You know how sometimes you stumble on something so nice that you just need to share it? That happened recently to postcrosser Cynthia (aka GoCindy), who found a delightful postal card in a vintage shop in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago:
Cindy explained that the owners of the shop purchase the entire contents of personal estates. They save all of the postcards, photos and cards and stuff them into a big wall unit in the store, and she loves spending Sunday afternoons searching for postcard gems such as this one. She bought this one in particular for the McKinley stamp, but never read the back until recently… and what a nice surprise was hiding there!
It’s a poem and it reads:
From 'round the world these cards have come,
Thro’ every sort of weather.
But here they find a quiet home,
And spend their days together.
Could we but hear with mortal ear,
The tales they tell each other,
What joys of travel we might have
Without a bit of bother.
Is that just brilliant? How fun to imagine all the postcards we receive having a little party together in their box or album, telling tales of their travels! We really wish we could hear them chat…
Have you found some cool vintage postcards lately? Do share them with us and the Postcrossing community on the forum! 😍
60 comments so far
Love it!
The poem and the idea of the sundays spent this way :)
Aw, that's such a great find and a lovely poem, perfect for us crazy postcrossers :D .
Super! )))
Very sweet!
This is such a delicious find and the poem well it is something we can all identify with. I am going to copy that for a keepsake.
Lovely share.
Fascinating! A while back I sent a couple of postcards with original poems. Time to give it another spin.
I like to buy old postcards and always enjoy reading them. This one is a gem!
Oh, that's a lovely poem indeed. It should become our motto. So cool.
Did you notice it was written on Christmas Day?
Love the poem and the times when poems were used in communication, as well as postcards.
That poem is so appealing! I love the image of the postcards discoursing amongst themselves.
Recently I bought a century-old, charmingly embossed Valentine’s card titled “A Heart’s Token” (photo of the front: https://imgur.com/a/p80pWWS ) that was sent to a Miss Mary Gaston in the tiny rural community of Shellbrook, Saskatchewan, Canada.
The back side is in spidery script, and in easy-to-read pen (for some reason, many of the very old postcards I see were written in pencil). Its message is a sweet mix of formal and prosaic. It reads:
Feb 7th 1912
Dear cousin
I now take the pleasure of writing you you a few lines as it leaves us fine and dandy hopping yous all the same have yous got much snow out there we have a lot here. mother and Johnnie is out at Smih’s Falls as Aunt Maggie is awful sick.
Well I guess I close for now
from Nellie
answer soon.
A penny for your thoughts.
simply beautiful ❤️
Gran descubrimiento. Esto nos demuestra que cada día nos regala alguna sorpresa. Solo hay que percatarse. El poema es un joya de la alegoría a la belleza y a la amistad, tan necesitados hoy día. Gracias
I love the poem 😍
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Magnífico !!!
I love cross stitching and I think this poem would look amazing down the centre of a sampler with postcards, letters, envelopes, postboxes, stamps, cancels, small maps etc round the edge with a shelf along the bottom with piles of postcards, pens etc on.
Think I might make this after Christmas.
Thank you for sharing this with us 🙏
Thanks for sharing, I am going to look for old postcards.
How sweet, I love it! :) <3
I love my vintage cards and what people
Write is so elaborate....
It's like a traveling time capsule....
Just waiting to be found and read again 😃
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So wonderful ❤️
simply wow!!
Very, very neat to find a wonderful poem like that, especially as a postcrosser! Thanks for sharing!
That would be a wonderful verse to add to a card, especially if one is lacking in words.
Thank you for sharing that.
It is fun thinking about the cards in this way.
d
An old fashioned that never goeas out of fashion :)
This is really very interesting and important. There is no future without history.
I like it a lot, I think I've seen a vintage postcard at home.
I love this!
Lovely poem ... I shall have to scour vintage and antiques shops to find such a treasure as this
What a beautiful poem! It couldn't fit better with Postcrossing.
A treasure.
Ich bin auch ein Postcrossing-Fan und habe schon manche Ecken mit den Karten und Grüße aus der ganzen Welt erhalten. Sie zeigen uns auch wie vielseitig die Welt und die Menschen sind.
W O O O W ! ! !
So cool!!! What beautiful handwriting!
A real treasure! So lucky, Cynthia #GoCindyGo :)
It is so sad to think of how many wonderful postcards and letters would have been destroyed when someone passes and relatives go through their belongs and just dump something like this. It is just an old letter so out it goes.
I have seen this with old stamp collections. People do not know of their value to a collector.
Meiadeleite, you have such a way with words. I enjoy reading everything that comes from your pen (or computer keys) 😉
Thank you GoCindy for sharing‼️
I love this. :)
So touching! A mother writes to her adult son of her love for the mail mode of communication with him. Very beautiful.
Reminded me of all of the postcards my grandparents sent to me, as a child and well into adulthood, until their deaths. Such precious and beautiful cards and notes that were the only way that I truly got to know them, as they lived so far away.
So sweet! Thank you for sharing. The poem might become part of a future quilt I make about postcards....
Elisabeth
Love it!
I always love old cards but they are rare to find. After reading this blog, it inspire me to go over the vintage stores here in town in the winter time, specially on a Sunday afternoon walk. I will let you now if I find something special, OK
A postcard I have at home, at eatery now, is from a North American chieftain to a London GB secondhand bookshop. It just says 'Any books on hunting and fishing'
Thank you, Cindy, for sharing the poim!
It is lovely.
Roxanne
How lovely. I love to find old postcards.
That is amazing! Cindy, which store is it? I live in Chicago and I would love to check it out.
A postacrd is a postacrd is a postcard. each one, unique! Love this post.
How wonderful! ❤️
Delightful!
What a wonderful find! I collect antique postcards and would've added this one to my collection without hesitation.
How wonderful the poem is. And what a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. So cozy!
Best message i have ever read)
Heart-touching!
:)
How fortuitous! Just today I selected a postcard to send to a Postcrosser and found this poem:
SHELL NAMES
They often have a familiar ring
Such as rice, nutmeg, auger, angel wing,
Cat's paw, bubble, worm, peanut shell,
In each case the name describes it well.
Postcard at https://s3.amazonaws.com/static2.postcrossing.com/postcard/medium/dwwr5dmc1fd3x0auozsgpiybrrhbtef4.jpg
Enjoy
I also noticed that the poem postcard is Dated Dec. 25, 1907. A Christmas gift that keeps on giving.
I adore vintage postcards, the emotions in them came to us through time, how charming...
This is a cool idea… go to vintage stores and look for old cards
Wonderful message!
I loved learning about this vintage card and the poem it contains. I have a few like that and I keep imagining the energy they transmitted between friends. I'll post something similar.
I love this story and poem. Thanks for submitting and sharing your find.
Just found some vintage postcards in an Antique store to-day and sense the treasures that they are.
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