Sunday, June 23, 2024
Wish You Were Here, from Harry Hershfield
Harry Hershfield did only one postcard series that I know of, and it featured his famous creation Abie the Agent. Each card offered a cartoon of Abie along with a gag using his trademark New York Jewish argot. For reasons unknown these cards are quite hard to find. Maybe because they fail to offer a copyright to International Feature Service?
The "Kabibble Kard"s were published by the Illustrated Postcard and Novelty Company of New York. The cards are undated, but based on the cartoon of Abie, I would definitely place them in the 1910s, as Abie's look changed a bit by the 1920s. This particular card is marked "658/2" whatever that means. Series 658 card 2 perhaps?
Labels: Wish You Were Here
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That is a rare card, and that Abie is definitely the earliest version of him.
It must have been painful for him to go around with a twisted foot like that.
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It must have been painful for him to go around with a twisted foot like that.
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