Tonight I'll share a few views of some of my favorite vintage stationery (a la eBay): the WWII-era Laff Letters.
As the box says, "letter and envelope in one," so pretty much a postalette or fold-and-mail concept.
The back of each design has a joke that tends to be racist or sexist or both... I guess they are a product of their time.
I love the return address space in this "bulletin from" design, and the "atoms for peace" vintage stamp is one of my favorites.
I sent the above "last minute news" design to my late grandfather about a year ago - I tried to use a WWII/veterans theme in the stamps, or at least stamps that made sense for his lifetime.
how fun! i'm a big fan of fold-n-mail, but love the vintage ones even more. i usually get aerogrammes from family in india, or at least i used to, but we don't seem to have anything like that in canada.
ReplyDeleteThese look really great!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely fantastic! Never seen anything like that. Thanks for showing those.
ReplyDeleteI just purchased these in awesome condition, box and all from a garage sale, 2 boxes for a buck! I think I may head back to get more!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - I think you had a VERY lucky find!
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