1930s French postcard. Private Collection.
This beautiful woman has the Vivien Leigh looks and style. The uniformed man is posing like he’s going to kiss her cheek, and there is something like a white flower branch hanging above their heads. By all accounts a very pretty romance postcard.
Amag. Tea time in boudoir. Postcard. Private Collection.
I am missing picture 1 and 4 in this German set and I doubt it ends at 5. I love it for many reasons, some more obvious than others.
Apart from the couple “playing tea time” in sleepwear and embracing (her being all shy to his advances in the second one), I love the setting. The backdrop of the cityscape window and semi-transparent curtains is very nicely painted. It makes me think how much I’d like to see them with my own eyes.
But look into the mirror of the vanity…
Oops! Yes, that’s the photographer’s arm, or his assistant’s! In picture 14/3 you see both hands holding a pole, the flash perhaps? 14/5 looks a bit blurry to the right, but the postcard doesn’t look water damaged. I did find another 14/5 postcard online, this time tinted green and with the crisp right side. I’m posting it here for reference.
Publisher: Amag – Albrecht & Meister, Berlin. Founded in 1865 they were still printing postcards in the 50’s.
Vers Toi postcard. Private Collection.
A beautiful pink postcard of a (very young) French soldier reaching up to his beloved. This one was unposted.
Toward you, I always turn to like I turn to the sun
Of which bright rays, warm us the same.
Show me the way. Postcard. Private Collection.
Douno postcard. Private Collection.
A postcard published by Douno ‘Edition Photochrom’. To me the color makes it look like they were kissing on a warm and sunny early evening, right before dusk. A beautiful postcard added to the other tinted ones of the same genre I fell in love with.
Bowlers And High Collars 