Sir Walter Scott Portrait Birthday Greeting John Winsch Embossed 1910 PC 101326 For Sale

Great vintage postcard!

ITEM DESCRIPTION:

• Type: Antique 1910 Golden Age multi-color heavily embossed chromolithograph greeting postcard on thick cardstock.
• Production: Published by John Winsch, bearing his lower-left front corporate copyright line reading \"Copyright, John Winsch, 1910.\" Contract-printed in Germany.
• Subject: \"A Birthday Greeting.\" A premium literary theme design featuring a fine portrait of legendary Scottish author Sir Walter Scott set inside an embossed golden oval frame. The composition is decorated with blooming pink flowers over a black striped background, anchoring a stenciled birthday verse excerpted from Scott\'s poem \"Rokeby\" (Canto First).
• Postal History: Divided back configuration, unposted through the mail system. The reverse features an elegant embossed floral back pattern and carries a short personal pencil correspondence message: \"from Emma C.\" Addressed to Emery Cosina in Buffalo Lake, Minn.

CONDITION:
Unposted vintage condition carrying a personal pencil message. The heavy cardstock base retains excellent underlying structural integrity with a perfectly flat body entirely free of hard center creases or paper breaks. Displays exceptionally light handling character, highlighted by minor uniform corner tip rounding with trace fiber softening at the points and very faint edge rubbing along the outer margins. The high-relief die-cut embossing remains completely sound, rigid, and uncrushed. Please examine the enlarged images provided to determine condition, and feel free to ask questions. Standard size (3.5\" x 5.5\").HISTORICAL NOTES:

• The Winsch Publishing Pedigree: John Winsch of Stapleton, New York, is legendary among postcard collectors for producing some of the absolute highest-quality embossed greeting cards of the Golden Age. Winsch meticulously copyrighted his designs and contracted with elite printers in Germany to execute deep, crisp embossing work and vibrant multi-stone lithography.
• The Sir Walter Scott Verse: The portrait captures a young Sir Walter Scott, the world-famous novelist and poet behind classics like Ivanhoe and Rob Roy. The birthday verse on the front is a direct excerpt from his famous 1813 narrative poem Rokeby, making this card highly sought after by crossover literature and poetry ephemera collectors.

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