Artist Frederick Spurgin signed his name to the right of the boy that he portrayed wearing a British soldier’s uniform and carrying a rifle mounted with a bayonet. The postcard is headed ‘KHAKI’; the caption below reads, ‘THIS COLOUR DOES NOT RUN!’ The printed details on the reverse include ‘Inter-Art Co., Red Lion Square, London, W. C. / “KHAKI” Series. No. 1053. British Manufacture’. Postally used, the postcard has been franked ‘FOLKESTONE 230 PM 10 JAN 1916’. It has been addressed in black ink to ‘Master Blunt / 45 St Augustine’s Avenue / S. Croydon’. The message reads, ‘how do you like this of your soldier ? father / Xmas.’. || A British patriotic postcard || || A British patriotic postcard || Postcard || Front

A British comic patriotic postcard. || The name of the artist – ‘S Hurley’ – who drew the scene depicted on the front of this postcard is written to the left of the caption, which reads, ‘“HAS ANYONE HERE SEEN KAISER BILL?”’. Above, stands a small boy dressed in a soldier’s red tunic and fusilier’s cap, toy sword drawn, a tumble of cut-down and cut-up toys surrounding him. There is plenty of information on the reverse. The printed details read: ‘CELESQUE SERIES – Copyright Design, No. 937. / Published by The Photochrom Co. Ltd London and Tunbridge Wells’, along with ‘B’, ‘ALL BRITISH PRODUCTION’ and ‘P.Co.’ The postmark states that the postcard was mailed from Bovington Camp Dorset at 7pm on 30 March 1915. There is a pencilled name and address: ‘Miss E Gibbs / 41 Harborne Park Road / Harborne / B’ham Birmingham’. There is also a message, which reads, ‘Dear Edith / received letter today glad all well my cold is better will write a letter tomorrow / with love / from Herbert’. || || Postcard || A British comic patriotic postcard.

Two vignettes depicting a snowy village scene surrounded by mistletoe sprigs decorate the top of this postcard. At the bottom is a hand-drawn portrait of a British soldier flanked by the flags of Belgium, Britain, France and Russia. The message at the top reads, ‘To Dear Father With Love.’. The poem below, headed ‘Loving Thoughts this Christmastide.’, reads, ‘Loving thoughts and loving greetings / Once more we send this Christmas day, / And we sit at home and wonder / How you fare, so far away. / For badly we miss your footsteps, / How gladly we would welcome you, dear, / But patiently here we await you / And pray that our reunion be near.’. The name of the author of the poem, ‘Helen Barber’, appears below. There is a message on the reverse, written in black ink in a childish hand: ‘Dear Daddie / wishing you a happy xmas / with fondest love from Gladys.’. The printed information on the back includes ‘Regent Series’, ‘No. 2274 Printed in England. / The Regent Publishing Co. Ltd., London, NW.’. || A British sentimental postcard