DEFENDERS OF THE EMPIRE

Item
17/76
Set

Greeting, series & groups, Impressed, THE KING & QUEEN (G.V. period), Christmas & New Year

Set Comment

Tuck information & Royal attribution impressed, not printed, on card back logo beside RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD , PUBLISHERS BY APPOINTMENT TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN -- PRODUCED IN ENGLAND

Set Covers

Title

DEFENDERS OF THE EMPIRE

In set

IMPRESSED KGV

Item Comment

single folds, cover & inner sheet secured by ribbon, OILETTE on insert front, platemarked style inner sheet front: CHRISTMAS GREETINGS & ALL GOOD WISHES FOR THE COMING YEAR -- FROM -- PRODUCED IN ENGLAND inner sheet left: WHAT'S BRAVE, WHAT'S NOBLE, LET'S DO IT -- SHAKESPEARE inner sheet right image of B.F.G. THE DREADNOUGHT OF TO-DAY SALUTING NELSON'S VICTORY with verse above: HOME-LAND, SEA-LAND, FAITHFUL THY CHILDREN .... JOHN COATES inner sheet back: logo above RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS PUBLISHERS TO THE KING & QUEEN DEFENDERS OF THE EMPIRE KEY TO THE VARIOUS UNITS REPRESENTED THE NAVY: DREADNOUGHTS, CRUISERS, JACK TAR, DESTROYERS, SUBMARINES, ROYAL MARINES, TORPEDO BOATS THE ARMY: ROYAL HOUSE ARTILLERY .... ROYAL FLYING CORPS: AIRSHIP, HYDROPLANE, MONOPLANE

Type

Greeting Card

Artist

HARRY PAYNE

Size

13.6 x 19cm., oversize

Topics

Artist Christmas Military Naval