Today we have a superb set of three beautifully embossed, Art Nouveau style postcards, one mailed to lucky Miss Virginia Fischer of Maplewood, MO in August of 1923 (the other two unused.) "Thy Love is Thine", "Zephyrs of Love", and "Fragrant Mementos", all featuring gorgeous garden nymphs surrounded by blossoming flowers, and an endless aroma of affection...
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While modern technology has increased quantity, quality and production of postcards, today's techniques rarely capture the art, the purity of older methods.
While postcards back then were inexpensive in cost and production, they still had a level of artistic technique that has been lost for the desire for faster production and cheaper quality.
Any attempt today to reproduce these cards would either come across as a cheap imitation or cost too much and not worth the bother.
These postcards are time capsules of another era, not only in beauty but in technique and style.
Thanks for sharing these with us, Karswell.
I love the color palette on this though I can't know if it's dimed at all over the decades. The bright purples against the muted greens gives them a really nice pop.
I like the flowing gowns and the simple skin (mostly removing any wrinkles, lines, etc, as if under a instagram filter.) Very nice art, and real survivors.
If that says Thom Thomas like I think it does, then whoever sent this makes Fs and Ts in exactly the same way. That's pretty weird, right? Also, I'd like to imagine that sending a romantic, aromatic-looking postcard consisting of a single name is the beginning of a mystery. Perhaps an answer to a similarly oblique question postcard from Ms. Fischer, like Who is the target? or What is the name of the guard dog? or Who goes there?
Aces art. Not least the rather naturalist botanical illustrations here. I like all that embossing too, of course.
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