I was recently
looking through my small collection of antique post cards, and came
across this gem. It is a comic post card depicting a man smoking a
pipe and pouring himself a drink while sitting atop the headstone
which presumably belonged to his wife. The stone reads:
JANE ANNDEAR WIFEOFJOHN HENPECK
and the caption
reads “A quiet, grave time, at last!” At the top, someone has
penned in the initials J.W.
On the reverse is a
one cent stamp, with a post mark dated 1 Aug 1908 at 9 a.m. in
Vancouver, Washington. The card is addressed to Mr. P. Gusted (or
perhaps it is Lusted?), Portland, Oregon, and appears to have the
memo that it is in care of “W. V. tel. Co.” The correspondence
reads,
Hello Nephew,Will be over Sun. morning if everything is Ho-K.
and it is signed
either “your Uncy. Geo.” or “your Uncy. Leo.”
A quick Ancestry
search through Portland city directories revealed no P. Gusted or P.
Lusted, although there were others of both those surnames. I was
reluctant to attempt more in-depth research, so I can currently shed
no light on the recipient of this card. The sender is even more
mysterious, as he signed only his first name. As for the initials “J.
W.” on the front of the card—well, I have no idea what those
mean.
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