A 1912 Thanksgiving Day Greetings Postcard

Thanksgiving Greetings

This unused vintage postcard features an embossed turkey, corn, grapes and other food.

It was designed in 1912 by Heymann. 

A Map and Flowers from North Carolina

North Carolina Fun Facts

State Capital: Raleigh
State Tree: Long Leaf Pine
State Flower: Dogwood
State Bird: Cardinal
Highest Point: Mount Mitchel; 6,684 feet
Largest City: Charlotte
Area: 48,843 square miles
Statehood: Nov. 21, 1789 (12th admitted)
State Motto: Esse quam videri (To be rather than to seem)
State Song: "The Old North State"

Photo by Jim Doane

This unused postcard was bought in 2009.

Namirembe Cathedral in Uganda

Namirembe Cathedral

This postcard was postmarked from Uganda in 2017.

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Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe is the oldest cathedral in Uganda. It serves as the provincial cathedral of the Church of Uganda, the first diocese to be founded in the Church of Uganda province, in 1890.

Uganda stamp 2017

Uganda Wildlife

Primates

Vervet Monkey, 1800

A Mosquito as the State Bird of Mississippi

Mississippi State Bird
The Mosquito

The sender writes: I saw this postcard at a gas station in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, it made me laugh, so I decided to mail you one.

This postcard was postmarked in 2019.

I actively look for postcards that feature funny mosquitoes.  You can see my collection HERE.

USA stamp 2017

Seashells

Zebra Nerite

Postcard rate

Cornwall England, The Sender Writes about E and W Germany

Cornwall
The Delectable Duchy
Cornish men claim that theirs is the first, last and best County of England.

From Padstow Point to Hartland Light
Is a water grave by day or night.

By Tre, Pol, & Pen, ye shall know Cornish men.

"Pilchards are food, money and Light, all in one night. "
(I had to look up Pilchard, it is an oily sardine.)

As I was going to St. Ives.  I met a man with Seven Wives.
Seven Wives had Seven Sacks, Seven Sacks had Seven Cats, Seven Cats had Seven Kits.
Kits, Cats, Sacks, Wives, how many were going to St. Ives?

The sender writes:
I am having a fascinating trip.  If I get past the Russian guards at the E. German border - I should be in W. Berlin this PM.  If not, read about it its the Times.  See you all and tell ole Soca, I am safe.

This was postmarked from "(1) Berlin SW 11" with a German stamp  on October 5, 1959.

On a side note:
They started building the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 and it came down on November 9th, 1989.

Germany stamp 1959

Deutsche Bundespost

Professor Dr. Theodor Heuss, 20

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Theodor Heuss (31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963) was a West German politician who served as the first President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1959. 

The Far Side and Near Side of the Moon

The Earth's Moon

I bet the poster or what ever this postcard was printed from has some great information!  Most of it is too small to read.  I can see it comes from the National Geographic Society Magazine.

This postcard was mailed from Russia in 2019. 

Russia stamp 2010

The 500th Anniversary of the 

Birth of Ivan Feodorov, 1518-1583

50 P.