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Aerostar!

This is a postcard published by Mary Jayne’s Railroad Specialties out of Covington VA.  Printed by Alleghany Publishers, Covington VA.  Photo by George E. Lawrence (no relation).  MJRS published a series of cards on aircraft.  I think there are around 200 different cards in the series.
Anyway, Aerostar was owned by Professional Travel, Inc. of Louisiana.  In 1981-82 the company was expanding.  In 1982, they secured permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board (in existence from 1938 – 1985) to set up the airline and eventually secured three 727s from Eastern Airlines.  In 1983, it was all over.  Eastern repossessed the aircraft and the company went bankrupt.  The name Aerostar has been used by an airline out of Kiev, Ukraine, since 1995.

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Kunzli/Mainzer Cats

The artist is Eugen Hartung (1897 – 1973).  He painted many dressed cat pictures, which were published by Max Kűnzli in Zűrich, Switzerland.  After WWII, these were published in the United States by Alfred Mainzer, Inc. of New York.  This is an original Swiss offering, a lithograph (not a screened print), with the unusual deckle edges.  This was a fun research project for me.  I’d never heard of these cards before.  Any comments or corrections will be appreciated.

Note the boy cats in the windows laughing at the girl cats.  And the artist’s signature, which should have been in the lower left, has been cropped out.

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Honker Post Card!

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Yep, this is a Giant Post Card, 7″ x 11″.

The image is of a standard 1940s post card of downtown Asheville (J11) by Asheville Post Card Company.  However, the image was scaled up for this linen-finish card printed by Standard Souvenirs & Novelties, Inc., Knoxville, Tenn.  This may still have been issued in the late 40s.