Monday, June 04, 2007

TWO ANTIQUE POSTCARDS by L. A. HUFFMAN, 1907
................These two cards were mounted in mattes, unfortunately cropping a great deal off of the edges. I wouldn't have minded that if they'd done it correctly. The above card is still in it's matte, and the next card "A Killing Of Elk" (what a title!) was beginning to come free from it's matte, so I went ahead and detached it (which would make a proper card-collector cringe) in order to finally see the rest of the card; which damaged it, of course. I still need to go in with a loupe to determine this--but they appear to have been hand-colored/tinted- the colors are a bit thick and vivid to have been "printed" on.
Below is the card-back for the "Deserted Camp" card.


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