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The Strange Story Behind My Blog
This blog began with my intention to interpret vintage artist-signed postcards through the lens of art history. But almost from the beginning, my blog seemed to take on a life of its own. It quickly morphed into a series of stories about the lives of people behind the postcards. As soon as I started researching…
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Who Killed Hugo Tuck?
A Postcard Publishing Mystery By Anne Ross RAPHAEL TUCK’S FAMILY SKELETON During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, postcard publisher Raphael Tuck & Sons struggled to keep a family skeleton in the closet. His name was Hugo Tuck. Hugo carried a secret that could destroy his father’s postcard publishing company. At Raphael House in London, all…
Artist-Signed Postcards 