We now have closure! Here, finally, are the last two postcards that Ashar and I picked up while checking out Dover Township yard sales on a May morning earlier this year. Up first is a postcard that was never mailed. The German caption on front states Ein Wolkenbruch, which translates to "a cloudburst." I asked Ash for his analysis of this odd postcard, and he said:
I'm guessing they're in a plane, but out on this thing and that the people with umbrellas are running away because the baby is peeing on them. That pretty much sums it up.I find it hard to disagree with his assessment. I also find it hard to understand why this postcard exists. Less hard, perhaps, to understand why it was never mailed. I'm not quite sure who you would send it to.1
The last postcard is an AZO real photo postcard that dates to between 1910 and 1930 based upon the stamp box. This card was printed at The Wilson Studio, which had two locations: No. 225-227 West Market Street in York, Pennsylvania, and No. 420 Market Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. There is no further information, useful or otherwise, on the front or back.
Ash's analysis is:
That baby looks alarmed. Mostly because I think that baby's sitting on a dead animal.At least the baby itself looks alive, unlike that sensitive issue we dealt with in 2014.
Previously on "that May yard sale!"
- Mystery RPPC: Long-ago toddler with fuzzy toy
- Mystery RPPC: Girl with parasol and witchy socks
- Mystery RPPC: Young girl with parasol and animal
- Old photo: Children on a slide
- Mystery RPPC: Man in bowler hat and tired girl
- Mystery RPPC: Girl with bear
Footnote
1. Ash and I decided that a more descriptive German caption for the postcard would have been Zoinks, ein Kind aus den Wolken pinkelt auf mich!, which translates to "Zoinks, an infant from the clouds is peeing on me!" Don't you now regret scrolling down to this footnote?
Given the positioning of the baby, one can assume this is a girl and not a boy. Am I overthinking this?
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