Vintage Holly Ridge North Carolina Sound Side Postcard Helen Tatum Unposted 6x4

Vintage Holly Ridge North Carolina Sound Side Postcard Helen Tatum Unposted 6x4

Used: Corner/edge wear with light rounding and surface scuffs; small white scuff at the top-left front and light surface rubbing. Back has light toning with a few tiny scattered spots near the lower-right edge. Unposted with no writing or postmark.

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Vintage color postcard depicting The Sound Side of Topsail Island near Holly Ridge, North Carolina.

Front view shows inland channels and marshy shoreline with dense dune vegetation, a carport and an older automobile, and a small PRIVATE sign in the foreground beneath a broad blue sky.

Back printing: The Sound Side of Topsail Island offers high elevations, wooded areas and inland channels ideal for harboring small boats. Legend has it that behind these hills the Pirate Blackbeard hid his ships who lay in wait for passing freighters laden with wealthy bounty.

Back markings include: POST CARD, Place Stamp Here box, publisher credit Helen M. Tatum, vertical publisher/address line and printed number 118376; divided back format.

Type: Printed (Lithograph). Original. Era: Photochrome (1939-Now). Size: Continental (6 x 4 in). Material: Cardboard. Theme: Landscapes, Sea. Region: North Carolina; City: Holly Ridge.

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Corner/edge wear with light rounding and surface scuffs; small white scuff at the top-left front and light surface rubbing. Back has light toning with a few tiny scattered spots near the lower-right edge. Unposted with no writing or postmark.