Macabre: Death, Potty Humor, etc

"Bulgarian law over the Turkish." Real photo, Turkey, hanging, lynching. Oversized, 175mm x 125mm. Learn More

Real photo "Roma B. May, Gave his Life to save others During Flood, March 26, 1913." Learn More

"Look, mama. Syrup Mangeau." Children, bottle, medicine, medical. Learn More

J. Schmid, Official Minister of Bern, Switzerland (as a teddy bear) lynches "Ido." Ido was an ill-fated attempt to "improve" Esperanto. The postcard is written in Esperanto, a constructed language promoted as a world language. Ido has the words "Weltsprache AMT"
[world language AMT]. Credentials listed at the bottom including "Ano de la K.K.K."
[Member of the Permanent Convention Committee]. Artist signed Jean Robert. Macabre, death. Learn More

"Albert Lee Drowned in the River Roach in making heroic attempt to rescue his playmate 1904." Death, macabre, post-mortem. Learn More

"Kit Karson's and wives grave, Taos, North Mexico." Real photo, death, macabre, post-mortem, Western Americana. Learn More

Advertising for Water Cooler, Odorless Commode from Hale & Kilburn Co., Philadelphia." Used Pennsylvania, on a government postal card, circa 1890, pioneer. New York City, toilet. Learn More

"Photographs taken in 1886 has London by Dr.Aksakow, director of Psychiatrist Studies. The figure cloth of white which supports the medium Englnton is a materialized spirit. Communication has the Belgian Spiritistic Federation, by the Spirtualist Alliance of London." Belgium, magician, medical, doctor, ghost. Learn More

"1732-1932. Two-hundredth anniversary." Printed on back "In Honor Of George Washington, born February 22, 1732, First in War, First in Peace and First in the Hearts of his Countymen." This is a thick, multi-layer (liike a drink coaster, but thicker), oversize novelty postcard with prepaid postage in Cambridge, Ohio. Advertising for McMillen and Scott Funeral Home. Published by Advertising Novelty Mfg. Co., Newton, Iowa. Political, patriotic, White House, Washington D. C., Statue of Liberty, novelty. Learn More

Printed on back "Freemasonry Lodge Lebanon. The only lodge in the world open to the public." Death, morbid, candle, moon. Learn More

The cabinet of skeleton. Artist signed. Learn More

"Such a thoughtless piston blow already brought a sad end ." Artist signed. Learn More

"Old Wall Street, New York. Boyertown Burial Casket Co., 1675 So. High St., Columbus, Ohio." Published by Brown & Bigelow, St. Paul, Minnesota. Designed to peel off the postcard back, exposing and ink blotter surface. Learn More

"Siege of 1915." Learn More

"The Rising Sun Going Down." Real photo. Learn More

The deserved punishment. Learn More

"Distraction." Artist signed. Learn More

"Turner Falls, Oklahoma." Real photo. Learn More

"Third great German victory." Artist signed E. Muller. Learn More

"Maternity protection." Learn More

"On the way for the Elysium." Artist signed. Used 1913 France. Learn More

The two politicians. Learn More

"Goethe Faust." Learn More

"The bombardment of Port Arthur by the artillery of the General Oku." Trimmed upper side. Learn More

The soldier looking at the dead comrade. Learn More

Printed on back "From the golden book The army." Artist signed. Learn More

The war. Artist signed. Used 1916 Germany. Learn More

"Fim Do Mundo Restaurant. Never Drink Water." A picture of a scout boy peeing into a river. Advertising, frog, scatalogical. Learn More

Jewish man and devil trying to catch him. Learn More

"At the end the brave worker is misled by the Communists, there are those which wait the Great evening to plunder, to set fire to, to kill." Artist signed A. Gallance. Labor movement, knife, death, post-mortem, macabre, France. Learn More

The dead under the tree. Probably Mexico. Macabre, post-mortem. Learn More

The people scooped into the cannon. Artist signed Biro. Published by the Hungarian Social Democratic Party. Learn More

Printed on back "De Luppoli - Perfume - Trieste." Post-mortem, death, advertising. Learn More

"Armorial bearings of Nicolas II, the Hague, Peace. Large Dukes. The Peace of the Emperor of the Hague." Artist signed Orens. Royalty, Russian, sword, whip, carrot, France, French, hand-painted. Learn More

"For what you seek, you shall find." Artwork by N. Kirsakoff. Swastika, gun, airplane, airforce, post-mortem, morbid, WW2, Soviet, revolution, socialist. Learn More

"The Red General." Artist signed. Learn More

"Incident." Artist signed Orens. Political satire, hand-painted. Learn More

"I am thinking of you." Artist signed Godillot. Political satire, hammer, labor movement, hand-painted, France. Learn More

The talk. Artist signed Bobb. Politician, royalty, hand-painted, France. Learn More

The celebration. Artist signed. Royalty, tsar Nicholas, Russian, German, Great Britain, British, bottle, alcohol, liquor, cannon, hand-colored, French, France, royalty. Used France 1907. Learn More

"Stop the terror in Iraq." Published by the National Solidarity Committee of Iraq. Used 1963, Germany. Learn More

"Stumpfsinnige Ballade." Comic story fight to the death over the beer barrel. Artwork attributed to Moritz Jung. Learn More

"The Blaubleutige and the devil." Artwork attributed to Moritz Jung. Learn More

The Old Graves. Booklet of 25 cards (non-postcard backs) of the Jewish gravestones. Back cover missing. Learn More

The death of Fascism. Learn More

"The New Orderlies." Printed on back "Szyk Caricatures. Set #6, Card #2 especially for Esquire, The Magazine for Men." Artist signed Arthur Szyk. Oversized 4.6 x 7.0 inches. Learn More

The Jewish Graves Under the Willows. Artist signed Lilien. Published by S. Calvary & Co., Berlin. Series Songs of the Ghetto. Oversized 4.2 x 6 inches. Learn More

"Philomena Musil, Beach, North Dakota. Lost in blizzard January 11, 1917, found in a deserted shack next day, 18 hours later. Both hands and feet frozen, both hands amputated leaving only thumbe on right hand." Real photo by Chs. Welch, Beach, ND. Learn More

The whole family around the girl in the casket. Learn More