Tuck logo above PUBLISHERS BY BY APPOINTMENT TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LIMITED. LONDON, PARIS, BERLIN, NEW YORK, with or w/o MONTREAL or TORONTO line of gilt filigree at base seems to obliterate place of manufacture, probably Saxony& Germany (WWI period), * * note: cards may have been originally printed in K.Ed's reign and then modified in George V's reign.
COME GUARD ... WATCH IT man holding gun in cabin with cat
* KED&KGV
oblong cover & sheet secured by thread full verse on front:- COME GUARD THIS NIGHT THE CHRISTMAS-PIE, THAT THE THIEF, THOUGH NE'ER SO SLY WITH HIS FLESH-HOOKS, DON'T COME NIGHT TO CATCH IT. FROM HIM WHO ALL ALONE SITS THERE, HAVING HIS EYES STILL IN HIS EAR AND A DEAL OF NIGHTLY YEAR TO WATCH IT inside right top:- GOOD LUCK AND HAPPINESS UPON YOU WAIT THIS MERRY SEASON bottom:- TO WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM
