Posted 6 years ago
Swift
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Family heirloom, brought home by grandfather from France in WW1.
Set of 10 postcards commemorating aviation firsts, when put together form larger image of a plane. We know nothing more about these.
French WW1 Postcard Set - Aviation makes larger image | ||
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Welcome to CW. You should get some answers here.
What a nice Family Heirloom to have Swift, and welcome to CW also! :^D I found this site, and maybe if you contact them, you might get some information on your Postcards! Here's the site:
http://www.metropostcard.com/war7c-aircraft1.html
I hope this helps! :^)
I sent Metro Postcard a note and link to your post, I hope it helps with your Search! :^)
Wonderful !!!!
Swift, this is the information that I received from Alan Petrulis the webmaster@metropostcard.com:
This is a popular type of installment card published during the First
World War and the years leading up to it. They were usually sold in a
wrapped packet of ten cards. Each card was meant to be sent to the
same person at different times so they could slowly anticipate
completing the image. Some sets were never mailed and kept whole as
souvenirs. Most of these sets were French made; produced on photo
paper and then hand colored. This is a very unusual image as mosts
sets depict figures or famous people.
- Alan Petrulis
Very Nice Information! Thanks again to Alan Petrulis, and to you Swift, for posting this Family Heirloom, so we can all learn about it! :^)
Oh, Swift I guess you can mark this as Solved! :^)
Thank you for the information, I will pop it with them, they are now safely stored in album along with all the postcards he wrote home from the trenches. A lovely piece of history to pass down.
Thank you everyone:)
You're very welcome Swift, that's what we love about CW, we all get to learn about things that we collect! :^)