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Posted: 28 Oct 2015

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Apples for Bobbing

Apples for Bobbing
Message on the back of this postcard: "Wish you a Merry Halloween from Isabelle."

Addressed to: Howard Knicley, Brookville, Pa., R.F.D. No. 2.

Postmarked: Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 27, 1909.

Printed on the back: "Raphael Tuck & Sons' 'Hallowe'en' Post Cards, Series No. 160."

In the scene on the front of this Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, anthropomorphic apples jump into a wooden wash tub filled with water to initiate bobbing for apples on Halloween.

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Hallowe'en

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Poor apples! It must be terrifying to drown in a tub while scary faces and teeth 'bob' for you.
10 years ago.

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