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!

Hi Hal. The Navy's birthday is October 13th. ( fm Crow's brother )

I use acid free paper in all of my postcard sleeves. I put all my notes and numbering on it so I do not damage my postcards. The paper doesn’t seem to slide out so it works amazing.

Good presentation. I do something similar but I use Google Drive and send my scans directly from the EPSON to Google Drive in a separate postcard folder I made.

So helpful, Michael and members!

So sorry to have missed this live presentation - grateful for the recording.

I have several original photos of his. I will message in a week or so when I launch our auction. Aloha

THAT is an awesome WW2 postcard! Not gonna lie … I’m a little jealous. Thanks for sharing that.

Hi, was watching this video sorting postcards and started holding all of them to the light!!! Guess what?!? Three of my cards were hold to the light!! None were marked!! Wow this is so much fun😊

Great find!!

Thank you!

Great video Anne! Thanks for sharing Michael!

It’s such a literal and figurative gift to see an album that is the same as when the original owner laid it down for the last time. Thank you for sharing!

May be gave away, at the Auto show! would be a great promo! beautiful car.

Wow, that's great!

That is awesome! I had no idea record postcards existed. Thanks for the education and smile.

That was fun! Neat card, Hal!