We hope you enjoy our fourth annual showcase of vintage holiday greeting cards! This year’s cards, from our collection of hundreds, were sent or given to our co-founder, Hazel Alpaugh Astle, during the 1940 Christmas season. December 25, 1940 was the second Christmas of World War II. With so many…
It’s difficult to visualize a time when the American media didn’t yet exist in the form it takes today, constantly churning and endlessly updating with a reach so pervasive it’s nearly impossible to avoid all of its headlines and news feeds. That time did exist – more than 80 years…
This December marks our third annual showcase of vintage greeting cards. Our cards, all a part of the Astle-Alpaugh family collection, span decades of holiday seasons. This year, we are sharing twenty greeting cards from December 1974. Unlike our 1930 and 1950 showcases, this one features cards that look the…
Last December, we shared a new collection on our showcase: 22 Christmas greeting cards sent to our co-founder, Hazel (Alpaugh) Astle, during the holiday season of 1930. That collection of cards is a special one, highlighting a period of time when greeting cards were just beginning to become an industry…
This is an Ansonia No.1 Jumper (or “bobbing doll”) clock, dated December 14, 1886 on its four-inch paper dial. A post-style clock, its stand and case appear to have been made of nickel-plated brass; however, the nickel plating has worn off of this one in most places. While this type of “bobbing…
This steeple clock was constructed in 1834 by Silas B. Terry of the noted Terry Clock Company of Connecticut. It has an oversized balance wheel with an enlarged rack lever style escapement. The thirty-hour time and strike movement is powered by two mainspring driven wooden fuzees. The brass plates of…
