Antique & Vintage Postcards

Tucked inside what appears to be a standard Concord, New Hampshire State Capitol postcard is a remarkable accordion pull-out souvenir — a miniature accordion-fold strip of views that unfurls to reveal the New Hampshire capital city in intimate detail circa 1903, including the granite State Capitol with its green copper dome, the High School, the New Upper School of St. Paul's School (Concord's famed Episcopal prep school), and — most strikingly — "Pleasant View," identified as the home of the Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder of Christian Science. The outer card, printed in color-tinted halftone, was mailed from Nashua, N.H. in 1903 to a recipient named John in West Boylston, Massachusetts; the sender, signing with initials and a Harvard, Massachusetts return address, paid just one cent postage under the "Printed Matter" rate. Published by the Hugh C. Leighton Co. of Portland, Maine — printed in Germany — this is a superb example of the novelty pull-out format that captivated the Edwardian postcard collecting craze.