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Antique Advertising Postcards in Full Color: 24 Ready-to-Mail Postcards from the Bella C. Landauer Collection (Card Books)

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These reproductions of very old postcards from the Landauer Collection are great fun and might have gone UNdiscovered by me were it not for several family members who have become fascinated in A.T.C.s: 2 1/2" X 3 1/2/" Artist Trading Cards. The images are perfect to "remodel" and use for concocting your own cards /OR/ collages.

PLUS, you don't have to sacrifice the actual card but can copy on lighter weight Kodak paper to cut into small images. The postcards can then be used as intended for correspondence with lucky individuals who perhaps share your taste in the unusual & colorful objects used in turn-of-the-century advertising. You may find some you can't resist for your own amusement - to decorate a window sill, for example - OR - ?

The books of 24 cards (each) make interesting gifts - and even better, you can "pair" with "The Antique Advertising Paper Dolls" (isbn: # 0486240452). The cover of that collection would be a wonderful decoration for your own ALBUM of A.T.C.s. You can see how serendipitous this hobby becomes >> from postcards to trading cards to paper dolls. Reviewer mcHAIKU is pleased that each of these has an appeal even for today's teens who try to appear sophisticated/COOL yet want for themselves a slice of someone else's nostalgia!

If you like Victorian ephemera, this is the book of postcards you should buy. A very high quality product like most of the offerings from Dover. The postcards are beautiful and interesting.

It's funny how much and yet how little advertising has changed. These postcards will make you smile, and then make you think...

I was very satisfied with this book. It did have the vintage look that I was looking for and the cards were nice.

The postcards are wonderful. I have a difficult time trying to take them out without messing up the others one.

If you cannot afford the antique originals and you really want to know what your grandfathers neat old post cards looked like, then this is the book for you.

Displayed in a booklet-style format, these twenty-four postcards are reproductions of advertising cards from the nineteenth century era. To be honest, I had no clue as to who Bella C. Landauer was until finding these cards here and then doing a google search.

From what I've read, Bella C. Landauer was a collector of printed ephemera. Some of her collections included including lottery tickets, posters, sheet music, cameo cards, and matchbooks and I agree with the description above. These nostalgic cards capture the charm of that century.

I'm not a collector though. A couple times a month, maybe more, I'll send a book to a friend and like to include a note. Post cards are a neat way of doing just that.

One last thing I want to add is these cards have to be torn out of a book, leaving a perforated edge on three sides of each card. If that's not problem or you don't mind trimming the edges, then this is a winner.