Unsolved: Five encrypted postcards
Once again, I’ve found what I’m looking for in an Internet search for encoded postcards. I am sure my readers will solve all five cards I present today.
A month ago, I blogged about a series of encrypted postcards I discovered on Avaluer’s website. Avaluer is a service provider that determines the value of antiques. Apparently, postcards are among them. For me, of course, postcards that are scrambled have the most value. However, I don’t need to own them – scans that I can blog about are quite enough for me.
Arkansas (1908)
Also on the Avaluer web page, I found the following map:
It was mailed in 1908 to a Miss Smith in Center Ridge in the US state of Arkansas – presumably from her lover. Unfortunately, I cannot decipher the first letter of Miss Smith’s first name. Was her name Liva? In any case, the message on the card is encrypted:
Can a reader crack this encryption?
Connecticut (1909)
The following postcard from 1909 is also from the Avaluer website:
Below the image you can see a Pigpen encryption. There are more of them on the address side of the card:
For once, the recipient was a man. His name was Theodore C. Kennedy. He lived in Norwich in the US state of Connecticut. The gender of the sender cannot be identified. Can a reader solve this Pigpen cipher?
England (?)
Next, we go to Nunhead near London. On the website “The Amazing Chronoscope” I found the following map:
The recipient is again an unmarried woman (Miss). Unfortunately, I can’t make out the year. Only the last three lines are encoded:
Can any reader solve this mystery?
England (1912)
The website of the Postal Museum in London shows the following card (unfortunately only the address side):
The recipient’s name was Miss Norfolk and she lived in Chobham, west of London. Presumably her lover wrote this card using Morse code. Can any reader read the text?
England (1906)
And again, a card from the Postal Museum website (again, only one page):
The recipient, again a “Miss”, lived in Yarmouth on the English North Sea coast. I have already presented a coded postcard from Yarmouth on Cipherbrain. But there is no recognizable connection.
The message consists of only 14 letters. Can a reader decode it anyway?
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Further reading: Ungelöst: Vier verschlüsselte Postkarten aus der Zeit der Jahrhundertwende
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