A British patriotic and sentimental postcard || The artist Frederick Spurgin signed his name beneath the scene that he depicted on the front of this postcard: a girl asleep in bed with her arm around a toy soldier. The caption below reads, ‘Dreaming of her soldier boy!’. The postcard has been addressed in black ink to ‘Miss E MacKenzie / Fauvic. / Jersey. / Channel Islands.’. The message reads: ‘Chester. / 6th June 1915 / With best love from Father.’. The printed information includes: ‘Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W.C. / “NEW LOVE” Series. No. 255. British Manufacture.’. || || A British sentimental postcard || Postcard || Front

A name has been written by hand in blue ink on the back of this real photographic postcard: ‘Jack Pharoh’. Presumably that is the name of the boy who smiles out at us from the front. He is wearing an unbuttoned British soldier’s tunic and cap. The details of his cap badge are difficult to discern. || A real photographic postcard. || || A photograph of a boy, maybe named Jack Pharoh || Jack Pharoh ? || Photograph

Dick Steele Bell