Subject: Art Nouveau-style rose
Type: Birthday card
Postmark: 1909
Text: “Good luck and joy attend thee, on this they Natal day; All blessings to befriend thee alway.”
Message: “From your cousin, Belle.”
I love, love, love, the design of this card! I picked this up in an antique shop in Lake Ozark, Missouri, and what struck me about it is the unusual angle of the rose. The colors are bright and vivid, but the card itself is frail. As I load these old cards to Circa19xx.com, some of which are in poor condition, I am thankful to live in an age of technology that enables us to capture these pretty images before they’re gone!