So interesting and well done.

A topic I was unfamiliar with! Thanks for this very interesting presentation.

Thank you for a good video and a great postcard.

John at Popeye should start a monthly postcard box subscription lol.

Just saw this video Great Job. I may need to get up with you for my Fred Harvey Project in Spring for a buy or Scans.

Thanks Mark. Feels surreal watching you on a different channel.

Thank you for a good video. Merry Christmas! I wish for a box containing 1000 late 19th century Post Cards, Postal cards, Real Photo Post Cards and Private Mailing Cards... Please.

I get dozens of inquiries each year from being an IFPD dealer for over a dozen years now. It lends credibility as a buyer and seller, as the group vets it's members and also collects feedback

Great info! Thanks Mark!

Enjoyed this so much, Lauren, and learned a lot. The clowns being a good luck symbol was new information but does explain their appearance on New Years cards. Thanks for all your research and preparation.

Wonderful presentation!

Thanks! Short but sweet!

Excellent, well presented and information, thank you

Great!

Hi again from England. A great talk on Detroit postcards. I wanted to add something to the conversation about the 'proof' card. The Company was basically a photography studio producing postcards. In photography, a 'proof' is a page of 'test' photographs, printed for quality and/or selection purposes. Before prints/postcards are produced, photographers print 'proofs' of smaller multiple images and look in detail (usually through a magnifyer) at; photographic framing (ie. Design and balance), clarity (to dismiss blurred images), colour balance, and for purpose of choosing the best photographs to go to print. A 'proof' is basically a 'sample'. I hope that informs.

Wealth of knowledge as usual, thank you.

My understanding was that dogs were either purchased by the military or voluntarily offered by their owners who saw it as their patriotic duty. Of course, practices may have varried among countries. I would be very interested in seeing any data regarding the requisitioning of dogs during WWI.

Hi again from England. Super interesting subject. No one asked how the military recruited these dogs. It may be interesting to pass on, that many of the dogs were requisitioned from farmers that were previously working dogs, but it wasn't unheard of that family pets were taken to serve in WWI, and of course, sadly, many never made it home.

Interesting story, 👍

Found your channel via Daniel May. I'm loving your enthusiasm in your videos.

Hello, I just subbed your channel from your friend Daniel 👍 send me over. I’m a new collector and your info is great thanks!

Thanks for posting this I saw this picture in an article and wanted to know more. Do you know if this is how the plane looked when it was operational? Or what this oitfitted for the hotel?

Daniel May would be a great guest to have on your channel.

I omitted to explain. The Old English word 'cock' means to 'raise' ie. 'Cock' a trigger; 'Cock-up' bridge - a river bridge that raises on a mechanism to let barges through. Therefore, 'docking' a horses/dogs tail raises it up to stop it getting snagged during hunting. I hope these comments have been informative.

Second comment. The origins of the word 'Cocktail' are thought to come from the French word 'coquetier' for an 'egg cup' - something American's are not familiar with. These are small bowls not unlike shot glasses, and used to serve 'boiled eggs'. It is thought that Antoine Amedee Peychaud, the inventor of 'Peychaud's bitters', a French Creole, therefore, french speaking, first mixed his drink in an 'egg cup'. He toured New Orleans and Louisiana c. 1793. His 'Aperitivo' was distributed as Peychaud's bitters by the Sazerac Company from c.1849 when it becomes a popular mixer. The name 'cocktail' a derivative of coquetier stuck! A 'cocktail', in English, is a 'pick me up', similar to Anne's comment, but refers to the tail of a good hunting horse being 'docked' - to 'pick up' its tail. Cocktails were exotic and only drank by the upper classes; hence 'cocktail hour' before dinner as a 'pick me up'.

Good morning to the Witchita Postcard Club. I am an English collector and historian. I hope the following will be of interest to Diane Lapis and your group: Ref. The Postcard of 'Keen's Chophouse' in Manhattan, described as having a collection of 'Churchwarden's pipes' on display. If you look carefully, you can see these displayed along the left hand wall and ceiling of the room. The pipes on display are actually 'clay pipes' known as 'Churchwarden's pipes' and were popular in the nineteenth century with stems up to around 16" long. The clay pipe was manufactured for smoking tobacco from the seventeenth century. Long stems cooled the very harsh taste of the tobacco. The pipe bowl was very small due to the high cost of tobacco. The photo Diane uses to illustrate the pipe is of a later non-clay variety.

Fabulous visually and historically. And I can attest to horses being spooked by bicycles--this actually happened to me once when I was riding (well, until I fell off!)

Thank you for a good video.

Great info 👍🏼 Thanks !

Thanks to Hal, Beverly, all the members, Tom Basore, Rick Geary, and all the great vendors! Christine and I had a fantastic time meeting everyone, shopping, learning, learning, and learning! We appreciate the effort you guys dedicated and look forward to many more!!! Thank you! Trint

Great program!

Great content! Appreciated the information.

Thank you for a good video.

Looking forward to the presentation.

I bought a postcard for a wall project and it was sent by a Don R. Brown of myerstown & somehow stumbled on this. This is so cool!

Happy World Postcard Day!

Thanks for the tutorial, interesting. I just acquired a little pocket knife with the Metz Lumber Co name on it, and found you when I googled the company.

The wing circles or "roundels" were a feature of British WW1 military aircraft to the present day not Japan. A fashion expert could also help date the card from what clothing is being worn. Anyway, an awesome piece of History in postcard form! Many thanks for this video.

What a wonderful card!

Really enjoyed this presentation and learned a lot.

Thank you for a good video.

I learned so much from this presentation - thank you!

What a fun find. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent Show dam, that's great money! Good for you and Montana history

Thank you. I appreciate all the interesting guests and postcard related topics you cover on this channel.

The leg covering on this soldier’s calves were called “puttees”, a form of gaiters made of leather, canvas, or a long ribbon/bandage of cloth wound about the leg in the regulation fashion. His appear to be of canvas. A variation of this continued into WW2 for field/combat duty or, sometimes, parades in Class A uniform. These gaiters/puttees allowed the military to issue ankle-high shoes to all. The now familiar high combat boots came into general use with the formation of paratrooper units, with the need for higher boots for ankle and leg support in parachute landings. My dad served in the military 1926-1957 and described the cloth ribbon windings to me.

Nice card. Wonder what happened to this soldier.

Hal's description sounded very much like my experience after boot camp with the Air Force. I was sent to a 10 month tech school at Keesler AFB, in Biloxi, Mississippi. Just off base was a photographer's shop, and he catered to just this kind of photos. I posed for a photo, all dressed in dress blues, for the very purpose of sending the photo home to my girlfriend and my Mom. Looking at this postcard, it looks very familiar, and an unofficial confirmation that the practice had not changed much from 1917 through 1974. Nice card and talk, Hal.!

What an excellent program! I especially loved the cards from McCurdy's, being from Rochester. And the card with the "Kodakshunt" poem was so cool. Very interesting presentation and gorgeous cards. Thank you so much for taking the time to pull it all together for us.

Interesting topic. Thank you!