Sets 2

PRIVATE  MAILING  CARDS 1898 - 1901
Publisher The A. E. Wilde Co.

                               
Steamboat Lottie          Art Museum                University            Fountain Square            Rookwood     

                               
  Levee                Bellevue Incline                          Burnet Woods                              Reservoir

   
Sanger Hall                                              

   The back of the above card is identical to the backs of the set above so, even though it is obviously not a part of the first set, it was produced by the same publisher and so I really had no other place to show it. Perhaps it is the start of another set? The only information I have been able to find on the publisher, A. E. Wilde Co. is that they were wholesale booksellers that were located at 136 W. 7th St. Because of the backs being the same I am guessing they also produced the set above even though their name is not on those cards.

                       
Three very old Private Mailing cards

PUBLISHER  TOM  JONES

   These cards can be tricky to collect because, as you can see, the cards will have the same central image but will have different fancy designs surrounding it.

                             
    1st National Bank                                                                    Eden Park Water Tower

               
Cincinnati Art Museum

                
Public Landing / Ohio River

               
University of Cincinnati

       
 Fountain Square

                
Post Office/Custom House                           Music Hall/Washington Park                           

                *
Bellevue Incline Plane   

       
Eden Park Reservoir 

                       
             Ingalls Building                                         City Hall

TOM  JONES  WOOD  GRAIN  LOOKING  CARDS
I have no idea how many cards are in this set.

CARDS  FOUND  IN  BROWN  CARRIAGE  VEHICLE

  At first glance you would think that collecting these cards would be easy-WRONG. The backs of these cards all say there are 10 cards to the set. BUT there is apparently more than one set of each type so I will just put the same types together and see how many I come up with. There are obviously more than 10 images so they probably mixed them into different sets of 10. These cards are published by Feicke-Desch with a smooth shiny surface. Some cards will only have the double flying eagles on the back. The 13th image shows the back of this set.

Back of the above cards

  It is my guess that Norwood Souvenir published these cards first and then when Feicke-Desch bought them out they put their own name on them. They then issued the above set later. The backs of the Norwood cards are printed in red while the Feicke-Desch cards are black. The cards have both rough and smooth surfaces and have a sharper image then the ones above.

Back of the above cards

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