Vintage Blank Cards or Invitations, featuring an original Albert R. Thayer etching of a Colonial feast; printed on high quality, antique white, art paper (like Rives or Arches). These cards were produced circa 1930 and came from a Maine estate in their original Thayer company box. Cards show etching plate embossment and deckle edge. Suitable for framing.

- Each card comes with a modern KRAFT (brown) or NATURAL (off white with contour flap) envelope with small info insert.

- Available in single card quantity or 10 card quantity


Data: card size folded 5" x 6.5", image/plate size 4" x 5"

Condition: excellent condition, unused, original, printed by the Thayer Etchings Studio, NOS

Origin: Thayer Etchings, 126 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass., ~1920s-1930s


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Albert R. Thayer (19 October 1878 - October 1965) was an American painter and etcher. Born in Concord. Massachusetts, he studied at the Boston Museum School and at the Art Students League in New York. His teachers include Edmund Tarbell, Eric Page and Aldro Hibbard. He was a gifted teacher as well as oil painter and was a long-standing member of the Rockport Art Association, which he served as Treasurer.

His work is included in the Museum Collection of the Rockport Art Association and was featured in a traveling exhibition titled 'Images of a New England Seacoast' 1900-1950. He provided the illustration for the American edition of a popular Christmas book, The Man at the Gate of the World. He also provided the illustrations for the book, The Mystery of Molly Mott. He is best known for marshy landscapes and harbour scenes, but he painted on occasion a Boston house that caught his fancy. His oil paintings seldom appear in art auctions with only a couple of sales in the past twelve years.