Raphael Tuck Lily of the Valley Birthday Postcard 1907 Allentown PA Postmark
$ 5.02
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Raphael Tuck Lily of the Valley Birthday Postcard 1907 Allentown PA Postmark. Thank you for visiting! This item is in stock and usually ships within 1 business day of your purchase. It will be shipped via ebay Standard Envelope which provides tracking information when it passes through the sorting machines for First Class mail. USPS workers have no way of scanning the barcode on the label. When it marks it as "out for delivery or delivered" it means it has arrived at your local sorting center, not your home address. Depending on your local postal route, it may take several days yet to arrive at your home. Also, consider possible weather delays in the actual time the service takes. Feel free to write if you have any questions. Discover a charming piece of ephemera with this exquisite Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, featuring a lush bouquet of Lily of the Valley flowers spilling from a woven basket. The front of the card is adorned with the warm sentiment, "A bright and happy birthday to you," rendered in an elegant script. This beautiful design is enhanced by subtle embossing, adding a tactile dimension to the delicate floral imagery and vibrant chromolithographic printing, a hallmark of early 20th-century postcard artistry. This collectible postcard, part of Raphael Tuck's esteemed "Birthday Post Cards" series, bears a clear postmark from Allentown, Pennsylvania, dated October 18, 1907, and features a one-cent Benjamin Franklin U.S. postage stamp. It was addressed to Mr. George H. Holzerman in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offering a glimpse into postal history and personal connections of the era. Printed in Germany, this card exemplifies the quality and artistic detail characteristic of Raphael Tuck, renowned "ART PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN," making it a delightful addition for collectors of vintage floral postcards, Tuck ephemera, or early 20th-century American postal history.
