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Gay's Lion Farm RPPCs

Randy — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:50:53 -0700

Gay's Lion Farm was a tourist attraction that operated in El Monte, CA between 1925 and 1942. It was started by a circus performer, Charles Gay, and his wife, Muriel. The Farm was devoted to the breeding, training and exhibition of African lions, and at one point housed 200+ adult lions within its 5 acre area. The lions consumed a ton of horsemeat a day.

The first postcard (horizontal format) depicts Guide and Trainer Arthur West and a group of 12 adult lions. The second card (vertical format) depicts founder Charles Gay feeding a young lion. Both RPPCs are unposted and each has a DOPS stamp box on its rear side.

General information about Gay's Lion Farm can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay's_Lion_Farm

A short film (no sound) of the Farm made in about 1930 can be found here:

Additional RPPCs of the Gay's Lion Farm can be found at this link:
http://www.image-archeology.com/Gay's_Lion_Farm_CA.htm
(The cards I posted are not found on the above link.)

Jumbo the Giant Elephant

PostcardCollector — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:31:16 -0700

Jumbo was a large African Bush Elephant, born 1861 in the French Sudan – present-day Mali – imported to a Paris zoo, transferred to the London Zoo in 1865, and sold in 1882 to P. T. Barnum, for the circus.

The giant elephant's name has spawned the common word "jumbo", meaning large in size. Jumbo's height, estimated to be 10.7 feet in the London Zoo, was claimed to be approximately 13.1 feet by the time of his death.

Jumbo died at a railway classification yard in Canada at St. Thomas, Ontario, where he was hit and fatally wounded by a locomotive. Barnum afterwards told the story that Jumbo died saving a young circus elephant, Tom Thumb, from being hit by the locomotive, but other witnesses did not support this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo

1909 Pittsburgh Cat Show

PostcardCollector — Tue, 01 May 2012 18:38:37 -0700

1909 Pittsburgh Cat Show - I want to go to the cat show!

Busy Bears Postcard Album

Randy — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:20:15 -0700

Attached are scans of an old postcard album I recently acquired. It depicts Tuesday's Ironing "Busy Bear" from the set published by J. I. Austen & Co. of Chicago. The album is in rough condition, but I think it's still a neat postcard collectible.

Horses on Postcards

Bas S Warwick — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:44:43 -0700

I don't think there is a thread on horses, so trot out your horsey cards and lets see what comes up.

Here's a maxi-card I made from a French Postcard - CH20 La passion du cheval /and a 1984 New Zealand stamp. It took quite a bit of searching to find a card that was very similar to the stamp, but I eventually purchased a card from a dealer in France.

NZ Stamp Thoroughbred - 30c + 2c
The descriptive name "thoroughbred" is synonymous with racehorses. All thoroughbreds are reputed to trace their ancestry back to three eastern sires - the Darley Arabian, the Godolphin Barb and the Byerley Turk. New Zealand's temperate climate is an ideal environment for breeding thoroughbreds and the colour and spectacle of a race day is part of the New Zealand way of life.

http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/NR/exeres/2BF8FC8F-3B4B-42FB-B668-2BCC86E50EEF.htm

Lippizzans on Parade

PostcardCollector — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 10:19:36 -0700

"The Lipizzan or Lipizzaner is a breed of horse closely associated with the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria, where the finest representatives demonstrate the haute ecole or "high school" movements of classical dressage, including the highly controlled, stylized jumps and other movements known as the "airs above the ground."

"The Lipizzan breed dates back to the 16th century, when it was developed with the support of the Habsburg nobility."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipizzan

mules, burros, donkeys

cuzcopete — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:55:03 -0700

was asked to move my burro card to a new category (but I actually liked where he was before too)...not sure if it should be transportation (which it is) or animal (also true) or even "horsedrawn" (could be true, sorta)

Here are Navajos and their burro

Bird Cards

doodles69ca — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:21:11 -0700

A couple of years ago I was at a church rummage sale. I am always looking for stamps and postcards, but I don't usually have much luck. I was just about to leave when I saw what I thought was a postcard sticking out of a small box. I picked it up and it was a full set of postcards. There were 50 unused postcards, in the origional box from the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa.
The cards are all birds. The price at the time was $1.00 for the 50 cards. I asked the woman at the table what they wanted for them, and I figured if she said anything less then $10.00 I would take them. I got them for the HUGE price of 25 cents. I couldn't turn them down.
Being a partime stamp dealer, who also sells the odd postcard, I figured I could sell them to someone else for a great bargain price, because I had paid so little for them.
Then I started looking at them myself, and I can't part with them. They are beautiful. There is so much information on each card.
Right now, I have them in the box still, but one day I am going to get some nice pages and put them into an album so that I can see them without handling them any more then I have to. I will also carefully flatten the box and slip it into a page. It won't hurt the box, because it flattens when the cards come out anyhow.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/doodles69ca/Postcards for Websites/BirdPostcards.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/doodles69ca/Postcards for Websites/BirdPostcards001.jpg

African Grey Parrots

Mscaligula — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:27:46 -0700

Are there any more out there with this type of bird?

Animals on maximum cards

Dorincard — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 06:11:02 -0700

Animals, and many other topics on maximum cards in my collection:
http://s289.photobucket.com/albums/ll201/dorincard/

American Bison (aka Buffalo)

woodside001 — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:33:56 -0700

Hello out there, my interest in postcards is solely this animal. Anybody have similar interests? Here's a couple that I enjoy. Thanks for looking.

The Dog — Man's Best Friend

postcardy — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 05:17:08 -0700

Originally I was going to call this "most words on the front of a postcard." Then I thought it would be more interesting to see what else postcards have to say about dogs. This one is ©1907 by M.T. Sheahan.

Real Photos of People and Cats

postcardy — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:19:18 -0700

Photos of people with their pet cats.

Linen Hippo Postcard

Brian — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:56:27 -0700

Many associate linen postcards primarily with roadside Americana, motels, diners, restaurants, art deco architecture and the like. But there are other worthy subjects to collect in the rich "hybrid" world - hovering somewhere between artist and real photo postcards - that is linens.

The card above is a difficult to obtain linen recently acquired from a dealer in the Netherlands. It was part of a series made available by the National Zoo (Washington, D.C.) and published by Capitol Souvenir Co. None of the other cards I have seen from this series approach the level of artistry exhibited by this particular card featuring the mother hippo and her calf. (Note: My scan is unable to do justice to the color, detail or texture of this card.)