1920's Boxing Postcards

   About 20 years ago I came upon some postcards from the 1920's. There were two postcards of John L. Sullivan and James John Corbett; I was pretty excited about my find. These would be the oldest postcards in my collection and to this still is. The postcards are marked Copr. 1921.Ex.Sup.Co.,Chgo. What's makes the postcards even more interesting is that they fighter’s history on them; the postcards are also signed by each man. Here you have 1920's trading cards on postcards. I have no information on how popular they were in that era...but America loved these two boxers so I would think they had to be a big deal.

 

Boxers James John Corbett and John L. Sullivan

All you could have done in mailing these postcards is place an address on the right side of the postcard and find some strange place to sign your name. There really is no room on the left side of the postcard because of the history type in

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I would love to get my hands on a few more of these postcards. To bad we don have postcards like this of our modern day boxers. 

In My Beginning

Since I was 12 years old I’ve been collecting postcards. When I started it was just about making a friend in Puerto Rico or Australia through the school pen pal program, or having a friend going on vacation in some really cool place like London or California and receiving a postcard in the mail. I would keep my little treasures in a large book to keep them from getting torn. As I got into my teens collecting kind of fell at the waist side, I kept the postcards that I would get from friends that traveled, but it wasn’t a big deal. But one day a friend asked me to help clean out his aunt’s attic. What I found open a new chapter in me collecting postcards. There were post cards from the late 1800's to the early 1920’s. A WW l Dough boy, a west African woman, the boxer John L. Sullivan. These antique postcards I still have today, with the thousands of other I’ve found in antique shops, at garage sales and the ones friend and coworker have just left with me. It’s rewarding to have people assist you in your hobby with such joy. I’m always grateful when I get a bag full of postcards from a trip they took or something they found in grandma’s basement. 

I take this hobby of post carding seriously, but still keep it fun. I feel like an historian sometimes preserving these cards that are packed with so much beauty and information. I've entered some of my postcards into the Minnesota State Fair over the last four years and have been rewarded three ribbons for my collections. I love sharing my postcards, what’s the use in keeping them in books on the shelf. Now I want to write about post carding and share and learn from other that enjoy this hobby. This is My Post Carder’s Delight.

 Dough Boy

 West African Woman

Boxer John  L. Sullivan