World Postcard Day 2025

 It's World Postcard Day!  

This is the official postcard for 2025.  I don't have one, I downloaded the image for the World Postcard Day website.  I forgot about it and didn't have time to print any out. 

This is the only World Postcard Day postcard I've received, from Marc in Germany, in 2024.

Here's a brief history of postcards.

https://worldpostcardday.com/history

And here are a few of my newest postcards...

Peter Rabbit, a scene at Children's Fairyland, Lakeside Park, Oakland CA, painted at the park.  This card was another of my birthday postcards featuring Fairyland, but this one had been misplaced so I only got it a few days ago when it was found!  It was postmarked the year of my birth. 

One of several reproduction Christmas postcards given to me by a friend just yesterday. 

A Canadian apple fruit label postcard I received a few days ago from Canada. 

I filed this one in my RPPC file under the name Ghostly Children by Lake!  It's an AZO 1924-1949.  

The Frankenstein Castle, in the Odenwald Mountains of Germany, may have been Mary Shelly's inspiration for her novel Frankenstein. Frankenstein is quite an ordinary name for the area of Germany, as the Franks (a Germanic tribe) ruled the area, and stein means stone or rock, referring to the rock the castle stands on.  The castle was built in 1252, a nearly impossible year to imagine for Americans, whose country is not yet 250 years old!  Lord Conrad II Reiz of Breuberg built the castle and then named himself von und zu Frankenstein, meaning "from and to Franckenstein."  Postcard c1900-1920

A couple of strange linen ones from Texas.
c1940s

©1934