Monday, August 3, 2015

Happy Birthday Postcards from the 1900's-- from Pennsylvania

Carrie Bloss Lynde received these birthday Postcards while living in Pennsylvania.  For a penny, one could post these anywhere in the United States.  Carrie received several lovely cards.
This card sports her name with highlights in glitter.  It's embossed where the flowers lie.  Postmarked 1908.
Deep pink roses adorn this gold framed card 'Heartiest Congratulations.'  

Best Wishes for a Happy Birthday is also embossed with gold in an oval frame around a red/pink rose.  It's embossed, no postmark.  

Carrie was born in November, hence the birthstone card and flower.  Dated November 1910.
'Right heartily to greet you on your Birthday' is deeply embossed on the flowers and the border.  Dated November 1910.

'Birthday Greetings' features a basket with red roses tumbling out.  Gold leaf accents outline the basket and the words.  Embossed and printed in Germany.

Birthday Greetings written in gold leaf, as well as outlining the leaves.  A short verse is also written in gold leaf.  Deeply embossed, printed in Germany.  

Birthday Greetings, another deeply embossed floral card.  Printed in Germany.
Birthday Greetings-- a basket with roses and doves bringing letters.  Deeply embossed and gold outlined.  Printed in Germany.

Birthday Greetings outlined in silver.  A cottage on a pond framed by flowers.  This is also deeply embossed, printed in Germany, dated Nov 1910.

'Birthday Greetings' hangs from a fan like a sign or banner.  The fan is decorated with a nature scene.  Light embossing fills the ground, in two layers of paper.  Dated November 1910.

This postcard is completely embossed with 'Birthday Greetings.'  A bouquet of flowers, like sweet peas fills the space.  Dated November 1908.  
This 'Best Wishes' postcard is dated 1910.  It's also embossed and the flowers are outlined in gold.  A small peeled-away section reveals a lovely hamlet with a bridge over a stream and a tree-ringed home.

'Best Wishes for a Glad Birthday' features another peek into a calm lakeside home.  Flowers spray across the card framing the view.  It's embossed, printed in Germany by Davidson Brothers, 'Pictoral Post Cards, series 72.'  Dated 1910.

This heavy card sporting Birthday Greetings features deeply embossed pansies.  It's dated 1908.

This embossed and gold outlined card is dated 1908.  Printed in Germany.
An eagle with a huge bouquet of lavender flowers majestically wishes a happy birthday in this embossed card.  Series 460 c. printed in Germany.  

Although this card doesn't scream birthday, it was sent as a Birthday card.  'All Good Wishes' are offered in a banner in the foreground.  An inset within a green wreath shows a tranquil water-wheel scene.  This embossed and gold leafed card was postmarked November 1911.  
'With Birthday Wishes- -A love more deep than words can say, such love be thine, O friend, to-day.'  This lovely sentiment rests below a watercolor inset of a snowy scene at dusk.  Embossed and dated 1910.  
A wreathed bird brings a love note to the recipient in this 'Birthday Greetings' postcard.  Bells hang from columns wrapped in 4 leaf clover.  Embossed and dated November 1910.  

'A Happy Birthday' with this verse, 'May loving thoughts from friends sincere, make this a day of days.'  This lovely forget-me-not embellished fan is embossed.  Dated November 1910.

The pansies and white poppies are surrounded by a gold-leafed embossed oval.  'Birthday Greetings' is dated November 1910.

This interesting card shows a second layer of paper was embossed to the bird and the lower flowers, creating a deeply embossed relief.  Traces of glue remain beneath the bird.  'A happy Birthday' is simply written across the center, with the bird carrying a letter.  Postmarked 1907.  

'Best Birthday Wishes' come to the recipient with a wreath of small lavendar flowers, bordered by lovely white flowers.  This embossed card is dated November 1910.  

Ribbons tie a sprig of yellow roses in this postcard.  Embossed gold leaf frame the larger rose, almost like the medieval paintings of Christ with the halos.  'A Birthday Greeting' script on the front greets the viewer.  This embossed card is dated November 1908.  




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