Vintage 1906 Postcard A HAPPY NEW YEAR Rockport Indiana IN Dutch Children For Sale

📝 Description
Original 1906 holiday postcard with the printed greeting “A Happy New Year” at the top. The illustration shows two Dutch children in traditional attire: a girl in a bonnet, striped apron, and green clogs in the foreground, and a boy with wide trousers and cap in the background.

Printed details:

• Reverse: UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE (in multiple languages: Carte Postale – Postkarte – Cartolina Postale)

• Lower left corner: 1806 with publisher’s mark

Postmarked Rockport, Indiana – Dec 31, 1906 – 2:30 PM with a green 1¢ Benjamin Franklin stamp.

Addressed to:
Miss Helen Ward
410 N. Euclid
Pasadena, Calif.

Handwritten message on front:
to you and I hope you will enjoy the season

Signed:
Yours, Carl Warden

📚 Fun Fact
This card represents the “Dutch children” motif, a common theme in early 1900s holiday postcards. The imagery of Dutch clogs, bonnets, and aprons symbolized simplicity and good fortune for the new year.

🎯 Collector Appeal
Great for collectors of:

• Antique holiday & New Year postcards

• Dutch costume themes in postcards

• Rockport, Indiana postal history

• Early 1900s Benjamin Franklin 1¢ postcards

• Union Postale Universelle international postal stationery

⭐ Features

• Holiday: New Year 1906

• Location Postmarked: Rockport, Indiana

• Stamp: 1¢ Benjamin Franklin (green)

• Publisher Mark: 1806 with maker’s symbol

• Format: Divided back postcard

• International postal format: Union Postale Universelle

✅ Condition

• Mailed and postmarked 1906

• Light corner and edge wear consistent with age

• Ink handwriting on both front and back

• Colors remain strong

• AI-assisted description; handwriting interpretation may contain errors—please review photos carefully

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