20 Antique EASTER Vintage Postcard PC Collection Lot

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ITEM : Up for auction is this wonderful antique postcard PC collection featuring all EASTER postcards. The majority are postally used, all are from the early 1900's and are in overall VERY GOOD t are two with crease and one with a small tear to the bottom of the card (had to include it because the image was so good) condition, t is also one with some silk on childrens dresses and hats. They feature rabbits, chicks, eggs, International Art Pub Series No. 2019, embossed, chickens pulling an egg cart, Easter Series Number 401, flowers, colored eggs, Easter Chick Series, chicks fighting over a worm, S. Langsdorf Co., children, angel, girl with lamb, Series 753F, white rabbit popping out of an egg, and more. I hand picked these from a recent collection we purchased - good luck! Brief history of postcards in the United States ~ Postcards had a long pre-history before they hit it big, but their breakout came in 1893 as the first picture postcard was created to advertise the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Shortly tafter the United States government, via the United States Postal Service, allowed printers for the first time to publish a 1-cent postcard (the "Penny Postcard"). A correspondent's writing was allowed only on the front side of these cards. 1901 brought cards with the word "Post Card" printed on the reverse (the side without read more