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
ACROSS THE DISTANCE in green beside ALL GOOD BETIDE YOU on life belt round clasped hands over sea, below train & rioses
In set
* KED&KGV
Item Comment
oblong single sheet, single folded, embossed,3 narrow blue margins inside left:- WITH BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY CHRISTMAS FROM right:-THERE'S A DAY BEYOND ALL OTHERS THAT IN MEMORY'S SHRINE IS SET, THERE'S A CHARM ABOUT OLD CHRISTMAS THAT OUR HEARTS CAN NE'ER FORGET; AND THAT CHARM IS STEALING O'ER US AS WE SPEED O'ER SEAS AND LANDS, HOPES AND WISHES WARM AND GLOWING, AS THE CLASP OF FRIENDLY HANDS.
