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Cheryl Andrews
Allison Howard
Allyson Latta
Barbara Lambert
Elizabeth Yeoman
(Front of card, posted by request. I love how untraditional the image is. Not a snowflake nor an elf to be seen.)
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Matilda Magtree 
OMG, what an exquisite treasure … postmarked 1909! How far did it travel, Carin, on a one penny stamp?
Not entirely clear but it looks like it was stamped in Peterborough. Now I just have to figure out where Ravenna is. From what I can gather, it’s up near Collingwood.
Carin, on closer look at the postcard, is it embossed or are my eyes playing tricks on me this foggy-in-the-head morning? I’d love to see the other side!
I’ll post it. (And no your eyes aren’t playing tricks!)
That is so cool! A treasure indeed. Happy WW.
Happy WW! Thanks for stopping by.
Wow thats a treasure from over 100 hundred years ago,
hope you have time to stop by this week and join in the WW fun!
Oh My Heartsie WW” w/Linky
Hard to fathom that this little ‘nothing’ survived a hundred years…
How lovely — even the “embossed” nature of the card itself — and how intriguing. The handwriting gives me the impression that the sender could be a man — I’m dying to nudge the camera over to the left to see what “M J G” had to say!
Barbara, I’ll bet you can imagine something much better than whatever the reality is. And I love that you think it’s a man. That hadn’t occurred to me. But, yes, the handwriting, the initials…
It could be a teacher’s handwriting too – perfect “McLean’s Method”.
The full message is quite simple: “Dear Friend, Merry Xmas & Happy New Year from M.J.G.”
What a wonderful treasure and how creative to think of capturing it. It says so many things – the exquisite handwriting, the lack of need of a street address… What does the message say?
Can’t tell you what the message says… That’s the ‘story’ part of the pic! You decide. (:
How awesome to have something like this.
Yes, I wonder what we’ll leave future generations?
Simple but so effective in getting us wondering, Carin! Just a fragment, and not even the message itself, yet there’s much to take in: the year, the Canadian stamp, the pretty embossing on the card, the handwriting, a name and address. This would make a wonderful writing prompt, and I can imagine stories already — but I hope you’ll fill us in on “the” story of what the card means to you.
No story. I’m as clueless as to its history as anyone. I love postcards, am drawn to them at flea markets, which is where I found this one. I loved how there was no street address. Almost want to research Lydia Johnson. Or make up a life ‘for’ her… (:
I’d failed to notice, earlier, that — as Allison points out — there’s no street address on the card. Ah, simpler times.
That’s what I loved about it. Imagine!
We had an address like that when I was a child. Just the village name and the province.
And address like that says so much about the place. Small and civilized?
For all of you wondering about the story, I just found some more clues at http://www.stampcommunity.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26782 …
Good heavens, Elizabeth! Now I wonder WHO is Lydia Johnson?? I just googled her and found this: http://100yearsagotoday.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/postmarked-november-26-1912/
It’s like she’s a postcard rock star. Very curious, this…
Thank you so much. I’d never have thought of looking her up.