Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 65

Price Realized: $ 138
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AUTOMOBILES.) Postcard of a Bridgeport family out for a drive. Real Photo postcard, 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches; inscribed on verso and recto, photographer's caption and embossed stamp, scrapbook remnants and postal markings on verso. Bridgeport, CT, 9 June 1907
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Photographer S. Kind of Bridgeport, CT had a clever racket. He took photographs of random passing cars, then traced their license plates in the motoring guides and mailed them these sample postcards, soliciting orders of six copies for a dollar, with the eye-catching message: "Caught! Going 25 miles and hour? If the sheriff catches you, it will cost you $25.00. I said 'If he catches you.' I caught you, but I'm the photographer." This family apparently took the bait. It's a charming photograph, showing a well-dressed party of seven in a Panhard touring car. This card was mailed to DeVer H. Warner of Bridgeport, who may have been one of the passengers or just a friend.