Domino and Dice Postcards by Fred C. Lounsbury
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Fred C. Lounsbury of the Crescent Embossing Company of Plainfield, New Jersey, released three sets of fortune telling postcards in the year 1907:
- Series 2306 Domino and Dice Postcards by Fred C. Lounsbury (8 cards)
- Series 2307 Cartomancy Postcards by Fred C. Lounsbury (8 cards)
- Series 2308 Palmistry and Tea Cup Reading Postcards by Fred C. Lounsbury (8 cards)
From 1905 through to the First World War, the postcard craze became a huge phenomenon in America and the rest of the world. The best cards — embossed and gilded, with multi-hues of ink and impeccably tight registration — came from Germany, where chromolithography had become a fine art. Because the German cards were distributed in English, French, German, and other languages, the art was often embossed, but the lettering was surprinted in spaces left open for its insertion. Lounsbury and other American chromolitho printed set themselves up as furnishing American-made cards featuring American holidays and patriotic themes, with large embossed and gilded lettering in English. Today, Lounsbury is still best known for his holiday and patriotic cards, but in 1907 he commissioned his artists to create several magical and divinatory sets of cards, including a set on Good Luck curios and the three sets that featured a total of five methods of divination. Every Lounsbury set was issued as a group of eight cards, and Lounsbury's Crescent Embossing Company prospered. By 1910 he had offices in New York City and Philadelphia, as well as a sales representative based in Boston.
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