Bidspirit auction | An Assortment of Early 20th

An Assortment of Early 20th Century Postcards in a Period Album Featuring Works by Zim and Katharine Gassaway - This lot consists of an early 20th-century postcard album containing an assortment of postcards from the Golden Age of postcards, circa 1905 to 1915. The album features dark, textured cloth-covered boards with gold-embossed Art Nouveau-style lettering on the front cover reading POST CARD-ALBUM. A vertical decorative border on the left side depicts white Edelweiss flowers and green foliage. The collection includes a series of humorous caricature postcards by the American political cartoonist Eugene Zim Zimmerman, many bearing his signature Zim. Specific titles observed include Drop in when you come down and bring your work with you, Just able to get around, and I'm among a lot of dead ones here. One card is printed with the credit Zim, America's Greatest Artist, Horseheads, N.Y. Pub. by G. A. Treat. Additional highlights include sentimental illustrations by Katharine Gassaway, such as the card titled Bliss with a 1908 copyright mark. The assortment also contains two embossed leather novelty postcards dated 1906 and published by S.N. Co., featuring greetings and a smoking-themed illustration signed Jack. Topographical and Real Photo Postcards (RPPC) are present, including a color view of the Flatiron Building in New York City, various lake scenes, and local residences in Horseheads, New York. Several cards are addressed to Alice with handwritten notes mentioning Groton and Horseheads, New York. The album itself is in poor condition, exhibiting significant surface wear, staining, and fading to the covers. The spine is heavily worn with structural separation. Internal pages are brittle with prominent age-related toning, significant tearing, and missing corner sections where cards were previously inserted. The postcards are generally in good to very good condition, showing typical corner wear, light foxing, and minor age-related toning. Most cards remain housed in original corner slots, while others are loose.