My jaw dropped when MK (that groovy wonderful girl) posted this on her blog...
This is for my friend, Marie, our resident antique postcard expert! This is a leather postcard, copyrighted 1907 and sent from Chicago with a penny stamp. It belonged to Adam's great-grandmother.
Novelty leather postcards were printed between 1904 - 1908. The leather was branded and then tinted. Yee -haw cowboy! The US postal service banned them in 1909 because they kept on jamming newly designed sorting machines:)
That cowhide sure is flexible! Thank you so much MK! You're the cow's moo!