My colleagues found this card on the floor in our shop. Upon looking into the information on it, we matched the name & address to a real person that died in the 1920s. The letters feel a little textured to the touch too – not printed flatly.
Does this look real? Were there business cards like this in that time? Many thanks in advance!
by MashingTheTato
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Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it.
I don’t think it’s a business card as such. It’s what used to be known as a [calling card or visiting card](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visiting_card).
It looks to be in very good condition to be 100 years old in my opinion.
I’m not an expert at all but I feel like if it was that old the paper would have changed to a darker colour, and the corners would probably be less perfect. Unless it’s been preserved in a museum or something?
Was the shop a grocers in the 1920s?
I’m not sure if you recognised the name or not, Huntley & Palmers were one of the main biscuit makers and a massive brand and he was the Chairman.
There is a permanent exhibition in the Reading museum, perhaps they’d be interested in the card.
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/your-visit/permanent-galleries/huntley-and-palmers-gallery
Impressive. Very nice. Now let’s Paul’s Allen card.
Nice try Patrick Bateman
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I don’t have the skills or knowledge to say one way or another, but one thing I noticed is the two 2s on the card are shaped slightly different, and it looks like where there are letters appearing more than once they have slight differences zooming in as well. So I’d guess at the very least the letters were handwritten or stenciled on?
Without expertise, if I were set on figuring it out I’d start by trying to find a match for the font used via web/photo search (some ai models can take pictures as input as well which may help alongside prompts). Then see if the font was used in that time period or if it seems to have been created more recently