Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 5th

Wow, we're already on 5th December - this month is just slipping away. I'm posting this one up a few hours early as we're off to a pre-Christmas party so just in case I over indulge in the festive ale, I thought it sensible to get this done beforehand. This is another of my favourites but unfortunately I don't know much about it. The publisher is 'PF' but it's not been posted so again I have no idea of date, but would assume it dates back to around the early part of the last century.

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site, and the full vintage postcards advent calendar can also be found there

    

Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 4th

After the revelation that what I thought was a vintage Christmas postcard in yestarday's entry in fact said the word 'choristers' rather than 'Christmas', I've been extra sure that today's postcard is Christmas. This vintage postcard was published by J.Welch in 1906. Even though it says Xmas, it is almost a mix between a Valentine card and a Christmas card.

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site, and if you've missed the previous day's Christmas postcards, why not have a look at my vintage postcard advent calendar where you can see current day's postcard, plus the postcards from earlier in the month.

    

Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 3rd

I'm very pleased (and slightly embarassed) to say that I have now fixed the glitch on the vintage postcards advent calendar so you should now all be able to see the current day's postcard and previous day's. Today's Christmas postcard is called 'The Village Christmas', published by Lonsdale and Bartholomew. It's not been posted so I have no idea of the date, but imagine that it's around the early 1900's. Apart from the word 'Christmas' on the card itself, it's not especially festive, unless the violin player and the geese have some sort of Christmas significance? Ah, hang-on, literally as I wrote the word 'geese' the penny dropped ... this is, I assume, 'six geese are laying' from the 12 days of Christmas.

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site

    

Sepia Saturday - the letter 'W', vintage postcard from 1906

My Sepia Saturday post for this week is brought to you by the letter 'W'. Sorry, couldn't resisit that. This is a very curious vintage postcard which I first assumed was just trees, but the more I looked into it, the more I realised it was most likely in fact some sort of letter card, in this case the letter 'W'. I could of course be imagining this, but given that the postcard was sent by someone called Willie, I'm pretty sure it is in fact a 'W'. The postcard was published by Rotary and dates back to May 1906.

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site, and if you're feeling at all festive then take a look at my vintage postcard advent calendar

Theme Thursday - Stone

I missed not having a Theme Thursday to contribute to last week, but here's my offering for this week's theme. These are a set of vintage postcards from a British Museum set of Precious Stone postcards, published around the 1920's.

 

As always, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site, and if you're feeling festive why not have a look at my vintage postcard advent calendar blog posts - 1 festive postcard per day until 25th December.

Vintage posctard advent calendar - December 2nd

Sincere apologies to anyone who tried to follow the link to the interactive vintage postcard advent calendar on my own web site, only to find that it doesn't work. All I can say is that it worked fine on my PC at home, so when I get back tomorrow I'll have to see if I can fix it - maybe I just forgot to upload one of the files to the server, although I can see the javascript file on the server from here and it's identical to the one I used locally!?!?!?!. What it should do is allow you to view the postcard for the current day, and any earlier days in December, but not those for days yet to come. Unfortunately what it seems to be doing is preventing you from seeing any of the days, even though the logic is right and is displaying the right day values in the 'error' message. Anyway, enough techno-babble, fortunately I can control the blog postings when I'm away from home, so here's the vintage Christmas postcard for 2nd December. I know I said this yesterday as well, but this is one of my favourite Christmas postcards, and I've never seen anything quite like it anywhere else.

As usual, 100's more vintage postcards on my web site



     

Vintage postcard advent calendar - December 1st

Seeing as all the children will be rushing downstairs to open their Advent calendars for the next 25 days, or 31 if they are fortunate enough to have one that goes right up to New Year, I thought it was only right to also have a calendar for, dare I say, the more mature audience (and I include myself in that category). So, what I plan to do is to share a vintage Christmas postcard or vintage Christmas card every day from 1st December through to 25th December. To compliment the blog entries, I will also have an online version of the vintage postcard advent calendar on my web site where, if my somewhat basic HTML and Javascript coding techniques have worked correctly, will allow you to open a window each day up to 25th December, but of course not to peek beyond that !! No idea how time zones will work, so maybe the people in Australia will get to see the postcards 12 hours or so earlier than the UK, and those in the UK 5 to 7 hours later? Anyhow, without further ado, the first vintage Christmas postcard is below. This is one of may favourites and I was torn between opening the theme with this one or leaving it until last. After much deliberation I decided to open with it to whet your appetites for the rest of the month.

Vintage Christmas postcard by the artist K.E.Cowderoy, published by Raphael Tuck in the Christmas series, C126

As always, there are 100's more vintage postcards on my web site