COME GUARD ... WATCH IT man holding gun in cabin with cat

Item
4/13
Set

Greeting, THE KING AND QUEEN (ED. VII & G.V period), filigree covers places of manufacture (WWI period), Christmas & New Year

Set Comment

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.


Title

COME GUARD ... WATCH IT man holding gun in cabin with cat

In set

* KED&KGV

Item Comment

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

Type

Greeting Card

Size

8.7 x 11.4 cm.

Topics

Christmas Holly Illuminated Letters Rural