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May all the Joys of Christmas Time be with You

by 1 December 24, 2009 1 min read 1 Comment

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The family of Double D Ranchâ„¢ would like to wish everyone a wonderful Christmas and blessings to you and yours throughout the New Year.

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From the Archives:

The featured greeting card is from Double D Ranch's ephemera collection of leather postcards.Â Leather postcards became popular around 1900 and were produced by about a dozen companies including the W.S. Heal Company.Â These 3"x5" mini missives were made from scrap leather and produced the old fashion way -Â one at a time.Â Many are hand tinted and include greetings, campy cliches and humorous play on words.Â Â Some cards even had pre-punched holes to encouraged crafty recipients to fashion pillows and throws from them.Â Â Then in 1909, the U.S. Postal Service banned leather postcards because the card's thickness kept jamming the new postal sorting machines. [caption id="attachment_1702" align="alignright" width="224" caption="antique leather postcard pillow"][/caption]

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This "Why Don't You Write" pillow was produced by Double D Ranchâ„¢ Home Collection in 2005. Â It is inspired by an antique folk art pillow I collected on a junking adventure.

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For more on antique leather postcards see PostcardCollector.org

1 Response

Jessica Montoya

May 16, 2016

I absolutely love this, and I’ve never seen such a thing before! Guess I have a new thing to add to my radar to hunt for at antique/junk stores…and maybe another idea to make use of my leather scraps (as long as I hand-deliver the cards!)

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