"A Bicycle is not a Racycle. / Without Racycle Crank Hanger / Why is a CHEAP bicycle like this Lady? / (HOLD TO THE LIGHT) / MORAL: / BUY A RACYCLE / The Henderson Litho. Co. Col." when held to light revealing the woman's figure in silhouette with exceptionally skinny hips & legs over the words (now showing) 'A FINE FINISH BUT A POOR FRAME'. Slightly longer than a continental postcard. Handstamped in violet on back: 'ED. BORDERWICH, / Sale Agt. / 331 E. 8rd. St. DAYTON, O. / Telephone, 469'. Paper browning with age, 3 horizontal creases so it could be folded into quarters. Rare: nothing like it offered, or even displayed, when we searched the Internet. $40.00 bhs NEW / NEU / NOUVEAU

    "A CONSUMPTIVE PATIENT / HOLD TO THE LIGHT AND NOTE / HOW HER LIFE WAS SAVED" printed ad for Allen's Lung Balsam shows through from back, small corner crease & minor edge wear, circa 1890 ad card. Sold but still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (about 771% of original print area) & enhanced 200-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $2.00

    "HOLD CARD TO LIGHT / Official Souvenir / POSTAL CARD / Machinery Building" from St. Louis Expo of 1904, mailed with light exposition cancel on 1-cent Livingston commemorative stamp, minor corner & edge wear, lightly toned back, cancel ink on front. Windows on building, the sun & some lights strung between poles light up. $35.00 (hem-e)

    "HOLD CARD TO LIGHT / Official Souvenir / POSTAL CARD / Machinery Building" from St. Louis Expo of 1904, 1-cent Livingston commemorative stamp accompanied by "This is the mail for which you sent postage" auxiliary marking, minor corner & edge wear, lightly toned back, cancel ink on front. Windows on building, the sun & some lights strung between poles light up. The initial cancel where the stamp should have been is probably a Saint Louis duplex 1 handstamp-- probably, because the stamp is applied over some of it. The there is a NOV 15 1904 Saint Louis duplex 2 neatly which neatly ties the stamp. Then there is an Olathe Kans. NOV 16 receiving mark that just ties the stamp. In violet "This is the mail for / which you sent postage B" with all but 2 letters clear. Then in the lower left is a violet 2-ring circular "City Distribution Division // NOV / 13 / 1904 // St. Louis, Mo. (P.D.)" The name of the recipient is written twice in different inks--for which there are multiple possible explanations. $35.00 (he-u(p))

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Postcard Collector. April 1988 (Volume 6 Number 4). Features on publisher Arthur Livingston, checklist of Koehler hold-to-lights, Louisiana & Texas postcard distributors & more. $2.00 p,h

"PRAY HOLD THIS CARD UP TO THE LIGHT / AND YOU WILL SEE A CHARMING SIGHT / Gloucester Cathedral from the Meadow  Gloucester" English view on grayish paper, with subtle details in the clouds and elsewhere showing through when so held, unused, corner crease. $12.00 %

    "Souvenir of Philadelphia" showing Carpenter's Hall in monochromatic green, circa 1903. Windows light up yellow for nice contrast. Fairly fresh. Sold but still available for scholarly study & research as an enlarged (almost 2x original postcard area) 100-dpi scan in .jpg or .tif format. $1.50

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