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Showing posts with label Postcard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Postcard. Show all posts
Thursday, November 23, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Sunday, April 9, 2023
Friday, March 17, 2023
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Happy St. Patrick's Day!
I can imagine her saying, "It's St. Patrick's Day! I haven't missed it. The leprechauns have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can."
Friday, March 3, 2023
Lurking About!
Bransby Williams always seems to be lurking about, doesn't he?
Here he is in character as Scrooge on this postcard from 1907:
Pretty neat!
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Monday, January 9, 2023
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Happy New Year!
Not-really Mrs. Dilber* cleans up after Mr. Scrooge's first-ever New Year's Eve blowout!
*Mrs. Dilber really being the laundress, but now the charwoman for purposes of this bit!
Friday, November 11, 2022
Sunday, November 6, 2022
Monday, October 31, 2022
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Is It Him?
I often see things for sale where the item is indicated as featuring Scrooge, but sometimes I don't know.
Take, for example, this postcard:
That's not really Scrooge, is it? There wasn't a subgenre of reformed Scrooge in scenes that would have taken place after the book ended, is there?
If not, should there be?
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Tiny Tim!
Here's an interesting portrait of Tiny Tim:
It's a postcard from the early 1900s with art by Herbert Beecroft.
That's about all I know about it!
Sunday, April 4, 2021
Monday, July 13, 2020
"Gem Glosso" Christmas Series No. C-5068 (1914)
"Gem Glosso" Christmas Series No. C-5068 (1914)
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Here's another postcard from Raphael Tuck & Sons, this one from 1914.
What's interesting is that there ae a couple of variations of this card, despite them having the same number of C-5068.
They both feature an illustration of a newly jovial Scrooge on the right-hand side, but they have different seasonal Dickens quotes on the left.
I'm partial to the top one, as "Happy Christmas" sounds so British!
Whatever the case, they're very evocative!
And "Gem Glosso" is such a cool name!
Sunday, July 12, 2020
"Dickens" Post Card No. 1639 (1904)
"Dickens" Post Card No. 1639 (1904)
Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
Raphael Tuck & Sons
We continue to kick it old school with this intriguing postcard published by Raphael Tuck and Sons in 1904.
This firm issued a ton of postcards, which were all the rage in England in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
As with any British purveyor of illsuartions, Dickens characters made their way into the proceedings, hence this character study of one Ebenezer Scrooge.
The side indicates that this was "Phototyped in Saxony." I don't really know what that menas, but this appears to be an actual photo of a pretty Scroogey guy!
I like it!
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