CardCow Vintage Postcards

12/16/2025

We don't really do a lot of postcard shows, but if we did we'd probably want a bunch of these.

10/31/2024

Found these mini chocolate bar sets featuring Santa Claus antique postcard images at the local Marshalls for $6

From House of Dorchester (England). Since the images are public domain, lots of people are starting to use these designs. We have hundreds of similar original Santa postcards & sell hi-res scan images for a nominal fee.

https://www.cardcow.com/c/65494/christmas-santa-santa-claus/

12/24/2023

Along the Malibu: The Color Serigraphs and Art of Paul Dubosclard:

Just received a copy of this book. If you're a collector of California postcards, or you've looked through southern California cards at a show you've most likely seen some of these serigraph cards.

I had always thought the artist was Margaret Sheehan, since most of the cards are identified as "Published by M. A. Sheehan, Topanga California" on the back. But these distinctive cards are actually attributed to Paul Dubosclard.

Although many are unsigned, a handful have a P. Dubosclard name or stamp on the front:



Many cards also have hand-written titles in pencil, presumably by Dubosclard.

The bulk of the book is a catalog of all known works by Dubosclard, highlighting details about many individual cards and the series (US Presidents, State Flags, and Zodiac). So this serves as a "checklist" for collectors, but also shows a beautifully artistic compilation of different variations of the same serigraphs, as well as showing other similar postcard views.

The first section of the book details Dubosclard's life & career as an artist around Topanga. And for those interested in the production process itself, there are details on the artistic & silkscreen processes used to create the original art and produce these cards.

If you've ever wanted to know more about these serigraph postcards from the Topanga-Malibu area this book provides a wealth of research for the serious deltiologist or casual art collector.

https://blog.cardcow.com/2023/12/along-malibu-color-serigraphs-and-art.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

05/27/2023

It's a lot of fun to see what the places on old postcards look like now. We added gallery page of old & new views to highlight these views...

04/28/2023

We just published this tool for doing partial match searches for US City & State Names: https://www.cardcow.com/city-lookup/ This is especia...

07/31/2022

The only thing missing is The Entertainer in a white tux blasting Time Warp or Mony Mony (with pyrotechnics of course)

Chrome Postcard Auditorium-Gymnasium, Mount Saint Charles Academy Woonsocket, RI W. Russell Gould

02/06/2022

Author and historian Alice van Ommeren is teaching a 2 night online class in March: Vintage American Postcards for Historians, Genealogists...

01/27/2022

Interesting little documentary on "Same Sky" chrome postcards from Dexter Press. We probably have a ton of these in here somewhere. You ...

10/24/2021

Ebay made some major changes to the Postcards category this month. Here I show some of the changes and how to update your saved searches t...

06/06/2021

Nice display at the Los Altos History Museum featuring fruit crate labels, vintage photos and a Linen-era postcard of the orchards in Sant...

05/27/2021

Slightly misquoted, but that's ok: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/auctions-move-to-the-back-burner-at-ebay-2010-05-06 I used to auction...

05/27/2021

Went to the Phoenix Grill last week - the decor was more interesting than the food. They had this front & back postcard framed, apparently...