Kenji Shimizu wrote:

> David Mandalis wrote:
> > ???????? what???? You totally lost me here... are we talking abotu the
> SAME postcard...??? I was talking about the Afternoon's offer... that
> post card gift... (and the address on the envelope which arrived at my
> place was written by myself... (in the order form...)
>
>  ....??? what penman ship...? this thing is mass-produced.....
>  (and it doesn't use any "return envelope thingy........???????)
>
>  I'm lost........ (??????) ...what does penmanship have to do with this
> postcard that arrived at my place recently...??? (really lost....)
>
>  Anyone have the URL handy for the post card....??? (yeah, the "special
> offer from Afternoon" post card...... I want to make sure everyone is
> talking about the same thing here.....
>
> Kenji Shimizu

I was just trying to show the history of the postcard format...the penmanship
thing was that most illustration was really illuminated penmanship, later changed

to real art (and I had met one last practictionshers of it).  You did say how
could anyone send this thing through the mail, and my response was that it was a
form a art presentation, and some of the history surrounding it.  I have
incidentally the AMG "Postcard" book published just recently and what you received

was probably an elaborate and excellent version of those specimens.  Obviously,
most people would not take the book apart for use as picture postcards.  They
bought it for the excellent artwork.  It sounds pretty neat and I wish I could see

it in person.

Dave M.