Antique Valentine Postcard, 1912 Ellen Clapsaddle Boy Mailing Love Letter, Ephemera ephemera For a chinoiserie collector

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Antique Valentine Postcard, 1912 Ellen Clapsaddle Boy Mailing Love Letter, Ephemera ephemera For a chinoiserie collectorA boy in suspenders, a puppy at his side, a love letter going into the mailbox Clapsaddle at her most tender. Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle (18651934) is recognized as the most prolific postcard and greeting card artist of the Edwardian era the first and only female souvenir postcard artist of her time to establish her own enterprise. Working with the International Art Publishing Company of New York, her illustrations appeared on postcards, porcelain goods,