place this squarely in the pre-1907 golden age of Easter postcard exchange.