STRIPPER'S GUIDE

Grace Drayton produced some slyly funny cards for Reinnthal & Newman, but here she is in cloyingly cute mode. This is card #488.

I love Walt Munson’s postcards, and he produced a ton of them. The colouring on these linen cards is just so vibrant and attractive, and Munson’s gags are always great little chuckle-makers. He specialized in slightly naughty, or at least adult-oriented subjects, like this one on drinking.  

The maker of this card is anonymous, but it is card number 60327, and the back states it as being from the “Drinkers Comics” series. Although undated, I’m guessing a publishing date in the late 1930s, or maybe it could be as late as the early 1950s.

Here’s a card from Dwig’s School Days series, aka Raphael Tuck Series 170, which seems to have been produced sometime between 1907 and 1910. These Tuck cards are top-notch productions with embossing and metallic ink, both features I cannot reproduce for you effectively on your screen.

Here’s an example of what may be Albert Carmichael’s scarcest series, Taylor & Pratt Series #669. These cards all featured fish and they’re usually worth a bit of a grin, so I don’t know why they didn’t sell. The series seems to have been produced in 1910, or at least that’s how Carmichael dated them. 

Postcards related to hunting and fishing were quite popular, a quick and convenient way for a fellow on a sporting expedition to let the family at home know he was still alive.

Here’s another card from the Little Nemo series, copyrighted to the New York Herald and issued by Raphael Tuck as their series #6. The shame is that this series does not feature art by Winsor McCay, but by some lesser artist who apparently copied the scenes from various Little Nemo strips. I’ve only had one other of these cards on the blog so far, and D.D. Degg identified the original strip from which the scene was adapted. Can someone find this scene in a Little Nemo strip?