Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Passive Resistance - The Game is Up! Caught Smoking! artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Passive Resistance - The Game is Up! Caught Smoking! artist L Thackeray Tuck postcard series

Two schooboys in top hats & canes sneak a quick cigarette only to face imminent discovery by a schoolmaster rounding the corner.  Another card in L Thackeray's Passive Resistance series for Raphael Tuck & Sons.

The Tuck Aquarette series was first issued in March 1904, still appearing in Tuck's 1912 catalogue.  The set of 6 cards was sold in the UK, US and Canada at the height of the Golden Age of postcards. 

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