Pretty Decorated Postcard
I love all the decorative efforts on the Maude Fealy postcards, and many others, as well. Maybe this heightened the value of the cards? Would people buy the same pose, presented in different way? I’m always pretty excited when I run across a new one. Look at those eyes. I don’t know if her eyes are really blue, but I think so.
The Reds
Many times, postcard makers would have sections of a postcard hand colored. They don’t really seem to make the photos more life like, but the addition of color must have been serendipitous in the pre-color days. Some of them I really like, but in others I find the colors a maddening distraction. As if Maude wasn’t beautiful enough!!!
Maude in the later years
Not sure when this was taken, or how old Maude was, but she looks around fifty-ish. Still attactive, don’t you think?
Maude and Friends
I’m not really sure Maude met any of these women. The postcard makers would cut and past different models into one photos. Here is another:
I think Maude is always the most beautiful. Others are fair, she is the fairest.
