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First World War Silk Postcards.
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First World War Silk Postcards.
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This is the card that made up my mind. My grandfather was in the Royal Engineers in the First World War, so there was no way I wasn't going to buy it.
The quality of the stitching is exquisite. The lettering on the regimental badge is tiny, faded, but all still plainly legible - Royal Engineers in yellow on a blue background, George V's cypher, GVR, in the centre, and the motto Honi soit qui mal y pense around it in yellow on a white background.
I have never taken the cards out of the frame to see what, if anything, is written on them. They were framed many years ago, and are mounted in wood, not card. Whether they are mementoes of a loved one who never came back, or souvenirs of a soldier who returned, I shall never know.
This card has a design showing a shamrock, thistle and red rose with the Union Jack. The caption, a kiss from France, is seen on many of the First World War postcards.
Another of my charity shop finds - three First World War silk postcards mounted in a frame. This is a close up of just one of them. The second flag on the left had me slightly foxed, but after a cup of coffee and a quick bounce around the internet, I have sorted them all out.
From left to right, the flags are: Italy, Russian Empire (black double headed eagle on a yellow background), France, Britain, Belgium and Serbia.
Strange that while I was looking all this up my husband answered the door to a lady selling poppies for the British Legion.
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