Today, my car needed its scheduled maintenance, so I packed my bag of minis and headed over there for a three-hour tour (Gilligan’s Island theme song now firmly in my head.) They have a desk/office area cordoned off for some privacy, so I was able to work comfortably. Sometimes I sit in one of the comfy lounge chairs and stitch, but today was Mail Call day.
Someone was kind enough to leave their dirty coffee cup behind, but it worked well for a mini trash can. Kismet litter (good punk band name). haaaaaaaaaa
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve done some scouting about online and found a few different sites that had scanned letters and their corresponding envelopes. There is also a wealth of postcards, both mailed and unused, listed for sale online. I tried to limit the ones I printed to true 1917 dates, except for a few that I loved and wanted to include. Here are the letters. They are true to scale and not legible, but they add a nice touch.
I did print envelopes, but my guidelines were so faint that I am going to reprint those for another day. I did manage to get one matched reasonably well.
The letters are glued shut, but I like knowing there is a true letter inside.
I cut out the postcard fronts and corresponding backs as pairs so I wouldn’t have to play an impossible match game later.
I pasted them back to back for a true postcard facsimile. This is one I fudged – this is a postcard that had a blank back, but I needed the bunnies in my post office.
Assembling these will be good busy work for TV time.
Miniature Collector magazine had printies in their magazines, and I pulled a whole bunch from the recent magazine stash that was gifted to me by a generous reader. One was a sampling of the 1902 Burpee’s Farm Annual. The magazine has a copyright date of March 2007.
It included a large envelope to hold the mailer, an order form and a return envelope.
It’s a lovely set, and the notes indicate you are allowed to copy or have a copy service reprint for personal use. Since the magazine paper is a little shinier than I would like, I think I will do just that and make up a bunch. :]
