Front || Card received by Agnes Dorothy Riley (Dolly)

A small girl and a boy wearing a British soldier’s uniform are depicted in a domestic setting on the front of this postcard. Kneeling on a rug, they grasp one another’s hands across a water-filled tub on which toy ships are floating. The caption below reads, ‘Tho’ the water is between us, yet our hands will meet again !’. The typeset details on the reverse state, ‘Art and Humour Publishing Co., Chancery Lane, London, W.C. / A & H “ TINY TICKLES ” Series. No. 420. British Manufacture.’. From the postmark, which is only partially visible, we know that the postcard was mailed on 9 August in Croft. There is also a message, written in black ink, headed, ‘Croft / Leicester’. It reads: ‘Dear Aggie just a PC hoping you arrived home safe on Wednesday we are having nice weather and Beatie and Alfred are having a fine time we shall be back on Saturday all being well we shall come by the seven o clock train from hear ? with love from Aunt Nelly & Beatie & Alfred xxxxxxxx’. The same hand has addressed the postcard to ‘Miss A Webster / 8 Duke St / Hinckley / Leicestershire’. || A British sentimental postcard || || Postcard || A British sentimental postcard

A British sentimental postcard || An unknown artist has depicted five girls sitting on a bench, with their toys, on the front of this postcard. The caption below reads, ‘We want the boys home again’. The postcard mount is of thick card with rounded corners (cropped out here). A paper label has been stuck on the back; the text printed on it reads, ‘The “Artistic” Series / W. McKenzie & Co., / London, E.C.’. A message has been written above in black ink: ‘With good wishes from all to Bob’. || || Postcard || Front || A British sentimental postcard