MY DEAR MY COUSINS ARE HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYSchildren leave train, met on platformAND A GOOD

Item
4/6
Set

Greeting, series & groups,CHRISTMAS LETTER, (Q.V period) no Royal attribution, Made in Saxony, Christmas

Set Comment

RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS -- LONDON ; PARIS ; NEW YORK -- PRINTED IN SAXONY, unusual way to send greeting using both words & images in the letter, easier to demonstrate than describe-see scans, used in 1894


Title

MY DEAR MY COUSINS ARE HERE FOR THE HOLIDAYSchildren leave train, met on platformAND A GOOD

Number

3

In set

QV Saxony NRA

Item Comment

continuation of message TIME WE ARE HAVING. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN US TUMBLE ABOUT WHEN WE WENT SKATING ON THE icy lake AND WHEN WE WENT TO bed WE COLD NOT REST AND SO WE HAD SOME JOLLY GAMES WITH THE pillow-fight THEN UP CAME mother AND GAVE US A GOOD SCOLDING. WE ARE GOING TO SLEEP NOW. I WISH YOU A HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND NO birching WHEN YOU ARE HAVING YOUR LESSONS. YOUR LOVING oblong, single sheet, single fold

Type

Greeting Card

Size

9 X 12.5 CM.

Topics

Children Christmas Novelty