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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Vintage Halloween Postcard - Flying Pumpkins!


Ghosty jack o lanterns on flying black cats, watch out!?! This bright, embossed postcard was published by Barton and Spooner in the early 1900s. I didn't know anything about this company, but I found out:
The company was established in 1892 by the craftsman, Harry L. Barton who manufactured wooden souvenirs. After the turn of the 20th century he took on Ralph Spooner as a partner in order to expand into commercial and art printing. They opened a factory together at 1133 Broadway in New York City. Though they printed calendars, maps and other goods there, most of their postcards were printed in Germany.
They published mostly monotone regional postcards but ventured out into some cool Halloween images as well.
(source: http://www.metropostcard.com/publishersb1.html)
Hope you like this! Free to download for personal use.


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