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2. Display case - Wikipedia

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   Display case shows and protects a painting by a follower of Robert Campin A display case (also called a showcase , display cabinet , shadow box , or vitrine ) is a cabinet with one or often more transparent tempered glass (or plastic , normally acrylic for strength) surfaces, used to display objects for viewing.

3. Facing Identification Mark - Wikipedia

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   The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equivalent is placed). The FIM is intended for use primarily on preprinted envelopes and postcards and is applied by the company printing the envelopes or postcards, not by the ...

4. National Postcard Week - Wikipedia

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   As of January 2021, there is a savings of 18 cents to send a postcard versus a letter (40 cents versus 58 cents). During the Golden Age of postcards (early 20th century), the cost to send a postcard was half that of a letter (1 cent versus 2 cents). Pennies mattered at that time. For example, a loaf of bread might cost 5 cents circa 1915.

5. Postcard - Wikipedia

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   Postcards document the natural landscape as well as the built environment—buildings, gardens, parks, cemeteries, and tourist sites. They provide snapshots of societies at a time when few newspapers carried images. [16] Postcards provided a way for the general public to keep in touch with their friends and family, and required little writing. [16]

6. Advertising postcard - Wikipedia

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   1935 penny postcard advertising Auburn Automobiles. An advertising postcard is a postcard used for advertising purposes (as opposed to a tourism or greeting postcard). Postcards are used in advertising as an alternative to or to complement other print advertising such as catalogs, letters, and flyers. Advertising postcards may be mailed or ...

7. History of postcards in the United States - Wikipedia

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   "Greetings from Chicago, Illinois" large-letter postcard produced by Curt Teich The history of postcards is part of the cultural history of the United States. Especially after 1900, "the postcard was wildly successful both as correspondence and collectible" and thus postcards are valuable sources for cultural historians as both a form of epistolary literature and for the bank of cultural ...