c. 1914 Gottschalk, Dreyfuss & Davis (Series No. 2402-2) Halloween Postcard - Oct. 31st - With Best Wishes for All Hallowe'en - Three Witches Flying on Broomsticks!

This is a nice vintage early chromolithograph printed and embossed Halloween postcard showing a pumpkin head man watching three witches flying on brooms with bats and the moon in the background.

This postcard was published by:
Gottschalk, Dreyfuss & Davis (1909-1915)
45 East 20th Street, New York, NY
Antique Halloween Postcard (Series No. 2402-2) / Printed in Germany

This postcard was available for several years...1909 to 1915?? and there were more Halloween postcards in this set..
No 2402-1, Woman Seeing JOL Head Man in the Mirror (Link) - www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/halloween-gottschalk-2402-...

Published Illustrated booklets and both holiday and greeting cards. Many of the mottos used for these cards were directly solicited from the public. These hand collored collotypes were printed in Germany. They also had offices in London and Munich.

This postcard carries the logo or trademark for Gottschalk, Dreyfuss & Davis of New York on the back left corner. Their postcards were most often printed in Germany as this one was and their trademark features a little girl posting a card at a pillar type mailbox.

Dreyfuss left the partnership in 1914 after which point they were known simply as Gottschalk & Davis.

Postmarked on the back with a date - 30 October 1914
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Aside from the pointy hat, the most recognizable accessory for any witch is her trusty broom.

The First Known Depiction of a Witch on a Broomstick - In the 15th century, the image of the witch flying on a broomstick first appeared, its meaning laden with sexual and spiritual depravity.

Vintage Halloween postcard depicting happy colorful Halloween witches.

Halloween greetings cards from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries often bore the images of traditional Halloween games that were popular at that time. Games involving, inter alia, apples, mirrors and walnuts were all played during the Halloween festivities. Some of the games were played to bring about "divining", a type of fortune telling. Thousands of Halloween postcards were produced at the turn of the 20th century. The postcards of the 1920s regularly depict children, but do not show trick-or-treating. On many of the postcards are images of pumpkins, the inevitable witches and black cats, and very often children playing Halloween games, or carving jack-o-lanterns.

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