Wishes Collection (page 5)

WW2 birthday card, cat and poster
WW2 birthday card, showing a cat on a ladder putting up a poster expressing birthday wishes. Date: circa 1942

Pig with toys strapped to its side
Pig with toys in a pannier strapped to its side, and a best wishes greeting. Date: C.1890

Suffragette N. W. S. P. U Christmas Card
Suffragette N.W.S.P.U Christmas Card. Christmas card produced by National W.S.P.U with Best Wishes for Xmas and the New Year 1908-1909 with medallion by Sylvia Pankjurst and the quotation

Boy playing a violin. Heart-warm wishes. Date: circa 1906

Silk postcard embroidered Best Birthday Wishes. Commemorative Art

Silk postcard embroidered Best Wishes for Your Birthday. Commemorative Art

Christmas Card from the British Upper Silesian Artillery
Christmas Card. Christmas Greeting from the 11th Div, 1916. Carrying on ! To Dear Grannie. From Crieff with love and best wishes. In the trenches - 24.12.16. Commemorative Art

Happy Birthday record
A 78rpm Kidditunes disc of the popular ditty Happy Birthday To You! The sleeve features illustrations of popular Nursery Rhymes. " Fun and Joy for Girl and Boy" Date: circa 1960s

Wedding and Speciality Cakes. Narcissus Cake Date: 1936

Tsar and People
Der Zar und sein Volk - when his subjects clamour for a constitution (verfassung) Nicolas thanks them politely for their oration, and wishes them a good night. Date: 1904

Christmas Mistletoe being pulled along atop a wooden frame
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a large bunch of Christmas mistletoe, tied up with a red ribbon, being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled

Christmas Yule Log being pulled along atop a wooden frame
Delightful Chromolithograph Christmas greetings postcard by Ellen H. Clapsaddle depicting a large Christmas Yue Log, tied up with a red ribbon, being pulled along atop a wooden frame sled

Embossed greetings card, featuring a white elephant
Embossed French greetings card, featuring a white elephant on a red background. Date: circa 1910s

Irish New Year Souvenir postcard featuring a number of Good Luck devices. Date: circa 1906

Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering a letter
Christmas Postcard - Jolly Sweep delivering good wishes. Traditionally chimney sweeps used to go door to door wishing (and hopefully bringing) folk good luck

Playbill postcard for Alfs Button
The most popular manifestation of Orientalism after WWI seems to have been Alfs Button. W.A Darlingtons novel appeared in1920, was filmed (silent movie) the same year

Actors discuss rates of pay
First Budding Actor (to second budding actor) - " Oh yes, you hear about those salaries of Twenty-five and thirty shillings, but you never get em." Date: 1901

Patriotic French postcard - WWI era
Patriotic French postcard, featuring a rather non-plussed model as French Heroic Archetype Marianne, sending glorious good wishes for swift military victory to French forces in the early years of

Heron- Allen microscope slides of foraminifera
Christmas greetings spelt out in minute shells which bears the initials of the maker, Edward Heron-Allen, and the year it was made: E H A, 1909

Tales from Many Lands: The Three Wishes

Personalised family Christmas card, c. 1900
Brilliant Christmas card from the late Victorian/early Edwardian era, showing a Christmas cracker being pulled to reveal the four faces of a family who send their greetings from Craig-Gowan

Girl and boy posting a letter
A little girl and boy posting a letter on a greetings postcard. The message on the back is addressed to an aunt, offering best wishes on her saints name day, Sainte Marie (15 August)

Best Wishes greetings postcard Date: 1907

Birthday card with violets, lily of the valley and daffodils
Sweet Thoughts and Birthday Wishes: a birthday card with a bunch of violets, daffodils and lily of the valley. Date: circa 1930s

Little girl in green dress on birthday postcard

Wedding Day card (front)
A wedding day card: Congratulations and Best Wishes, decorated with purple irises. Date: 1950s

Birthday card with roses, carnations and lily of the valley
Loving Birthday Wishes: a birthday card with a bunch of roses, carnations and lily of the valley tied up in a mauve ribbon. Date: 1936

Birthday card with bird and flowers
Loving Birthday Wishes: birthday card with a bird on a branch, pansies and forget-me-nots. Date: circa 1940s

Birthday card with table, flowers and lamp
With all my Best Wishes: a birthday card with a bowl of flowers on a table and a lamp. Date: 1936

GOOD EASTER SIGNPOST
Good Easter, a signpost to a village in Essex, England, the village of Good Wishes. Date: 1950s

Young woman with flowers on a birthday postcard
Birthday Wishes -- a young woman (the actress Drina Verchesi) holding a bunch of lilac on a birthday postcard. Date: 1920

Illustration, Wishes, showing a little girl and a little boy imagining what it would be like to grow whiskers and have curly hair. 1885

Fond Birthday Wishes with ivy and pansies
Fond Birthday Wishes -- an arrangement of ivy and pansies in a horseshoe shape on a birthday postcard. Date: early 20th century

Pax Hill

Best Wishes from a lady in a red coat. 20th century

Little Snow White, mourned by the seven dwarfs, is about to be brought back to life by the handsome prince. early 20th century

Best Christmas Wishes -- girl in white dancing. 20th century

Father Christmas and wreath
A Jolly Father Christmas holding up a Happy Xmas wreath. Date: circa 1910s

New Year Clover Cart
A pretty lady wishes you a Happy New Year as she drives a cart loaded with clover for good luck. Date: 1907

Abundance and Prosperity - a New Years wish for 1906

Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson
A Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing a lady and a boy walking through a snowy landscape. They are dressed in 19th century style

Holly and Ivy, Box and Bay, by Ethel Parkinson
Holly and Ivy, Box and Bay, Put in the Church on Christmas Day. A Christmas Greetings card by Ethel Parkinson, showing people in a snowy landscape taking bunches of holly

A Pierrot playing the banjo wishes the recipient of this postcard every good wish for a Merry Xmas Date: circa 1910s

A Shoeshine boy - New Years Card
Shoeshine boy from Algeria, holding a bunch of flowers, wishing the cards recipient a Happy 1906 !

Rustic wedding in Kent
A rustic wedding in Kent -- the bride sits on a horse-drawn cart which has been decorated with garlands, and receives a lucky horseshoe from the village blacksmith

Letter to Thomas Henry Ismay
A letter to Thomas Henry Ismay from twenty of his colleagues and employees on White Star Works headed paper, dated Bootle, 6 February 1899

Greetings from HMS Sirdar - Istanbul
Greetings postcard from the Royal Navy vessel HMS Sirdar - at this stage in Turkish Waters at Istanbul (hence Tophane Mosque photographic centrepiece) during the winter (Christmas) of 1922

Chanak - Humourous Christmas card 1922
A British soldier takes amusement at Father Christmas (a rotund, white bearded Turk riding a donkey!) passing his watch at Chanak, Turkey

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