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Vintage lighthouse advertising post cards are a special niche within the lighthouse niche of post card collecting. Today they are getting harder and harder to find, and are quite rare. But when you do find one, there is always a slice of history to be learned from it. This card, featuring beautiful lighthouse artwork, was designed by hand years before anyone even dreamed of the words “computer generated graphics.” It was postmarked in 1915 in the early years of World War I, and in the same year that the first United States coast to coast telephone call was made. We don’t know much about the Hires Turner Glass Co., or the Lighthouse Brand Plate and Mirror Glass that had offices in Washington D.C., Rochester, New York, and Philadelphia Pennsylvania, but for obvious reasons they used a lighthouse to capitalize on their product.
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