I wanted to share this postcard of a Dodo with you. Weren’t they sweet? If they were alive today would they be;
1. served up for Christmas dinner
2. in a zoo
3. sold as pets?
If you read the Wikipedia entry, there doesn’t appear to be a stuffed Dodo that they know of. Well, you saw it here first! The postcard received a bid very quickly after being put up for sale on eBay.
8 comments:
I would like a little pet dodo! I'm sure that he'd get aong with my cat:)
Marie: Thank you for your comment. i was very pleased to discover your postcard blog! I think that a dodo would make a nice cuddly toy!
Definitely eaten for Christmas, we'd also have bigger ovens.
Hopefully, in the wild still! But more likely in a zoo, those beaks don't look very safe! ;-)
And I can't eat turkey, so I couldn't eat one of those!! They're even cuter than turkeys are..
Martin: I think he's too cute to eat
Chandira: I was terrified of turkeys when I was small, I couldn't call them cute.
These postcards are great! I have bought postcards in the past at antique shops, once on eBay...an RSVP to a Valentines party from 1906. Something nostalgic and comfortable about something intimate as correspondence from the past. I saw a set of journals from a 1920's farm wife. I was really interested, but they ended up going for almost $500! I hope they find their way to a historical society.
Over six years later and we know that this wasn'nt a real dodo at all!
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