Vintage Postcards - Dog Gone Cute

Cute Vintage Dog Postcards

Whilst pocking around in the card and paper section of a local op shop, we came across a package of vintage postcards. The cards were wrapped in a see through plastic bag, that had been diligently sealed with quite a lot of tape! So only the top card was visible.

As you can see by the picture below, the top post card was a cute illustration of dogs on a street corner.

She fell instantly for the little sausage dog! And though I'm very partial to Scotty dogs, it was the style of the illustration and the colours used that I took a shine to.

We wondered what was likely to be in the rest of the package.We could see that all the cards were the same size, so we hoped they would be from the same set.The conclusion of the wondering was that it would be either, more of the same card (which is what I expected) or variations of the top one.

As I wrote in this post Easter Bunnies. I knew it would be futile to argue with She, when it came to the question of  buying a package of unknown content. And as we both thought the top card was just, well.. doggone cute! And the price was quite good for the amount of cards in the pack, even if the only cute card was the one we could see. So we purchased the little package of cards - and tape!

On our arrival home, She, of course, attacked the plastic bag with hand and scissors in her excited impatience to see its contents!

And as you can see, it turned out there were actually four different illustrations of cute dogs, one even included a few friendly felines as well.There were a number of repeats in the package, but unfortunately only one copy of the sausage dog and poodle together!

 So we decided to keep the set of four to include in our own collection, and the spares will go into our     Etsy store. She and Me Vintage

 Aren't they wonderful? I have tried to research the artist Inge Scherer. So far I haven't found any information. The only thing I did manage to find, were some other vintage postcards illustrated by the same artist. A few of them were of sweet little kittens, and a really lovely one of a lion.They were all illustrated in the same style, though the lion postcard was in much more vibrant colours.

So if you happen to know any information about the artist, please let us know. Hope you enjoyed our little ephemera find. Do you have a favourite?

Have a lovely day.

 

Me.