Photos Novelty, Spain, Madrid, Preciados 16

Four postcards from the Photos Novelty studio in Madrid, Preciados 16
The last one is dated "14 Marzo 1914".
Collection James McManus

La Casa de las Maravillas Fotográficas

Photo Novelties, Preciados, 16. Madrid, Spain
La Casa de las Maravillas Fotográficas
Tarjeta Postal, 1917, Size: 8,3 x 13,5 cm
"A mi Mamita con un beso de su José Manuel 20-5-917"
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo

Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963)

Source: estafeta-gabrielpulecio.blogspot.com
Further readings:
Ricardo Fernández Romero, La condición fotográfica de las autobiografías de Ramón Gómez de la Serna: Mi autobiografía (1924), Hispanic Research Journal, Vol. 12 No. 2, April, 2011, 146–166

Carmen from Madrid

Photos Novelty, Preciados 18
Carte Postale
Collection James McManus
" Srta. Leonor Rico: Para que tengas un pequeño recuerdo de cuando me pusieron el gorro, te dedica esta fachita tu buena amiga: Carmen Permuy, Madrid 15-4-914"
Miss Leonor Rico: For you to have a little souvenir of when they put me the hat in, I am dedicating to you this a bit messy image of mine. Your very good friend: Carmen Permuy, Madrid 15-4-914

Cinco (5) Tazas

Mena Fotógrafo, Carretas 39, Madrid
Tarjeta Postal, Union Postal Universal, Espana
"¿No quieres caldo?.... ¡Tres!... digo... cinco (5) tazas, Madrid -12-15-"
Dr. Ricardo Fernández Romero wrote me concerning the inscription:
It is an adaptation of a popular expression or saying in Spanish, with comical tone. The meaning would be something like: “Now that you’ve asked for more I will give you plenty of it, more than you asked for, actually [three instead of just one more portion]”. The author of the writing is making a joke after the saying, since the original expression in Spanish uses the number 3, not the number 5, increasing the exaggeration implicit in the original saying. In other words, the joke from the part of the man in the photograph is about the idea of sending not just one picture of him, or three, but five, in case the correspondent would not have had enough with just one. It is written with a tone of sort of playful and not aggressive vanity. Literal translation of the writing on the postcard would be: Didn’t you want some broth? Here’s three, I mean, five cups for you.
Collection Heinz-Werner Lawo